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Decoding Leadership27. Beth Adele Long on reliability and leadershipI sit down with Beth Long to discuss her extensive experience with reliability engineering from working at companies like New Relic, Jeli, Gruntwork, and Adaptive Capacity Labs. Beth shares her insights on the role of executives in incident management, the balance between product development and reliability, and how different organizations approach incident coordination. We also explore reliability as a product and the importance of organizational culture in effective incident response. I learned a great deal, and thought about some aspects of reliability in completely new ways. I hope you do too!2025-07-3045 minDecoding Leadership26. Jade Rubick on reflecting powerReflected Power is a way to use power you don’t have. Join me as I introduce the concept of Reflected Power. Reflected Power is using the authority of those above you to amplify your influence and achieve your goals. We’ll cover the nuts and bolts of how to use the positional authority of the people around you to be more effective. Curious to hear your thoughts on this approach!00:00 Reflecting power: leveraging the power you don’t have00:17 Introduction01:26 What is reflecting power, and what does it look like?2025-06-0409 minDecoding Leadership25. Molly Graham on Google to GlueI had the opportunity to interview Molly Graham, who has an impressive background working at Google, Facebook, and Quip, among other places. In 2022, she founded Glue Club, a community for startup leaders to learn from each other. Molly is best known for her concept of 'giving away your Legos,' which she developed from her experience with rapid organizational scaling. We discuss the emotional and practical aspects of change in startups. Molly also shares her (provative, deliberate, rare!) approach to organizational design, executive team dynamics, and her experience giving a TED Talk on the...2025-05-2148 minDecoding Leadership24. Brent Miller on team health assessmentsIn today's episode, we dive into the fascinating world of team health assessments with Brent Miller. Brent, who held the title of organizational architect and worked as a principal engineer at New Relic, shares insights on conducting team health self-assessments and their impact on organizational improvements. We explore the concept of team reviews, the challenges faced during initial implementations, and how self-assessments revealed critical patterns such as stakeholder misalignment and workload issues. Brent also discusses the value of an annual organizational retrospective, the role of leadership buy-in, and the potential for smaller, more frequent check-ins. This episode is a...2025-04-2348 minDecoding Leadership23. Jim Gochee on banning "prioritization", and getting functions to work togetherIn this episode of Decoding Leadership, host Jade interviews Jim Gochee, a seasoned expert in the software industry with a rich career spanning roles from engineer to CEO. They cover the controversial decision to ban the word 'prioritization' at Blameless, and go into some detail about how to get people to work well across departments. They discuss anti-patterns and common ruts in product and engineering interactions, the significance of clear goal-setting to unify teams, and the impact of understanding different roles within a company. Finally, Jim offers advice on leadership transitions, the role of curiosity and growth mindset in...2025-04-0957 minDecoding Leadership22. James Shore: what if we scaled our teams to unreasonable sizes?Jim and I sit down and talk about his successful engagement at New Relic, where he brought modern autonomous team approaches the company. Jim shares how he has been doing it differently over the last few years, using an approach called Fluid Scaling Technology (FaST). We explore some parts of implementing FaST that I don’t believe are discussed anywhere else, such as how management works differently in an environment using FaST. And Jim shares how his recent engagement as a VP of Engineering has shaped his recent leadership work. 2025-03-2646 minDecoding Leadership21. Jayanthan Bhattathiripad on introducing yourself, XP and Scrum, and wasteIn this episode, we talk with Jayanthan Bhattatharapad. Jay has a very interesting way of introducing himself to his teams and organization, and I asked him to demo it to us. In doing so, he shares not only this interesting practice, but lots of tidbits about how he sees leadership. We had a fascinating discussion, can't wait to share it with you!* Jay's career journey from consulting at ThoughtWorks to Expedia, to his recent role at Cisco.* The importance of mental health and psychological safety in teams.* Why Extreme Programming...2025-03-1241 minDecoding Leadership20. Margaret Le on technical leadership and building strong engineering culturesJoin us as we welcome Margaret Le, VP of Engineering at Facet, to discuss her experience from software engineering leadership roles at New Relic, Heroku, Slack, and Facet. We dive deep into the engineering leader's role in technical direction, and building teams and culture. Margaret shares her insights on defining and executing technical vision. She also explains how to cultivate a thriving work environment by clearly defining core values. She talks about the value of psychological safety, transparency, and vulnerability. 2025-02-2626 minDecoding Leadership19. Jade Rubick: using task forces to solve complex leadership challengesIn this episode, we delve into the concept of task forces and their crucial role in addressing organizational challenges. Discover when and how to employ task forces effectively, and learn from real-life examples, including a case at New Relic to rapidly deliver a complex feature in six weeks, and another involving a complex merger that spanned every department. I share actionable tips on how to set up a successful task force, including the importance of a solid kickoff meeting, selecting the right team members, and how to leverage the power of other leaders. 2025-01-2912 minDecoding Leadership18. Brent Miller on team self-selection and project UpscaleUpscale was a large scale agile transformation at a 50 team software company. Brent and I were on the leadership team. The aim of Upscale was to address the gridlock problem with cross-team projects. Jade brought in James Shore, author of The Art of Agile Development, and he led us through a massive amount of change. Upscale was extremely successful, but there were missteps and challenges.
