Rails Business

Jim Remsik

Episode 40

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Jim Remsik — founder of Flagrant, Madison Ruby and the traveling XO Ruby conferences — joins us for a wide-ranging conversation.  The discussion starts with the ups and downs of running a design-and-dev agency in the AI era.  Topics covered include:

- Why design has started outselling development at Flagrant.

- Why accessibility and UX are the parts people forget, and how Flagrant's hiring process mirrors real work to surface the thing that matters most: communication.

-  Plus the story of XO Ruby — small, one-day, city-to-city conferences built to make community accessible again.

LINKS

- Flagrant

- XO Ruby

- Ryan's Website

- Brendan's X/Twitter

- Brendan's Bluesky

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