Software engineering can be a surprisingly grueling career. It is both physically and mentally demanding to sit in front of a screen for hours on end producing code.

Andy Johns is our guest in this episode. Andy previously worked on growth at Facebook, Twitter, and Quora as an early employee. He’s also an investor in Robinhood, Webflow, and Reforge. Andy joins the show to discuss Mental health in tech, burnout, and work/life balance. Check out the show notes to learn more about Andy’s work, specifically his substack blog on Mental Health.

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Gabe Greenberg

Michelle Bakels

Software engineering can be a surprisingly grueling career. It is both physically and mentally demanding to sit in front of a screen for hours on end producing code. During the pandemic, the strains of being an engineer became even more acute, as we were secluded in our homes, in some cases alone.

Gabe Greenberg and Michelle Bakels work at G2i, a company that manages a large number of developers. G2i has a focus on developer health, which they believe is an underappreciated topic. They are also helping organize React Miami, a conference that takes place April 18-19, 2022.

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Vantage is a system for optimizing cloud costs. It provides tools and interfaces for developers to analyze how they are spending on AWS resources, and has recently expanded into GCP as well. Vantage users gain an easy interface into their costs that would otherwise be hard to analyze via the raw AWS console.

Ben Schaechter is the founder of Vantage. In a previous show he gave an overview of Vantage. In today’s episode he returns to discuss the engineering internals of Vantage and provide a macro perspective on where people are wasting money in the cloud.

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Substack is a platform for subscription based content, covering newsletters, podcasts, and soon video. The design and speed of the platform are notable–with a minimalistic format that simply gets creators paid for its work, Substack has gained massive popularity.

Chris Best is the CEO of Substack and joins the show to talk about the platform, architecture, and engineering of Substack.

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National Instruments develops software and hardware for engineering in a wide variety of domains, from aerospace to government technology to application testing. The interface between hardware and software presents a variety of difficult engineering challenges.

Luke Schreier is a Senior Vice President at National Instruments and joins the show to discuss the engineering and management of the company.

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Increasingly, technology groups need to be strategic about the cloud services they adopt to ensure their vendor’s pricing is both fair and measured exactly right for the application’s unique access pattern.  Definitely answering questions like these can take a significant amount of time and energy from your most valuable engineers.  Taloflow is a company trying to make this decision making process easier for object storage and cloud cost management.  In this episode, I interview LV Jadavji about the key questions companies are asking and how Taloflow helps people navigate them.

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Online poker was deemed illegal in the United States ten years ago. Since then, poker has decreased in popularity, then found new invigoration thanks to live streaming and a large volume of bored gamers looking for something to do during the pandemic. Poker is a strategy game that can be played even without the financial element, and Clubs Poker is a free-to-play web-based poker client that grew significantly over the past year.

Taylor Crane is the founder of Clubs Poker, and he joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of online poker, as well as the engineering around the platform.

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Pinterest is a visual discovery engine people use to find ideas in home, food, style, beauty, and more. The service grew quickly after its founding in 2010 and the company has grown to be a global team of thousands of professionals spanning time zones and continents. To deliver the smooth experience Pinterest users have come to expect requires an engineering team to keep the system running while continuously improving it. In this episode, I speak with three engineering leaders about their decision to work at Pinterest, the contributions they’ve made, and what makes Pinterest engineering different from other companies.

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TechLit Africa is a non-profit on a mission to lessen African poverty by leveraging the internet.  Rural Africans lack digital skills and computers to gain from the digital economy, even though developed countries have an abundance of used computers.  That’s where TechLit Africa comes in.  They accept used computers, refurbish them with custom classroom code, ship them to Africa, and establish relationships with schools that provide space for the labs they create.  In this episode, I interview Nelly Cheboi, one of the founders of TechLit Africa.

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As the internet has grown, increasingly, we are consumers of services provided by corporations rather than owners and operators of our own systems.  To many, this trend towards centralization is antithetical to the spirit of a free and open internet.

Urbit is a new operating system and peer-to-peer network.  There are several layers of novel ideas in this ambitious project.  In this episode, I interview Galen Wolfe-Pauly about the Urbit project.

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