Welcome everybody to episode number 110 of Underserved.

Joining me in studio today is Rob Larson, a software development manager in the Boston area.

Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry,

where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders,

their insights, and their lessons learned. And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.

Rob, thank you so much for joining us today on Underserved. Andrew, it's great to be here.

Thanks for having me on.

Absolutely.

So way back when, like how did you kind of first become interested in technology?

I started programming in middle school and in high school, Basic and Pascal.

And there was over a couple of years.

So that laid a decent foundation.

I didn't end up continuing with that, even though I really liked it. Actually, ended up going to school for acting, which was a lot of fun, but wasn't technology for sure. You went to Emerson?

I went to Emerson, yes. Okay. Any particularly instructive or formative folks you met there? I did study with a woman, Kristen Linklater, who went to Emerson, yes. Okay. Any particularly instructive or formative folks you met there?

I did study with a woman, Kristen Link later, who when she passed away a couple years ago,

you know, she's one of those people that has like a half a page in the New York Times for her

obituary, very famous and very influential acting teacher.

She wrote a book called Freeing the Natural Voice, which is used as a textbook in

certain voice instruction. So being able to project in a big hall, she has all of these

really interesting ideas about that, as well as acting. Now, you actually wrote a play that was

produced? Yes. So I was at Emerson for a year, and the only thing that I really enjoyed at Emerson was

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