EP95 – "Programming's gateway drug" with Samantha Geitz

Should you double down on your strengths, or learn something new?

Show Notes

This is a great chat with Samantha Geitz, a Senior Developer at Tighten, and the founder of BetaFish.

Topics in this episode: 

• Should "business/marketing" people learn programming?
• What's the difference between messing around and being a serious programmer?
• Do regular programmers Google for answers?
• Why English Majors can make great programmers.
• If you want to learn hard things, do you need to be in a classroom?
• Why should take a mental health day when you need it.

Announcement:

• Want to speak at a tech conference? I'm doing class called "public speaking for geeks." More info here.

Show notes

• Samantha Geitz on Twitter
• Tighten.co
• Battle.Tighten.co
• Samantha's new startup: BetaFish
• CoinPress.cc
• Samantha's blog post: "How I overcame my fear of public speaking"

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• My new startup: Transistor.fm
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Thanks to...

• Podcast hosting: Transistor.fm

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Creators & Guests

Host

Justin Jackson

⚡ Bootstrapping, podcasting, calm companies, business ethics. Co-founder of @transistorfm (podcast hosting).

Guest

Samantha Geitz

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