Summary: <br> Scott is a Tech VP in Medical Education. He is the author of <a href="https://amzn.to/2LhXNMo">"The Programmer Hiring Playbook: A Crash Course in Interviewing and Hiring for Your Real-World Needs,"</a> and he is also the founder and curator of LearnLeadership.org. <br> <br> <br> <br> The world puts unrealistic demands on your time.<br> Do you have the skills to manage your time well?<br> <br> Scott Drake - 01:06 - I got started back in the mid-90s, kind of, kind of sideways. I kind of backed into it. I was um, working for the student newspaper of the University of Kentucky as a subpar graphic designer and a sometimes writer. Uh, it was not a very good graphic designer, but the uh, advisor approached me and said, hey, check out what Tennessee is doing with their newspaper. They just put a version of it on this thing called The Web and I didn't know anyone that was and so I bought the one book I could find the handyman to do with, it was a book on Mosaic, web browser, Mosaic and over Christmas break taught myself how to do html and came back in mid-January, built the site for The Kentucky Kernel which is the student's paper there, and quickly got tired of manually producing sites. <br> <br> Scott Drake - 01:45 - So I started, you know, writing code to, to convert content from newspaper, from QuarkXPress the program we're using and to html. And so that kinda got me into programming and then it just kind of snowballs from there. I just kind of rode the wave, the wave of the web as it kind of started there in the mid-90s and in, you know, crashed out in the. I guess it really hasn't really stopped in that point. But uh, so yeah, I kinda came into, came at it from sideways that don't have any formal training just so I've kind of learned as I've gone along.<br> <br> Jon Ash - 02:16 - So what do you do today?<br> <br> Scott Drake - 02:18 - About two years ago, I joined a company called ScholarRx, uh, we build software tools for medical students um mostly medical students that are preparing for their boards, which is a very stressful time for med students. They had a, they'd been in business for about eight years with their software product that had kind of gotten to a point where the, the team they have of contractors working on that just wasn't the greatest need. And so they brought me in. They said, building a team, building a team that can build this product better. And uh, so over the last, the first year I built out a team of about now 12 people and we've rebuilt the entire platform in the last week, last I don't know. We started launching in about six months ago when it finally fully got it done. So, so now I, I'm not on anymore. When I took this job I said you can be hands on or used to be hands off. And I said, I think it sounds a step back and let some other people a deal with the next javascript framework. <br> <br> Scott Drake - 03:10 - So, um, so, uh, pretty well stayed instead of stepped back, stepped up, totally leadership role at this point.<br> <br> Jon Ash - 03:18 - So, so how have you enjoyed that transition?<br> <br> Scott Drake - 03:21 - So for me, I enjoyed a lot because I've always been kind of a tech nerd and a business nerd and a leadership nerd. I kind of like all of those disciplines, so I like to build things. So that's a, that's a great fit for software people, you know, I enjoyed building software and writing code for so long, so I'd like to build things but to also enjoy building teams and I enjoy building organizations and building companies. So to me it's this year kind of exercising the same mental muscles, you just using different tools and different technologies but you're still building things and that's what I get out of bed everyday to do this, is to do that. So I enjoy it a lot. It's people is challenging, but you know, in general, I enjoy it a lot.<br> <br> John Callaway - 03:58 - You kind of have a,
