Matt Rickard

What's up, nerds? You're listening to The Change Law. We feature the hackers, the leaders, and the innovators leading the world of software. And this week, Jared and I are going back in time to one of our top performing shows of 2021, really of all time. And we're talking to Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming.

What's up, nerds? You're listening to The Change Law. We feature the hackers, the leaders, and the innovators leading the world of software. And this week, Jared and I are going back in time to one of our top performing shows of 2021, really of all time. And we're talking to Matt Rickard about his blog post Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming.

These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most don't apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career development or soft skills.

These reflections are about deliberately writing code for 10,000 hours. Most don't apply to beginners. He was clear to mention that these reflections are purely about coding, not career development or soft skills.

And if you count the reflections we cover on this episode and be the first to comment on this thread in Zulip, we'll give you a coupon code for a free t-shirt, a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luck. A massive thank you to our friends and our partners over at fly.io. That's the home of changelog.com. It is the public cloud for developers who ship, developers who are productive.

And if you count the reflections we cover on this episode and be the first to comment on this thread in Zulip, we'll give you a coupon code for a free t-shirt, a 100% free t-shirt from the merch store. Good luck. A massive thank you to our friends and our partners over at fly.io. That's the home of changelog.com. It is the public cloud for developers who ship, developers who are productive.

And that's us. That's you too. Learn more at fly.io. Okay, let's talk to Matt. Hey friends, you know we're big fans of fly.io and I'm here with Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Fly. Kurt, we've had some conversations and I've heard you say that public clouds suck. What is your personal lens into public clouds sucking and how does Fly not suck?

And that's us. That's you too. Learn more at fly.io. Okay, let's talk to Matt. Hey friends, you know we're big fans of fly.io and I'm here with Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Fly. Kurt, we've had some conversations and I've heard you say that public clouds suck. What is your personal lens into public clouds sucking and how does Fly not suck?

So AWS was built for a different era, a different cloud era. And Fly, a public cloud, yes, but a public cloud built for developers who ship. That's the difference. And we here at Change.io are developers who ship. So you should trust us. Try out Fly, fly.io.com. Over 3 million apps, that includes us, have launched on Fly.

So AWS was built for a different era, a different cloud era. And Fly, a public cloud, yes, but a public cloud built for developers who ship. That's the difference. And we here at Change.io are developers who ship. So you should trust us. Try out Fly, fly.io.com. Over 3 million apps, that includes us, have launched on Fly.

They leverage the global anti-cast load balancing, the zero-config private networking, hardware isolation, instant WireGuard VPN connections with push-button deployments, scaling to thousands of instances. This is the cloud you want. Check it out, fly.io. Again, fly.io. Well, Matt, look up to the changelog. 10,000 hours is a lot to put into anything. And at some point you hit mastery.

They leverage the global anti-cast load balancing, the zero-config private networking, hardware isolation, instant WireGuard VPN connections with push-button deployments, scaling to thousands of instances. This is the cloud you want. Check it out, fly.io. Again, fly.io. Well, Matt, look up to the changelog. 10,000 hours is a lot to put into anything. And at some point you hit mastery.

And in your blog post on the subject titled Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming, you quoted Malcolm Gladwell from Outliers, quote, The key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill is to a large extent a matter of practicing the correct way for a total of around 10,000 hours, end quote. So 10,000 hours to master a skill. That's where we're at.

And in your blog post on the subject titled Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming, you quoted Malcolm Gladwell from Outliers, quote, The key to achieving world-class expertise in any skill is to a large extent a matter of practicing the correct way for a total of around 10,000 hours, end quote. So 10,000 hours to master a skill. That's where we're at.

You got some lessons here you've shared, reflections for you, but lessons for us. So let's dig into those. Where do you begin when you reflect on 10,000 hours of anything?

You got some lessons here you've shared, reflections for you, but lessons for us. So let's dig into those. Where do you begin when you reflect on 10,000 hours of anything?

Sounds good. I have a bonus for a listener, too, by the way. Since we don't know how many we'll cover... And there's a free T-shirt in mind here. I'm curious if someone can listen closely and the first person who can say how many we cover, if we cover all 31 or not, or at least how many we cover in the comments gets a free T-shirt. So the first person to do that, comment, get a free T. Okay.

Sounds good. I have a bonus for a listener, too, by the way. Since we don't know how many we'll cover... And there's a free T-shirt in mind here. I'm curious if someone can listen closely and the first person who can say how many we cover, if we cover all 31 or not, or at least how many we cover in the comments gets a free T-shirt. So the first person to do that, comment, get a free T. Okay.

Best effort gets a T-shirt.

Best effort gets a T-shirt.