38: Standing out from the pack

This week Ben Orenstein is joined by Jeremy McAnally, employee at GitHub, author of Ruby in Practice, Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook, MacRuby in Action, and more. Jeremy and Ben discuss teaching and organizing conferences, remote working for GitHub, the and the company summits, GitHub workflows, their internal tools team. They also talk about standing out from the pack in work, life, and getting accepted to conferences, selecting people to speak at conferences, self-publishing, Jeremy's writing process and future writing plans, work-life balance, how to get a job at GitHub, and much more. MagicRuby Ruby Hoedown La Conf Hubot CodeConf Rails Girls Ruby in Practice MacRuby in Action Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook RedCarpet Markdown parser PrinceXML Securing Rails Seasonal Affective Disorder Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @jm on twitter.