Episode Summary

Hey, everyone! This is Jag Talon and you’re listening to Friends Talk Frontend. Today we interview Lara Hogan who is the VP of engineering at Kickstarter and the author of three books: Designing for Performance, Building a device lab, and Demystifying Public Speaking.

Episode Notes

Hey, everyone! This is Jag Talon and you’re listening to Friends Talk Frontend. Today we interview Lara Hogan who is the VP of engineering at Kickstarter and the author of three books: Designing for Performance, Building a device lab, and Demystifying Public Speaking.

• The importance of donuts
• Peter Pan Donuts
• Federal Donuts
• Val Head (I also have an episode with her!)
• Designing for Performance
• Designing for Performance presentation + necklace
• Codenewbies podcast: Why is my website slow
• Building a device lab
• Demystifying public speaking
• Tufted coquette
• Tracking compensation and promotion inequity
• Measuring progress
• Open Source Survey

About the Show

Welcome to Friends Talk Frontend! It’s where we talk to amazing people about their habits, how they got to where they are now, and what their day-to-day life is like.