Life Done Different features individuals who have taken unconventional paths in life, whether in their career, lifestyle or thought process. Each episode, guests share their stories and give honest answers about the trade offs that come with their choices. From sailing solo around the world, to living in a tiny house, to gambling for a living, Life Done Different offers an unfiltered look into roads less traveled. So get ready to challenge your assumptions and explore new perspectives each w ...
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Our show is a conversation with experienced software engineers where we discuss new technology, career advice, and help you be amazing at work.
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Nate Ritter, of hashtag fame and no fortune, and Rob Fitzgerald stole the name Fight Night years ago from a bunch of super smart seminarians in the Pacific Northwest. We have usurped it for philosophy, not only theology, and have used it for years amongst friends and family to describe the times we get together, drink, discuss smart books, tell amazing travel stories, and fight over ideas. We do so we can live a better, more principled life tomorrow than we did today. Join us. Maybe you’ll g ...
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Effective Authoring with Nate Murray and Matt Harrison
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In this special episode of the newline podcast, Nate is interviewed by Matt Harrison, founder of Metasnake, and author of his own course Effective Book Authoring. Over the hour, Matt interviews me asking about programming book authoring - how to plan it, how to write it, how market it when you're done. I share my best advice for organizing the proc…
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Redux in 2020 with Mark Erikson (acemarke)
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Today we're talking with Redux js maintainer Mark Erikson. Mark has been maintaining the Redux library for about five years, and has written an amazing amount of documentation and guide material. Redux is used in the majority of React apps, but folks have recently been questioning: is Redux still a tool I should use in 2020? It depends. We tease ap…
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SVGs, Magic, and Joy of Whimsy on the Web with Cassie Evans
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Resources: cassie.codes twitter.com/cassiecodes Amelia's Twitter Nate's Twitter Kurt Vonnegut and Narrative Arcs Sara Soueidan's Post on SVG Filters: The Crash Course Welcome to the newline podcast. Our show is a conversation with experienced software engineers where we discuss new technology, career advice, and help you be amazing at work. I’m Nat…
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Resources: The Coding Career Handbook Website Shawn's Twitter Amelia's Twitter Nate's Twitter Today we're talking with Shawn Wang, a senior developer advocate at Amazon Web Services. Shawn is a prolific writer- you should totally check out his blog, if you haven't already. and most recently has written a book about the non-coding parts of your codi…
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Serverless on AWS Lambda with Stephanie Prime
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newline Podcast Sudo Steph Nate: [00:00:00] Steph, just tell us a little bit about your work and kind of your background with, like AWS and like what you're doing now. Steph: [00:00:06] Yes, so I work as a engineer for a manage services provider called Second Watch. We basically partner with other big companies that use AWS or some other clouds som…
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A Software Engineer's Guide to Venture Capital with AngelList Engineer Sumukh Sridhara
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Resources: vcstarterkit Twitter / sumukh's Twitter Amelia's Twitter Nate's Twitter Welcome to the newline podcast. Our show is a conversation with experienced software engineers where we discuss new technology, career advice, and help you be amazing at work. I’m Nate Murray and I’m Amelia Wattenberger and today we're talking with Sumukh Sridhara wh…
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Proactive Security with Eric Higgins
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Resources: Eric's book, Security from Zero Eric's company, Brindle Consulting Eric's Twitter Amelia's Twitter Nate's Twitter Welcome to the podcast. Our show is a conversation with experienced software engineers where we discuss new technology, career advice, and help you be amazing at work. I’m Nate Murray and I’m Amelia Wattenberger and today we'…
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Mastering The Programming Interview With Uber Engineer Esco Obong
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Nate's Twitter Amelia's Twitter Stay-at-home saleBy Nate Murray, Esco Obong, Amelia Wattenberger
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Why Is TypeScript So Popular? With Christian Santos
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What We Talk About What it’s like to work at Facebook Why is typescript so popular? TypeScript and it’s relationship to JavaScript TypeScript as a productivity tool Mistakes beginner TypeScript developers make What’s the difference between TypeScript and Flow?By Nate Murray, Amelia Wattenberger, Christian Santos
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Phoenix - The one where we started again
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Two guys talking about travel, $1 homes in Italy, alcohol taxes in the US, game theory, and the history of debt.
