dan coppell is a former executive editor at the new york times wire cutter turkeys written for national publications including wired, outside national geographic and the atlantic and is won an award for student writing. he's also recipient of national geographic explores grant and has screenwriting classes include star trek the next generation of the office book banana, the fate of fruit the change the world. this might be the most eclectic resume of any author we've had at any venue for long philip reeker lives in portland, maine, with his wife, the writer kate thompson and their two young boys. dan and rob thank you so much for being here. rob you mentioned you came straight from a ship so thank you so much for squeezing as in for this evening. i could not put this book down. i was peaking at in between customers all the work. i left the store and came out and just plopped myself on the couch and finished it. it is really incredible and it's not the book i expected about, about code. we discussed this a little bit earlier but it is completely nonpolitical. it's just what you were sayi

coppell and rob meyer. i am just going to give a quick introduction to the authors and then we will dive right into the conversation here. if anyone has questions throughout the course of the event you can ask them right in

coppell and rob meyer. i am just going to give a quick introduction to the authors and then we will dive right into the conversation here. if anyone has questions throughout the course of the event you can ask them right in the chatfield and i will field of those for dan and rob a little bit later on and i'll also add the link to purchase the book right there in the chat for anyone who hasn't already purchased it. we did sell out of our first batch but we will have, we had more on the way already, and for anyone who is not able to sit to the entire event this evening we are recording this and will make it available as well. so quick introduction to rob and dan. robert meyer has been emergency-room doctor for over 25 years spent most of his career at the medical center in the bronx. new york city's most visited one of the nation's five busiest. he's an associate professor of emergency medicine at the albert einstein college of medicine and grew up in queens and lives in hartsdale new york with his wife janic