Developer On Fire

Guest: @ Cory House talks with Dave Rael about productivity, decision fatigue, speaking, biting off more than you can chew, and general shop talk Cory is an independent consultant specializing in front-end development and clean coding practices. He is a Microsoft MVP, and author of multiple Pluralsight courses. Cory is founder of OutlierDeveloper.com, a career oriented blog for developers who aspire to be exceptional. He speaks internationally at conferences like NDC, Fluent, and Codemash. Cory blogs at bitnative.com and tweets about software development on Twitter as @housecor. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Cory House - Cory's conference schedule - Cory's morning routine - Brain food breakfast - The virtue of pressure to get things done and biting off more than you can chew - Finding out what is on the other side of fear - Having honest conversations with potential consequences (including a book recommendation) - Cory and blogging and Medium and Twitter and sharing ideas - Reusing content in different places - Balancing a heavy conference schedule with a full time job - Getting accepted into conferences - Spending time with quality people - Advice for speakers - Interactivity in talks - Rewards and passions and getting good at something (including a book recommendation) - How long should you stay in a job? - Different positions and different foci - specialization vs generalization - Keeping up with Cory Resources: Cory's First Appearance on Developer On Fire Cory on Medium Cory's Pluralsight Author Page NDC Oslo Jennifer Marsman Nik Molnar on Developer On Fire The Tim Ferriss Show The MacGyver Method Steven Kotler on Tripp Lanier's The New Man Podcast Decision Fatigue Nutribullet Pro 900 Bulletproof Coffee Cory's Course on React and Redux in ES6 Jamie Foxx on the Tim Ferriss Show The Jamie Foxx Quote Cory Referenced Transcribed with a Link to the Tim Ferriss Show Podcast Episode Briefs Kent C. Dodds Amitai Schlair on Developer On Fire Agile in 3 Minutes Matthew Renze Rob Eisenberg on Developer On Fire Jeremy Clark on Developer On Fire The Kansas City Developer Conference Steve Jobs on Loving What You Do Avdi Grimm on Developer On Fire The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne John Sonmez on Developer On Fire Cory's book recommendation: Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition - Kerry Patterson So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love - Cal Newport

Guest: Billy Hollis @billyhollis Billy Hollis talks with Dave Rael about relationships with technology, focusing on users, user experience design, and escaping invisible cages Billy Hollis is a software designer, developer, author, and trainer. He and his team have designed and created applications with an international reputation for advanced user experiences. Billy has a contrarian streak that often challenges conventional wisdom in the industry. He speaks frequently at major conferences, usually doing sessions to help developers to become more focused on designing and developing software that users love. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Billy Hollis - Emphasis on the user - Billy's relationship with Microsoft - Billy's joy with XAML - The things that "light Billy up" - Advice to newer coders for applying Billy's lessons from having learned from different eras of computing and focusing on users - How Billy stays current with what he needs to know - How developers can learn to how to understand users better - Empathizing with users who use computing differently than the programmer - User experience design - The things that have Billy most excited - Billy's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Billy Resources: Next Version Systems Billy on .NET Rocks! on XAML XAML Build 2015 Nik Molnar on Developer On Fire Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone - "The Wand Chooses The Wizard" Why Software Sucks...and What You Can Do About It - David S. Platt Billy's Pluralsight Design Course: Creating User Experiences: Fundamental Design Principles Alan Cooper on Developer On Fire Alan Cooper on personas The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity - Alan Cooper Syncfusion Billy Hollis - Creating User Experiences: Unlocking the Invisible Cage Billy and Elevator Panels The Nielsen Norman Group Billy's book recommendation: Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design - William Lidwell Usability Engineering - Jakob Nielsen The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition - Don Norman Billy's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Listen to the user and usnderstand their job Learn to draw Conciously understand good and bad user experience

