"Can I work for you for free?" - we received an email with this subject in November 2023. We spoke to the author and ended up hiring him as an intern who eventually produced our website and web app at https://metacast.app.

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Segments

• [00:21] Intro of Jak
• [07:02] Why offer to work for free work for a company?
• [13:20] How we made a decision to hire Jak
• [19:20] Jak's feedback to us, the hosts
• [22:52] Our reflection on the internship
• [34:10] Would we do this again?
• [38:59] What beginner engineers need to be working on?
• [45:00] Book and podcast recommendations

Show notes

Software

• Clerky

Podcasts

• Search Engine: Why don’t we eat people?, Who's behind these scammy text messages we've all been getting?
• Pavel Durov on the The Tucker Carlson Podcast

Books

• Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

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