Bardia Pourvakil: Autodidact, Roam Team, and Fulfillment

Warning! This is an explicit episode! In this episode, we talk with Bardia Pourvakil, AKA @thepericulum. Bardia is a member of the Roam Research team, having started off as a technical writer and dove into the world of Roam. We talk about: Bardia's origin story as a technical writer to discovering Roam Research What are the key components for a tool autodidacts use to learn? How he joined the Roam team and built up his Clojure skills through contacting Conor Roam team's workflow, and Roam pairing sessions Bardia's emphasis on community, building things for developers to build upon and the search for fulfillment  Enjoy! Timestamps 4:16 Bardia's origin story as a technical writer 10:43 Joining Roam as Support 13:26 "You're being really annoying but I like you" - [[Conor White-Sullivan]] 15:34 The 3-hour pairing session with the CTO 18:48 The power of the Roam Community 22:46 Build things for developers to build upon 24:57 The search for fulfilment and finding that answer 27:50 Never fall in love too much with what you're doing 31:21 Bardia never believes in institutions 34:08 Learning by Design 40:34 Roam Team workflow 43:36 Roam Pairing and Roam Games 47:37 What Roam is still missing and documentation 53:05 What Bardia is excited about: Mobile apps 58:10 The wonderful world of Roamania/Roam Manor 1:04:10 The cross pollination of ideas and inviting Roamans to Roamania 1:08:36 The Roam House Guestbook 1:11:28 [[What does Roam mean to you?]] 1:13:30 Bardia's dstryd.albums and creating art naturally Links Bardia's Twitter dstroyd.albms Instagram Support the show