Develop Yourself

If you've been following along with Peter and Aaron's monthly update episodes, then you're probably aware that Peter left full-time software engineering last year to pursue freelance contracts and working on his own products.

In this episode, Peter reflects on one year of self-employment and shares his key takeaways for anyone interested in pursuing a similar arrangement. 

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Will Sanders is the founder of “Recruiting from Scratch”, a talent firm that specialized in placing software engineers in “Series A” and “Series B” startups. In this episode, Will and Aaron talk about the shifting landscape of tech, the current economy, and how to quickly rebound from a layoff.

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Communication is an underrated but essential skill for software engineers because most software development is done in a team environment. 
 
In this episode, Peter talks about the three types of communication that you'll encounter as a developer, and how to approach them so that you and your team will be more effective.

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The #1 thing that is preventing you from learning to code is your inability to focus.

Join us in this episode of Develop Yourself as we walk through proven, practical strategies you can implement immediately to kill the distractions and actually make progress toward becoming a software engineer.

For free downloadable templates from this Podcast, visit: parsity.io/links/focus

For our free course, “How to Focus When Learning to Code”, visit: parsity.io/focus

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In their monthly catch up, Aaron and Peter discuss:

• Layoffs and our updated thoughts around bootcamp grads, the tech economy and job search.
• How we each think uniquely about money, work and our careers (or lack of).
• How we’re each doing in our 2023 goals of starting side hustles, etc.

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Building your own projects is the best way to learn new technologies, and it also happens to be a great way to prove to employers that you have engineering skills. 
 
In this episode, Peter talks about four project ideas that will make strong portfolio pieces to help you get hired. 

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We mention often that the best coding bootcamp students embrace the process of learning to code over the results of their code. Now, we have a mental model and data to back up our advice. 
 
In this episode, Peter talks about YouTuber Mark Rober's experiment on how framing the learning process has a direct impact on the results of that learning. We'll discuss Mark's mental model for this framing - "The Super Mario Effect" - and what effect gamification can have on your skill acquisition. 

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My people don’t keep their New Years resolutions. Instead, let’s set massive goals for 2023 that we actually achieve, and let’s achieve them together.

Scott Frazier is here to talk with us about “90 Days of Action” - a small community of achievers who are committed to helping one another take massive action toward their goals for 90 days from Jan 16 to April 16 in 2023.

We’ll talk about why most people fail to achieve their goals and instead suggest a system that actually works.

Finally, we’ll invite you to join us on our own journey. We created 90 Days of Action because WE (Scott and Aaron) have massive goals we want to achieve in January - we just figured we’d have a better chance at doing it if more people joined us.

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We talk a lot about how to become a software engineer in terms of your skills. Today, we focus on navigating the process of actually securing a job.
 
In this episode, Peter talks about how to handle job offer negotiations. Some tactics and ideas are specific to all job hunting, and some are specific to engineering – we'll touch on both. We get into researching salaries, talking to recruiters, asking for what you want, and more.
 
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In their monthly catch up, Aaron and Peter discuss:

• The demise of Aaron’s business, devMint
• The current state of the economy and bootcamp grads
• Planning goals for 2023 and how to take action instead of always “learning”

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