We retrospect on Upscale, and talk through cross-team dependencies, and especially into the massive self-selection event, where most of the people in engineering got to choose which team they wanted to be a part...2025-01-151h 07
X's and Bro's with Sean BaligianX's and BrO's - Rob Rubick talks 12-1 LionsWith the Lions moving to 12-1 and becoming the first NFC team to clinch the playoffs, Rob Rubick joins the show to break it all down, including Dan Campbell's coaching style and the Lions' 34-31 Thursday Night Football win over the Packers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2024-12-0617 minDecoding Leadership17. Katie Wilde on the challenging step to director, and the perverse incentives of reliabilityKatie Wilde is an accomplished leader from Snyk, Ambassador Labs, and Buffer. She shares how she learned to be an effective director (and how challenging the transition was), and shares tons of insights into why it's hard to build a culture of reliability in engineering organizations. And she shares a bunch of wonderful approaches to make reliability fun and desirable. This episode was a delight, and I learned a bunch from it. 2024-12-0439 minDecoding Leadership16. Jade Rubick on Tiny ThursdaysWe often don't prioritize the tiny things that make exceptional products. I share a practice we adopted recently that helps us ship lots of little things every Thursday.2024-11-0612 minDecoding Leadership15. Ben Gahlsdorf on partnering with recruiting, advice for job seekers, and a recommendation mindsetBen is an experienced talent acquisition leader. We discussed how leaders can work effectively with recruiting, how he coaches recruiters to work better with their stakeholders, how to stand out in the current job market, and what he's learned about leadership himself. He also gives the controversial advice to not jump to hiring a recruiter!2024-10-0933 minDecoding Leadership14. Alex Kroman on building strong leadership teams, product taste, and neurodivergent modeI loved this conversation with Alex Kroman, Chief Product and Technology Officer at LivePerson. We dive into the topic of how to craft great leadership teams, balancing vision with execution, overcoming the hub-and-spoke management model, leveraging diverse skill sets, and improving decision-making quality. Alex is someone I've learned a great deal from, and I invite you to do the same in this podcast!2024-09-2544 minDecoding Leadership13. Jade Rubick on learning from founder modeWhat can we learn from Paul Graham's "founder mode"? Mostly that it describes a poor way of thinking about delegation. It's not just for founders, and it can be dangerous for founders. But it's a useful tool to have in every leader's toolkit.2024-09-1112 minDecoding Leadership12. Patrick Lightbody and Henry Shapiro on how they built ReclaimI interviewed the founders of Reclaim.ai, a successful startup that was recently acquired by Dropbox. Learn the unusual approaches they took to build a radically customer focused company. We cover how they gave up planning, selected leaders with unusual backgrounds, and kept their technology simple. And they share some of the decisions they made that helped them iterate on their approach and build a product I use every day.2024-08-3044 minDecoding Leadership11. Jade Rubick on pilesWe delve into the concept of "piles", and why it can be a useful tool for seeing how to optimize flow. 2024-08-1406 minDecoding Leadership10. Jade Rubick on preventing incidentsWe cover a simple process change that is the most impactful way I've seen to prioritize reliability work. It's a rule called the "Don't Repeat Incidents" rule. In this short episode, we cover how we developed this rule, and why it made such a difference.2024-07-3108 minDecoding Leadership9. Jade Rubick on removing yourself as a bottleneckWe discuss the inevitable challenge of being the bottleneck and how to get yourself out of this situation, mostly by growing and training your team. Learn approaches such as
Setting up indicators to preserve focus,
Using the concept of a leadership ladder to uplevel and evaluate your team, and
Using completed staff work to provide a standard for management work.
I also share
Practical advice for delegation,
How to use tenants to shape your organizations thinking, and
How to use the "gospel of I intend to" to improve coordination and allow your team to own more.
2024-07-1721 minDecoding Leadership8. Jade Rubick on organizational workOne of the most important concepts in developing a strong organization is "organizational work". I describe the concept, how you can use it to drive lasting improvements in your organization, and how you can use it to build strong, collaborative leadership teams. 2024-07-0315 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie EP. 43 - Netmarble / MarbleX-Nexus?CONTENTSHighlight of the weekMarbleX - Nexus?Partnerships- Netmarble moves 3 games:--- Meta World My City --- A3 Still Alive --- Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds-- S.T.F.U (Ships That Fight Underground) -- Raven Quest -- Planet Atmos Rumour Mill-- Empire of Sight - https://x.com/EmpireOfSight-- Anterris / BattleboundNon Gaming Projects-- Bowled.io -- Lunar ...2024-07-011h 17
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie EP. 42 - Games Games Games 02:20 Outlaw Troopers06:03 Baby Shark10:57 The Mystery Society15:48 Revolve Games21:37 Dypians25:24 Devomon27:25 Tribe30:14 Eternal Hearts32:00 Farmine Land34:25 GameVerse38:24 Equilibrium Games43:17 Meme Alliance45:02 Ashara Studios46:04 Rumor mill48:10 Immutable News1:03:55 What's pissing us of1:10:35 Non Immutable news(1:17:40) Final thoughts2024-06-301h 24Decoding Leadership7. Jade Rubick on macho and bro leadershipLet's talk about macho and bro-ish leadership culture! Macho cultures often exhibit aggressive and sometimes sexist behavior. While risk-taking and aggressive behavior isn't uniformly bad, macho culture can result in groupthink and result in poor decision-making. And it can drive away talent. We explore why these cultures emerge, often due to stereotyped views of leadership, and share techniques for navigating them. 2024-06-2011 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie EP. 41 - OutLaw TroopersGamers Galaxie hosts Rubick & WT talk with Outlaw Troopers execs Aston and RogerFind out everything you need to know about the game launching on zkEVM on the 27th of JuneThanks to our sponsors at TokenTroveUse our referral link once a week to set yourself to a GamersGalaxie fanhttps://tokentrove.com/?ref=GamersGalaxie2024-06-2049 minDecoding Leadership7. Jade Rubick on macho and bro leadershipLet's talk about macho and bro-ish leadership culture! Macho cultures often exhibit aggressive and sometimes sexist behavior. While risk-taking and aggressive behavior isn't uniformly bad, macho culture can result in groupthink and result in poor decision-making. And it can drive away talent. We explore why these cultures emerge, often due to stereotyped views of leadership, and share techniques for navigating them. 2024-06-1918 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie EP. 40 - Latest Immutable News!WT & Rubick break down what happened with the Immutable ecosystem during the second half of May 2024.Gamers Galaxie is a gaming guild with real actual gamers. We embrace all forms of gaming and our primary concern is fun and engaging gameplay. We love to own the stuff we pay for and earn in game and if we can make a few tokens along the way, bonus!Join us community here: https://discord.gg/WJJudAq8TtToken Trove is our preferred marketplace. The leading Immutable zkEVM marketplace. Get your NFT's using out referral code...2024-06-192h 02Decoding Leadership6. Jade Rubick on the dangers of fan out work, and managing a bottleneck teamWe discuss two related topics: fan out work and managing bottleneck teams. We first delve into fan out work, its causes, examples, and some of the problems it causes. We discuss a couple of approaches to reduce the impact of fan out work, such as having teams complete their own fan out work, and setting limits on such projects.
