Warning! This is an explicit episode!
In this episode, we talk with Bardia Pourvakil, AKA @thepericulum. Bardia is a member of the Roam Research team, having started off as a technical writer and dove into the world of Roam.
We talk about:
- Bardia's origin story as a technical writer to discovering Roam Research
- What are the key components for a tool autodidacts use to learn?
- How he joined the Roam team and built up his Clojure skills through contacting Conor
- Roam team's workflow, and Roam pairing sessions
- Bardia's emphasis on community, building things for developers to build upon and the search for fulfillment
Enjoy!
Timestamps
- 4:16 Bardia's origin story as a technical writer
- 10:43 Joining Roam as Support
- 13:26 "You're being really annoying but I like you" - [[Conor White-Sullivan]]
- 15:34 The 3-hour pairing session with the CTO
- 18:48 The power of the Roam Community
- 22:46 Build things for developers to build upon
- 24:57 The search for fulfilment and finding that answer
- 27:50 Never fall in love too much with what you're doing
- 31:21 Bardia never believes in institutions
- 34:08 Learning by Design
- 40:34 Roam Team workflow
- 43:36 Roam Pairing and Roam Games
- 47:37 What Roam is still missing and documentation
- 53:05 What Bardia is excited about: Mobile apps
- 58:10 The wonderful world of Roamania/Roam Manor
- 1:04:10 The cross pollination of ideas and inviting Roamans to Roamania
- 1:08:36 The Roam House Guestbook
- 1:11:28 [[What does Roam mean to you?]]
- 1:13:30 Bardia's dstryd.albums and creating art naturally
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