This week our guest is Lin Qiu, Senior Software Engineering at Upside Travel! Lin's an old friend and a co-conspirator on a number of projects with Adam and Brian… and a couple of whole companies with Adam. Our plan in pre-production convos was to talk about our experience with those various projects, but wow did we barely make it through the first step.
This episode turned into a weighty meditation on what motivated each of us to start our own companies: whether it was right out of the gate, or after working in a “real” job for a while. We explore the driving philosophies of modern work versus the startup world, taking a look at notions of freedom, creativity, art, and youth. We talk about our evolving notions of what it means to be successful, and how the emergence of digital tools has maybe pushed the world closer to being a place where the “working world" values a broad skillset over rabid specialization…maybe?
If we figured out one things for sure it’s that we’ll have to have Lin back on so we can actually talk about the specifics of some of the super cool projects we worked on over the years.
If you want to dig in more on anything we talk about here, and maybe a tease of some of those projects we’ll cover later, links are available in the show notes at http://zengineeringpodcast.com
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099 - On Star Trek TNG (Mostly Commander Data).
098 - On Open Source Collaboration
097 - On Breaking up Big Tech & The Data Economy
096 - On Superheroes & Comic Books
095 - On Wolfram's Theory of Everything
094 - On Dice
093 - with Dorna Moini - On Access to Justice
092 - On Cognitive Bias
091 - with Alexsandra Guerra of Nori - On The Stories of Climate Change
090 - On Apple and Encryption Backdoors
089 - with Mike Rosolio - On Video Game History
088 - On Government - Part 1 - An Operating System for the United States
087 - with Sam Rad - On Blockchains, Supply Chains, and Paradigm Shifts
086 - with Peter Dering - On Peak Design, Kickstarter, and Living Carbon Neutral
085 - with Jeffery A. Martin - On Happiness, Fundamental Wellbeing, and Flow States
084 - On Stuff - Headphones
083 - with Greg Kieser - On AI Superintelligence
082 - On Curating A Media Diet
081 - with Bethany Simpson - On VR, Egypt, and the Future of Education
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