The Abdulrahman Alkhamees Show

Today I had the honor to host John Boero. John is dual UK/US citizen from Chicago living in London. In his 20 years of experience he have been fortunate to consult for several of the world's largest banks and public institutions. He have helped install, harden, and tune Linux and cloud infrastructure all around the globe for customers in every vertical from finance to media streaming, energy grid infrastructure, telco, and ecommerce. Clients have included FDIC, NASA, Lockheed Martin, SWIFT, US Census Bureau, US Dept of Veteran Affairs, Healthcare.gov, Aramco, ECMWF, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, UBS, HSBC, and more.

We talked about Careers in Open Sources, Technical Sales, Building a niche skills, running Fedora on your work laptop, and so many interesting subjects.

كثير منا تأتيه تساؤلات حول قراراته المهنية، هل يترك؟ هل يستمر؟ هل يغير؟ ماذا لو كان هنالك خيارات أفضل تجعلنا مستمتعين أكثر بعملنا؟ هل ضروري نكون شغوفين بعملنا؟ ماذا يعني أن نكون شغوفين أصلاً؟ كل هذه التساؤلات وأكثر ناقشها في هذه الحلقة مع العنود الزهراني صاحبة مدونة مترين في متر

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Today I speak with Caline Malek. A freelance journalist who wrote for The Financial Times in London, Arab News, and so many respected news outlets. I got to know Caline when she was working on a piece about tech education in Saudi Arabia. We talk about writing, journalism, freelancing, and so many interesting subjects.

Some of you know that I went on sabbatical mid of 2019, and one of the places that we visited was Marrakesh in Morroco. My friend Anass Koudies recommended a traditional cocking workshop outside the city, so I and the family went there, and it was one of the highlights of our trip to Marrakesh. One of the people that I got to know in the workshop was Jennifer Lynn, host of the Morning Edition on NPR radio. She was playing with our son and later in the day I got to know she's a professional radio host. We talked about podcasting, radio and so many stuff. When we returned to our home in Riyadh, I asked Jan to come to the show and talk about radio life. I wanted to know what it is like to wake up every day at 3:30 AM ! and boy, I was so intimidated having a professional host on my show! The voice quality is okay, but not perfect.

Today I chat with Maxim Cramer. A creative person who mingle between design and engineerings. I met Maxim back in February when I joined the AltMBA program, which is a program by Seth Godin for the people who want to level up. What was different about Maxim her take on a lot of stuff which can be explained by the way she grew up. I  talked with Maxim about diversity, languages, being yourself and how a person such herself can help with “lost in translation” situations.  We relate those topics to Maxim experience in working in different companies and being involved in communities such as the open source community. Enjoy the show 

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Maxim on twitter