From Improv to Staff Developer Advocate with Rich Burroughs

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Bill Kennedy

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Rich Burroughs is a Staff Developer Advocate at Loft Labs who interacts with the community and works with Kubernetes. In this episode he takes us through his journey from growing up with ADHD and being involved in improv comedy, to having a successful career in technology. 00:00 Introduction 08:00 What is Rich doing today 17:25 First memory of a computer 22:10 Interests in high school 29:40 Thoughts for after high school 33:20 First semester of college 37:32 Gradua...

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Arden Labs Education.
0:04.2	Sign up today to learn advanced concepts in Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and more.
0:10.9	Visit Ardenlabs.com forward slash education for more information.
0:26.6	Welcome to the On Labs podcast, our special guest today.
0:27.3	Oh my God.
0:31.8	Nobody's going to believe that I have in front of me right now.
0:34.2	Rich Burroughs.
0:36.0	Oh, yeah, Rich.
0:36.5	Hey, dude.
0:40.2	Thank you so much for coming. Bill, you are gassing me up really hard here. I need to, like, keep you around. I need to, like, talk to you daily so you can,
0:45.4	like, help with my self-esteem. Oh, dude, from where I'm sitting, I love everything that I see
0:53.5	coming out of Twitter. You're like one of my
0:56.9	favorite people to follow because you got a lot of unique content. You got kind of unique thoughts and
1:03.9	ideas. And I trim my Twitter followers probably every six months.
1:12.7	And not because if I stop following you, don't take it personally.
1:17.4	It's not that.
1:18.5	I just can't handle a large amount of noise in my feed.
1:23.3	And I've started to learn that if I follow certain people, I'll get other people for free.
1:30.9	I, yeah, I mean, Twitter started really aggressively pushing stuff into your feed a few years ago from people that you don't follow.
1:38.5	And there are people that I literally have done that with where like I don't follow them because I know I'm
1:45.9	going to see all of their best tweets anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And a lot of times when a tweet comes
1:50.5	in my timeline that I really like, I'll look to see who retweeted it, right? And I don't know.
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