Juan Ramirez has such an incredible story. He came to the US from Colombia as a student and studied at Carnegie Mellon. Following this, he’s worked at some pretty incredible companies like Amazon, Meta, Gitlab, and Netflix. What I enjoy most about Juan’s content is how thought provoking it is. 💡

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Chapters

[00:00:00] The Call to Be a Creative; Meta, Amazon, Netflix

[00:03:15] Studying as an Immigrant and Becoming a Citizen

[00:05:11] “Netflix is The Best Job I’ve Ever Had”

[00:11:50] Netflix is Going Hard on Ads as a Business Strategy

[00:14:20] Design Engineer Profile and the Value of Code

[00:24:53] What Good Designers Do

[00:27:41] Intro to Programming at Carnegie Mellon

[00:31:27] Human Consciousness & Esoteric Beliefs

[00:47:04] Side Projects: Brainglue.ai

[00:54:12] It’s Not Failure if You Learned From It

[00:58:17] Design Zeitgeist Concerns About AI Taking Our Jobs

[01:00:07] The Problem With Linkedin

[01:01:35] Lightning Session ⚡️

Where to find Juan

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanjramirez/

Brainglue.ai: https://www.brainglue.ai/