Think about the roles you play in your community. Social planner, Little League coach, Dungeon Master. Did anyone explicitly give you that authority? Or did you just gravitate towards your interests and put yourself out there? Can we do that at work, too? Are we defined by the title given to us by our companies, or can we put ourselves out there to take on broader roles that align with our strengths? David Cunningham, Sr Engineer with The New York Times, joins us to discuss how to do both.

• David:

• New York Tech & Beer socials (https://meetup.com/nyctnb) and New York AI User Group tech talks (https://meetup.com/nycaiu)

• CEO of Meetup David Siegel and Tech Talks coming up in September

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications

• Simple Made Easy, Talk by Rich Hicky (creator of Clojure)

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Episode 7 Transcript