Guest: Jonathan Stark @jonathanstark Jonathan Stark talks with Dave Rael about climbing the chain of value, embracing humanity, and the problems inherent in hourly billing Jonathan helps consumer brands thrive in the post-PC era. Jonathan is the author of three books on mobile and web development, most notably O’Reilly’s Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript which is available in seven languages. His Jonathan’s Card experiment made international headlines by combining mobile payments with social giving to create a “pay it forward” coffee movement at Starbucks locations all over the U.S. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Jonathan Stark - The Post-PC Era and the draw of mobility - Being a developer, manager, chasing hours, and fixed bids - Risk in software projects for freelancers and pricing models - Jonathan's big shift in how to approach proposals - How Jonathan got started in software - Jonathan's music career - Jonathan's stories of failure - having to give back payment for a dysfunctional situation and a project going longer than expected - Jonathan's success story - good will and notoriety from what began as sharing coffee with blog readers and became a huge story of sharing and community - Jonathan's thoughts on having "made it" - Jonathan's mission: rid the earth of hourly billing - Jonathan's family - How Jonathan stays current with what he needs to know - Jonathan's book recommendation - The things that have Jonathan most excited - The things that cause Jonathan pain and suffering - Jonathan's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Jonathan Resources: Jonathan's Resource Page for Developer On Fire Listeners Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa - Jonathan Stark Dan North on .NET Rocks! - Articulated Surgeon Who Says You Don't Need Surgery (starting at 46:10) Uncle Bob Martin on Developer On Fire Jonathan is a Regular Panelist on the Freelancers' Show Jonathan's book recommendation: Value-Based Fees: How to Charge - and Get - What You're Worth - Alan Weiss Jonathan's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Try to talk the potential client out of hiring you Define metrics for measuring progress against the goal that matters to the client Increase your authority for something specific

Guest: Sam Nasr @SamNasr Sam Nasr talks with Dave Rael about positively working with clients, the benefits of running user groups, pitfalls of dealing with humans, and spaced repetition to overcome fear Sam Nasr has been a software developer since 1995, focusing mostly on Microsoft technologies. Having achieved multiple certifications from Microsoft (MCAD, MCTS, and MCT), Sam develops, teaches, and tours the country to present various topics in .Net. He's involved with the Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group, where he has been the group leader since 2003. In addition, he's the leader of the .Net Study Group, an author for Visual Studio Magazine, and a Microsoft MVP since 2013. When not coding, Sam loves spending time with his family and friends or volunteering at his local church. He can be reached by email at sam@nasr.info. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Sam Nasr - Sam's user group involvement - Becoming a group leader and starting groups - Getting more comfortable with being in front of a group - Sam's daily life - Sam and productivity - The things that "light Sam up" - How Sam got started in software - Sam's stories of failure - ingenuous management and organizations, unreasonable interactions - Sam's success story - positive feedback from a respected mentor - How Sam stays current with what he needs to know - Being a leader of a user group vs attendee - Sam's book recommendation - The value of certification - The things that have Sam most excited - Sam's sources of pain and suffering - The things about which Sam likes to geek out - Sam's prediction for the future of software - Sam's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Sam Resources: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group A Search For Sam's Article's on Visual Studio Magazine Tom Preston-Werner's Blog Post Sharing the Story of GitHub Scott Nimrod on Developer On Fire Doc Norton on .NET Rocks! Doc Norton on Developer On Fire Azure Cognitive Services Jennifer Marsman Jennifer Marsman - Machine Learning at Build Jack: Straight from the Gut - Jack Welch MSDN Magazine Sam's book recommendation: Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 (Expert's Voice in ASP.Net) - Adam Freeman Sam's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Look at the problem from different angles Pay attention to details Strongly embrace the client's goals

Guest: John De Goes @jdegoes John De Goes talks with Dave Rael about exploring approaches to programming, being open to new ideas, and the importance of empathetic communication John A De Goes is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and long-time software architect and engineer. He loves startups, technology, science, software engineering, fitness, and his family. In addition to his consulting business, he's currently CTO at SlamData, a company building cool open source software for NoSQL analytics. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and John A. De Goes - John's background in mathematics - The origin of John's interest in functional programming - John's community engagement - meetups and conferences - Introversion, facing fears, and getting engaged - John's experience with experiencing vitriol in the midst of controvery - The things that "light John up" - John's story of failure - unnecessary complexity and building without feedback - John's success story - Confident shipping and a system that does not fail - John's thoughts on having "made it" - How John stays current with what he needs to know - John's book recommendation - The things that have John most excited - John's sources of pain and suffering - The things about which John likes to geek out - John's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with John Resources: John's Blog John on LinkedIn LambdaConf Fantasyland Institute of Learning John's Final Statement on the LambdaConf Controversy John's Blog Post Describing the LambdaConf Controversy and the Approach of the Organizers Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7) - J. K. Rowling The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Quasar - Native NoSQL Analytics Engine Bryan Hunter on Developer On Fire the Changelog #198: Haskell Programming with Chris Allen and Julie Moronuki Dependent Type Refinement Types John's book recommendation: Haskell Programming from first principles - Chris Allen, Julie Moronuki John's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Practice empathy Enhance communication Have an open mind and be open to learning new things