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As I’m planning for this holiday season, I realized we’re living in incredible times. I can go online and order just about anything imaginable and have it delivered to my door in two days. It’s like magic. But I know that there a lot of wheels in motion behind the scenes that make the magic possible and this week, I got interested in 18 of them in …
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When it comes to dream jobs, I’m pretty sure that I’m not alone in saying that I’d love to be Anthony Bourdain. Think about it. He travels the world, experiences cultures through food and shares it with us. What’s not to love? But rather than dream about the job, our guest this week made it a reality. I’m joined by Matt Goulding (@mdgoulding). He’s…
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Becoming a parent may be one of the largest decisions we can make in our lives. But how do you approach that decision if you know the child isn't going to be yours? To help us answer this question, we’re joined by Corinne Ostrich. She’s a mother of two and she’s also a surrogate mother. In fact she’s about to embark on the surrogacy journey for the…
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We're taking this week off from publishing a full episode in order to celebrate Thanksgiving. In the spirit of the holiday, I wanted to say that I'm incredibly thankful for all of you who are Life Done Different listeners. Sharing this podcast with you all is one of the biggest highlights of my year. I also want to say a special thank you to everyo…
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12. Henok Negash - The Bowtie Magician
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From fancy tuxedos, to beautiful assistants, vanishing coins and teleporting cards - I’ve always been mesmerized by magic. But beyond the illusions, one of the things that I find most mysterious about the world of magic, is how polarized it seems. On one side of the spectrum you’ve got magicians working birthday parties, who are often just a few ye…
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11. Christopher Voss - FBI Hostage Negotiator
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The phone rings. You pick it up and on the other line you hear a voice that says: “We have your wife and child. You have 24 hours to get us 5 million dollars or else they die.” What do you do? I can’t imagine what getting a call like that would feel like, let alone what to do. But for Chris Voss (@VossNegotiation), this would have been just another…
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10. Kathryn Kellogg - Trash is scary! Going Zero Waste.
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Happy Halloween everyone! I thought we could start the show today in Planet Money style with two numbers, 4.4 and zero. I’ll give you a second to guess their significance. Alright, ready? If you said that 4.4 is the average number of pounds that we Americans produce as waste on a daily basis, you’d be correct. Kinda scary isn’t it? As for zero, tha…
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I hate it when I break things because I only have three options: 1) I can try to repair it myself, which isn’t really an option 2) I can pay for a professional to fix it, which usually costs more than the product itself or 3) I can ditch the old one and buy a new one. And this is the cycle that Peter Skinner is trying to fix. In 2012, Peter founded…
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8. Casey Fenton - Founder of Couchsurfing
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It’s 1999. You decide you want to travel the world, but you’re from a small town, you don’t have a lot of connections and you don’t have a ton of cash. What do you do? This was the question that inspired Casey Fenton (@caseyfenton) to create Couchsurfing.com. If you haven’t heard of Couchsurfing before, it’s pretty much how the name sounds. You go …
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First things first, this episode is an explicit one, with adult themed content, so if you’re sensitive to that, you may want to skip this one. Alright, for those of you who are sticking around, the topic today is porn. I’m guessing you’re familiar with it, but how familiar are you with what goes on behind the scenes and in the industry at large? I …
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6. Matt Pohlson - CEO & Co-Founder of Omaze
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What if donating to charity meant that you could win the experience of your dreams; like flying around the world to party with your favorite band, a role in a blockbuster movie, or having lunch 1-on-1 with your idol? Would you be more inclined to give to a good cause and would charities raise more money? Matt Pohlson (@mattpohlson) set out to find …
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5. Wyatt Jenkins - From Techno to Tech
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Love it or hate it, house music has become one of the most popular genres of our time. But it wasn’t always like that. This music was once deeply underground. Even the name, house music, is a nod to the illegal warehouse parties it was once played at. So how did we go from there to the festivals and multi-billion dollar industry that we see today? …
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4. Laura Dekker - Youngest Solo Circumnavigator Ever
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At age 14, Laura Dekker set sail on a solo journey from the Netherlands. A year and a half later, she became the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the globe. Her tale is incredible, but perhaps the most astonishing part is that it almost didn’t happen. Laura originally planned to embark on her trip at age 13, but when Dutch authorities got win…
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3. Blade - Professional High Stakes Blackjack
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There’s a rule in Las Vegas - the house always wins. It turns out that rule can be broken, and Blade shows us how. We talk about Blade's transition to becoming a professional gambler, the preparation that was required, including creating an alternate persona, and the capital necessary for the endeavor. Blade shares the highs and lows - like what it…
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Jay Shafer (@fourlightshouse) is best known as the pioneer of the tiny house movement. He’s the author of the Small House Book and the founder of Four Lights Tiny House Company. His work has been featured on Oprah, The New York Times, The New Yorker and beyond. Jay and I discuss his early influences, the role art plays in his design, what constitut…
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Cayley Coulbourn (@caylesc) has spent the last ten years of her life at sea. From teaching diving in Thailand, to sailing in the British Virgin Islands, to chartering yachts up the coast of New England, she’s done it all. We talk about how she got her start in the dive industry, how she was able to build her skills and certifications for free by tr…
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