Bardia Pourvakil: Autodidact, Roam Team, and Fulfillment

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

Links

• Bardia's Twitter
• dstroyd.albms Instagram

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