E5: Omar the High-Octane Learning Machine

04/21/23 • 63 min

Omar Rayward attended one of the first ever coding bootcamp cohorts, now he's a Senior Staff Software Engineer. Oz and Charlie connect with Omar about his study habits, motivation, and whatever else it takes to keep up his consistent learning habits.

Shownotes:

How to be consistent (Oz's recent article, featuring Omar!)

Shownotes:

How to be consistent (Oz's recent article, featuring Omar!)

Previous Episode

E4: Packet losers

Charlie's unexpected packet loss devolves into a live Oz networking lesson.

Matt's (my) traceroute
* How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today
* Border Gateway Protocol
* Christmas Day Bug on ARPANET (grep for Christmas in 1973 section)
* Great horned owl

Next Episode

E6: Can you develop an engineer's mindset?

Charlie wants to know if he can learn how to "think like an engineer", just like the Matt Damon/Mark Watney character in THE MARTIAN -- and Oz has some good suggestions, as per usual.

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