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Ben talks to George Brocklehurst & Mike Burns of thoughtbot's Stockholm office on creating and distributing gitsh, an interactive shell for Git, and why it shouldn't be a Ruby gem. Get Gitsh Stockholm Vim Haskell Stockholm Classical Code Reading Group Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

This week on Giant Robots, Mahmoud Abdelkader of Balanced joins Ben to talk the priorities in ones career trajectory, the role of a successful CTO, and the benefits of radically open transparency. Balanced What Does Balanced Do? Balanced Github Balanced Cookbooks Mahmoud on Twitter Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

This week Ben Talks with Kyle Bragger of Elepath, Inc on the nature of online community building, advertising vs subscription revenue models and the importance of continued creative output (and actually releasing it to the world). Elepath, Inc Exposure Mauerpark Karaoke Forrst Drew Wilson Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

This week on Giant Robots, Ben chats with Tony DiPasquale on utilizing Arduino engineering to solve 0th world problems. Arduino Home Page Original Bathroom Occupancy Proof of Concept Breakdown Full Low Power Custom Arduino Sensor Board Instructions! Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

In this week's episode, we're joined by Peter Reinhardt, Co-founder and CEO of Segment.io. Ben and Peter discuss the product, their tech stack, the companies big pivot to Segment.io, their growth and future plans. They also discuss leaving MIT to start a company, getting along with your co-founders, nuclear reactors, hiking, and much more. Segment.io node.js Express.js Thorium reactors Molten salt reactor Norway diving board rock, Trolltunga Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @reinpk on twitter.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

This week, Ben is joined by Max Temkin, creator of Cards Against Humanity and Humans vs. Zombies. Max talks about his success with Cards Against Humanity and his feelings of impostor syndrome. He talks about some of his other projects including his first indie game, Humans vs. Zombies. Most recently Max had a multiplayer PC game published called Samurai Gunn. Max talks about the "open source" nature of his games. They discuss money, sustainability, kickstarter, and much more. Maxistentialism Cards Against Humanity Humans vs. Zombies Samurai Gunn Back to Work: Anxiety's a Goat Max's Blog Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @MaxTemkin on twitter.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

On this week's episode, Ben talks with Harper Reed, former CTO of Threadless, former CTO of Obama for America, and currently CEO of Modest. Harper talks about management and his "cabal" of people that he likes to work with. He also discusses his experience on the campaign, healthcare.gov, and procurement laws. When asked about his playbook for success, Harper talks about networking strategies, the use of different languages for different problems, craziness, and much more. Harper Reed If I Knew Then Why the Government Never Gets Tech Right Harper's GitHub Harper's Blog Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @harper on twitter.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

On this week's special episode, Chad Pytel turns the tables and interviews host Ben Orenstein. They discuss the process of running the podcast and Ben's roots in programming and computer science. Ben talks about his Vim mastery, how he got into public speaking, and his experiences speaking at RailsConf. This year Ben is organizing the live coding track at RailConf. Ben describes his strategies for learning programming, how he's getting into Clojure, and much more! Ben's Blog Ben's Github The Vim Learning Curve is a Myth Chad Fowler on the Giant Robots podcast How to Get Your Conference Talk Accepted How to Talk to Developers (Rails Conf 2013) 4clojure.org WellnessFX Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @cpytel on twitter.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

This week's episode features Matt Knox of Twitter. Matt is a part of Twitter's university team which teaches new Twitter recruits about the company. He works as an engineer as well in order to stay current. Matt discusses his background as an engineer, and how he got into teaching. He discusses using Storm, essentially a real-time Hadoop, for Twitter. Ben and Matt talk about the importance of keeping a portfolio as a programmer and deliberate practice routines for coding, and more. Matt Knox's Github Matt Knox's Blog Storm Hadoop The Things They Carry On the Fundamentals of Programming Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @mattknox on twitter.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Seth Godin, a best-selling author and entrepreneur, joins the conversation to discuss the essence of art and the pursuit of perfection. He highlights the importance of meaningful connections in a digital age, critiquing superficial interactions and advocating for genuine relationships. The discussion dives into bridging the creative gap and using discomfort as a path to authenticity. Seth also emphasizes the value of constructive feedback and the philosophy of generosity in building supportive artist communities, urging listeners to take bold creative steps.