Guest: Nick Gauthier @ngauthier Nick Gauthier talks with Dave Rael about determining why you're doing something, focusing on users and customers, and getting joy from what you build Nick Gauthier is a web developer who started in Rails, dabbled in JavaScript, loves databases, and recently started working in Go. His experience is mostly in consulting, freelancing, and training, but he's worked at a couple of startups and started a few companies of his own, too. Outside of software Nick enjoys the company of cats, coffee, and competitive video games. Chapters: - Nick's focus in studying computer science and the joy of games - Nick's definition of value - The things that "light Nick up" - How Nick got started in software - Building computers - Nick's story of failure - finding himself in a position that was not a good fit - blaming self - Lessons and advice on determining if a position is a good fit - Nick's success story - using customer-focused acceptance tests to guide and inform a migration to a better architecture - How Nick stays current with what he needs to know - Advice on how to approach selling new approaches - Nick's book recommendation - The things that have Nick most excited - Nick's sources of pain and suffering - Nick's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Nick Resources: Nick's Blog The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) - Frederick P. Brooks Jr. The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist - Frederick P. Brooks Jr. The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer F*** You, I Quit — Hiring Is Broken iring is Broken… And It Isn’t Worth Fixing Derek Sivers - No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no. Matt Wynne on Developer on Fire Aslak Hellesøy on Developer on Fire Nick's book recommendation: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Eliyahu M. Goldratt The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win - Gene Kim Nick's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Make sure you have evidence that what you're delivering actually matters to your customer Get the timing and messaging and communication right Make sure you're managing yourself

Guest: Josh Earl @josh_earl Josh Earl talks with Dave Rael about diverse interests, programming and marketing, why email courses are awesome, and a bumpy and circuitous path Josh Earl is a copywriter, email marketer and programmer. He currently specializes in writing email courses and is leading effort at Simple Programmer. He's the author of two self-published books for programmers. He has also written articles for national publications including The Washington Times and Writer’s Digest and his blog posts have been featured on major sites like Entrepreneur.com, Smart Passive Income, LifeHacker and SitePoint. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Josh Earl - Josh's relationship and progression with writing - Josh's story of enjoying Sublime Text, commitment to blogging - The genesis of Josh's interest in email marketing - Diverse interests and 80% mastery - Josh and John Somnez and Simple Programmer - The bumpy road to where Josh is now - Josh Earl: the email copywriter for programmers - Josh's definition of value - Josh's story of failure - making the wrong impression in a community - Josh's success story - Growing Simple Programmer and seeing results from his efforts - How Josh stays current with what he needs to know - Josh's Book Recommendation - The things that have Josh most excited - The nature of email courses - Josh's sources of pain and suffering - Josh's prediction for the future of software - Josh's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Josh Resources: Josh's Website and Blog Entreprogrammers - The Podcast for Developerneurs Sublime Text Leanpub Josh on Leadpub Peter Cooper Linda Rising on Developer On Fire Simple Programmer John Sonmez on Developer On Fire Josh on entrepreneur.com Derick Bailey Derick Bailey's: The Rules For Mastering JavaScript’s “this” Course Derick Bailey on Developer On Fire Josh on Smart Passive Income Infusionsoft How to Market Yourself As a Software Developer Pinal Dave on Developer On Fire Charles Max Wood on Developer On Fire Josh's Email Courses Product Josh's book recommendation: 80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More - Perry Marshall Josh's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Understand who you are talking to and what their pain points are Don't try to automate everything before you observe real people using your stuff Be entertaining