We then discuss bottleneck teams. Every organization has teams that suffer as they support the most critical aspects of the business. We discuss common issues like stakeholder bullying. And we offer some solutions such as a...2024-06-0518 minDecoding Leadership5. John Hyland on early career engineers, decomposing monoliths, and the preventable problems paradoxJohn Hyland is an expert on making early career engineers successful. They led up the Ignite program at New Relic, which was an incredibly innovative program that was so good they expanded it to more senior levels. They go into some detail about how they set up and adapted the program. They also give lots of advice on hiring for both early career and later career engineers.
After that, we did a retrospective on deconstructing a Ruby monolith at New Relic. It was a large, complicated project, and some parts of it didn't go a...2024-05-221h 05
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie EP. 39 - Storm WarfareJoin Rubick on a deep dive into the story of Storm Warfare the TCG releasing on Immutable May 22nd. Find out about why you should be taking notice and find out some accidental Alpha spilled by the CEO. I guess he can't get fired :P-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Episode Sponsored for Token Trove. The leading Immutable zkEVM marketplace. Get your NFT's using out referral code:https://tokentrove.com/?ref=GamersGalaxieYou will be airdropped GamersGalaxie $GGXE tokens each month you purchase but you must use our referral code each entry to the site...2024-05-1550 min
GamersGalaxieGamers Galaxie EP. 38 - Get More Gems + GoG Launch!! (00:14) Intro(01:39) Token Trove Partnership(03:44) Stardust(06:00) Shutdown(08:25) The Watch(11:27) Zoids Wild Arena(14:12) Arena Of Faith(18:27) MoonTropica(20:25) Andrometa(22:34) MetaStrike(25:20) WarLands(26:17) RumorMill Rubick(30:45) MonProtocol(32:18) Game Releases(36:40) Wagmi Trailer(39:33) AstraNova(41:48) Bug Bounty(43:02) Illuvium(47:34) 100 Games Immutable(48:39) Rubick's Shorts(52:22) What pisses us off WT / Rubick(1:01:54) Embersword upgrades(1:03:59)Rubick finds some Main quest alpha(1:11:00) Space Nation (1:14:56) Psychos epic...2024-05-131h 34Decoding Leadership4. Jason Poole on product+engineering+design mind-melds, managing vs leading, and fast decision-makingIn this episode of Decoding Leadership, Jade sits down with experienced engineering leader Jason Poole to discuss the ins and outs of building strong partnerships between product, engineering, and design. Jason shares his insights on:
Establishing trust and a unified front in engineering/product relationships
Integrating design into the triad and its transformative impact
Communicating effectively within the triad through structured and ad-hoc touchpoints
Helping local teams develop their own effective triads
Lessons learned from experimenting with the single threaded owner model vs. triad approach
The distinction between management and leadership skills
A powerful framework for efficient, high-quality...2024-05-0842 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie EP. 37 - 14 New Games & GoG launch week!Rubick and WT break down the latest in the Immutable Eco System! Join our Discord now for all the latest White list, Alpha, and Contest!! TIMESTAMPS BELOW!Follow us on X (Twitter) @Rubick_dev @Wt7791 @Ds0uz @GameStopAlpha @Tonin_Eth @Synixdotilv Intro (00:14) Legends of Bezogia (01:56) Chromata (03:54) Descend.gg $TEAR (06:11) Battle Bears (07:55) Planet X (13:07) UmiVerse (16:05) Ballies (19:01) Deverse World (20:55) RebelBots Epic War (23:11) Moontropica (27:52) Shutdown (29:44) Warlands (31:21) St8Fire (34:09) ...2024-05-071h 27Decoding Leadership3. Nadya Duke Boone on alignment tips, radical candor, and how to really protect your teamNadya is an accomplished product leader and chief product officer. I've always been impressed with how she has navigated getting large groups of people on the same page. And she's really good at aligning executives. She gives us some tips for getting better at that, and talks through her approach to radical candor, protecting teams, and growing the people on her team.2024-04-2435 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 36 - April AlphaGuest Speaker - Long one with 10 official games and 4 rumours and a heap of AlphaTimeStamp[00:00:01] Ted from Chibi Clash[00:03:25] Partnerships[00:03:30] Kart Party[00:06:20] Mars Battle[00:10:15] Bit Brawl[00:14:48] Fabled Adventure[00:17:18] Mummy RPG: When Worlds Collide[00:20:44] Wild West 4 Honor[00:25:38] Devomon Callisto[00:31:28] Stray Cat Tribe[00:38:31] Sekuya[00:44:12 ] Trinity of the Fabled[00:47:55] Rumours[00:48:01] Toyland Defence[00:49:30] R3v3nge[00:53:45] Planet-X[00:56:25] Tap Fantasy[00:57:50] Labrys[00:58:15] layerswap dot...2024-04-222h 13Decoding Leadership2: Keizan Shaffer on mentorship, sponsorship, career advice, and reorgsKeizan Shaffer talks through how he thinks about mentorship. He talks about the importance of surfacing your thinking and sharing your mental models, how mentorship, teaching, coaching, and sponsorship are different. And he shares some career advice that his mentors have found useful. He also talks about Conway's law, and some tips for managing reorgs successfully.2024-04-1042 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 35 - Chibi ClashToday we interview the founder of Chibi Clash Ted, known online as Wago! We hope you enjoy it!2024-04-061h 00
