Foojay Podcast #87: The Human Side of Development: Career Growth, Staying Healthy, and Why People Matter More Than AI
- December 22, 2025
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What if work-life balance is a myth, and the real secret is just... life?
In this Foojay Podcast we're stepping away from pure code and diving into something equally important: how we live our lives as developers. Because let's be honest, being a great programmer isn't just about mastering Java or the latest framework. It's about managing your career, your health, your family, and finding purpose in all of it.
Four incredible guests are all tackling different pieces of this puzzle. First up, Bruno Souza, the Brazilian Java Man, He is back to challenge our thinking about work-life balance and share his philosophy on taking control of your career. Then Patricia Lenten talks about the real challenges of hacking parenting while being an engineer, and how we can inspire the next generation of developers. Georgios Diamantopoulos brings the hard data on why sitting is literally killing us and what we can actually do about it. And finally, April Schuppel shares lessons from Apryse's journey through 15 acquisitions in five years—and why people, not AI, are still the most important part of building great products.
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Content
00:00 Introduction of topic and guests
01:20 Bruno Souza
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/brjavaman/
- Grow your career podcast: https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-72/
- Bruno's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@brjavaman
- Work-life balance doesn't exist, we only have life
12:52 Patricia Lenten
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricialenten/
- Hacking your parenting
- Technology is fun
18:37 Georgios Diamantopoulos
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiosd/
- Staying Healthy
- The importance of getting out of your chair
- https://stateofhealth.tech/
22:58 April Schuppel
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilschuppel/
- Pull, Push, and Merge: Lessons from a Journey of Growth Through Acquisitions
- The people are the most crucial part to build a team, product, and company
30:26 Outro
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Frank Delporte is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and Pi4J Contributor. Frank blogs about his experiments with Java and JavaFX, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.
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