Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerds.

Today it's Mike Kelly and we're interviewing Adam Nold.

Hey Adam, welcome to the podcast and why don't you tell us a little about yourself. Hey, Adam. Welcome to the podcast. And why don't you tell us a little about yourself.

Hey, Mike. Yeah, glad to be here. Yes, my name's Adam. I'm currently the IT manager of an accounting

firm, which was a startup about 10 years ago by Silicon Valley CEO type.

And they didn't have any internal IT until I came aboard a couple years ago.

So it's been a great experience.

But my journey has been, you know, what I like to tell people is that I've always been into computers my whole life

when I was, I don't know, 12, 13 years old, and I'm 34 now, so about 22 years ago, back when

computers weren't as popular and most people run Windows 95, Windows 98, my mother, coincidentally,

she actually had, she worked at a job that had a computer

at that time and she would bring home her work laptop and she would go out on trade shows

during the weekend. But at night, she'd let me go on to her work computer. And that's when I

started to get into things like the internet and we can delve into that

further if you want old school things like Yahoo games aOL instant messenger irc chat channels and

things like that um i then just stayed on a computer i like'd like to say, throughout my whole life.

I wasn't as social as a kid as I am now, so that allotted me a lot of time to be on computers,

when other people might be like out hanging out and having fun or something like that.

I was getting, the way that I can kind of explain it best, what I tell people is that a computer

I almost see as an extension of myself.

Like literally myself flows through my arms, through my hands, through my fingertips into

the keyboard.

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