#251 Aida Manna went in circles between QA and development
Aida wanted to place the start of her journey three years ago when she started being a developer at ThoughtWorks. But then she went back more than a decade and started talking about her programming cl...
2 Touko 202348min
#250 Bobbi Towers learned to distrust eloquent speakers
Bobbi placed the start of her journey with the absence of a gaming console and the presence of a family computer instead. She spoke about exploring and solving minor problems. But also about how music...
25 Huhti 20231h
#249 Claude Jones became the practical leadership guy
Claude placed the start of his journey in the early days of the internet, learning HTML for the sake of Beanie Babies. He then described how this triggered his curiosity and ignited a never-ending pas...
18 Huhti 202349min
#248 Limor Mekaiten embraced engineering management and mentoring
Limor placed the start of her journey in her early childhood, doing a lot of maths and playing with computers. As a brilliant student during high school, she could enroll in enrichment classes and dip...
11 Huhti 202349min
#247 Brandon Campbell-Kearns searched for his identity
Brandon placed the start of his journey with his grandmother in computer expos in the 90s. But before coming to programming, his tale took a long detour, made of a search for purpose, social recogniti...
4 Huhti 202348min
#246 Bekah Hawrot Weigel found the power of communities
Bekah started with a poignant story of how the birth of her 4th child was a traumatic event that threw her into depression, PTSD, and questioning her place in the world. We then talked about her disco...
28 Maalis 202348min
#245 Matthew McClure wanted to build tools for developers
Matthew placed the start of his journey as a kid, introduced to the world of Nerds by his brother-in-law. Fast forward a few years, Matt spent the better time of his homeschooling on IRC, building stu...
21 Maalis 202353min
#244 Meshi Yona is a cyber analyst who wanted to try new things
Meshi placed the start her journey after high school when she did her mandatory military service in unit 8200 of the Israeli Defense Forces. She described how she learned cyber systems and cyber-analy...
14 Maalis 202345min
