Episode 149 | Nick Gauthier - Evidence-Based Features
Developer On Fire
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Description
Guest:
Nick Gauthier @ngauthier
Nick Gauthier talks with Dave Rael about determining why you're doing something, focusing on users and customers, and getting joy from what you build
Nick Gauthier is a web developer who started in Rails, dabbled in JavaScript, loves databases, and recently started working in Go. His experience is mostly in consulting, freelancing, and training, but he's worked at a couple of startups and started a few companies of his own, too. Outside of software Nick enjoys the company of cats, coffee, and competitive video games.
Chapters:
4:48 - Nick's focus in studying computer science and the joy of games8:03 - Nick's definition of value10:39 - The things that "light Nick up"13:51 - How Nick got started in software17:50 - Building computers19:58 - Nick's story of failure - finding himself in a position that was not a good fit - blaming self25:48 - Lessons
