Developing Fatigue

Our hosts discuss yet another book by Cal Newport, "So Good They Can't Ignore You". In this book, Cal Newport challenges the idea of "follow your passion" for work that you should do by calling this the "Passion Hypothesis". Kris, Toran, and Brandon discuss this and the other major points of the book, Career Capital and Deliberate practice as they reflect on their career journeys thus far. They also dream about the future and how what they learned from this book could help level up in their career.

References

So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Test Driven Development by Example (EMBERCONF 2015)

Project Euler

CodeWars.com (code kata)

Dotfiles by Jarrod Taylor

vim

vscode

Redux in Action

Training from the back of the room

Jenny Tarwater (Trainer)

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Inspired by a blog post from earlier this year that stated learning is hard, we discuss our different styles of learning. We also discuss learning from the other side where we are helping other people to learn and how we teach and coach. We move on to explore the difference between “Just in time learning” vs “Just in case learning”? How the difference between these two can help people new to technology utilize these ways of learning to relieve the pressure of “keeping up”.

References

Tim Ferriss - how to consume information

Shop Talk panel on inline styles

functional css

GatsbyJS

React

EmberJS

Ansible

Docker

Elixir

td-agent

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In this episode Brandon, Kris, and Toran chat about the topic of deep work inspired by the book “Deep Work” by Cal Newport. We talk about what distractions look like and how we can better engage in deep work to provide the most value to our teams and organizations.

References

Deep Work by Cal Newport

The Model Health Show - Deep Work (podcast)

Own the day, own your life

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We discuss culture and define what it is and what it is not. How do we create, maintain, enhance the culture. We cover the concept of shared values and practical tips for working towards an awesome productive culture.

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This week we cover the different forms of mentorship where we have been the mentor and the mentee. There is not a one-size-fits-all solution to mentoring. What does a successful mentoring session look like? The mentoring session is not a one way flow of information and both parties should be contributing to enhance the learning.

References

ember-cli-hot-loader

Terraform

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In this episode, we discuss how you progress through your career as a developer. Do you pursue path of developer to senior developer to manager? Is this the only way to “level up” in your career? We challenge this in your journey as a developer and what it means to be a “T” shaped person and how leveling up is not all about the hard skills.

References

Melanie Sumner

Soft Skills (book by John Sonmez)

8 Part Accessibility Blog Series (by Kris)

Let's Choose Kaizen Instead Of "The Rewrite" (talk by Brandon)

Over Mocking, Under Delivering (talk proposal by Toran)

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This week we discuss the origin story of the podcast. Kris and Brandon share how they came to know Toran and what trouble has come of it since. Along the way, Toran genuinely highlights the unique characteristics of both Brandon and Kris that convinced him this trio had something special to offer.

References

Kris Van Houten on twitter

Brandon Williams on twitter

Toran Billups on twitter

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This week we discuss the origin story of the podcast. Kris and Brandon share how they came to know Toran and what trouble has come of it since. Along the way, Toran genuinely highlights the unique characteristics of both Brandon and Kris that convinced him this trio had something special to offer.

References

Kris Van Houten on twitter

Brandon Williams on twitter

Toran Billups on twitter

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