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 34 - Immutable News UpdateGamers Galaxie breaks down the latest news on Immutable for the 2nd half of MarchPartnerships[01.27] Affyn Official (Buddy Arena)[04:30] ScarQuest Battle for Velhalla[09:30] BasketballVerse[13:43] Khuga[16:39] Infinity Games - Infinity Heroes[19:39] Luxon - Desperado B218Rumoured Partnerships[24:00] Mummy: When Worlds Collide[25:48] Real Web 3 Games[27:10] HatchyVerse[28:00] Descend.ggNon Gaming Partnerships[29:41] dRPC[31:50] oKx GameFi LaunchpadImmutable News[35:20] 100 Million Fund [38:01] What's Pissing us...2024-03-302h 00Decoding Leadership1: Alexa Stefanko on the Single Threaded Owner model, product metrics, and how training alligators is different than training peopleAlexa Stefanko led one of the most dramatic improvements in a team I've seen. We talk about a set of changes we introduced at Gremlin, including the Single Threaded Owner model, the introduction of product metrics, and setting up an "API" between local teams and senior leadership. Alexa also talks about her move to being a director, the differences between medical and tech leadership, and how animal training has influenced (and not influenced) her approach with people.2024-03-2743 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 33 - Immutable News Update Weekly Roundup of all the Immutable News and Analysis!(00:14) Intro(02:20) Turbo Battle Arena(05:15) Astra Nova(09:44) Eth Lizards(11:26) Sunder - Rumor only(13:01) Beyond Earth Online - Self announced Immutable responded Welcome(15:27) Bandzai self announced - no response 11h later from immutable(17:56) Chalk River & SkiesVerse were re-announced as zkEVM(19:54) Immutable Passport has 200k registered players(23: 54) Chibi Clash Release strategy(28:21) Shanghai Upgrade(32:10) Gas Free on Beam Sphere - Marketplace trades(33:41) Minting API(38:26...2024-03-191h 21
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 32 - Immutable News Update Feb24Rubick and WT break down the latest news and analysis from Immutable(00:14) Intro(01:10) Thoughts on Immutable's Tal Interview(04:56) Tap Nation(09:09) Blast Royale(10:55) Storm Warfare(13:11) PanoVerse(18:17) Chibby Clash(21:17) SheerTopia(28:12) Pissed off about...(31:40) Kaidro to Ronin network(37:41) Sphere Market Place(39:40) TopExpo(42:40) SparkBall(44:45) Kokodi-Rubick right on this one(46:23) MonProtocol's 12.5 million dollar one hour sell out(47:54) Hunters On Chain(49:15) Lex Robson from LegionArena(52:18) Gods Unchained...2024-03-071h 25
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 31 - Tal / Immutable Solutions ArchitectSolutions Architect TAL Joins Gamers Galaxie to discuss his role at Immutable and drops some major alpha.00:44 Tal Intro01:02 Solutions Architect05:19 Work Volume at Immutable07:19 Did Web 2 Devs coming in the space reduce work load?08:48 Top 3 favorite things about Tal's Role13:50 What's Tal's Pet Peeve?17:15 How is Immutable handling the Massive Work load / games. Immuta-Hub?21:35 API's, StarkNet, ZKEVM's, EVM'S Oh my!!32:17 Minting assets and API's / Contracts34:57 Minting is going to do what!!?? HUGE ALPHA!40:09 What...2024-02-271h 46
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 30 - Infloooencers[00:01] Introductions Latest On Immutable News[01:38] Projects building on Immutable-- [01:48] Landrocker-- [04:40] Mhaya-- [07:18] Fuse Wars-- [12:10] Pixelmon - Rumours confirmed-- [13:50] Black Snow: Battle for Earth-- [17:08] Hakoiri-- [21:20] Call of the Voyd: Heartliners-- [23:10] Kokodi[29:06] What's Pissing me off this week-- [29:15] (WT) - Nigerian Princes-- [30:41] (Rubick) Illuvium Q2 open beta teaser reaction by Jonah & Hantao pathetically predictable[38:00] Immutable Specific News-- [38:14] Shardbound playtest incoming-- [41:15] Polygon release...2024-02-221h 34
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 29 - Scott Herman / WAGMIScott Herman from WAGMI GAMES Talks to Gamers Galaxie!!! Crazy fun!(00:43) Scott Herman / Gamer Galaxie Intro (01:26) About Scott Herman (02:41) Inspiration / Token History for WAGMI Company / Game (07:01) Lore of the Game (08:23) Core Game Loop (12:23) Long Term Plan for Game (19:51) Scott's Work Ethics / Business Ethics (24:45) Team Talk / Expectations (26:25) Rubick talks Genius Card system with Scott (32:05) Rubick Had Fomo For WAGMI cards LOL! (33:00) Scott Breaks down Card Differential (36:58) Rubick's Wish List - Scott's Response (39:50...2024-02-201h 29
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 28 - Top 100 gamesWeekly round up of Immutable Ecosystem Games, News, and AnalysisTIMESTAMPS BELOW00:15 Intro01:24 Rubick's Top 10003:53 CryptoMon05:50 Battle Fort Knox08:07 Enders Gate11:05 MetaClash13:35 Chalk River17:31 Heroes Chained22:13 Uforika27:37 Paradise Tycoon30:53 Hunters On Chain33:44 Super Verse / Ellio Trades39:02 Robbie Hints Pixel Mon??44:33 What Pisses us off this week50:42 ZKEVM is here!53:42 Immutable Tool Kit56:37 Riftstorm back peddles1:00:47 Rubick's Shorts1:03:09 Sphere2024-02-131h 42
