Keith and David discuss the power of attitude, how thinking like Product can help your career, and how a little more effort in communication can have a profound impact on building your network.
Show Notes
Talking Points:
- Critical Outlooks For Success
- Product Focus
- Focusing On The Customer
- Extract Value From What You Provide
- Main Hirable Attribute
- Selecting Reliable Frameworks
- Networking As A Junior Dev
Quotable Quotes:
- “Start with the customer and then work backwards.” - KH
- “Every engineer should be a product person.” - KH
- “Are we building an experience that the customer loves and has the desire to use?” - KH
- “Attitude is 80% [ of why I hire someone ]” - KH
- “It’s so easy to hate [ new technologies ] so you just need to pull your head back out and see [ from a different angle ].” - KH
- “Make it work, make it right, make it fast.” - DG
- “You gotta fall on your face. You have and embrace the failures, because that’s what’s going to teach you.” - KH
- “I always like to look at ways to amplify ones place on the team.” - KH
- “You are the average of your surroundings.” - KH
- “The personal touch [ when it comes to networking ] is just so much more valuable.” - KH
- “Focus on ways to try harder with more effort [ in networking].” - KH
- "Everyone can control how hard they work." - KH
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