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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077 - with Tim Foad - On Economics, Technology, and Productivity
079 - with Patrick Mellor - On Earth’s History of Climate Change
078 - On Surviving In The Woods
076 - On Dragon Capsules, Space Trash, and VR Experiences
075 - with Paul Gambill of Nori - On The True Cost of Carbon and Reversing Climate Change
074 - with Jen Harris - On Identity
073 - On Working Remotely
072 - with Colin Murphy - On Universal Basic Income
071 - On The Complexities and Beauty of The Scientific Method
070 - with Dave McCarty - On Engineering Buildings and Exploring Fantastic Caves
069 - On The Solar System - Part 3 - Asteroids, Giants -- and Pluto
068 - with Nat Wyeth - On Fundraising and The Practice of Giving
067 - with Scott MacMullan - On That Peninsula Life and Running for Office in Annapolis MD
066 - On Stuff - Bikes
065 - On Stuff - Corrugated Cardboard
064 - with Christophe Jospe of Nori - On Climate Change - Part 4 - Reversing It
063 - On Learning Guitar and Pretending to Be a Rock Star
062 - On Terminators and Terminating Things
061 - On Drones - Part 2 - The Complexity of Not Bumping Into Things
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