E1: Doing meaningful work
Apr 02, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 1
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Episode description
We kick off The CS Primer Show with a conversation prompted by our mutual love of "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming. This is an essay that Oz frequently recommends to software engineers who would like to increase their impact. Be sure to watch the talk or read the transcript of Hamming's talk!
- You and Your Research (transcript)
- You and Your Research (video)
- Unix: A History and a Memoir
- CS Primer
- Bloom's 2 sigma problem
- Hoel on aristocratic tutoring
- Auren on insiders vs outsiders
- Charlie's project to write 52 short stories in a year
- Escaping Web: Oz and Charlie's previous engineering interview podcast
- American Prometheus (Oppenheimer biography)
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