This week Ben Orenstein is joined by Jeremy McAnally, employee at GitHub, author of Ruby in Practice, Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook, MacRuby in Action, and more. Jeremy and Ben discuss teaching and organizing conferences, remote working for GitHub, the and the company summits, GitHub workflows, their internal tools team. They also talk about standing out from the pack in work, life, and getting accepted to conferences, selecting people to speak at conferences, self-publishing, Jeremy's writing process and future writing plans, work-life balance, how to get a job at GitHub, and much more.

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<li><a href="http://magic-ruby.com">MagicRuby</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rubyhoedown.com">Ruby Hoedown</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2013.la-conf.org">La Conf</a></li>
<li><a href="http://hubot.github.com">Hubot</a></li>
<li><a href="http://codeconf.com">CodeConf</a></li>
<li><a href="http://railsgirls.com">Rails Girls</a></li>
<li><a href="http://manning.com/mcanally/">Ruby in Practice</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.manning.com/lim/">MacRuby in Action</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.railsupgradehandbook.com">Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet">RedCarpet Markdown parser</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.princexml.com">PrinceXML</a></li>
<li><a href="http://securingrails.com">Securing Rails</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002499/">Seasonal Affective Disorder</a></li>
</ul>

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39: We've been watching you for some time, Mr. Grimm

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