HeyJaredStrictly From Nowhere: A Podcast Experiment by Cause of a Kind
Join Mike Rispoli, Software Engineer, and Entrepreneur, along with Justin Abrams Digital Marketer and Entrepreneur, as they explore software and marketing challenges, tackle industry taboo, and share their nearly 20-year journey as friends, outdoorsmen, and professionals.
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Nick Haroldsen | The Need For Speed (opens the original)
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Two designers who became engineers, comparing notes on what engineering even is now.In this episode of CTO Confidential, Mike Rispoli sits down with Nick Haroldsen, founder of Nth Powered and a twenty year veteran of UI design and development. They met arguing about AI on LinkedIn.Both started in design. Both moved to code because they hated being removed from the building of the thing. Both now spend their days getting agents to produce output their teams can actually trust.We get into:Why the
Gregg Schoenberg | Do You Have More Than One Way To Win? (opens the original)
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Every piece of career advice you learned was written before November 30, 2022.That is the day ChatGPT launched. Gregg Schoenberg's position is that most of the advice conceived before it should go in a drawer, and the biggest casualty is the one everybody repeated for generations. Focus. Do one thing really well.In this episode of Forward to Extraordinary, Justin Abrams sits down with Gregg Schoenberg, executive coach and founder of Wescott Inc. Capitol Hill aide, corporate lobbyist, then thirte
Michael Nieling, Founder @ Ocupop | Proof of Adaptability (opens the original)
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A snowboarder overheard his sponsor complaining about a $25,000 website quote and said he'd do it for five grand. He had never built a website. He went to the library, checked out books, and figured it out. Twenty seven years later that's Ocupop. In this episode of Forward to Extraordinary, Justin Abrams sits down with Michael Nieling, founder and creative director of Ocupop. Pre med turned zoology major turned competitive snowboarder turned designer. Studios in Hawaii and Wisconsin. Work for Go
John Crickett | The Ai Landscape (opens the original)
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As of this recording, all three AI providers went down. So we recorded a podcast instead. Mike Rispoli sits back down with John Crickett, founder of Coding Challenges, for his second appearance. No origin story this time. Just two people who run their own businesses talking honestly about what building software actually feels like right now. John built apps in C++, Rust, Zig, Go and Swift in the last month. He had never written a line of Swift. He also spent four hours building a working Mac app
Always Be Shipping Software - Episode #067 (opens the original)
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Two guys who got tired of paying for software they could just build. Justin and Mike push play on The Stand Up after a long break and demo everything they have shipped over the last stretch. They estimate they have killed two to three thousand dollars a month in subscriptions over six months by rebuilding tools in their own likeness. This one is technical and unedited. Real screen shares, real bottlenecks, real diagnosing a server mid episode. What we demo: A custom DAM built on Tigris and fly.i
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