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Know your carrots

I recorded about a dozen episodes talking to engineers and managers at Instacart back in 2018.

• Muffy Barcocky about games and mentors
• John Phillips about ElasticSearch and shell-fu
• Udi about culture
• Gordon about Snowflake
• Alex Charlton with screencast
• Dominic about saying NO!
• John Meagher on work-life balance
• John Hsieh interviews me
• Will Faurot on writing books and blue grass

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