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 27 - Chris Clay / Guild of GuardiansGame Director of God's Unchained and Guild of Guardians sits down with Gamer's Galaxie, and tackles some very hard questions, ... like the pro that he is. Thank Chris, was a blast!!(00:01) intro(00:15) Helllooo Gamers! Rubick / WT(01;02) Chris Clay(01:43) Clay's Small Detail Ethics(03;02) Clay's role in Mineloader Decision / Why(07:23) ARPG's take time to get right- Diablo / GoG comparison(10:43) Clay's Favorite Guardian Currently & Lore talk(13:47) What's harder to deal with? Pets, Guilds or Character Balance(15:32) Difficulty of Former Promises(17:00...2024-01-301h 22
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 26 - WITS & LooperLandsThis week, we chat with What Is This Sorcery (WITS) and LooperLands about their up and coming games on Immutable. After that we break down all the MASSIVE Immutable announcements of late. Timestamps below.00:00:01 - Intro00:00:20 - Interview NickyG Founder of What is this Sorcery TCG00:35:43 - WITS afterthoughts00:44:30 - Interview with Smileyphase founder of Looperlands01:20:09 - Looperlands afterthoughts01:25:50 - Immutable Partners Announcements01:27:25 - Faenora Series (2 x games)01:32:01 - Catacomb Crawlers01:34:01 - Meta Legends01:36:22 - Cool Cats01:40:40...2024-01-283h 05
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 25 - Uldor-- Interview with Graslo from Uldor-- Break down of Uldor (0:54)New projects building on Immutable-- Second World Games (1:09:17)-- Space Mavericks (1:14:23)-- Revomon (1:18:51)-- Looperlands (1:23:10)-- Smashverse (1:25:44)-- Outlaws Brawl (1:30:03)-- Versus (1:34:24)-- Clash: Heroes Of Feralia Terra (1:38:16)-- Hakoiri (1:40:40)What Pisses us off this week (New recurring segment) Rubick (1:42:52) WT (1:52:22)Immutable News / Shorts-- Sub Query network - (1:56:38)-- $IMX is Next (1:57:36)-- Rave...2024-01-162h 23
Reliability Enablers#23 - The Danger of Unreliable Platforms (with Jade Rubick)Jade Rubick needs no introduction in the reliability and observability space. He was VP of Engineering at New Relic from 2010 to 2019. It was my pleasure to take on his non-obvious ideas on managing expectations with teams, especially platform-based teams. We had a few spicy ideas to dive into.We also touched on topics like enhancing engineering practices, DORA metrics, and so much more. Be sure to listen all the way through to learn Jade's amazing insights. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other...2024-01-1629 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 24 - 2024 PredictionsPredictions 2024How many Games will zkEVM launch with? How many Games will zkEVM have launched by end of Q2 & Q4?Who will be Immutable's biggest competitor from quality games perspective?What is a sleeper project that will release to huge success in 2024?Total on-chain gamers at end of Q2 & Q4 on Immutable zkEVM?Total on-chain gamers in all of blockchain gaming Q2 & Q4?Who will have the most on-chain gamers outside of Immutable?The lowest & highest IMX token price throughout 2024?What will be the leading gaming token at the end of the year that isnt Immutable?Overall crazy...2024-01-111h 08
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 23 - 2023 Year in ReviewThe year of Immutable in review. We the 4 GGPod hosts look back at 2023 and the year that was:January (2:03)February (13:50)March (24:18)April (41:46)May (1:01:57)June (1:14:13)July (1:28:59)August (1:42:17)September (1:58:23)October (2:09:25)November (2:32:31)December (2:48:54)Final Thoughts for the Year (3:25:10)2024-01-063h 30
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 22 - Season Finale[0:00:01]Knights Grimoire Founder Interview with Ted[0:36:01] -- Interview breakdown Partnerships[0:41:50] -- Dark Frontiers[0:47:38] -- Bad Mad Robots - (Drunk Robots)[0:51:16] -- Storm Warfare (on Immutable?)[0:57:15] Gas Free Gaming-- Announcement breakdown-- Benefits of Gas free on Immutable zkEVM-- Was this the big announcement that Robbie teased?[1:07:10] GU back on Epic Games Store-- why / how / who /when?[1:09:05] PASSPORT LAUNCHES!!!-- Blocklete games & Bleacher Report W2E is live on Passport (Both these are built by Warner Bros Studios) Immutable X-- WAGMI Games[1:17:40] Senior Architect at IMX talks zkEVM tech - https://www.immutable.com/blog/under-the-hood-immutable-zkevm?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social...2024-01-012h 24
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 21 - One TapEpisode 21 GamersGalaxieInterview John of Qorbi World - One TapNew Partnerships-- Exverse-- Arena of Faith (What is the go with this?)-- Lumiterra-- Beam / Merit Circle-- Irys-- TransakImmutable ShortsChronoForgeGU Passport enabled / Mobile delayed till after NY breakAge of ZalmoxisEcosystem map hitting over 30k views!User AcquisitionMogaland - player program has started (Mobile)Robbie's Content breakdown-- Bankless-- Between2Layers-- Blockcrunch-- Empire2023-12-152h 29
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 20 - Infinite VictoryInfinite Victory interview--New PartnershipsNagagamesCursed Stone official nowFuseWars-- Uldor rebrand remastered intro-- Paull Barron eating egg plant again-- Multichain games - whays going on?-- Immutable shorts2023-12-061h 57
