Navigating Frustrations and Collaborative Creation

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The chapter discusses various experiences, including estimating project timelines, reflecting on past collaborations, and facing technical frustrations at Samsung and Intel. It explores the emotional journey of starting a company, emphasizing the importance of understanding personal motivations and fostering team collaboration. The speaker's encounters with Dell and Intel reveal challenges in troubleshooting technical issues and highlight the significance of clear communication and first-principle engineering.

Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from Sun to Oxide – from Sun and Fishworks, to DTrace, to ZFS, to Joyent and Node.js, and now working to build on-prem cloud servers as they should be at Oxide.

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