Reboot thoughtbot

Adarsh talks to Jim Perry, a professional poker player who trained as a civil engineer and baseball pitcher, now looking at his next career adventure.



Half Life
Duke Baseball
Jim's Blog
Rounders Movie
Magic the Gathering
Under the Boardwalk - Monopoly Championship
Two Plus Two Forums
Deuces Cracked
Independent Association of Baseball Leagues
Worcester Tornadoes
Ron Guidry, Red Sox Catcher
Black Friday 2011

Adarsh talks Jessie Young, who started her professional life as a political volunteer, worked in marketing, and became a developer after attending a technical bootcamp.



PDA
Edward "Ted" Kennedy
Brookline, MA
Sermo
RailsBridge
"Head First HTML with CSS" by Elisabeth Robson, Eric Freeman (not Kathy Sierra as I had thought)
"Learn to Program" by Chris Pine
Hungry Academy
Dev Bootcamp
Pivotal Labs

Adarsh talks with thoughtbot designer Brenda Storer. Brenda started out as a psychology major and waitress in California, moved to New York City right after 9/11, and finally threw away her waitressing shoes to work as web designer.



Bryant Park
Chico State
Brenda's Robbie Williams site from 1999
David LaChapelle
Tilde Club
DreamWeaver
BUNAC Study Abroad Program
3Com Fountain
Titanic
FIT, Fashion Institute of Technology
Quark
Imposter Syndrome
Girl Develop It
Sara Chipps

In Episode 0 of Season 1 of Reboot, Chad talks to Adarsh Pandit, thoughtbot SF Managing Director & host of the Reboot podcast, about his personal journey which inspired this, our newest show.


This episode originally aired as #125 on the Giant Robots Podcast (http://giantrobots.fm/125)



Reboot
"The Pickaxe"
Agile Development with Rails
Learn to Program
apprentice.io
Adarsh on Twitter

In episode 1 of the first season of Reboot, Adarsh talks with Gordon Fontenot, an iOS developer at thoughtbot, about his career path, moving from college dropout, to bartender, to film editor and finally iOS developer.



Gordon Fontenot on Twitter
Gordon’s podcast with Mark Adams on iOS development
Waltham, Massachusetts
Avid Video Editor
Central Booking
AppleScript
Pragmatic Programmers
Stack Overflow Careers
Imposter Syndrome
Dog typing on computer
thoughtbot