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 19 - Dark MachineDark Machine Director of Design - KeiishiNew Partnerships-- Citizen Conflict-- Ponchiqs-- Blade of God X-- Galacticos Mgr 24-- Space Falcon - AviatrixEve CCP playtest ready for December. (on Immutable would be awesome)Between 2 Layers-- 56 of 65 migration going to Polygon / IMX-- GU mobile release - bit of premature announcement?Peter Robinson 1 h technical deep dive into zkEVM & Passport---- Immutable is vertically integrated as a Platform & Chain---- Passport is Single Identity / Unified Wallet for both zkEVM...2023-11-272h 03
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 18 - UbisoftNew Partnerships-- Ubisoft(Sam Steffina throws low key shade at Immutable x Ubisoft partnership.)-- Ark Bound X-- Rave Racing-- Riftstorm (are they building on Immutable really?)-- Sailwars by dotgaming announced zkEVM exclusive (Are they really though?)Cagy and Ron or Die crew beef.CNBS 7 minute segmentBetween 2 Layers reactions.Illuvium Epic games store and PVP release 28th Nov (Also an announcement bigger than Netflix) - could that be Xbox release of Illuvium?https://immutablexstats.com/FWIZ new role at Optimism2023-11-191h 19
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 17 - GoG Special-- GensoKishi Online-- Cursed Stone --illuvium PvP--Eyeball Pool retains a grant from AWS--Lost Glitches Closed Beta GoG TH (delay and economy / earnings update)--Delayed-- Roadmap--Engagement--Potential Changes--- Crafting overhaul (Randomness / Specialty Stats)--- Runes (more impact)--- Rooms or fighting setup adding more composition and strategy decisions--- Guilds added for release (Raiding / White Paper for guilds in Q1)--- Guardians Hero Balance--- Endless Dungeon Curse--- Chromas utility (not in game benefits but some hints of out of game benefits)--- Energy Tokens (Will be web 2 and web 3...2023-11-041h 36
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 16 - Token TroveEpisode 16 #GamersGalaxieNew Partnerships-- Danu Games - Avalon (Multichain)-- SkiesVerse (RPG)Token Trove implement Passport to their MarketplaceEmberSword Alpha playtest dungeon experienceQorbiworld BetaChronoForge BetaGods Unchained Tides of Fate ExpansionBetween2Layers reaction2023-11-031h 05
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 15 - AWSEpisoide 15 GamersGalaxie Immutable-- AWS partnershipNew Games-- Mogaland-- Data 2073 - TCG-- Last Resort--WAGMI games building with Passport (They already have web 2 sign ins)--Space Nation Playtest--Ember Sword playtest--Guild of Guardians Friends and Family play test2023-10-191h 21
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 14 - Space Nation-Gamers Galaxy Episode 14INTERVIEW-- SPACE NATION CEO - JEROME OHIMX GAMES INCOMING!!-- Dormint-- The Last Monarchy-- The Feeshes-- Space Mavericks-- Siege Builders - Clash of Legends-- Lussa-- YakuCorp-- Dream Quest-- Sail Wars by dotGame-- World Game Challenge-- Deity Craft-- Auto legendsOTHER TOPICS!!--zkEVM Milestones blog break down--GoG...2023-10-132h 41
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 13 - Battle DerbyEpisode 13 GamersGalaxieBattle DerbyNew games:-* Reign of Titans - Planet Palz (ex Cardano) -* myNFT Wars: Riftwardens -* Dark Machines -* z5 games - meta toy cityThe need for Passport - WAGMI / CTA / New Ganymede / Phantom Galaxie-hyperplayCreator League - Our takeGME Earning callLoopring gaming on the rise. Kiraverse minting to Loopring for charityApple Gaming phone iphone 15Multichain (Jelly raised in discord)Unity decision to charge 20cents2023-09-171h 55
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 12 - RiftwardensRiftwardens New game El hefe GoG leaks and updates Infinite Victory spotlight Metalcore - open signups The Lost Glitches - Beta Shardbound playtest - feedback WAGMI - opensea partnership GALA dumpster fire Intersection of Sports Fandom and web3 Your spaces appearance2023-09-032h 07
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Special - Intersection of sports and web3New sports games coming to Immutable2023-08-291h 03
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 11 - Robbie FergusonInterview with Robbie Ferguson!2023-08-261h 22
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 10 - 2x Int Chrono Forge & Steve Green 2 x InterviewsChronoForge with LachlanIMX Solutions Eng. Steve Green interviews!2023-08-201h 25
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 09 - Inga (IMX Engineering Manager)New projects--We missed MetaToyzDragonZ - HUGE Korean gaming empire --Rune Realm - already known but now official --Crystale - announce themselves --FractalinsGoG playtestGameStop situation update Wallet / Marketplace / Creator economy / PLAYR / Robbies Project Announcementoh Hootie is dead - mental illness is evil, its the absolute worst shit in the world! I want to discuss it.IMX fast news - my list of news going into whoimx2023-08-131h 38
