Software Misadventures - Software Misadventures Update and Plans for 2022

Episode Date: March 25, 2022

Short episode about reflections on the past year and plans for 2022.

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of the Software Misadventures podcast. And thanks for that beginning, Gwong. Appreciate it. You're welcome. So we usually have a guest in each episode who is a founder, an engineer, or an investor who we talk to about their paths, lessons they have learned, and of course, the misadventures along the way. This episode, however, is a little different. It's just your hosts, Guang and I. Hello. And we would like to share with you what has changed since we started the podcast, our plans going forward, and what we have learned over the last year. Now,

many things have changed since we started, but few things are still the same. And one of those is the why behind us starting this podcast. Like most good things come in packages of three, there are also three main reasons why we started this. First is that we have always wanted to learn from people who are smarter than us, who are very successful in their fields. And while we listen to other podcasts, read books and blogs, starting a podcast is our means of having a conversation with the people we admire. Second, we want to get better at asking questions. Now, this has happened many times when we are listening to a live interview and the audience is requested for

questions. And in those instances, we don't know what to come up with. So this is our way of exercising that muscle where we want to learn from people who are better than us, but we don't always know what the right thing to ask is. Yeah, I don't know this yet, but Ronak has actually secretly planned us a surprise getaway to New York for the Daily Show. And we're going to impress Trevor Noah with all the beautiful questions that we're going to ask. So I know it's a surprise. And, you know, so thanks for making keeping it a surprise, Ronak. But I'm looking forward to it very much. Oh, yeah. I mean, Guang is going to send me the ticket to New york as the last of the show so yeah no no no no no it's a

surprise from you it's not from me yes i don't have money and last we want to share these conversations with all of you so that you can learn along with us as we are having these conversations with many many folks our intention with this podcast has been and will be to focus on the people and not just the tech. There's a unique story behind every person, and we want to uncover that. We want to get into specifics about how they approach certain things, their practices, routines,

and what lessons they've learned in their journey. We joke internally, but also take it quite seriously, that we want to be the Tim Ferriss show for technology podcasts. So that sets the bar super high, which we are going to continue aspiring to achieve. Not sure if we ever will, but that's our goal. So it's been a little over a year since we started the podcast and 18 episodes later, there's a few things that are different. of our conversations to go beyond production outages and infrastructure engineering to things like indie hacking, product management, Android investing. And if you have any suggestions on topics that interest you, you know, please shoot us a note via Twitter or email us at hello at softwaremisadventures.com. And for all the folks who are into the web3 or the crypto space that's also a space

that we are very curious about and we might have quite a few conversations this year in that domain nice so the other big change if uh you haven't noticed is that our co-host austin with his hd voice that does our intro has been pretty absent in the in the past few episodes oh wait what's that you you haven't noticed okay great let's let's just continue to the next section now um just kidding so so we're pretty bummed uh but austin has peaced out a little while back we're we're very sad we miss you austin don't. I hate his guts. You know, I was the best man at his wedding, so I feel like I can make that joke. You can say that. But it did.

It did. However, it did help in prompting both Rannik and I to think more deeply about why we're doing this podcast in the first place and how our interests have evolved over time. So, you know, in the end, we think that to deliver the best quality of content that we can, we need to be really fully invested in the topics that we bring you. So, you know, we're very excited about what's coming down the pipe. Yeah. And reflecting over the past 15 months, one thing that has pleasantly surprised us is that the guests have been super generous with their time. It makes us unbelievably happy when a guest responds to a cold email request to chat with us on the show. In fact, this podcast wouldn't even have started if Kelsey Hightower did not respond to our cold email kelsey if you're listening to this thanks for giving us noobs your time and being so generous yeah thanks kelsey and

also putting up with my dumb jokes uh i feel like ronick has too because we're doing the podcast together but i've also been you know surprised by the patience that the guests have shown. We've also realized that researching about the guests has been paying off. We find ourselves increasingly comfortable in a conversation when we have done enough research and it ends up being a good experience for the guests too. When recording an episode, our biggest goal, first and foremost, is to have a good conversation and make the guest feel welcomed. We found that when guests are comfortable with us, they are much more open in sharing their stories, and that makes for a great episode. And we want to take this moment to thank all the guests who have given us a chance. You have been very generous with your time and authentic in sharing your stories.

This would not be possible without you. And we have learned a lot in the last 15 months. So thank you so much. Yep. And over the last 15 months, we've done 18 episodes and have had over 16,000 unique downloads. So thank you so much to all of our listeners for showing your support and listening to the podcast special shout out to my mom who downloads who listens to our podcast i you know she's not in the infrastructure engineering field but uh you know thanks mom for the support um so you know we're we're also looking into ways to learn more about you our

listeners and uh finding ways to to better engage with you so again if you have any feedback or suggestions for us or just want to say hi you know please uh reach out to us via twitter or you know email us at hello at software misadventures.com. So yeah, we have many more exciting conversations to line up and super looking forward to sharing those with you. Until next time, take care. Hey, thank you so much for listening to the show. You can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts

and learn more about us at softwaremisadventures.com. You can also write to us at hello at softwaremisadventures.com. You can also write to us at hello at softwaremisadventures.com. We would love to hear from you. Until next time, take care.