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• Importance of maintaining faith in oneself and others during difficult times |
• Adam Jacob discusses his emotional struggles and how giving a speech helped him release pent-up emotions |
• He talks about the importance of vulnerability and sharing one's feelings in a world that often values binary thinking |
• Adam Jacob reflects on his experiences in open source and the impact of people like Jesse Robbins and Ezra on his career and personal growth |
• He mentions a tattoo that reminds him to prioritize what matters most in life, including his family and helping others |
• The conversation touches on the theme of winning vs. being good and helping others, with Adam Jacob stating that he'd rather win by being a good person than by being the best |
• The conversation also explores the theme of ethics in tech and entrepreneurship, with Adam Jacob expressing discomfort with watching dramatizations of questionable business practices. |
• Discussion of the TV show Silicon Valley and its portrayal of competition and business ethics |
• Adam Jacob's personal perspective on competition and validation of his market by others |
• Importance of having a pool of peers and competitors in a professional field |
• The value of having a strong support system and the impact of "punching" down (i.e. bullying or belittling others) |
• Adam Jacob's personal values and priorities, including his family and his passion for his work |
• The story of Chef's sale and Adam Jacob's transition out of the company |
• Adam Jacob's motivation for building System Initiative is to create a transformative technology that improves the lives of systems administrators and DevOps professionals. |
• He took a six-month break after leaving his previous company, during which he focused on spending time with his family and pursuing personal interests. |
• Adam Jacob's experience with his previous company was bittersweet, as he knew that the approach they were taking wouldn't be sustainable long-term. |
• He felt a sense of relief and authenticity when he decided to stop pushing the direction of the company in a way that he didn't believe in. |
• Adam Jacob's vision for System Initiative is to create a fundamentally different point of view on automation, with a transformatively different user experience. |
• He is now launching a public SaaS product and is excited to share it with others. |
• Photographic memory and its benefits and drawbacks |
• Using technology to find products in stores with a photographic memory |
• The importance of capturing memories and experiences |
• The concept of being able to recall feelings and emotions from the past |
• The startup process and financing of System Initiative |
• The decision to remain stealthy for five years and its implications |
• The launch of System Initiative as an open-source project |
• The importance of having fundamentally great technology to build a transformative business |
• Timing is key in launching a product, and System Initiative is well-timed to address the market's need for a solution to failed DevOps experiences |
• The challenge of creating a market that is ready for a new solution, and how System Initiative is trying to address that |
• The need for System Initiative to be accessible and easy to use, and that it is currently still in an open beta phase |
• The potential emergence of new technologies that could disrupt System Initiative, but Adam Jacob believes that his product is far ahead in terms of technology and that it would be difficult for others to copy it |
• The main challenge for System Initiative is to make its fundamentally different approach to solving problems loved by the people who use it |
• Adam Jacob's perspective on the rise of platform engineering and how System Initiative fits into that landscape |
• Discussion of platform engineering and its relationship to DevOps |
• Critique of platform engineering as a solution to fundamental problems in IT |
• Comparison of platform engineering to building a "Start" button for a car |
• System Initiative as a foundational technology that can improve IT outcomes |
• Adam Jacob's skepticism of platform engineering as a significant innovation |
• Prediction that platform engineering will evolve into a new concept |
• Adam Jacob's willingness to pivot and adapt to changing industry trends |
• System Initiative is a customizable tool for automating infrastructure and applications |
• It allows users to write JavaScript code to define assets and behaviors |
• Users can share and contribute their customizations, which are reviewed and integrated into the tool |
• The tool is designed to be "fun" and interactive, allowing users to program and customize it easily |
• The goal is to change the way people approach automation and infrastructure management, making it more creative and effective |
• The tool is compared to Docker Compose and Terraform, but is said to be more like a programmable machine, allowing users to modify its behavior at runtime. |
• Adam Jacob's excitement about a competition or challenge |
• Quote from Gavin Belson: "I look forward to the fight" |
• Adam Jacob's involvement with SystemInit.com and its DevOps platform |
• Giveaway: Adam Jacob offering access to private beta and DMs for listeners of a podcast |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Well, Adam Jacob is back. I'm solo, because I think every time you've been on this podcast we've talked about things happening, or things going on, and not so much about what you've done. |
**Adam Jacob:** That's true. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I mean, you've sprinkled some stuff in there, of course... But never Founder's Talk meets the Changelog meets Changelog & Friends. And that's what this is. This is Changelog & Friends. So friends listening to this, this is a different flavor of Friends, so buckle up. |
**Adam Jacob:** Yeah. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I kind of want to go into your journey a bit. I mean, you've been on the show I think four times directly, a fifth time indirectly, because you were too busy to record, things happened... And that's when Elastic versus AWS happened, and we had to borrow previously recorded stuff that was pertinent..... |
**Adam Jacob:** Yeah. I was even great when I wasn't there. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** There you go. |
**Adam Jacob:** Do I get a jacket? Is it Saturday Night Live? |
**Adam Stacoviak:** We're actually getting some Pied Piper inspired jackets made, the Rat Pack jackets... |
**Adam Jacob:** Love it...! |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Not sure if you're familiar with those, by any chance... |
**Adam Jacob:** I am. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** But I'm looking forward to those very colorful jackets on my back. But Changelog flavor, not Pied Piper. |
**Adam Jacob:** Yeah, obviously. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Silicon Valley reference, just so you know... So Adam, where did things begin? I heard -- tell me if this is true. I heard that you became a system administrator at the age of eight. |
**Adam Jacob:** Well, I mean, that's a bit of a leap. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Okay... So that's not true. |
**Adam Jacob:** I mean, it depends on how we define it. So my mom was a real estate agent, and I'm 46, so I don't know. I'm terrible at arithmetic, so I'm not sure what year it is, in the '80s, the early-ish '80s, you know? |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Your what age again? |
**Adam Jacob:** I'm 46. So it was probably... I don't know. '86, in that general zone. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** I'm one year younger than you, so we're in the same ballpark. |
**Adam Jacob:** Yeah. So anyway, mom was a real estate agent, and PCs were a thing, that you could buy. And so she bought one that had a modem, because she wanted to be able to dial into the MLS... That's the multiple listing service, for people who didn't grow up the children of real estate agents. And it was where al... |
And then I discovered FidoNet. So FidoNet was an early version of email. So there was like PacMail So you could build -- and what was cool about FidoNet was it was basically like a regional network. So what happened is every bulletin board would call a central bulletin board... Or sorry, the opposite way. So the centra... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** That's hilarious. |
**Adam Jacob:** \[07:54\] So the bulletin board would call mine at like two in the morning, the phone, and I had it so the computer would pick up only in that small window... And so every night at two in the morning, the phone would ring once, and wake my father up, and then he'd go back to sleep or whatever. And event... |
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