How do engineers ensure the best opportunities find them? Jaren Glover offers his perspective as an early engineer at Robinhood, mentor at /dev/color, and student of business. This discussion was wide-ranging: we appreciate the "pay it forward" culture that makes Silicon Valley unique, tradeoffs to event streaming architectures, and who should play Bond in the next 007 movie.

Episode resources

• Jaren's favorite new consumer apps: Stadium Live, Compound, Bighead, Realtime, and Cappucino.fm
• Rebekah Cox's Ambition and Higher Standards essays
• Searching "Kelsey Hightower" on YouTube returns magical technical content, in Jaren's words
• aphyr's notes on distributed systems
• The Remarable Story of Risk
• A Short History of Financial Euphoria
• The Defiant Ones on HBO
• The Black Godfather on Netflix