Scott and Wes talk about how to deal with being overwhelmed with our fast paced industry. How do you keep you and your team's skills up to date?

Wes' Note: Scott came up with the title for this one. I know.

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Show Notes

1:00

• WELCOME
• Scott is 32! Happy Birthday
• Wes Relaunched his React for Beginners course!

4:00

• That feeling
• Being okay with not knowing everything

9:00

• How to wait it out
• When you should jump into a library
• 1.0 of libraries
• Dogfooding

13:00

• Just In Time learning
• Doubling down on the fundamentals

21:00

• What is JAM Stack?

22:00

• Why do you need to stay up to date?
• Moving or Losing Jobs
• Comfy Chairs

25:00

• Hipster Web Developers

27:00

• Someone think of the customers!
• Technical Debt
• Falling in love with web development again
• Constantly challenging yourself

30:00

• Complacency in Web Devleopment
• Motivating Comfortable Web Developers
• You have to stay up to date

32:00

• Working on the weekends
• Real Talk: part of your job is staying up to date
• How to find time to learn on the clock

36:00

• Adding new tech to projects as a way to learn

39:00

• What if your senior developer is holding back progress?
• How to convince your team or boss that you aren't just a hipster and this new tech is worth it
• Show them the why!

47:00

• Okay, I want to stay up to date. How?
• Strong handle on fundamentals
• Twitter
• Twitter
• WebDev Reddit
• NodeJS is Cancer
• Kitze's LOL Tweet
• JavaScript Weekly
• Lunch and Learns
• Meetups

Siiiiiiiick Pixxxx

• Scott: Never Split The Difference

Wes: Containers Podcast

Shameless Plugz

• Scott: Pro Gatsby

Wes: React For Beginners

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