EP 198 · 63 min · 09 January 2017
Bryan Cantrill - Persistence and Action
Bryan Cantrill talks with Dave Rael about public clouds,
Bryan Cantrill is the CTO at Joyent
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Bryan Cantrill
- - Bryan's opinion of formal computer science education and the importance understanding what lies beneath the abstractions we consume
- - Bryan's role and the nature of Joyent
- - Bryan's thoughts on the economics of on-premise computing and the collapse of it's use int the face of public cloud enthusiasm
- - Joyent's approach to openness and preventing lockin
- - How Bryan got started in software
- - Bryan's story of failure - attitude toward defects and the impact on personal confidence
- - The pitfall of having a fixed mindset among gifted individuals and the importance of persistence
- - Taking action and speaking your mind
- - Bryan's philosophy of parenting and what parents can control
- - Bryan's book recommencations
- - Bryan's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Bryan
Resources:
- Bryan's Blog
- Joyent
- Joel Spolsky on Leaky Abstractions
- Jurassic Park: A Novel - Michael Crichton
- The Joyent Blog Post on Being Acquired by Samsung
- John the Baptist
- Amazon Web Services Snowball
- Amazon Web Services Snowmobile
- Joyent's Container Service: Triton
- IBM System/360 Model 67
- Thomas J. Watson Jr.
- Larry Weed
- IBM PC XT
- DOS
- Bryan at Monktoberfest 2016 on Oral Tradition in Software Engineering
- Jim Gray
- "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back." - attributed here to Piet Hein
- Rocky Balboa - Motivational/Inspirational Speech To Son (relevant to Bryan's emphasis on persistence and moving forward against resistance)
Bryan's book recommendation:
- The Soul of A New Machine - Tracy Kidder
- Sloan Technology Series
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition - Richard Rhodes
- The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technical Revolution - Robert Buderi
- Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Mo dern Agriculture (Sloan Technology Series) - Craig Canine
- The Story of Mel ("The Last Real Programmer") - Ed Nather
- The Bug Count Also Rises - John Browne
- Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns - Steve Yegge
Bryan's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Read more
- Write more
- Be persistent