The Future of Please start from the beginning…
Can you believe I’ve been interviewing industry professionals for 6 months already!
As a personal project I’m really enjoying putting Please start from the beginning… together. I’d like to thank the people who have allowed me to interview them, and I’d also like to thank my viewers for all the positive feedback you’ve given.
I’ve decided to take a break with the series over the Christmas period. You’ll be able to catch the next episode on the 11th January 2010. I can tell you now that this is a great interview is with Andrei Zmievski, formally from Digg and the Lead Developer for PHP6.
I’m very much interested in hearing your views on the series so far:
- Do you have any suggestions on how it could be improved?
- What you’re personally getting out of the series?
- Which professionals you’d like to see interviewed in the new year?
- Do you think the series has run it’s course?
I’ve also included a couple of polls below so if you have time that too would be greatly appreciated.
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Steve Rydz 8th, December 2009 at 12:06 pm
Hi Ryan,
I'm really enjoying the series so far. It's fascinating to hear how people we all look up to got started in this industry but also I've learned about people I didn't know about also through this series.
I have a few people I would love to see but I'm sure they've already been suggested to you:
Chris Coyier
Dan Cederholm
Jeffrey Zeldman (of course! ;-D)
Keep up the good work ;-)
Anthony 8th, December 2009 at 12:40 pm
Hi Ryan,
Gotta say, I'm loving Please start from the beginning. It really puts things in perspective for me in regards to how these web professionals started. I think it's a great thing your doing mate. One suggestion, somebody should interview yourself on your career and how you started in this industry. Otherwise, fantastic stuff, keep up the good work!
Gonzalo González Mora 8th, December 2009 at 2:32 pm
I love it for the same reasons as Steve. I knew most of the people interviewed but there were some that I didn't and it helped me discover some great blogs and fields that I hadn't payed much attention to before, and to "get to know" some really interesting people (like the last one, Leif Steiner which I loved, btw!)
I use RSS to get alerts, but I also follow you on Twitter :D Anyway, thank you very much for the effort you make to bring us these interviews, Ryan, we really appreciate and we look forward to 11th January!
Jason Klug 8th, December 2009 at 3:12 pm
Loving the series, Ryan!
I feel that a series like this should exist for every industry to act as a sort of guide for "what to do after (or instead of) university," because there is so little information available to students about what it's actually like to start/grow an actual "career"... especially in web development. It's reaffirming to see how other successful web pros started out, and relate that to my own career path.
Top notch concept, Ryan; the series is a real service to our industry--thank you!
Ryan Taylor 8th, December 2009 at 3:28 pm
Thanks guys. I really appreciate the support and am pleased you are getting something out of the series. There's some great interviews coming up in the new year. :-)
Katherine Moss 10th, December 2009 at 7:38 pm
Fantastic series Ryan! Particularly enjoyed watching the Dan Rubin interview - especially his comments about coming from an artistic background, his interests in the computer and art. I did something similar, I studied Art & Design years ago then went down the digital art route and studied Multimedia Technology. It was like ramming the right side of my brain into the left, haha :)) Also, the interview with Kat Neville was cool - the little goat she made was ace :D You've interviewed a superb range of industry professionals.
Please, please keep the series going - it's great to watch/ hear the experiences of others and great to see creativity and technology going hand in hand.
Cheers and best wishes, Kat
Emily 21st, December 2009 at 11:40 am
I've really enjoyed the series though I still have a lot of episodes to catch up on. In some cases I'm learning from other people's experiences, in others I am getting comfort to hear people have been through the same things that I have.
My only 'improvement' would be if you could offer the series in mp3 format as well as video. It is nice to see the person speaking for a bit, but I don't feel I need to see them to take in what they are saying and it would save some space and battery life on my iPod, which is very much in demand on long journeys. Totally mundane suggestion, sorry!
Some suggestions for new peeps - and yes there is a bias to the ladies here, not because they've been under-represented (the current count is perfectly equal) but just because they happen to stand out in their fields for me.
Molly Holzschlag
Some UX and content strategy peep, like Leisa Reichelt, Kristina Halvorson and Liz Danzico would be cool.
Sabrina Dent
Blake 10th, January 2010 at 9:52 am
LIke everybody else, I'm a huge fan - I find it very ispiring to find where these guys started.
I also like the fact that they're only human beings too....in fact I'm so suprised at how down to earth they all are - when you here about these guys or read their books you imagine them to be scientist-like and un-approachable.
I'd like to hear more about, for example designers; where they find their inspiration from. For deveopers, I'd iike to hear more about some decent techniques they use/employ and where they got them from. I know that this isn't exactly where the series is going, but its golden advice for relatively new developers like me.
Also, if they could suggest good reading material - there are some golden books out there and some awful ones too. Maybe you could put it across something like - "if you could only have one book/article related to your field on a desert island, what would it be?"
Just a few thoughts - thanks for all of the hard work Ryan!
Keep em coming!
Blake