Guest: Reid Evans @ReidNEvans Reid Evans talks with Dave Rael about balancing family and work, finding joy in functional programming, recognizing function in object-oriented approaches, and delivering on the right problem Reid Evans is a functional programming advocate, founder of FunctionalKnox, and enjoys presenting at conferences across the US on functional topics. He has been in the IT industry since 2003 in roles from software support through lead development, project management, systems analysis, and executive level management in a variety of languages, paradigms, and development platforms. He is a father to two beautiful children and husband to a wonderful wife. Currently he is a Senior Developer at The Tombras Group in Knoxville, TN. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Reid Evans - Reid's interest in and focus on functional programming - Balancing traveling to conferences and family needs - Reid's definition of value - Reid's introduction to F# and selling it to his organization - The things that "light Reid up" - How Reid got started in software - Reid's approach to exposing his kids to matters technical and other things - Reid's story of failure - delivering exactly what was requested when it was exactly the wrong thing to do - Reid's success story - first family, then delivering on exactly what users needed and delighting, sharing the product at a conference to rave reviews - Reid's thoughts on having "made it" - How Reid stays current with what he needs to know - Reid's book recommendation - The things that have Reid most excited - Reid's sources of pain and suffering - The things Reid likes to geek out about - Reid's prediction for the future of software - Reid's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Reid Resources: Reid's Blog FunctionalKnox Uncle Bob Martin on SOLID Uncle Bob Martin on Developer On Fire Rachel Reese on Developer On Fire Derek Comartin on Developer On Fire Cory House on Developer On Fire Scott Wlaschin on Developer On Fire TI-81 Agile Manifesto Bryan Hunter - Lean and Functional Programming - NDC Olso 2015 Bryan Hunter on Developer On Fire LambdaConf Dave Thomas on Developer On Fire Dave's Thoughts on Respect Reid's book recommendation: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - Seth Godin Reid's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Make sure you know what you're delivering and for whom Focus the problem at hand If you are not a situation where you can deliver, find another one where you can

Guest: Basarat Ali Syed @basarat Basarat Ali Syed talks with Dave Rael about motivations for diving deep on a language, the rewards of open source software, and exciting experiences Basarat (@basarat) is a highly active member of the TypeScript community. Participant in a few OSS github organizations like DefinitelyTyped, TypeStrong, Typings. Creator Atom-TypeScript, grunt-ts and now alm.tools. Authored Apress Beginning NodeJS and self published a free book TypeScript Deep Dive. Top contributor for the TypeScript tag on StackOverflow. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Basarat Ali Syed - Basarat's motivation for becoming focused on TypeScript - Basarat's definition of value - The tooling Basarat has created for TypeScript - ALM tools - The things that "light Basarat up" - How Basarat got started in software - Basarat's story of failure - Betting on the wrong horse - Shifting to the web - Basarat's success story - Open source projects - getting collaborators and growing into an organization - Basarat's thoughts on having "made it" - How Basarat stays current with what he needs to know - Basarat's book recommendation - The things that have Basarat most excited - Angular 2 and TypeScript - Basarat's motivations for getting into TypeScript and current outlook - Basarat's sources of pain and suffering - The things about which Basarat likes to geek out - Basarat's prediction for the future of software - Basarat's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Basarat Resources: Basarat's Blog TypeScript ALM Tools for TypeScript atom-typescript The TypeStrong organization on GitHub Angular 2: Built on TypeScript DefinitelyTyped Flow - A static type checker for JavaScript AtScript Edgar Dijkstra: Go To Statement Considered Harmful grunt-ts Anders Hejlsberg - 2015 Build Conference (atom-typescript at 42:30) Basarat's book recommendation: Software Requirements (3rd Edition) (Developer Best Practices) - Karl Wiegers Basarat's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Optimize for your own personal happiness (happy coder -> happy code) Always keep learning and be open to new ideas "You have to write the code" (Basarat attributed to Anders Hejlsberg)

Guest: Kestrel Blackmore @kestrelblackmor Kestrel Blackmore talks with Dave Rael about priorities, family, impact, humanity, and leading teams Kestrel Blackmore is the founder of ManagingSmartly.com where he helps software developers become managers. He hosts a weekly management podcast where he interviews developers, who have already made the leap into management, to gain insight on the mistakes and successes they have made along the way. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Kestrel Blackmore - Life in Australia - Kestrel's definition of value - Kestrel's Managing Smartly site, brand, and podcast - Transitioning into management - Building Teams - The things that "light Kestrel up - How Kestrel got started in software - Kestrel's story of failure - underestimating a task and hiding the impact, prioritizing work over family - Kestrel's success story - social impact and contributing to a change in outlook - marrying well - Kestrel's thoughts on "having made it" and portential - How Kestrel stays current with what he needs to know - Kestrel's book recommendation - The things that have Kestrel most excited - Technical managers and credibility - Kestrel's sources of pain and suffering - The thigns about which Kestrel likes to geek out - Kestrel's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Kestrel Resources: Managing Smartly Podcast Managing Smartly - Kestrel's Site And Service Jamie Romanowski on Developer On Fire IBM - What makes you special - sliced bread Tolkien's Gollum Kestrel's book recommendation: How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure - Grant Cardone Kestrel's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Understand what is important - distinguish must-haves from nice-to-haves Get quick wins on the board Always be communicating

