010 – Garric Nahapetian of SwiftCoders and Farmers Insurance U-Turn

In this episode of U-Turn, I talk with Garric Nahapetian. Garric graduated from law school in 2012, and, for a short time, worked as an attorney in southern California. Today, however, he writes code for a living. That’s right — he is now a programmer. I first heard of Garric via the weekly podcast he hosts called SwiftCoders, a podcast about Apple’s modern open-source programming language Swift. If you enjoy programming or even learning about the Apple ecosystem in general, I highly recommend you check it out!

Listen as we talk about dealing with family pressure to follow a certain career path, finding the courage to do something different, and teaching yourself to write code while driving for Uber part-time.

Episode Links

Garric’s interview with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift
Chris Sacca, venture capitalist
Gimlet Media
StartUp, Alex Blumberg’s podcast about starting a business
iMore podcast, hosted by Rene Ritchie
The Downtown Train, Garric’s former blues band
Agile software development