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135: Planning For Change (Ben Arent)

February 23rd, 2015 | Season 3 | 33 mins 46 secs

Chad talks with Ben Arent, product manager at Rackspace, on the trials of app acquisition, as well as their favorite Sass tools.

134: Growing to Meteor (Paul Dowman)

February 16th, 2015 | Season 3 | 41 mins 43 secs

Chad talks with Paul Dowman, founder of OK GROW!, on replacing Rails with Meteor, and how martial arts has made him a better developer.

133: The DNA of Music (Matt Aimonetti)

February 9th, 2015 | Season 3 | 34 mins 40 secs

Chad talks with Matt Aimonetti, co-founder of Splice, on remote worker strategies, fundraising, and his vision for the future of digital musical collaboration.

132: Story Tellers (Adarsh Pandit, Kyle Fiedler)

February 1st, 2015 | Season 3 | 38 mins 28 secs

Chad talks with fellow thoughtbotters Adarsh Pandit and Kyle Fiedler on the pros and cons of stories, story points, and job stories.

131: The Human-Computer Interaction Umbrella (Irene Ros)

January 26th, 2015 | Season 3 | 32 mins 24 secs

Chad talks with Irene Ros, data visualization practice lead at Bocoup, about her pursuit of making data visualization function in a social context.

130: Counting all the F-Words (Joanne Cheng)

January 19th, 2015 | Season 3 | 27 mins 48 secs

Chad & developer Joanne Cheng break down thoughtbot's statistical year in review!

129: The Engineering of Payments (Ian Logan)

January 13th, 2015 | Season 3 | 35 mins 34 secs

Chad talks with Ian Logan, an Engineering Manager at Airbnb, on the challenges, ideology, implementation, and future of their payments system.

128: To Attract and Retain (Dan Croak)

January 4th, 2015 | Season 3 | 47 mins 44 secs

Chad talks with thoughtbot CMO Dan Croak about our content marketing strategy, managing the flow of new media, and the origin of our growth team.

127: Merging Worlds (Meng To)

December 22nd, 2014 | Season 3 | 39 mins 40 secs

Jeff Smith talks to Meng To, author of Design + Code about the blurring line between developers and designers, learning tools to better communicate, and the difficulties of planing a world-wide workshop tour.

126: Log In to Your Space (Zach Dunn)

December 15th, 2014 | Season 3 | 47 mins 21 secs

Chad talks to Zach Dunn, CPO of Robin, about the future of smart spaces, working with family, and when to shift your company's scope.

125: Rebooting (Adarsh Pandit)

December 7th, 2014 | Season 3 | 43 mins 51 secs

Chad talks to Adarsh Pandit, thoughtbot SF Managing Director & host of the Reboot podcast, about his personal journey which inspired our newest show.

124: Maintaining Your Legacy (Scott Ford)

November 23rd, 2014 | Season 3 | 32 mins 57 secs

Chad talks to Scott Ford, founder & COO of Corgibytes, about the business of software remodeling/retrofitting, and finding value and beauty in old code.

123: Don't Call It a Codecation (Chris Hunt)

November 18th, 2014 | Season 3 | 24 mins 49 secs

Ben & Chris Hunt catch up on their latest conference talks, podcasts, and things accomplished on their recent coding retreat.

122: Ruby, the Weird Way (Britt Ballard, Caleb Thompson, Richard Schneeman, Terence Lee)

November 10th, 2014 | Season 3 | 50 mins 18 secs

Britt Ballard leads this roundtable discussion on home-growing your own conference and their experiences, from theme and logo selection to scheduling guests and venues, turning Keep Ruby Weird from a dream into a reality.

121: Prolificness (Allison House)

November 2nd, 2014 | Season 3 | 32 mins 30 secs

Guest-Ben Chad Pytel talks with Allison House about maintaining personal growth while freelancing, and her approach to harnessing your capacity to learn.

120: Open Your World For Commentary (Tom Lehman)

October 27th, 2014 | Season 3 | 54 mins 19 secs

Ben talks with Tom Lehman, creator of Genius, about the power of honesty in corporate culture, and navigating the mores of discussing salary.