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115: There's a Spectrum Involved Here (Brandon Bloom)

September 7th, 2014 | Season 3 | 37 mins 4 secs

Ben talks with Brandon Bloom about finding the right tool for the job, there being too many objects in OO Programing and the importance for a full spectrum of options, regardless of the choice.

114: Offer Value First (Ryan Delk)

August 31st, 2014 | Season 3 | 24 mins 58 secs

Ben talks with Gumroad grower Ryan Delk about standing out from your peers by adding value before you ask for value.

113: Minimum Path to Awesome (Rob Walling)

August 24th, 2014 | Season 3 | 32 mins 54 secs

Ben and Rob Walling, founder of Drip and HitTail, discuss engaging your audience, the path to building new habits and the need to create.

112: Data By Design (Joanne Cheng)

August 17th, 2014 | Season 3 | 26 mins 32 secs

Ben talks to developer Joanne Cheng about lessons learned from the conference circuit, as well as the subject of her latest conf talk, Data-Driven-Documents within JavaScript, and trends in dashboard design.

111: Thinking Outside the Loop (Chris Granger)

August 10th, 2014 | Season 3 | 41 mins 45 secs

Ben talks with Chris Granger, creator of Light Table, about building a better IDE and envisioning a world where all programming happens inside a database and anyone can do it.

110: Protecting Invisible Things (Eric Mill)

August 3rd, 2014 | Season 3 | 32 mins 10 secs

This week Ben talks with former thoughtbotter, and creator of Is It Christmas, Eric Mill about the power of blogging, the personal empowerment offered by the internet and the role of government in the digital age.

109: Venturing Thru Capital (Alex Taussig)

July 27th, 2014 | Season 3 | 36 mins 18 secs

Ben delves behind the scenes of a VC firm with Alex Taussig of Highland Capital.

108: Picking Your Obsession (Brett Van Zuiden)

July 20th, 2014 | Season 3 | 38 mins 18 secs

Ben talks to Brett Van Zuiden, founder of Filepicker, about the importance of finding your specialization and passion in your industry, as well as his experiences in Y Combinator.

107: The Best Secrets Kept (Sara Haider)

July 13th, 2014 | Season 3 | 32 mins 58 secs

Ben talks to Sarah Haider, Android lead at Secret, about anonymity in social media, her work with Girls Who Code and Android Development.

106: Sprinting Thru Design (Alex Baldwin & Galen Frechette)

July 6th, 2014 | Season 3 | 28 mins 10 secs

Ben is joined by fellow thoughtbotters Alex & Galen to break down their product design sprint workflow.

105: Use Your Info-magination (Marc-André Cournoyer)

June 29th, 2014 | Season 3 | 32 mins 32 secs

Ben welcomes Marc-André Cournoyer of Coded Inc. to discuss self-marketing and sustaining info-product platforms.

104: Maintaining The Meat Machines (Adam Wiggins)

June 22nd, 2014 | Season 3 | 40 mins 30 secs

On this weeks Giant Robots Ben welcomes Adam Wiggins, Heroku co-founder and former CTO, to join as more of a guest host than guest. They discuss team size/structure, project scalability, the benefits of working abroad & self-maintenance best practices.

103: Consulting the Consultants (Adam Wathan, Chris Keithlin)

June 15th, 2014 | Season 3 | 36 mins 30 secs

Giant Robots welcome Adam & Chris of Vehikl who inquire about project selection / scheduling, portfolio building & customer-facing.

102: Put It Out To The World (Peter Cooper)

June 8th, 2014 | Season 3 | 28 mins 21 secs

Ben sits down with Peter Cooper, of Cooper Press, on his evolution from blogger to published author and publisher.

101: Developing Skills (Alex Fox, Jatin Bhandari)

June 1st, 2014 | Season 3 | 38 mins 48 secs

Ben is joined by Alex & Jatin, recent graduates of the first thoughtbot / Metis Ruby on Rails Bootcamp, to talk about the process, experience and feedback on their path to becoming junior developers.

100: Adequately Industrious (Aaron Patterson)

May 25th, 2014 | Season 2 | 45 mins 31 secs

On our special 100th episode Aaron Patterson joins Ben from RailsConf to talk AdequateRecord, frustrations in software, bulk meat discounts, the finer nuances of cat-naming and the importance of scientific thinking in web development.