"Founder Mode" at work when you're not a founder

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Tech twitter (“tech X”?) is abuzz with Paul Graham’s Founder Mode essay. How does that affect you or come into play when you’re not a founder? Does it matter at all to you, your projects & your code?

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Featuring:

• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub
• Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Founder Mode

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:00:46)

https://coder.com/

3. Intro (00:04:00)

4. Founder Mode (00:05:48)

5. Ownership (00:14:11)

6. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:19:37)

https://fly.io/

7. Juniors vs seniors (00:22:43)

8. Scoping (00:26:45)

9. My approach to code (00:34:47)

10. Example scenario (00:35:26)

11. Sponsor: NordVPN (00:45:27)

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12. Unpopular Opinions! (00:46:30)

13. Kris' unpop (00:47:35)

14. Johnny's unpop (00:49:55)

15. Outro (00:53:47)