Does your summer roadtrip across America include Saturn V Rockets, self-driving cars, dinosaur bones, and maybe Kittyhawk? Well, then you might be Oz and family! Charlie and Oz catch up on Oz's grand tour of America's inspiring hubs of ambition and technology, with plenty of detouring into the wonderful book genre of video game memoirs.

Shownotes

• [book] Failure Is Not An Option - Gene Kranz
• [book] Skunkworks - Ben Rich
• [book] The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
• [book] Masters of Doom - David Kushner
• [documentary] Indie Game the Movie
• [book] Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
• [book] The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
• [book] Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
• [song] "This song wrote itself" - Charlie's song about self-driving cars, performed in a self-driving car
• Hack Club's "Blot" pen plotter
• Hack Club

Programming is the best! We're chatting with Thorsten Ball (self-published author of Writing an Interpreter in Go and Writing a Compiler in Go) about all of our mutual favorite topics: learning new stuff, great textbooks, writing, and why bugs are actually great (a gift, even!).

Shownotes

• Writing an Interpreter in Go (Thorsten's book):
• Writing a Compiler in Go (Thorsten's book)
• The Dragon Book (compilers)
• Thorsten's newsletter:
• Thorsten's website
• Zed.dev
• Sourcegraph

Zach Latta is the founder of Hack Club (hackclub.com). Zach's a high school dropout who's now helped 30k high school students around the world start their own coding clubs. He also helped build the much-beloved "yo" texting app in 2014. This is a fun conversation about coding in school, being a kid, the importance of friendship in learning, and realizing that you can make awesome stuff with awesome people in this world.

Shownotes:

• Hack Club
• László Polgár
• Yo App:
• Neopets
• Putting the You in CPU
• Pizza Hut BOOK-IT Program

Oz and Charlie brainstorm their "Stripe Press for kids" publishing idea!

Shownotes:

• Klutz Press
• Charlie's blog post about Klutz Press
• Hacker News discussion about Charlie's Klutz Press blog
• Little Schemer: https://mitpress.mit.edu/978026256099...
• Abstract Algebra: A Student Friendly Approach: https://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algeb...
• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Syste...
• Intel Celeron
• The Diamond Age
• Quantum County
• Execute Program
• Mitsumasa Anno
• Oz's Requests for Collaboration

Brandon Hendrickson (creator of scienceisweird.com) says no one's ever asked him about the sabertooth tiger skull in his Zoom background - until now! Brandon's a teacher steeped in the ideas of Kieran Egan - a prolific educational theorist who believes the world is FASCINATING and that IMAGINATION is key to how we humans learn. We explore how Egan's approach could work for autodidact software engineers, offer untold book suggestions, and, of course, propose some ways that ChatGPT might be able to help us along the way.

Shownotes:

• Science is WEIRD
• Brandon's 2023 Astral Codex Ten book review contest winning review of Kieran Egan's THE EDUCATED MIND
• Kieran Egan (wikipedia)
• A New History of Greek Mathematics - Reviel Netz
• Die Hard water jug challenge
• XKCD someone is wrong on the internet

Brit Cruise creates educational videos, learning experiments, and other amazing things that "connect young people with their futures as young as possible." He's worked with Khan Academy, Codecademy, Pixar, Disney, Unity, and more to conjure up magical educational experiences for kids.

Shownotes:

• Brit Cruise's website
• Storyxperiential
• X in a Box
• Art of the Problem
• Pixar in a Box
• Khan Academy
• James Burke "Connections"

Charlie wants to talk about the latest Paul Graham essay "How to Do Great Work" and Oz wants to talk about jiu-jitsu (again).

Show notes:

• How to Do Great Work - Paul Graham
• You and Your Research - Richard Hamming
• "Jozef Chen On Rapid Learning From Jiu-Jitsu Instructionals & Technique Tinkering"
• Jozef Chen recent competition victory
• Mikey Musumeci on Joe Rogan
• "There's no speed limit" - Derek Sivers
• Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
• Oz's article about how his 3 year old learned to read
• Laura Deming on The Good Time Show

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We're joined by the co-founders of Warpstream Labs, Richie Artoul and Ryan Worl, to talk about how exploring your curiosity as a software engineer can lead to all sorts of interesting avenues and opportunities, like going from a coding bootcamp grad to building Warpstream - a Kafka-compatible data streaming platform.

You may remember Richie from our previous podcast Escaping Web! Richie is one of Oz's students at Bradfield, and he's always up to something interesting and computer science-y.

Shownotes:

• Warpstream Labs
• Kafka is Dead, Long Live Kafka (Warpstream blog)
• Richie's "Escaping Web" episode
• Introducing Husky (Datadog blog)
• Turing Tumble (game where you build logic gates with marbles)