Sam Gould's guest appearances

Sam Gould

Bad at Sports

Trinity Episcopal Sermons, Concord, MA

Booting Up

Amanda Williams

Mark Allen

Gavin Turk

David Shrigley

Chris Walla

John Jennings

Jenn Smith

Michael Parker

Holly Hanessian

Scott McCloud

Marina Abramović

Chris Ware

Claire Ashley

David Hockney

Michael Rakowitz

OwlTail

Despite getting a Bachelors's in Biology from Stanford, Samuel never went into that field. Instead, he played squash professionally until 2017 when he decided to enroll at Thinkful. He leveraged his network to get a shot at a Twitter job and snagged a position with his hard work. Listen in on what happened during the first years and lessons you can learn from him.    7:02 Why he chose Thinkful to learn software engineering  12:35 Starting at Thinkful  16:23 Mindset of being a bootcamp grad  19:04 Landing an interview with Twitter  23:06 First year in a new job  27:50 Going from solo projects to giant teams  33:15 It's ok to ask for help  35:40 Biggest difference between Year 1 &amp; Year 2 of being a dev  PLEASE RATE the episode and SUBSCRIBE if you learned something new! ________ Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/booting-up Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BootingUpPod Looking for a community of bootcamp grads? Join our Discord at https://prentus.co/community

Despite getting a Bachelors's in Biology from Stanford, Samuel never went into that field. Instead, he played squash professionally until 2017 when he decided to enroll at Thinkful. He leveraged his network to get a shot at a Twitter job and snagged a position with his hard work. Listen in on what happened during the first years and lessons you can learn from him.   7:02 Why he chose Thinkful to learn software engineering  12:35 Starting at Thinkful  16:23 Mindset of being a bootcamp grad  19:04 Landing an interview with Twitter  23:06 First year in a new job  27:50 Going from solo projects to giant teams  33:15 It's ok to ask for help  35:40 Biggest difference between Year 1 &amp; Year 2 of being a dev PLEASE RATE the episode and SUBSCRIBE if you learned something new! ________ Follow us on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/booting-up" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/booting-up</a> Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/BootingUpPod" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/BootingUpPod</a> Looking for a community of bootcamp grads? Join our Discord at <a href="https://prentus.co/community" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://prentus.co/community</a>

2: Going from Pro Sports to Engineer at Twitter with Sam Gould

This week: Duncan and Abigail talk to Sam Gould. Sam Gould is co-founder of Red76, a collaborative art practice which originated in Portland, Oregon in 2000. Along with his work as the instigator and core-facilitator of many of the groups initiatives, Gould is the acting editor of its publication, the Journal of Radical Shimming. He full-time visiting faculty within the Text and Image Arts Department of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, as well the Director of Education for the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art in Portland, ME. Formerly Gould was a senior lecturer at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, Ca. within the Graduate Fine Arts Dept. for Social Practice. He is a frequent guest lecturer at schools and spaces around the United States and abroad, and has activated projects and lectures on street corners, in laundromats, bars, and kitchen tables, as well as through collaborations with museums and institutions such as SF MoMA; the Walker Arts Center; the Drawing Center; the Bureau for Open Culture; Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary; ArtSpeak; Printed Matter; the Cooper Union; the New Museum/Rhizome; Manifesta8; and many other institutions and spaces worldwide. He was one of nine nominees for the de Menil Collection's 2006 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement, is a founding "keyholder" of MessHall in Chicago, IL., and was the 2008 Bridge Resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

This week: Duncan and Abigail talk to Sam Gould. Sam Gould is co-founder of Red76, a collaborative art practice which originated in Portland, Oregon in 2000. Along with his work as the instigator and core-facilitator of many of the groups initiatives, Gould is the acting editor of its publication, the Journal of Radical Shimming. He full-time visiting faculty within the Text and Image Arts Department of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, as well the Director of Education for the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art in Portland, ME. Formerly Gould was a senior lecturer at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, Ca. within the Graduate Fine Arts Dept. for Social Practice. He is a frequent guest lecturer at schools and spaces around the United States and abroad, and has activated projects and lectures on street corners, in laundromats, bars, and kitchen tables, as well as through collaborations with museums and institutions such as SF MoMA; the Walker Arts Center; the Drawing Center; the Bureau for Open Culture; Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary; ArtSpeak; Printed Matter; the Cooper Union; the New Museum/Rhizome; Manifesta8; and many other institutions and spaces worldwide. He was one of nine nominees for the de Menil Collection's 2006 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement, is a founding "keyholder" of MessHall in Chicago, IL., and was the 2008 Bridge Resident at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Bad at Sports Episode 350: Sam Gould