Career Chats with Swyx and Randall

Be Uncomfortable


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Embrace the uncomfortable, in order to grow. https://sive.rs/uncomf

How do you get the energy to force yourself to get through the uncomfortable?

- Does Homeschooling help you be more self directed?
- No Zero Days: https://medium.com/hackernoon/no-zero-days-my-path-from-code-newbie-to-full-stack-developer-in-12-months-214122a8948f
- The Resistance (from War of Art): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_(creativity)
- The One Thing: https://www.the1thing.com/

What's something good that has come out of you forcing yourself to be uncomfortable?

- Learning Babel -> Learning ASTs generically useful skill
- Babel Plugin Handbook
- "Welcome to the Suck" https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7zgd4
- "The biggest growth is when you feel the most uncomfortable"
- https://consensys.net/academy/
- Hands-On Smart Contract Development with Solidity and Ethereum: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-smart-contract/9781492045250/
- TruffleCon 2018: React + Truffle + IPFS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5ebt4NNvPQ


CALL TO ACTION

What's just out of your comfort zone right now, and how can you make yourself get through it rather than avoid it?

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