Episode 387 | Dru Sellers - A Curious Mind

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Dru Sellers talks with Dave Rael about being self-taught, involvement in open source, meeting friends, and delivering value

Dru enjoys exploring the intersection of business and technology. Its not uncommon to find Dru's nose buried in either a Business or Technology book while taking notes about how this can be leveraged into novel business value. Dru is the VP of Operations at One More Cloud (OMC), a company that provides hosted search for its customers on either Solr (https://www.websolr.com) or Elasticsearch (https://bonsai.io). He gets to express his technologist side by helping maintain OMC's server fleet and he get's to express his business side assisting with sales and keeping tabs on the company's financials.

Chapters: 0:36 - Dave introduces the show and Dru Sellers2:23 - How Dru got started in software8:27 - Dru's early work experiences and getting involved in open source17:10 - Working without teams and finding your own team20:08 - Experiences with different platforms and tools23:35 - Dru's interest in business25:52 - Meeting friends, making connections, and open sourcing common elements of building systems33:36 - Sharing software components via package management38:08 - Dru's story of failure - doing too much too fast, overlooking business core competencies46:43 - Dru's book recommendation48:56 - Dru's top 3 tips for delivering more value51:48 - Keeping up with Dru

Resources: Dru's Website Rolemaster Rocky Lhotka CSLA .NET MonoRail (Castle on Rails) Castle Project Hamilton Verissimo Oren Eini (Ayende) on Developer On Fire JetBrains Rider Rob Reynolds on Developer On Fire MassTransit NServiceBus Chris Patterson Chuck Norris Framework Capistrano Gems Nuget Phil Haack on Developer On Fire Scott Guthrie Udi Dahan on Developer On Fire Dovetail Los Techies Chad Myers Tim Barcz Keith Dahlby David Laribee

Dru's book recommendation: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals - Saul D. Alinsky

Dru's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Ask "What can I do for you today?" Know what you're good and bad at doing and work with your strengths Read or do more of whatever it is facilitates you learning best