Thom Lamb — Startups, military, learning to code, teaching, powerlifting, and more.

This week I spoke with Thom Lamb, a fellow team lead and senior software developer at Quantum Mob. He is a larger than life character, with some great ideas on how to do anything from learning new skills, to teaching, to managing a team, solving problems, and much more. Thom's journey is a very interesting one. He started in the military. After his active duty he taught himself basic programming to make his job easier, so he could study computer science at nearby U of A. From there he got into personal training as a powerlifter, which lead him to creating his first startup, and eventually learning web development with the MERN stack in order to build and grow his product. When he decided he wanted to work for someone else again, he journeyed all the way from New Brunswick to Toronto, Ontario where he knew he'd get more connections and accelerate his growth.  Since then he has come to join our team at Quantum Mob, and is one of the inspirations for starting this podcast. He is one of those unique individuals who treats everyone with the same level of directness and respect. This is a long one, but please enjoy! We cover many actionable topics from startups to working in a team. Timestamps to come later. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/work-in-programming/message

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