Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

So here it is our first ever Office Hours episode, Chris Messina, dives deep into product design,

dishes advice on how to better promote projects on product hunt,

and how best to craft a career in the tech industry and he gets

into his personal viewpoints and philosophies on life itself. As I said that's what

we're trying to do here. Find space to talk to tech folks not just about what's in the

headlines but also what's in their heads, how they do what they do. And also if I

could ask a quick favor, those of you who are so inclined, I encourage you to watch this episode on the YouTube page for this show.

Link to the episode is in the show notes.

Even if you don't watch on YouTube, if you listen to the podcast that you're listening to right now

If you were willing to help out go ahead and press play on the YouTube video anyway and just let it play and walk away

Most of the videos that we post to YouTube are small little clips,

like three minutes or less.

So I want to see what happens to the algorithms

if a long-form video that we post gets a lot of play all the sudden.

Anyway, please enjoy. Thank you to Chris Messina for very

collaboratively helping develop this new episode format with me and also for being willing

to be so open and be the first person to share like this.

Chris, thanks for being the guinea pig on this one.

Yeah, right on, I'm happy to be.

Because I mean, I really, I really don't know what questions will work and how this will work.

So, you know, I, we're doing you because I know you and it should be easy in theory.

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