Summary: <p>In this week's Podcast co-host Kevin Garber talks with Anil Dash: CEO of Fog Creek Software.</p> <p>Anil was once described in a Quora article as " ... the Obama of tech ...". Anil also serves on the board of a range of companies and non-profits. He regularly advocates for a more humane, inclusive and ethical technology industry. Anil has been described as a “blogging pioneer” by the New Yorker, and he’s been blogging continuously since 1999. Anil was also an advisor to the Obama Administration's Office of Digital Strategy.</p> <p>Some of the topics that we covered during our chat with Anil include: - A comparison between the technology scenes in San Francisco and New York. - Technology's place in society as an enabler of good and bad social outcomes. - The requirement for large and powerful technology companies to act responsibly as stewards of society. - The importance of building the right ethical choices into technology platforms. - Challenges created by the limited technical literacy of elected US officials. - Anil's experience as advisor to the Obama Administration's Office of Digital Strategy. - The two step process of taking labour out of an industry: centralise and optimise a market, then automate it. - The genesis and evolution of the Trello project management tool. - The benefits and downsides of a remote technical team. - Fog Creek Software's latest product - Gomix - allowing you to build apps and bots quickly within a friendly social context. - The connection between the ethical and diversity failings of the technology industry.</p> <p>This Week in the Tech News: - Snap Inc. (Snapchat) make their debut on the New York Stock Exchange. </p>
