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swyx (Shawn Wang): Coding Career Strategy
Publisher |
Charlie You
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Business
Careers
Science
Technology
Publication Date |
Sep 08, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:50:12

Shawn Wang formerly worked in finance as a derivatives trader and equity analyst before burning out and pivoting towards tech. He's a prolific blogger who goes under the pseudonym "swyx" and recently published the excellent Coding Career Handbook. He's a graduate of Free Code Camp and Full Stack Academy now working at AWS as a Senior Developer Advocate. Learn more about Shawn:

Blog: https://swyx.io/

Book (Use code MLE30 for 30% off!): https://www.learninpublic.org/

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Timestamps:

(05:30) How was the learning in public idea developed?

(07:45) No zero days

(10:00) Does ego prevent developers from learning in public?

(12:30) Pick up what they put down

(17:30) Strategic thinking about coding careers

(19:50) Betting on new technologies

(24:00) Enhancing existing skills vs learning new things

(27:40) Reading technical books cover-to-cover

(30:00) Systems thinking

(32:00) Updating a digitally-native book

(35:00) Deciding to work at AWS

(38:00) What won't change in tech?

(41:30) Software business models

(43:00) Rapid fire questions

Links:

Free Code Camp interview: Leaving a $350K/year job to learn coding

No Zero Days

You Can Learn A Lot For The Low Price Of Your Ego

Shawn’s book: The Coding Career Handbook

Learn in Public

Marketing Yourself as a Developer

Crossing the Chasm

How to Create Luck

Laws of UX

Eugene Wei - Invisible Asymptotes

Eugene Wei - Status as a Service

swyx discusses learning in public, betting on technologies, his own move to AWS, and other subjects in his new book The Coding Career Handbook.

Shawn Wang formerly worked in finance as a derivatives trader and equity analyst before burning out and pivoting towards tech. He's a prolific blogger who goes under the pseudonym "swyx" and recently published the excellent Coding Career Handbook. He's a graduate of Free Code Camp and Full Stack Academy now working at AWS as a Senior Developer Advocate. Learn more about Shawn:

Blog: https://swyx.io/

Book (Use code MLE30 for 30% off!): https://www.learninpublic.org/

Want to level-up your skills in machine learning and software engineering? Subscribe to our newsletter: https://mlengineered.ck.page/943aa3fd46

Take the Giving What We Can Pledge: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

Subscribe to ML Engineered: https://www.mlengineered.com/listen

Follow Charlie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieYouAI

Timestamps:

(05:30) How was the learning in public idea developed?

(07:45) No zero days

(10:00) Does ego prevent developers from learning in public?

(12:30) Pick up what they put down

(17:30) Strategic thinking about coding careers

(19:50) Betting on new technologies

(24:00) Enhancing existing skills vs learning new things

(27:40) Reading technical books cover-to-cover

(30:00) Systems thinking

(32:00) Updating a digitally-native book

(35:00) Deciding to work at AWS

(38:00) What won't change in tech?

(41:30) Software business models

(43:00) Rapid fire questions

Links:

Free Code Camp interview: Leaving a $350K/year job to learn coding

No Zero Days

You Can Learn A Lot For The Low Price Of Your Ego

Shawn’s book: The Coding Career Handbook

Learn in Public

Marketing Yourself as a Developer

Crossing the Chasm

How to Create Luck

Laws of UX

Eugene Wei - Invisible Asymptotes

Eugene Wei - Status as a Service

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