David and Thom discuss key points to progress your career, the abstraction of careers, and the best traits a junior dev can have.
Show Notes
Talking Points:
- Pushing beyond your limits
- Abstraction of Professions
- Junior Dev Traits
- Forest vs Trees
- Looking Under the hood
- Working with non-technical people
- Communication
Quotable Quotes:
- “How do we make this possible? How do we achieve this?” - TM
- “There’s an aspect to be sure that you have the right person for the job.” - TM
- “You don’t need to be a full-stack jack of all trades master of none.” TM
- “The FE bar just keeps getting raised.” TM
- “You need to have people that can solve the problems that are not in the box.” - TM
- “Squarespace, Wix, other online editors are a fix for simple problems.” DG
- “I look for someone who is humble and hungry.” TM
- “[Junior Devs] may not know that you could just look under the hood.” - TM
- “Communication and knowing your audience is so important for a junior engineer.” - TM
Notes:
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