Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 286 | Pablo Rivera - Grateful Underdog
Guest:
Pablo Rivera talks with Dave Rael about lessons learned from experiences with mortality, making the most of your situation, technology and business, and gratitude
Pablo Rivera is an accomplished software engineer, entrepreneur, and father. He recently relocated to Georgia after hurricane Maria destroyed his hometown, and with it, two successful tech businesses. Pablo is now driven to join a great company where he can leverage his skills and experience.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Pablo Rivera
- - Taking action, defying the odds, running, and the deep emotion of facing mortality in Pablo's family
- - Pablo's experience in Puerto Rico with Hurricane Maria and losing everything
- - Pablo's next moves after relocating to Atlanta
- - The hurricane aftermath in Puerto Rico and the long path to recovery
- - Pablo's month of learning to use .NET that led to getting a software development job and career path
- - Pablo, the business man and programmer
- - The things that "light Pablo up" and computing as an alternative to more risky paths to income
- - Pablo's philosophy on life - Intrinsic value, value investing, providing value, and failing to succeed
- - Pablo on having flexibility and filling many roles in businesses
- - Pablo and the The Lambda Cartel
- - Pablo's Book Recommendations
- - The value of relationships and an admonition not to burn bridges
- - How Pablo stays current with what he needs to know
- - Pablo's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Pablo
Resources:
- Pablo's Blog
- Hurricane Maria - 2017
- Binary Tree
- Warren Buffett
- Pablo's Tweet on Businesses and Binary Trees
- Scott Nimrod on Developer On Fire
- The Lambda Cartel
- Mitchell Tilbrook
- AltaVista
- Django
- Jeff Bezos on outcome focus
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey
Pablo's book recommendation:
Pablo's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Focus on the outcome
- Focus on the outcome
- Focus on the outcome
