The Save File
People in STEM are known for being ultra-rational, and atheism is the norm.
I myself was an atheist for most of my life and had my share of jokes about religious people and their irrationality.
But after 20 years, I through reading, studying and reasoning, I joined the Roman Catholic Church.
And now I want to chat with believers, and learn more about their experiences in the field of science and tech.
Episodes
19 episodes
The creator of Caddy talks about Jesus Christ, Coffee, and the Simulation argument
Matt Holt is the creator of the wildly successful Caddy web server. He's also a member of the restored Church of Jesus Christ, AKA the Mormon Church. . I am not. Can we both be right? We had a lovely discussion about that, and what anchors his ...
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Episode 19
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1:14:32
Ep 18 - An NFL Player and tech investor talks about his faith in Jesus
Kelvin Beachum is no ordinary athlete. While it is common for athletes to break into tech investing, Kelvin goes where few dare to go: he invests in Open Source tech infrastructure -- and even attended KubeCon.Kelvin is a Christian from...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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57:09
What is belief? Ep 17 - John Larsen
My guest today is John Larsen, a software developer from Norway, who enjoys PHP, and doesn’t seem to like Java very much. He was raised into a fringe Christian Church with 8 siblings, and after seeing that Church dissolve, got into his own path...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:50:09
The Save File Ep 16 - Josh Cirre
Josh Cirre comes from a creative background, but got into coding from a desire to help his customers. Now he works for Laravel as a Support Engineer and DevRel. We talked about beauty, morality and logic, and how he views them as p...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:47:50
The Save File Ep 15 - Adon Irani
My Guest today is Adon Irani. We had a great conversation as his upbringing in a mixed home with a Zoroastrian father and a Baptist mother, how at age11 he dedicated his life to Christ but completely forgot about it, and the important role ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:42:45
The Save File Ep14 - Mary Grygleski
Join me today to talk about Java & Jesus with Mary Grygleski. She is the president of the Chicago Java Users Group, a Developer Advocate, and the AI Practice Lead at Callibriti.We discussed her upbringing as a Catholic in Hong Kong,...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:36:09
The Save File Ep13 - Mina Abadir
My guest today is Mina Abadir. Mina is the CTO of Flightcontrol, and a member of the Coptic Church. In this episode we talked about growing up in Egypt as part of a minority religion, and how he had his religion inscribed in his national ID. We...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:48:24
The Save File Ep12 - Eric Anderson
In today's episode, I sat down for a chat with Eric Anderson. A PM from Google turned a successful Venture Capitalist at Scale, where he invested in companies like Datastax, Permit.io, and Honeycomb.io.Eric grew up as a member of the Ch...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:56:06
The Save File Ep11 - The Catholic Engineer
In today's episode, I had the pleasure of talking to Raina. She is a cradle Catholic from Pakistan, and we had a great conversation about how her experience growing up, and how in contrast with the safety we have in the West to profess our fait...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:57:45
The Save File Ep 10 - Glauber Costa
Today, we flip the script: Kent C. Dodds is the host, and I'll be the guest.I had the opportunity to talk about how I was raised in a nominally Catholic environment, but left it at age 14 when I was convinced atheism was the thing smart...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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2:06:28
The Save File Ep3 - TJ DeVries
In this episode, TJ DeVries joins me to talk about Dostoevsky, suffering, and whether nailing your own testicles to the ground is a smart idea.We talked about predestination, Calvinism, the various views of God's omnipotence, and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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2:07:24
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The Save File Ep8 - Brandon Bayer
Today I had the pleasure of chatting with Brandon Bayer. He is the creator of Blitz.js, and the founder of Flightcontrol. Brandon and I talked about his upbringing in the Old German Baptist Brethren Church. He walked us through his journey from...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:35:10
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The Save File Ep7 - ThePrimeagen
In today's episode I spoke to ThePrimeagen. One of the biggest influencers in tech today, we chatted about his difficult upbringing, his struggles resulting from nihilism, and how one day, his life suddenly changed.
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:38:15
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The Save File Ep6 - Nadia Asparouhova
In today's episode I had the pleasure of speaking to Nadia Asparouhova - x.com/nayafia, a writer and researcher, and the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software (Stripe Press).We discussed h...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:23:09
The Save File Ep 5 - Aaron Francis
In today's episode, I had an emotional conversation with Aaron Francis, the founder of TryHard Studios, and a powerhouse in the PHP/Laravel Community.Aaron went to school to become an accountant, but later found love the love for techno...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:41:52
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The Save File Ep4 - Joshua Berrios
In today's episode I spoke and got to know Joshua Berrios - @JBerri0s, the host of the @code_fellowship podcast. We discussed his life as a military man, his relationship with his father and how he got into technology. Whether or not NDEs are t...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:55:02
The Save File Ep3 - Lane Wagner
Today's episode is a bit of a reversal: Lane Wagner is a former member of the Church of Mormon, that after being confronted with things he had growing up without knowing, abandoned the church at first, and shortly after, religion altogether. We...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:40:28
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The Save File Ep2 - Kent C. Dodds
In today’s episode I speak with Kent Dodds. A renowned frontend engineer and a household name in the Javascript ecosystem.Kent tells us about his faith, and growing up as one of 12 siblings, all members of the church of Jesus Christ of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:35:05
The Save File Ep1 - Tejas Kumar
This is the first episode of the Save File! Tejas Kumar is a Best Selling Author, Fluent React. Host, ConTejas Code Podcast. Investor. Advisor. Formerly at ▲ Vercel, Spotify, Xata, and more. He is a Christian living in Germany.In today'...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:51:13
