Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
About the show
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
Episodes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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99: You Are Not Alone (Greg Baugues)
May 18th, 2014 | Season 2 | 19 mins 30 secs
From RailsConf, Ben & Greg Baugues of Twilio discuss how mental illness affects the development community and the importance of, as well as resources to, proper treatment.
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98: Memorization Techniques (Chris Hunt)
May 11th, 2014 | Season 2 | 19 mins 51 secs
From RailsConf, Ben talks to Chris Hunt of Github about techniques for enhancing spacial memory, competitive personalities, the coffee infamy of the Pacific Northwest and Clojure testing.
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97: Railing Against Rails (Ernie Miller)
May 4th, 2014 | Season 2 | 25 mins 38 secs
Live from RailsConf Ben & Ernie Miller explore his "Curmudgeon" talk, modules and the importance of nuance.
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96: Business is Hard (Jeff Casimir)
April 27th, 2014 | Season 2 | 35 mins 12 secs
Live from RailsConf, Ben talks to Executive Director of The Turing School Jeff Casimir on Conf-stress, the lack of jobs in open source and the challenges of learning to run a business.
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95: Making Time (Chas Emerick)
April 20th, 2014 | Season 2 | 41 mins 55 secs
This week Ben sits down with Chas Emerick to discuss his latest venture, The Quilt Project, start up philosophies and the importance of balanced time management.