ThePrimeagen (aka Michael Paulson) is a programmer who has educated, entertained, and inspired millions of people to build software and have fun doing it.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) &#8211; Introduction
(10:27) &#8211; Love for programming
(20:00) &#8211; Hardest part of programming
(22:16) &#8211; Types of programming
(29:54) &#8211; Life story
(39:58) &#8211; Hardship
(41:29) &#8211; High school
(47:15) &#8211; Porn addiction
(57:01) &#8211; God
(1:12:44) &#8211; Perseverance
(1:22:40) &#8211; Netflix
(1:35:08) &#8211; Groovy
(1:40:13) &#8211; Printf() debugging
(1:46:35) &#8211; Falcor
(1:56:05) &#8211; Breaking production
(1:58:49) &#8211; Pieter Levels
(2:03:19) &#8211; Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube infrastructure
(2:15:22) &#8211; ThePrimeagen origin story
(2:30:37) &#8211; Learning programming languages
(2:39:40) &#8211; Best programming languages in 2025
(2:44:35) &#8211; Python
(2:45:15) &#8211; HTML & CSS
(2:46:05) &#8211; Bash
(2:46:45) &#8211; FFmpeg
(2:53:28) &#8211; Performance
(2:56:00) &#8211; Rust
(3:00:48) &#8211; Epic projects
(3:14:12) &#8211; Asserts
(3:23:26) &#8211; ADHD
(3:31:34) &#8211; Productivity
(3:35:58) &#8211; Programming setup
(4:11:28) &#8211; Coffee
(4:18:32) &#8211; Programming with AI
(5:01:16) &#8211; Advice for young programmers
(5:12:48) &#8211; Reddit questions
(5:20:20) &#8211; God
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