Guest: James Edward Gray @JEG2 James Edward Gray talks with Dave Rael about constraints, automation, family, teaching, and people James Edward Gray II just loves to program. He has spent years contributing to the Ruby community in various ways, is recently having too much fun with Elixir, but is always playing with something, be it the nand2tetris exercises or his 3D printer. James is a language geek that enjoys tinkering with everything from low-level Rust code to all-powerful regular expressions, which he is not ashamed to admit that he loves. He is still surprised that employers want to pay him to spend all day playing with his favorite toys. It's a rough life. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and James Edward Gray II - James on his condition - Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Type 1 - and his talk on that subject - Compensating for limitations via automation - James's history with Ruby - The things that "light James up" - How James got started in software - James's story of failure - Feeling defeated by design direction that didn't work - James's success story - teaching kids Logo - How James stays current with what he needs to know - James's book recommendations - The things that have James most excited - James's causes of pain and suffering - The things about which James geeks out apart from software - James's prediction for the future of sofware - James's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with James Resources: James's Blog GoGaRuCo 2013 - Built to Program by James Edward Gray II Dave Thomas on Developer On Fire Coleco Adam Pluralsight Acquires PeepCode Logo Robot Turtles Laurence Bradford on Developer On Fire Rule of Two No Red Ink Animaniacs Don't Starve Endless Legend Hanabi Card Game Caverna Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel H. Pink James's book recommendation: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas - Seymour A. Papert Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Complex Adaptive Systems) - Michael Resnick James's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Practice Get outside your echo chamber Learn about people

Guest: Nik Molnar @nikmd23 Nik Molnar talks with Dave Rael about enjoying life outside software, big impacts from projects, and a nonstandard path to becoming a developer Nik Molnar is a New Yorker, Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider and co-founder of Glimpse, an open source diagnostics and debugging tool. Originally from Florida, he specializes in web development, web API’s and community management. In his spare time, he can be found cooking up a storm in the kitchen, hanging with his wife, speaking at conferences, and working on other open source projects. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Nik Molnar - Nik, Glimpse, and integration into Microsoft - Nik's move to Austin and leaving New York - The nature of Glimpse - Changes to Glimpse with the Microsoft acquisition - Nik's definition of value - The things that "light Nik up - How Nik got started with software - Thoughts on design - Nik's story of failure - being called back in to fix a problem after leaving a project - Nik's success story - open source turning into a career, notoriety, project work, and something making things better for people - How Nik stays current with what he needs to know - Nik's book recommendation - The things that have Nik most excited - Nik's sources of pain and suffering - The things about which Nik is most excited - Nik's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Nik Resources: Nik's Blog Glimpse Nik's Pluralsight Author Page Future Business Leaders of America Michael Jordan "Failure" Commercial Nested Sets Joe Celko Walt Disney "It all Started With a Mouse Shop Talk Show "The wand chooses the wizard" Avdi Grimm on Developer On Fire Original Microsoft Surface Nik's book recommendation: Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions - Gregor Hohpe Nik's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Rest Understand why you're delivering what you are and stop when it stops fulfilling that Really focus on something

Guest: Philip Morgan @Philip_Morgan Philip Morgan talks with Dave Rael about the importance of positioning, the value and perception of marketing, delivering value, and specialization Philip Morgan helps software development shops generate more leads. Unlike other marketers, he uses hyper-specific positioning, education-based content marketing, and marketing automation to make that happen. He’s also the author of The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Philip Morgan - The necessity of marketing and positioning - Philip and learning by trial and error - specialization vs. generalism - Focus on our own skills vs the needs of clients - Philip's definition of value - Talking about the problem vs the solution - How Philip got started in software and technology - Philip's story of failure - a content marketing service that required building and managing a team - getting behind and the struggle to wind it down - the importance of relationships - Philip's success story - the positioning book and the interactions that have resulted - The meaning of positioning - The nature of marketing - How Philip stays current with what he needs to know - Philip's recommendations for better positioning and career management, including book recommendation - The things that have Philip most excited - Philip's sources of pain and suffering - Philip's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Philip Resources: Philip's blog and site Philip's book: The Positioning Manual For Technical Firms Audience Ops Philip's Positioning Crash Course Email Course Philip's book recommendation: Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials) - Geoffrey A. Moore Philip's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Talk to your clients (or employer) more and find out about their business Become more curious about the why, even if it's at the expense of the how See your business as more than just an extension of yourself

