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Bardia Pourvakil: Autodidact, Roam Team, and Fulfillment

Norman Chella Season 2 Episode 27

Warning! This is an explicit episode!

In this episode, we talk with Bardia Pourvakil, AKA @thepericulum. Bardia is a member of the Roam Research team, having started off as a technical writer and dove into the world of Roam.

We talk about:

  • Bardia's origin story as a technical writer to discovering Roam Research
  • What are the key components for a tool autodidacts use to learn?
  • How he joined the Roam team and built up his Clojure skills through contacting Conor
  • Roam team's workflow, and Roam pairing sessions
  • Bardia's emphasis on community, building things for developers to build upon and the search for fulfillment 

Enjoy!

Timestamps

  • 4:16 Bardia's origin story as a technical writer
  • 10:43 Joining Roam as Support
  • 13:26 "You're being really annoying but I like you" - [[Conor White-Sullivan]]
  • 15:34 The 3-hour pairing session with the CTO
  • 18:48 The power of the Roam Community
  • 22:46 Build things for developers to build upon
  • 24:57 The search for fulfilment and finding that answer
  • 27:50 Never fall in love too much with what you're doing
  • 31:21 Bardia never believes in institutions
  • 34:08 Learning by Design
  • 40:34 Roam Team workflow
  • 43:36 Roam Pairing and Roam Games
  • 47:37 What Roam is still missing and documentation
  • 53:05 What Bardia is excited about: Mobile apps
  • 58:10 The wonderful world of Roamania/Roam Manor
  • 1:04:10 The cross pollination of ideas and inviting Roamans to Roamania
  • 1:08:36 The Roam House Guestbook
  • 1:11:28 [[What does Roam mean to you?]]
  • 1:13:30 Bardia's dstryd.albums and creating art naturally

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