This week, Nic discusses inclusion issues in tech and the importance of opening the doors for disabled people to belong and contribute.

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This week, Nic opens up about burnout, and shares a little about how the Fall mentorship is going.

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Burnout: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/the-12-stages-of-burnout-according-to-psychologist.html

Nic talks a little bit about interviewing, the mentorship program (yay!), and accessibility. He also left his microphone on the conference setting, so the audio sounds like crap. Don't at me!

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“More than zero.” - https://twitter.com/feather/status/1154361593385377799?s=20

Nic talks mentorship, Twitter's Apprenticeship Program, and Systems Design.

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Recos:

Twitter Engineering Apprenticeship Program: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/engapprenticeshipprogram.html

xkcd gets me: https://xkcd.com/1425/

The one where Nic shares his greatest fear: people knowing that he's not the smartest man alive.

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In this episode, Nic chats with Bas Thomas about Accessibility, Comcast and sketchy privacy practices, mentoring, and best practices with optionals and documentation. 

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In this episode, Nic gives an update on the mentorship program and reflects on some feedback from the last episode. We also talk about how Zoom is sketchy, and about how and why to go about building your first app for the App Store.

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In this episode, Nic discusses an exciting new mentorship program he is starting (link below), and gives some tips on how to get into your first engineering internship. We go over some tips on how to get Them Skillz™, some warnings about interviewing, and encouragement on networking.

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Recos:

• www.leetcode.com

• www.hackerrank.com

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

- M. Scott Peck

In this inaugural episode, Nic will take some time to discuss the purpose of this podcast, initial thoughts around WWDC, and where we go from here.