web01.fireside.fm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:31:03 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Hobby Horse - Episodes Tagged with “Keyboard” https://the.hobbyhorse.club/tags/keyboard Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:00:00 -0700 Interviews with notable people talking about something they're not normally known for, or outside their normal purview, how they got into it and what they love most about it. Any sort of hobby, side-gig, or obsession is fair game. en-us episodic Interviews that go elsewhere Matt Haughey Interviews with notable people talking about something they're not normally known for, or outside their normal purview, how they got into it and what they love most about it. Any sort of hobby, side-gig, or obsession is fair game. yes Matt Haughey mathowie@gmail.com Episode 10: Marcin Wichary quit his job for his love of keyboards https://the.hobbyhorse.club/10 7ea10864-ac2a-4f6c-80e0-858597aa6188 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:00:00 -0700 Matt Haughey full Matt Haughey Our first "success story" (that is still in progress) where Marcin's hobby became so important he quit his job to pursue writing full-time, to write his first book about the history of typewriters and keyboards. 1:08:27 yes typewriter-museum https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/9ni5X0kQ.jpg Marcin Wichary (MAR-cheen ve-HAR-ay) is a brilliant writer, coder, and speaker famous for going deep on everything he does. We discuss his entire history from college through joining Google, to creating the famous playable Pac-Mac google doodle, to joining Medium, and ultimately becoming so obsessed with typewriters and keyboards he took a sabbatical from work to begin writing a book, then he never looked back. The first draft of his book is done and now he's in the editing and publishing phase, hoping to release it next year. typewriter-museum

Marcin Wichary (MAR-cheen ve-HAR-ay) is a brilliant writer, coder, and speaker famous for going deep on everything he does. We discuss his entire history from college through joining Google, to creating the famous playable Pac-Mac google doodle, to joining Medium, and ultimately becoming so obsessed with typewriters and keyboards he took a sabbatical from work to begin writing a book, then he never looked back. The first draft of his book is done and now he's in the editing and publishing phase, hoping to release it next year.

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Marcin Wichary (MAR-cheen ve-HAR-ay) is a brilliant writer, coder, and speaker famous for going deep on everything he does. We discuss his entire history from college through joining Google, to creating the famous playable Pac-Mac google doodle, to joining Medium, and ultimately becoming so obsessed with typewriters and keyboards he took a sabbatical from work to begin writing a book, then he never looked back. The first draft of his book is done and now he's in the editing and publishing phase, hoping to release it next year.

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