FounderQuest FounderQuest Predicts The Future Of Work
In this episode the Badgers talk about their predictions for the future of work. They also discuss some of the pros and cons to working remotely and how to prevent loneliness. Conveniently enough, Honeybadger is also hiring a JS developer. Learn the secrets of becoming a Honeybadger!
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Josh : Speaking of remote controls, I told you about the ridiculous garage door I put on my home gym.
Ben: I am jealous of your garage door.
Starr: Wait, You did? I never knew this.
Josh : I did. Yeah.
Starr: When was this?
Josh : Let's see. Well, the whole thing took a while to install, but yeah, I finally gave, it was finally completed this week. But it's been in for a while.
Starr: Okay.
Josh : So it's this like, it's like one of those full, they call it a full view, but it's like, it's all glass for the most part. Like it's framed like glass panels with a metal frame.
Starr: Oh nice. So you can look outside.
Josh : Well, it's the glass, it's like opaque, like it's fogged or whatever. So you can't actually see through it. But it lets a lot of light in. So the light is awesome. It's the brightest room in my house now, I think, from the natural light. So, I might actually just move my office in there and then I just, never have to leave. But, so I got the garage door opener that goes with this system. It's like one of the top of the line. Residential ones, anyway. It's a LiftMaster and it has wifi built into it.
Ben: Oh yeah. I have one of those too. So awesome.
Josh : So do you have the... What did they call it?
Ben: MyQ?
Josh : Like the garage hub,though?
Ben: Yes.
Josh : It goes with?
Ben: Yes.
Josh : Okay, so you can open your garage door with Siri.
Ben: Yeah. So awesome.
Starr: So you all know garage doors opener, garage door openers don't have a stellar record of security?
Josh : Security. Yeah, I do.
Starr: At least the old style garage door openers, basically, it was like a four digit code. Like they transmitted like a four digit code so somebody built a device that just transmitted all the four digit codes and so you could just walk down the street and open everybody's garage doors.
Josh : Yeah. And I've known people who've done, I never, I never did that, but I always wanted to. I never got my hands on one.
Starr: I'm sure that since it's got wifi you can SSH in and use a private key on there.
Josh : Right.
Starr: Use a key pair for authentication.
Josh : Just transmits a public key for authentication.
Starr: Yeah, no, I mean, your little remote would transmit the public key and then the hub would like check it against the private key.
Josh : Yeah. Well I'm sure Apple does something like that.
Starr: Oh, probably. Yeah.
Starr: I mean, it's Apple though. Nobody tries to break into Apple products cause they're just too cool.
Josh : Yeah. Yeah. I mean if windows had a garage hub, I'd be extremely worried. Microsoft, Microsoft garage. But yeah, it's cool. And then, whenever it opens, I also get note of it. Cause through HomeKit, I guess. This is my first HomeKit device. So, I am officially a connected house, which I swore I would never do. But, I'm probably going to do more now.
Ben: Of course, you are.
Josh : Cause now I want to control my front lights. So that they're, put them on a timer or something.
Ben: Oh yeah.
Starr: Is HomeKit like the Apple home automation thing?
Ben: Yep.
Josh : It is. Yeah. So it's all integrated in a MacOS and iOS. And so, when my door, when the garage, if anyone opens the garage door at any time, I'll get a notification. The garage door just opened like on my computer.
Starr: And then you'll see the garage door open.
Josh : Or I'll be in there. But like if the kids open it. Yeah. But if my office is in there, I'll just see it.
Starr: So, what are we talking about today? We were talking about maybe doing a sort of future of work thing where we're talking about remote working and all that. But then, also, Josh suggested that we, since we have a new job opening and we're a remote company, you could say that Honeybadger is the future of work. Do you think that's too bold?
Ben: No, that's right on.
Starr: That's just bold enough. Okay, we are the future of work and we have a new job position. So I think we're going to use that as like a lens to discuss the future of work. Is that correct?
Starr: Yeah, that sounds good. And I don't even know. Yeah, I really don't think it's that bold, because we're one of the companies that are, I think, pushing the boundaries here.
Starr: Okay. That's good. That's good. Listeners can't see this, but everyone's looking at me like I'm so full of crap. Right now.
Ben: Maybe we need to ditch the whole remote thing though. We should all work from Josh's garage.
Starr: That's a good idea.
Josh : We're going to going to do the central office again. Yeah.
Ben: In yo...