Episode 10: Marcin Wichary quit his job for his love of keyboards

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Marcin Wichary (MAR-cheen ve-HAR-ay) is a brilliant writer, coder, and speaker famous for going deep on everything he does. We discuss his entire history from college through joining Google, to creating the famous playable Pac-Mac google doodle, to joining Medium, and ultimately becoming so obsessed with typewriters and keyboards he took a sabbatical from work to begin writing a book, then he never looked back. The first draft of his book is done and now he's in the editing and publishing phase, hoping to release it next year.

Links:

• Aresluna — Marcin's personal website
• Marcin Wichary (@mwichary) | Twitter
• Marcin's college project with logo designs, building layouts, etc.
• 30th Anniversary of PAC-MAN — The greatest Google Doodle of all time
• Above my Google cubicle | Marcin Wichary | Flickr
• Webstock ‘17: Marcin Wichary - Charles Babbage’s mouse pointer on Vimeo — Marcin's Webstock talk that covers the Pac Man Google Doodle a bit
• Stanisław Lem playable Google doodle
• Code for America
• Code for America Summit | Streetmix demo on YouTube
• Streetmix: Build a street
• Crafting link underlines on Medium – Designing Medium
• The curious case of the disappearing Polish S – Medium Engineering
• Snow Fall: NYTimes.com — The article demo that launched a thousand design essays
• Mr. Phelan’s building – Urban explorations – Medium
• Researching the Phelan Building – Marcin Wichary – Medium — The sort of DVD extras to the previous long piece on the Phelan Building
• What I learned about languages just by looking at a Turkish typewriter
• Shift happens: A book in progress – Marcin Wichary – Medium
• Shift happens: How it started – Marcin Wichary – Medium — The story of the start of Marcin's book on keyboards
• Shift Happens book updates | Revue — Marcin's newsletter about the book if you want to follow along
• Marcin Wichary on Twitter: "So, something magical happened to me today, and I wanted to tell you all about it." — A long twitter thread where Marcin details his serendipitous visit to a typewriter museum
• Marcin's Internet Archive scans and uploads
• Podcast Hosting and Analytics - Fireside