Postmodem

The Postmodem triumvirate is thrilled to feature our first guest appearance - Ed Finkler (@funkatron), host of Development Hell and the creator of the legendary Ham Button. After some brief discussion about the Ham Button economics, we embark on a long and nuanced (Really! Except for the part where we terrify Colin with well-placed Twin Peaks images) discussion of Ed's Open-Sourcing Mental Illness campaign to raise awareness of mental illness in the software development community. We recount our personal struggles with mental illness, how it's affected our careers (both negatively and positively), the coping strategies we've developed to adjust to day-to-day professional and personal life, and the hell-on-earth that is junior high. We then cap the episode off with the requisite discussion of rap, covering the brilliance of Ice-T's music (and his Twitter feed).