The AwkEng Leaves Bread Crumbs (and is Available for Your Podcast!)

by Sam Feller

Hi all,

I'm issuing an open solicitation for recommendations and introductions to appear on podcasts. They're a lot of fun to record and I'd happy to be a guest.

The whole thing that sparked this idea, was that someone reached out to me last week, inviting me to speak to a bunch of high schoolers about engineering. The internet never forgets, and the event organizer found an engineering podcast I was a guest on in 2018, and thought I'd be good at talking to kids. (For the record, I'm totally game.)

This isn't the first time that someone has found the trail of breadcrumbs I've left across the internet and followed it to my door, and here are some of my favorites:

  • A textbook company that made a Blueprint Reading book needed a new author to take on and update the next edition, after the original author died. They figured because I had a blog with "engineer" in the name, I could write it. I'm not sure I was qualified, but fortunately, I was able to connect them to one of my friends, who literally teaches classes on the topic.
  • I wrote a medium article about version control for hardware in 2014, that six years later, was apparently repeatedly read by a startup working on building exactly that. We ended up meeting and chatting about it.
  • I get the occasional student or entrepreneur who's looking for help. I'm usually happy to set up some time and at least provide what advice I can.

Anyway... for those who are curious, here's the list of podcasts I've been on.

happy to make some more bread crumbs on the internet!

best regards
Sam Feller
aka THE Awkward Engineer

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