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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*SMALL CORRECTION NOTE:*
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*OUTLINE:*
0:00 – Introduction
0:42 – Love for programming
10:15 – Hardest part of programming
12:31 – Types of programming
20:08 – Life story
30:12 – Hardship
31:44 – High school
37:30 – Porn addiction
47:16 – God
1:02:59 – Perseverance
1:12:55 – Netflix
1:25:23 – Groovy
1:30:27 – Printf() debugging
1:36:49 – Falcor
1:46:19 – Breaking production
1:49:04 – Pieter Levels
1:53:34 – Netflix, Twitch, and YouTube infrastructure
2:05:36 – ThePrimeagen origin story
2:20:52 – Learning programming languages
2:29:55 – Best programming languages in 2025
2:34:50 – Python
2:35:30 – HTML & CSS
2:36:20 – Bash
2:37:00 – FFmpeg
2:43:42 – Performance
2:46:15 – Rust
2:51:03 – Epic projects
3:04:27 – Asserts
3:13:41 – ADHD
3:21:49 – Productivity
3:26:13 – Programming setup
4:01:43 – Coffee
4:08:47 – Programming with AI
4:51:31 – Advice for young programmers
5:03:03 – Reddit questions
5:10:35 – God
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