Software Snack Bites#16 - Jade Rubick (ex VPE at New Relic, Eng Advisor to Jeli, Flatfile, Mode, Maze & more) - Tactical Advice for Building Effective Eng Teams, Anti-Patterns for Eng Teams to AvoidJade Rubick is a Eng Advisor to multiple startups (23 and counting). He was previously Vice President Engineering at New Relic and has taken on interim VPE roles at multiple other startups over the years before he began solely focused on advising startups. In this episode, Jade joins us to cover common anti-patterns he sees in eng teams, how teams can better communicate, what hiring practices work well and how to think about structuring career paths for employees. Everything from hiring tips, to product & feature development, to adjusting to the current “do more with less” environment and common advice across all...2023-08-0844 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 08 - House of BoxingHouse of BoxingEmber Sword land saleMedieval EmpiresGameStop walletWrecks League Space Nation WL grinding (28th August) / Galaxy Commanders playtests WAGMI soft launches Sparkball2023-08-061h 42
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 07 - EvermoonEvermoonVeveVerseUndead Metaverse officially announce IMX zkEVMGalaxy Commanders gameplay releaseStar Atlas - Reactions and their founder firing shots at IlluviumMomoguroMAU peaks of Last Resort / Evermoon / House of Boxing2023-07-301h 49
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 06New Games++ Space Nation ++ Arsenal - Fabewelt ++ Galaxy Commanders ++ OBS WorldJake v Gala?Looper Game (Browser game developed by community. Open Source Browser Quest)zkEVM updateGoG playtestShardboundSimWin2023-07-231h 22
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 05 - Last ResortLast ResortLoopring / TaikoWAGMI / GameStopIMX movements- eyeBall Pool - Oxya Origin to OPBNB?- Star Heroes to ARB - Arrland announce Altura partnership *- Cyber Galz staying on imx but not committed to any other chain or imx for future mints (Points - movement to generate interest, weaker games not getting the service they want on imx)Delysium going AIIMX Marketplace changes incoming.2023-07-091h 25
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 04IMX partnerships A. New signings B. Record qtr and months C. Consolidation of blockchains2023-07-021h 09
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 03 - Nicolas TomahawkSpecial Guest @NicolasTomahawk IMX Advocate2023-06-2752 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 02MomoguroGamestop x illuviumAradenaCybergalz2023-06-1951 min
GamersGalaxieGamersGalaxie Ep. 01 - Immutable zkEVMIntroduction to Immutable X and GameStopaudio issue at 18:35-19:352023-06-111h 10
EDU thoughts from ERTechnology, creativity, and education.We dive into some different topics about creativity in the educational system.2020-11-1308 minEDU thoughts from ERTeaching students to read like writersTeaching students to read like writers2020-11-0904 minEDU thoughts from EREvaluating ResourcesWe dive into what things to look for when evaluating resources in the classroom.2020-11-0607 minEDU thoughts from ERTrauma, healing, and politicsReading response about article2020-10-2608 minEDU thoughts from ERReading Response LGBTQDiscussing inclusiveness in classrooms for LGBTQ students2020-10-1906 minEDU thoughts from ERReading Response Sight WordsWe dive into an article about teaching sight words2020-10-1205 minEDU thoughts from ERReading Response week 8Ch. 8 and article2020-10-0509 minEDU thoughts from ERPersonalized Learning NetworkGiving my thoughts and experience on PLNs.2020-09-2605 minEDU thoughts from ERReading Response week 6Chapter 5 and BL article2020-09-2105 min
New Meta: DotA 2 Podcast#76 - Position 4 Snapshot: Shaker, Nyx and please not RubickEpisode 76 sees a decent chunk of crying, observations and theory in the 'how have your games been?' intro section. After that the main topic of the episode is introduced, a snapshot of the current position 4 hero pool in the meta and the general prevalent playstyle of top pos 4 players. Earthshaker and Nyx Assassin come under examination before Adam goes on an unhinged attack on Rubick. https://discord.gg/rgV6KwD 2020-02-141h 10
Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTcT: Fishy Business ft. Slardar/Rubick On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi discuss: Morphling, common trilane hazards & pitfalls, Outworld Devourer, Shadow Shaman being utter trash, Riki being the opposite of that, predictions for 7.24a minor changes, Meriweather Lewis, the irrelevance of Night Vision talents, Snapfire' prevalence, and more! For our game we played 3 Slardar with 4 Rubick! 2020-02-061h 12Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTcT: Fishy Business ft. Slardar/Rubick On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi discuss: Morphling, common trilane hazards & pitfalls, Outworld Devourer, Shadow Shaman being utter trash, Riki being the opposite of that, predictions for 7.24a minor changes, Meriweather Lewis, the irrelevance of Night Vision talents, Snapfire' prevalence, and more! For our game we played 3 Slardar with 4 Rubick! 2020-02-061h 12
Zdenek’s English PodcastEpisode 255 - A Friendly Chat with Salem, Rubick and RamiThis episode was supposed to be published for patrons only, but I changed my mind about it because it is too funny and cool to have only a few people listen to it.
