How do engineers ensure the best opportunities find them? Jaren Glover offers his perspective as an early engineer at Robinhood, mentor at /dev/color), and student of business. This discussion was wide-ranging: we appreciate the "pay it forward" culture that makes Silicon Valley unique, tradeoffs to event streaming architectures, and who should play Bond in the next 007 movie.
Episode resources
- Jaren's favorite new consumer apps: Stadium Live), Compound), Bighead), Realtime), and Cappucino.fm)
- Rebekah Cox's Ambition) and Higher Standards) essays
- Searching "Kelsey Hightower)" on YouTube returns magical technical content, in Jaren's words
- aphyr's notes) on distributed systems
- The Remarable Story of Risk)
- A Short History of Financial Euphoria)
- The Defiant Ones) on HBO
- The Black Godfather) on Netflix
