How do engineers ensure the best opportunities find them? Jaren Glover offers his perspective as an early engineer at Robinhood, mentor at /dev/color, and student of business. This discussion was wide-ranging: we appreciate the "pay it forward" culture that makes Silicon Valley unique, tradeoffs to event streaming architectures, and who should play Bond in the next 007 movie.

Episode resources

Jaren's favorite new consumer apps: Stadium Live, Compound, Bighead, Realtime, and Cappucino.fm
Rebekah Cox's Ambition and Higher Standards essays
Searching "Kelsey Hightower" on YouTube returns magical technical content, in Jaren's words
aphyr's notes on distributed systems
The Remarable Story of Risk
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
The Defiant Ones on HBO
The Black Godfather on Netflix

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E7: Jaren Glover of Robinhood on code, capital, and culture