Thinking about the American Dream

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This past week, we had Dan Faltyn on the podcast. Dan currently works for Google, and has worked in the computer and IT field since 1999, spending 20-plus years working for banking firms on Wall Street.

Dan said he began his career as “Joe Programmer,” before eventually finding his way into computer security.

My father worked as a programmer for IBM. He w…