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When I was first learning Go last year, Penn mentioned on his podcast that he had a friend Rob who worked at Google.

I realized that he was talking about Rob Pike who helped create Go. Truly felt like a "small world" moment.




Penn has mentioned a few times on his podcast that him and Rob Pike are good friends from way back, and has shared several anecdotes.

One I remember and found funny was that one time Penn saw Rob talking to someone, and Rob asked for their phone number. From Penn’s vantage point he sees Rob pick a pen and paper and mimics writing the phone number, but doesn’t write anything at all. When he questions Rob about it he says something to the effect of “Oh, I can just memorize a phone number without a problem, but if I say that out loud they’ll think I’m blowing them off or I’m not really interested in the number, so it’s easier to just fake write it”.




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