Episode 198 | Bryan Cantrill - Persistence and Action

Guest: Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill Bryan Cantrill talks with Dave Rael about public clouds, Bryan Cantrill is the CTO at Joyent Chapters: 1:45 - Dave introduces the show and Bryan Cantrill3:33 - Bryan's opinion of formal computer science education and the importance understanding what lies beneath the abstractions we consume10:11 - Bryan's role and the nature of Joyent11:59 - Bryan's thoughts on the economics of on-premise computing and the collapse of it's use int the face of public cloud enthusiasm20:36 - Joyent's approach to openness and preventing lockin22:16 - How Bryan got started in software32:00 - Bryan's story of failure - attitude toward defects and the impact on personal confidence36:32 - The pitfall of having a fixed mindset among gifted individuals and the importance of persistence40:25 - Taking action and speaking your mind44:17 - Bryan's philosophy of parenting and what parents can control48:04 - Bryan's book recommencations53:35 - Bryan's top 3 tips for delivering more value61:59 - Keeping up with Bryan Resources: Bryan's Blog Joyent Joel Spolsky on Leaky Abstractions Jurassic Park: A Novel - Michael Crichton The Joyent Blog Post on Being Acquired by Samsung John the Baptist Amazon Web Services Snowball Amazon Web Services Snowmobile Joyent's Container Service: Triton IBM System/360 Model 67 Thomas J. Watson Jr. Larry Weed IBM PC XT DOS Bryan at Monktoberfest 2016 on Oral Tradition in Software Engineering Jim Gray "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back." - attributed here to Piet Hein Rocky Balboa - Motivational/Inspirational Speech To Son (relevant to Bryan's emphasis on persistence and moving forward against resistance) Bryan's book recommendation: The Soul of A New Machine - Tracy Kidder Sloan Technology Series The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition - Richard Rhodes The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technical Revolution - Robert Buderi Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Mo dern Agriculture (Sloan Technology Series) - Craig Canine The Story of Mel ("The Last Real Programmer") - Ed Nather The Bug Count Also Rises - John Browne Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns - Steve Yegge Bryan's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Read more Write more Be persistent