Why was Rubick almost arrested in his week in the Czech Republic? What is Salem's superpower? How did Rami lose 40 kilos in 2 years? What do the guys think of each another? Which one of them has anger issues? Which one is a history freak? Listen to this episode to out. 2019-04-1458 minFourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTcT: Deck The Halls With Balls of Skeletons ft. Rubick/Clinkz On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are in the holiday spirit playing Clinkz and (the newly arcana-d) Rubick! We brave the most dangerous of all hallways in our attempt to parse out, via metaphors and what very well may have been a fever dream, how to effectively lane as a squishy duo while still establishing and maintaining lane dominance, and plenty more! 2018-12-201h 26Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTcT: Deck The Halls With Balls of Skeletons ft. Rubick/Clinkz On this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud and Ursi are in the holiday spirit playing Clinkz and (the newly arcana-d) Rubick! We brave the most dangerous of all hallways in our attempt to parse out, via metaphors and what very well may have been a fever dream, how to effectively lane as a squishy duo while still establishing and maintaining lane dominance, and plenty more! 2018-12-201h 26Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTcT: Post-Birmingham Edition w/ Lone Druid & RubickOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud is back from Birmingham so we're covering his time there, the Birmingham Major trends, and all that. Ursi's covering his week in dota as well featuring mostly Zeus and occasionally other things, Proud's getting back into dota after a travel-induced break in this wonderful new world of +4 base damage 7.16, and plenty more! For our combo we opted to run Rubick and safelane Lone Druid, Proud tested out this new NoTail build that's more hero-focused!2018-06-011h 06Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTcT: Post-Birmingham Edition w/ Lone Druid & RubickOn this week's Theorycraft Thursday Proud is back from Birmingham so we're covering his time there, the Birmingham Major trends, and all that. Ursi's covering his week in dota as well featuring mostly Zeus and occasionally other things, Proud's getting back into dota after a travel-induced break in this wonderful new world of +4 base damage 7.16, and plenty more! For our combo we opted to run Rubick and safelane Lone Druid, Proud tested out this new NoTail build that's more hero-focused!2018-06-011h 06Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTeach Me Tuesday: 7.08 Impressions, Rubick, & First-Picking in PubsOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday, Ursi and Beedub are chatting about their experience with the new patch 7.08, Ursi's long-standing love of Rubick, Bee's newfound tryst with Rubick, which types of heroes are best to first-pick in various roles when in pubs, how to effectively balance a draft between being reactionary but not too reactionary, and much more! Stay tuned for a Patreon-exclusive episode discussing the merits and demerits of run-on sentences and comma splices!* * No.2018-02-061h 22Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTeach Me Tuesday: 7.08 Impressions, Rubick, & First-Picking in PubsOn this week's Teach Me Tuesday, Ursi and Beedub are chatting about their experience with the new patch 7.08, Ursi's long-standing love of Rubick, Bee's newfound tryst with Rubick, which types of heroes are best to first-pick in various roles when in pubs, how to effectively balance a draft between being reactionary but not too reactionary, and much more! Stay tuned for a Patreon-exclusive episode discussing the merits and demerits of run-on sentences and comma splices!* * No.2018-02-061h 22Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTheorycraft Thursdays: Ursa/RubickDefense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursi and Proud are takin' a closer look at everybody's favorite bear: Winnie the...err...Ursa. They're pairing him with Rubick for a dual lane combo and theorycrafting about the duo's synergy, how to build them and what to buy right before taking them into a game. Find out how the combo performed on the latest Dota 2 podcast!2016-12-011h 08Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTheorycraft Thursdays: Ursa/RubickDefense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursi and Proud are takin' a closer look at everybody's favorite bear: Winnie the...err...Ursa. They're pairing him with Rubick for a dual lane combo and theorycrafting about the duo's synergy, how to build them and what to buy right before taking them into a game. Find out how the combo performed on the latest Dota 2 podcast!2016-12-011h 08Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTheorycraft Thursdays: Flubb Joins for a Phoenix, Rubick, Juggernaut Tri-lane!Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud are joined once again by a Theorycraft alumni: Flubb! Together, the trio tackle a tri-lane in this week's edition of the Dota 2 podcast. Up this time: Phoenix, Rubick and Juggernaut. Find out how they synergize and how the test game went on the latest episode of Theorycraft Thursday!2016-06-091h 20Fourth Spirit - A Dota 2 PodcastTheorycraft Thursdays: Flubb Joins for a Phoenix, Rubick, Juggernaut Tri-lane!Defense of the Patience - A Dota 2 Podcast Ursinity and Proud are joined once again by a Theorycraft alumni: Flubb! Together, the trio tackle a tri-lane in this week's edition of the Dota 2 podcast. Up this time: Phoenix, Rubick and Juggernaut. Find out how they synergize and how the test game went on the latest episode of Theorycraft Thursday!2016-06-091h 20