Neurodiversity as an Advantage with Wesley Faulkner

Wesley Faulkner is a developer advocate at Daily, makers of a real-time video API for developers. He’s also a board member at The Experience Firm. Previously, Wesley worked as a technical community manager at MongoDB, a developer relations advocate at IBM, and a product development engineer at AMD, among other positions. He also ran social media at Atlassian. A resident of Austin, Texas, Wesley has served on the Interactive Advisory Board for SXSW for more than a decade. Join Corey and Wesley as they talk about how companies that can afford to buy vowels are hard to Google, the problems Daily is solving around video, how Wesley ran unsuccessfully for office in Austin, how South by Southwest has evolved over the years and how Wesley can’t wait to meet people face-to-face once the pandemic is over, how Wesley is interested in neurodiversity and what that means, the importance of accessibility and the hidden benefits of posting transcripts with podcasts, how to get over the awkwardness of networking, the importance of thinking about long-term relationships instead of short-term transactions, and more.