Fallthrough

Communities play a vital role in our technical and non-technical lives, but how much thought have we put into what makes these spaces valuable? In this episode, Kris is joined by the panel and Kelsey Hightower to discuss communities and their intersection with the digital and non-digital world.

Supporters get access to an extended conversation with Kelsey, where we discuss his views of AI and what he's been up to in retirement! You can get access by signing up at https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe.

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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue (00:00)
  • Chapter 1: Choice (02:46)
    • Why did Kelsey leave the Go community? (02:46)
    • Dylan's first experiences with Go (09:05)
    • A shared vocabulary (10:39)
    • The software relay race (12:30)
    • Go: The Potential Parts (13:37)
    • The challenge of having a Go team (15:00)
    • Yes is forever (25:59)
    • Modules Therapy (27:11)
    • Remember the past & give space to be honest (28:17)
    • Dropping the community baton (31:53)
    • Go by choice (32:19)
    • Wall Street measure of success (35:48)
    • The first date isn't the same as the hundredth (39:36)
    • The leader in you (42:19)
  • Chapter 2: Infinite (47:35)
    • Software is an Infinite Game (47:35)
    • Constraints are required (51:30)
    • You cannot build the everything tool (54:21)
    • We need to touch grass (55:39)
    • Augmenting life (59:27)
  • Chapter 3: Evolution (01:00:55)
    • Keeping sane in DevRel (01:07:17)
    • Conferences in the current era (01:13:30)
    • Superiority of the Single Track Conference (01:18:04)
    • Kelsey's KubeCon Story (01:21:00)
    • Virtual Conferences need a new term (01:23:38)
    • Conferences need some innovating (01:25:35)
    • Does tech even have communities? (01:27:52)
    • Kelsey's dream talk development path (01:30:06)
  • Chapter 4: Kelsey's Retirement (01:42:05)
    • This chapter is supporter only content.
  • Epilogue (01:43:34)

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Creators & Guests

Host
Dylan Bourque
Host
Kris Brandow
Host
Matthew Sanabria
Matthew is an engineering leader focused on building reliable, scalable, and observable systems. Matthew is known for using his breadth and depth of experience to add value in minimal context situations and help great people become great engineers through mentoring. Matthew serves the Go community as a member of GoBridge. In his spare time, Matthew spends time with his family, helps grow his wife's chocolate business, works on home improvement projects, and reads technical resources to learn and tinker.
Guest
Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower is a Former Distinguished Engineer, Google Cloud Open Source contributor, Author, Speaker, Investor, and Minimalist.

What is Fallthrough?

A deep and nuanced conversational podcast focused on technology, software, and computing.