Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.weshigbee.com/">Wes Higbee</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/g0t4">@g0t4</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Wes Higbee talks with Dave Rael about mindsets, confidence, blind spots, and focusing the the things that matter </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>As a consultant, Wes helps people eradicate emotional blind spots with technology and produce rapid results. Along the journey Wes has had a passion for sharing knowledge. With 25 courses and counting, he has helped thousands of people improve. He authors courses for both Pluralsight and O’Reilly. He’s been a speaker at countless local meetups, community organizations, webinars and conferences. And he speaks professionally to help organizations improve. He authored the book Commitment To Value: How to make technical projects worthwhile. He writes extensively about business on his blog. And his written work includes articles featured on VeraSage, MSDN Magazine, and InfoQ.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Wes Higbee</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Wes's interest in business and really understanding the problems he is trying to solve</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Software for business or business for software?</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The fallacious process focus of many methodology efforts </a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Wes the trainer and the sharer of information</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Wes and public speaking - the primacy of confidence</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Minimalism in preparation as a speaker</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Quality in video training, preparation and editing</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Wes up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Wes got started in software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Wes's story of failure - a period of uncertainty in switching from hourly to value-based pricing - attitude and problems as merely perception</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Familiarity in dealing with technology, processes, life events, and more - also the inherent goodness of people</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Wes's success story - providing value with courses and shifting focus to real value on things that matter</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Wes's advice for developers in getting more focused on the value that matters for their businesses</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Wes stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Wes's book recommendation</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Our own blind spots</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Wes most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Wes's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Wes</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.weshigbee.com/" target="_blank">Wes's Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/people/1d8bd-wesley-higbee" target="_blank">Wes's O'Reilly Courses</a></li> <li><a href="https://pluralsight.pxf.io/c/1197682/424552/7490?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pluralsight.com%2Fauthors%2Fwes-mcclure" target="_blank">Wes's Courses on Pluralsight</a></li> <li><a href="http://agilemanifesto.org/" target="_blank">The Agile Manifesto</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Good_Samaritan" target="_blank">The Good Samaritan</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Wes's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0544574788/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts - Carol Tavris</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Wes's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>There is no wrong way to do the right thing</li> <li>Helping doesn't mean pleasing</li> <li>Beliefs come before data to back them up</li> </ol> </div> </div>
