Beyond Coding Episode #111

Learning, Open Source Communities and Systems with William Rizzo

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https://youtu.be/7-HKy1D7iso

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Guest

Connect with William Rizzo:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-rizzo

https://github.com/wrkode

 

Outline

00:00:00 – Intro
00:00:28 – Listening to learn
00:03:28 – System 1 and system 2 explained
00:06:17 – Texting and driving
00:08:52 – Learning with mental boxes
00:11:34 – Complex systems
00:13:59 – Power in complexity?
00:16:06 – What William did before working with Kubernetes
00:18:44 – William’s background in physics
00:20:48 – How physics helps in tech
00:23:43 – High performance clusters
00:27:25 – Maintaining open source software
00:30:51 – The open core model
00:33:59 – Building trust
00:35:55 – Being involved in communities
00:38:42 – How interactions have changed
00:40:14 – People that are great at networking
00:42:03 – The social part vs. the technical part
00:43:30 – Final thoughts