A technology journey spanning engineering, product strategy, opensource, marketing, and business development, Mark Collier shares lessons learned along the way. Getting everyone aligned on the outcome remains an unsolved problem. As always, Andrew needs a computer that actually works.

A technology journey spanning engineering, product strategy, opensource, marketing, and business development, Mark Collier shares lessons learned along the way. Getting everyone aligned on the outcome remains an unsolved problem. As always, Andrew needs a computer that actually works.

Jackals Are People Too

Reflecting on 20 years of system administration, Miss Amy, self identifies as an SRE/DBRE. She brings her perspectives, valuing resilience engineering and organizational dynamics over machines and tools, to the weird trick mafia audience.

Reflecting on 20 years of system administration, Miss Amy, self identifies as an SRE/DBRE. She brings her perspectives, valuing resilience engineering and organizational dynamics over machines and tools, to the weird trick mafia audience.

Self ID as SRE

Henry Zhu (@left_pad), maintainer of Babel, the Open Source Javascript compiler, joins the mafia. He explains going full time open source independent for the last year, how he pays rent and what he loves/hates about open source. Hope you enjoy another episode of Jess (@jessfraz) and Andrew (@littleidea) tricking people into saying words about stuff.

Henry Zhu (@left_pad), maintainer of Babel, the Open Source Javascript compiler, joins the mafia. He explains going full time open source independent for the last year, how he pays rent and what he loves/hates about open source. Hope you enjoy another episode of Jess (@jessfraz) and Andrew (@littleidea) tricking people into saying words about stuff.

Open Independence

Jess and Andrew get with Abby Fuller, Container Czarina extraordinaire, to share stories about startups, cold emails, hacking salesforce and getting in the middle of the cloud container game.

Jess and Andrew get with Abby Fuller, Container Czarina extraordinaire, to share stories about startups, cold emails, hacking salesforce and getting in the middle of the cloud container game.

Extremely on Brand

Sarah Drasner, Renaissance woman extraordinaire, shares stories, insightand advice with the Weird Trick Mafia. Tech, feelings, purpose, pandas. Mentioned: The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz The Fifth Discipline, Peter M. Senge The Truth About Burnout, Christina Maslach

Sarah Drasner, Renaissance woman extraordinaire, shares stories, insight and advice with the Weird Trick Mafia. Tech, feelings, purpose, pandas. Mentioned: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Discipline" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Fifth Discipline, Peter M. Senge</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Burnout-Organizations-Personal/dp/1118692136" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Truth About Burnout, Christina Maslach</a>

Find Your Laser Panda

Jess goes on safari in San Francisco and a wild Lachlan Evenson appears.Jess, Andrew and Lachlan discuss the journey from building the internet in theAustralian Outback to Cloud Native and wrap up weighing Net Neutrality.

Jess goes on safari in San Francisco and a wild Lachlan Evenson appears. Jess, Andrew and Lachlan discuss the journey from building the internet in the Australian Outback to Cloud Native and wrap up weighing Net Neutrality.

Index of Refraction

Sophie Haskins, ops witch at github (@sophaskins) shares stories about collecting andlearning from old hardware with our heroes Jess and Andrew. Learn more from Sophie at http://blog.pizzabox.computer

Sophie Haskins, ops witch at github (@sophaskins) shares stories about collecting and learning from old hardware with our heroes Jess and Andrew. Learn more from Sophie at <a href="http://blog.pizzabox.computer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blog.pizzabox.computer</a>

Discover the Past

Erica Windisch, CTO, Co-Founder of IOpipe walks down memory lane, working withJess and Drew, building clouds, serverless, and more random tech feelings.

Erica Windisch, CTO, Co-Founder of IOpipe walks down memory lane, working with Jess and Drew, building clouds, serverless, and more random tech feelings.

Remember the Future

Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and Co-Chair of Kubecon, Bryan Liles (@bryanl) shares his stories and philosophies with Jess and Andrew.

Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and Co-Chair of Kubecon, Bryan Liles (<a href="https://twitter.com/bryanl" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@bryanl</a>) shares his stories and philosophies with Jess and Andrew.

That's My Super Power

Verónica López (@maria_fibonacci) shares her software engineering journey from physics and mobile projects in Mexico to Cloud Native Kubernetes in Silicon Valley with Andrew and Jess.

Verónica López (<a href="https://twitter.com/maria_fibonacci" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@maria_fibonacci</a>) shares her software engineering journey from physics and mobile projects in Mexico to Cloud Native Kubernetes in Silicon Valley with Andrew and Jess.

Resourceful & Persistent

A podcast about tech, feelings, open source, and /dev/urandom.

Andrew and Jess discuss Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.

Andrew and Jess discuss Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.

Bleeding Silicon

Andrew and Jess discuss open source hardware and firmware from open compute summit.

Andrew and Jess discuss open source hardware and firmware from open compute summit.

Open All the Compute

Andrew and Jess discuss open source foundations. Note from Jess: If you want to support open source projects checkout open collective, outreachy, and the software conservancy.

Andrew and Jess discuss open source foundations. Note from Jess: If you want to support open source projects checkout <a href="https://opencollective.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">open collective</a>, <a href="https://www.outreachy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">outreachy</a>, and the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">software conservancy</a>.

Foundation Head

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The Best Multi-Part Documentaries, with documentaries on Obama, Federer vs Nadal, the making of Star Wars, Netflix vs Blockbuster and more. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!

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The best episodes for anyone looking to learn more about topics such as happiness, fulfillment, depression and psychology/mental health in general. With interviews with industry experts, personal stories of individuals, this topic has lessons applicable to everyone. Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!