Developer On Fire with Dave Rael is an interview podcast with inspiring and successful software professionals telling personal stories about their experiences with delivering value. It is a chance for you to get to know your favorite geeks and learn more about who they are, how they deliver, and what makes them tick. Learn from and get to know special geeks like Matt Wynne, Rob Eisenberg, Udi Dahan, Ted Neward, John Sonmez, Phil Haack, and David Heinemeier Hansson.
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It’s 12:30 p.m. You wake up, and at 1:30 p.m. you roll out of bed and turn on the radio, then open your local newspaper to check the HELP WANTED adverts. During breakfast, you turn on the television to catch a few minutes of the 24-hour news shows. School shootings. Higher taxes. Immigrants being treated badly. The price of milk has risen considerably. You turn it off quickly, filled with a sense of dread after seeing the latest disappointments the human race has to offer you. Shortly therea ...
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Dan Zukovic: The Culture is Going Down On Itself (Still)
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"The camera has unbound daemonic Western imagination. Cinema is sexual showing, a pagan flaunting. Plot and dialogue are obsolete word-baggage. Cinema, the most eye-intense of genres, has restored pagan antiquity's cultic exhibitionism. Spectacle is a pagan cult of the eye." —Camille Paglia Dan Zukovic (c. 19??) is a North American writer/director,…
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"In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king." -Washington Post "The fight that seems so radical and virtuous meshes perfectly with the maintenance of the social order." - Jack Wright “Jack Wright is, and will always be, my scout leader.” - Dennis J. Palmer Described forty years ago as an "…
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GENESIS AND BEYOND: The Boyd Rice Christmas/Hanukkah Extravaganza
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GENESIS AND BEYOND: The Boyd Rice Christmas/Hanukkah Extravaganza “Boyd Rice is a black pimp.” —Charles Manson “Boyd Rice was my mentor." —Marilyn Manson “Boyd is an iconoclast!” —Anton LaVey, Church of Satan “Boyd Rice could be the next John F. Kennedy or Jesus Christ.” —Kim Fowley “(Boyd Rice) is a bad influence.” —Der Spiegel Referred to by some…
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John Trubee: Sardonic Bard & Experimental Landline Jester
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Leader of the music group The Ugly Janitors of America, John Trubee has given his life to entertain the unwashed masses by way of recorded music, prank phone calls, poems, cartoons, and evocative performances. Best known for creating the most famous song poem of all time, the 1984 novelty track "Peace & Love" (more commonly known as "A Blind Man’s …
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NN: Wet-Brained Clairvoyance (Morning Zoo Edition)
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“Any effort which helps the powerful will be elevated and amplified, while any effort which inconveniences them falls into an empty void.” -Caitlin Johnstone “The degree to which I want violence in my art is inversely proportional to how much I want it in my life.” -NN NN (c. 1970) is a self-described “psychedelic gangster”; an untamed sexual psych…
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“Boyd Rice is a black pimp.” —Charles Manson “Boyd Rice was my mentor." —Marilyn Manson “Boyd is an iconoclast!” —Anton LaVey, Church of Satan “Boyd Rice could be the next John F. Kennedy or Jesus Christ.” —Kim Fowley “(Boyd Rice) is a bad influence.” —Der Spiegel Referred to by some as “The most dangerous man alive”, Boyd Rice (c. 1956) is a pione…
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KEEPING IT RAËL: Were Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad all Swastika-loving swingers from another solar system?
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On December 13, 1973 French automobile journalist and race car driver Claude Vorilhon purportedly experienced a physical encounter with what he believed to be an extraterrestrial human. This celestial being, which referred to itself as Yahweh, allegedly claimed to be a representative of a civilization from another solar system within the Milky Way …
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Guest: Aimee Knight @aimee_knight Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-452-aimee-knight-inspiredBy Dave Rael
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“Liberty is the domain of the Sovereign. Servitude the domain of the collective.” -Yukio Mishima John McAfee (c. 1945) is a larger than life figure who requires little introduction. He is presently living in exile while simultaneously making a bid for the White House as a current U.S. Presidential candidate (despite claims that he has zero interest…
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Rev. Fred Lane: When in Rome, DON'T Do As The Romans Do
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Rev. Fred Lane (c. 19??) is a simultaneously enigmatic and notorious persona who is responsible for creating what is arguably the most obscure, strange, darkly comedic, psychotic, perplexing, and uniquely American music that has ever been recorded. The collected works of Fred Lane constitute an improbably rare body of music that brazenly rides the …
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Episode 451 | Alberto Brandolini - Mistakes and Experiments
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Guest: Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando Full show notes are at https://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-451-alberto-brandolini-mistakes-and-experimentsBy Dave Rael
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Episode 450 | Reem Altamimi - Leading Humans
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Episode 449 | Luca Ferrari - Focused Practice
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Shaun Partridge (“hatched” c. 1968) aka The Partridge in the Pear Tree is a writer, visual & recording artist, prankster, and co-founder of The Partridge Family Temple (aka “PFT!”). PFT! was created in 1988 as a bonafide religion devoted to the philosophy of absolute 24/7 fun (“Fun is the Law”). In short, the religion is based on the concept that t…
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Episode 448 | Nicholas Chase - Expanding What People Think They Can Do
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Episode 447 | Samantha Campbell - Community-Focused
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Episode 446 | Taylor Perkins - Hard Things Thoughtfully Done
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Episode 445 | Gonçalo Silva - Highly Productive Teams
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Bryan Lewis Saunders: The Alchemy of Madness
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Bryan Lewis Saunders (c. 1969) is in some ways easier to describe by saying what he isn’t rather than what he is. He is anything but ordinary, boring, or predictable. In 1995 he began drawing and painting self-portraits, vowing to create at least one self-portrait every day until he dies. He has more than kept his word. By his estimation, at presen…
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Episode 444 | Carl Perry - Customer Focused
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Episode 443 | Justin Hoover - Building a Legacy
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Episode 442 | Elliot Simon - Collaborating with Robots
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Jim Goad (c. 1961) is an American author, publisher, social critic, country crooner, pioneering “wigger”, ex-convict, brain tumor survivor, iconoclast, and cultural provocateur. He is perhaps best known for *ANSWER Me!* magazine, which he co-authored, edited, and published with his late wife Debbie Goad between 1991 and 1994. Scandals surrounding t…
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Episode 441 | Juval Löwy - Validating Design
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Episode 440 | Ole Dallerup - Proving the Value
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