Guest: John Papa @John_Papa John Papa talks with Dave Rael about values and priorities, rewards and joy, and making your own judgements John Papa is a Google Developer Expert and Microsoft Regional Director specializing in Web technologies. You can often find him speaking and training at various events around the world in keynotes, workshops, and sessions for events such as Build, ngConf, AngleBrackets, TechEd/Ignite, and VSLive. You an also find him on the popular weekly podcast Adventures in Angular. He enjoyed being the host of the popular show Silveright TV on Channel 9 and hosted many events including the MIXer and Open Source Fest at major conferences. He currently enjoys authoring courses for Pluralsight. You can reach him at johnpapa.net or on twitter at @john_papa. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and John Papa - John's definition of value - The things that "light John up" - Speaking at conferences, getting involved, and gaining noteriety - John's unexpected genesis as a trainer - John the Pluralsight author - How John got started in software - Solving real problems for real people instead of doing things just for show - John's story of failure - an attitude of encouraging failure, the thing happening against which you carefully guarded - John's success stories - fostering autonomy as a parent, letting go of control, foresight into the rise of Single-Page Applications - How John stays current with what he needs to know - John's book recommendation - The things that have John most excited - John's sources of pain and suffering - The things about which John likes to geek out - John's prediction for the future of software - John's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with John Resources: John's Blog John's Pluralsight Author Page Aaron Skonnard K. Scott Allen on Developer On Fire Troy Hunt on Developer On Fire TRS-80 War Games Thomas Edison's Attitude of Creativity aurelia Rob Eisenberg on Developer On Fire Build Your Own MVVM Framework - Rob Eisenberg JavaScript: The Good Parts - Douglas Crockford Progressive Web Apps Xamarin NativeScript React Native John's book recommendation: The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (the Hobbit / the Fellowship of the Ring / the Two Towers / the - J.R.R. Tolkien Terry Brooks Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull John's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Listen - Really LIsten Don't jump to a solution immediately Look at what other people are doing, but make your own judgement

Guest: Haseeb Qureshi @hosseeb Haseeb Qureshi talks with Dave Rael about motivations, earning to give, history, hustle, and fearlessness in doing something new Haseeb has recently gained national media attention after sharing his story, from attending a coding bootcamp to negotiating a $250,000 compensation package at Airbnb. His story has been featured on publications like BuzzFeed, Business Insider, and has also appeared on the front page of Hacker News. Before getting into the tech industry and moving to California, Haseeb was a professional poker player and studied English in college. He later enrolled in App Academy—a top coding bootcamp in San Francisco—and graduated at the top of his class. He became part of the bootcamp's core team as an instructor, and later, the Director of Product. Nine months after learning how to code, Haseeb then wanted to transition into becoming a full-time developer, but initially his job applications were rejected at the first 20+ companies he applied for. Things turned around after a few weeks as he started receiving offers from Google, Uber, Yelp, Stripe, and Airbnb. He now works at Airbnb as a software engineer. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Haseeb Qureshi - Haseeb and virtue and earning to give - Unfairness, fortune, and rebellion - Haseeb's exit from poker, his involvement in a cheating scandal around his protege, changed priorities, and commitment to resisting the tractor beam pull of professional poker - Haseeb on putting poker behind him and moving into coaching, business, and the genesis of seeing software as an option - bootcamps as the vehicle - Just doing it - making a decision and executing - Haseeb's 10-day vow of slience - Self-discovery and struggle - World-class performers, Tim Ferriss, the pitfalls of shortcuts, and the primacy of hustle - The daily life of Haseeb, the software engineer - Haseeb's thoughts on "having made it" - Haseeb's book recommendation - How Haseeb stays current with what he needs to know - Haseeb's definition of value - The things that have Haseeb most excited - Haseeb's causes of pain and suffering - Haseeb's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Haseeb Resources: Haseeb's Blog Earn to Give App Academy Catch Me If You Can - Frank W. Abagnale Catch Me If You Can (movie) Tim Ferriss on Winning a Kickboxing Championship In a S Paleo Diet Haseeb's Post About Job-Seeking Advice and Buying Everyone Coffee David Heinemeier Hansson - Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years David Heinemeier Hansson on Developer On Fire Phoenix Framework Albert Einstein on Value and Success Will MacAskill Effective Altruism Hiring Is Broken Erik Dietrich on Hiring Is Broken Haseeb's book recommendation: Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse Haseeb's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Start with asking Keep showing up Treat everything as a learning experience