Ep. 076, HOWTO: Harness Capitalism

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

SEASON 7 of Underserved kicks off with our guest Paul Belt. In our 76th episode, we cover Paul graduating from running a BBS and the warez scene into software development. Paul realized quickly that many companies and hiring managers in the software industry insist that you have that "piece of paper", an undergraduate degree, before they will consider you. We also discuss the importance of the mission and the market, measuring software development productivity as well as drag, and how to recognize and mesh with different personality types.

Additional reading links from Paul:

Paul's first professional mentor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-thau-78b8a665/
An insightful boss from DataXu https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianjdolan/
Best Boss Ever! Marcia Goetsch https://www.linkedin.com/in/marciagoetsch/ Marcia's the one that recognized "old school computing" and the value it brings to today's market... a mastery of the basics (her mastery is far superior to my own)... and helped formalize design patterns and domain-specific terminologies in a way that Northeastern failed to. She gave me autonomy and taught me the difference between managers and leaders. She is a leader.
Personal Repositories: https://github.com/belt and https://hub.docker.com/u/paulbelt
How does the internet work? (in a nutshell): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to season 7 episode number 76 of Under-Served.
0:06.1	With me in studio today is Paul Belt, Lead Developer at Core Strengths.
0:10.8	Let's get started.
0:12.8	Welcome to this week's edition of Under-Served, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry.
0:20.3	Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights and their lessons learned.
0:26.4	Now your host, Andrew Jalina.
0:33.6	Thank you Paul so much for joining us today on Under-Served.
0:37.3	You for having me?
0:38.6	So what cut you interested in technology?
0:40.9	You were part of like the Commodore Army back in the day, right?
0:43.9	Many, many years ago.
0:45.5	So to put things in context, we didn't have internet.
0:48.5	We pretty much had boredom was the default state of being.
0:52.1	Our video game arcades when you pop quarter after quarter in for a few minutes
0:55.9	of entertainment was kind of the de facto standard of video gaming.
0:59.4	You look at my progression of toys from Lincoln logs to Legos to transformers to computers
1:04.6	and just increasingly more and more complex puzzles.
1:08.5	I thought Lincoln logs were underrated.
1:10.2	I had those way back in the day too.
1:12.1	The old fashioned wooden ones.
1:13.4	Yeah, they're fantastic.
1:16.7	A lot of kids are like, what's a Lincoln log?
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