E18: Do you love programming as much as Thorsten Ball does?
Programming is the best! We're chatting with Thorsten Ball (self-published author of Writing an Interpreter in Go and Writing a Compiler in Go) about all of our mutual favorite topics: learning new st...
23 Feb 202450min
E17: 1000 Hours Away From Being Exceptional
Zach Latta is the founder of Hack Club (hackclub.com). Zach's a high school dropout who's now helped 30k high school students around the world start their own coding clubs. He also helped build the mu...
18 Jan 202459min
E16: What if textbooks were actually fun?
Oz and Charlie brainstorm their "Stripe Press for kids" publishing idea! Shownotes:Klutz PressCharlie's blog post about Klutz PressHacker News discussion about Charlie's Klutz Press blogLittle Schemer...
11 Jan 202451min
E15: Finding your live wire for motivation
Brandon Hendrickson (creator of scienceisweird.com) says no one's ever asked him about the sabertooth tiger skull in his Zoom background - until now! Brandon's a teacher steeped in the ideas of Kieran...
8 Des 20231h 31min
E14: Brit Cruise and the computer magic show
Brit Cruise creates educational videos, learning experiments, and other amazing things that "connect young people with their futures as young as possible." He's worked with Khan Academy, Codecademy, ...
10 Nov 20231h 13min
E13: Why some people learn much faster than others
Charlie wants to talk about the latest Paul Graham essay "How to Do Great Work" and Oz wants to talk about jiu-jitsu (again).Show notes:How to Do Great Work - Paul Graham You and Your Research - Richa...
21 Sep 20231h 5min
E12: Two self-taught engineers building large scale data systems
We're joined by the co-founders of Warpstream Labs, Richie Artoul and Ryan Worl, to talk about how exploring your curiosity as a software engineer can lead to all sorts of interesting avenues and oppo...
7 Sep 202355min
E11: Helping kids fall in love with computers
Linda Liukas (author and illustrator of HELLO RUBY - "the world's most whimsical way to learn about computers, technology and programming") joins Oz and Charlie to discuss how and why we love our comp...
17 Aug 20231h 3min
