Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots
A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 602
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
82: Teach all the things (Matt Knox)
This week's episode features Matt Knox of Twitter. Matt is a part of Twitter's university team which teaches new Twitter recruits about the company. He works as an engineer as well in order to stay c…
81: An Agent of Change (Seth Godin)
In this week's episode, Ben Orenstein is joined by best selling author, Seth Godin. Seth describes himself as an entrepreneur, a blogger, and an agent of change. They discuss art, frustration, and th…
80: Growing Business (Josh Pigford)
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein chats with Josh Pigford about time management, entrepreneurship and farming
79: The Gentle Wise One (Uncle Bob Martin)
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein talks with Uncle Bob Martin about functional programming, ethics, and writing.
78: Fancy Pants (Chris Lindland)
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein talks with Chris Lindland, CEO of Betabrand.com about online fashion, self-generating product and dress-pant-sweatpants.
77: A Beautiful Thing (Harold Giménez)
This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein speaks with Harold Giménez, Heroku postgres leader, about postgres, data management, and beer brewing.
76: The Boutique Agency
Ben Orenstein speaks with Alex Kesler, founder and CEO of inSegment about digital marketing, GTD and productivity.
75: Embedding Democracy (Catherine Bracy)
This week Ben Orenstein interviews Catherine Bracy, Director of Community Organizing at Code for America.
74: Fancy Scala (Sean Griffin)
Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot developer Sean Griffin about scala and ruby.
73: Spooky Robots Haunting other Spooky Robots (Drew Neil)
Ben Orenstein speaks with Drew Neil, creator of vimcasts.org about teaching writing and workshopping vim.
72: Up in the Mountains (Nathan Barry)
This week on The Giant Robots Podcast, Ben Orenstein chats with Nathan Barry about book writing, teaching and self employment.
71: The Power of the Truth
Josh Clayton and Ben Orenstein interview each other about their managing director positions.
70: Let Your Freak Flag Fly
Ben Orenstein speaks with Jeff Atwood about Discourse, forum software, and soylent.
69: Geocoding in the Now
Ben Orenstein interviews Josh Clayton and Laila Winner on their book, Geocoding on Rails.
68: Simplicity and Elegance
Ben Orenstein and Paul Farnell, CEO of Litmus, talk about starting up, business practices, and Litmus.
67: The Data Optimist
Ben Orenstein and Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, talk about Data Science, Bitly and Cheeseburgers.
66: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Ben talks with Anthony Eden about DNSimple, programming languages and code retreats.
65: No! Videos Private!
On this episode Ben talks with Chris Savage and Brendan Schwartz about Wistia
64: Wistfully Into the Air
In this episode of Giant Robots Ben talks with Des Traynor about intercom, concise communication. blogging and customer outreach.
63: Knowledge Bomb!
Ben and Chad discuss mentoring, job hunting tips and FAQ