Retirement is for suckers (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

THE Cameron Seay joins us once again! This time we learn more about his life/history, hear all about the boot camps he runs, discuss recent advancements in AI / quantum computing and how they might affect the tech labor market & more!

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Featuring:

• Cameron Seay – Twitter, LinkedIn
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory Of Cognitive Development

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1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:38)

http://sentry.io/events/launch-week/

3. Welcoming back Cameron (00:02:52)

https://cdn.changelog.com/uploads/avatars/people/ZqPbN/avatar_large.jpeg

4. Retirement is for suckers (00:03:29)

5. The most magnificent woman (00:10:59)

6. A long line of educators (00:13:04)

7. Sociocultural Theory (00:17:42)

https://www.simplypsychology.org/vygotsky.html

8. The opportunity ballet (00:19:25)

9. It takes what it takes (00:21:28)

10. How the boot camps work (00:22:48)

11. Success rates (00:25:35)

12. Creating expertise (00:28:46)

13. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:32:11)

https://firehydrant.com/signals

14. Oppenheimer (00:34:57)

15. Teach by doing (00:37:42)

16. Making COBOL money (00:41:00)

17. The COBOL work env (00:43:18)

18. The boot campers (00:46:23)

19. A week on determination (00:50:42)

20. Sponsor: Tailscale (00:53:42)

https://changelog.com/tailscale

21. Adam's story (00:56:46)

22. A pleasant sound (01:00:27)

23. Moar boot camps! (01:01:52)

24. Obligatory AI chapter (01:03:47)

25. Computers have computers (01:09:07)

26. Job trepidation (01:13:38)

27. Prompt engineering (01:14:58)

28. Applied Linux knowledge (01:16:17)

29. Going off cloud (01:17:27)

30. Bye friends (01:22:49)

31. Coming up next (01:23:08)