In Your Shoes Vivek Juneja

On this edition of this podcast, I have Vlad Știrbu, a leading Quantum Software researcher based out of Finland. As a Nokia alumni, Vlad shares his journey to get into Quantum Computing and the state of the art in the Quantum Computing world.

You can connect with Vlad at https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladstirbu/

On the 5th edition of this podcast, I have Abhishek Parolkar on the show for the first time. He is one of my oldest friends, and a deep thinker and practitioner of various fields. He started as an engineer and moved to lead product and engineering in wide variety of startup as a senior leader. He moved to Sales in the last years, and now is starting his new company Manx.AI (https://www.manx.ai/). We talk about technology in general, AI and startups, and lastly Singapore where he lives today.
You can connect with Abhishek at https://twitter.com/parolkar and https://www.linkedin.com/in/parolkar/

I talk about Software Architecture modernization with Nick Tune and David Gebhardt in this episode of In Your Shoes podcast. Nick is an Architecture Modernization Consultant and Author of the book Architecture Modernization. David is Chief Product & Technology Officer (CTO & CPO), mobile.de GmbH (part of Adevinta), and contributed to Architecture modernization book.

Few topics we covered in the podcast:
1. How do you avoid being a new leader coming to an organization and asking to change things, and facing resistance when it comes to architecture modernization ?
2. What has been experience with modernizing architecture ?
3. What is the process of writing the book "Architecture Modernization" ?
4. What would the guests advise folks to start considering as "No regret moves" to approach architecture modernization ?

Buy the book "Architecture Modernization" here : https://www.manning.com/books/architecture-modernization

Contact:
David Gebhardt / https://www.linkedin.com/in/gebhardt-david/
Nick Tune / https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-tune/

In a wide ranging talk, I speak to Dr. Mikio L Braun, who is an independent consultant and freelancer in the field of applied AI in Berlin. In past he has worked extensively in building data products and researching AI at companies like Zalando, Get Your Guide and others. He is a prolific public speaker and thought leader in this space. We had a free ranging talk as a follow up from the past appearances in the podcast (back in 2020) and covered lot of areas : impact of LLMs and Generative AI, how education and software development will be affected, impact on society and the art of learning. We also talked about Alignment problem in AI systems and how ideal social media systems can be developed.

Mikio is also building a project https://fedistats.cc/ to generate feeds of popular topics off Mastodon. Please check it out.

To learn more about him, please find him here :https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikiobraun/

In this episode I talk to Manuel Pais discussing Team topologies, Fast flow and adoption patterns. This is round 2 of Manuel appearing on the podcast and we follow up this time on how Team topologies has taken the industry by storm, its adoption challenges and anti-patterns. Manuel also talked about ideas that he is thinking about in 2023 to build high performing teams. 

In this episode of In Your Shoes podcast, I feature Lucy Howie, who is a co-founder of Quan, a startup that provides an end-to-end platform to improve wellbeing and team performance. Lucy is a serial entrepreneur with diverse experience and was recently part of the YCombinator W22 batch. She shared inspiring stories behind her new startup and learning in the Silicon Valley. This is an amazing behind the scenes account of what goes in to run a successful startup and preparing it to scale. 

You can reach Lucy on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucyhowie/ 

The full episode is also available on the podcast page - http://www.inurshoes.com/ 

This is the Season 3 of the In Your Shoes podcast. The podcast aims to get into the shoes of a person like you and me, and learn about their career stories and experiences. Through this conversation, we will uncover insights and pearls of wisdom which will hopefully inspire you and expand your thinking. 

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Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

0:41 About Lucy

1:07 Quan and its origins

3:39 Wellbeing and Health

5:22 Journey towards YC

11:16 Takeaways from YC

16:28 Lucy's journey before Quan

22:00 Dealing with ambiguity

26:15 Self care and well being

29:47 Well being at work

33:24 Mental health as taboo subject

36:03 Hard parts of your journey

41:00 Identifying customer needs

43:43 Message to leaders

45:36 Desired end state of wellbeing