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Becoming an Outlier Career Reboot for the Developer Mind

Becoming an Outlier Career Reboot for the Developer Mind. Cory House bitnative.com | @ housecor. Job, career, or calling?. Lean in close…. The amount of success you have in life is roughly equivalent to the amount of time you spend doing things people want . .

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Becoming an Outlier Career Reboot for the Developer Mind

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  1. Becoming an OutlierCareer Reboot for the DeveloperMind Cory House bitnative.com | @housecor

  2. Job, career, or calling?

  3. Lean in close… The amount of success you have in life is roughly equivalent to the amount of time you spend doing things people want.

  4. What’s an outlier look like?

  5. .NET 1.0 .NET 2.0 .NET 3.5 .NET 4.0 .NET 4.5 ASMX WCF Web API Web Forms Silverlight MVC Razor ADO.NET Linq-2-SQL Entity Framework EF Code First Web API 2002 2012

  6. Outlier…Worth it? • Impact • Self-actualization – it’s art. • Wealth - Work “with” rather than “for”

  7. Step 1: Command Your Time

  8. You do something all day long, don’t you? The only difference is that you do a great many things and I do one. Thomas Edison

  9. Habits: 40% TV Hot Dog Elevator Consumption Eating out Soda Doughnut Buy new Sleep in Status Quo Pessimism The minimum Book Fish Stairs Creation Sack lunch Water Apple Buy used Wake early Growth Optimism Exceeding expectations Source: The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg

  10. Teach Yourself Programming in 10 years – Peter Norvig

  11. 10k Hours for Expertise Hours/day deliberate practice

  12. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day Your day is not full. You spend seven hours working, seven hours sleeping, and I'll give you another two hours. This leaves eight hours a day. You under-use these. Arnold Bennett

  13. Source: Main Event Management, Model-Netics

  14. Multithread Your Life

  15. Hack The Commute

  16. Rethink Giving Back Donate your most valuable skill

  17. Health, Self Dev, Job Health, Self Dev, Job

  18. Health, Self Dev, Family

  19. Self Dev, Job, Family

  20. The Maker’s Schedule

  21. Most Valuable Resource: Uninterrupted Thought

  22. Programmer, Interrupted Alternate Schedules Private office WFH Larger, less frequent meetings Calendar snooze

  23. Improve Your Signal to Noise Your biggest enemies are your bills. The cheaper you can live, the greater your options.Mark Cuban

  24. Clear Your Mind via Cron • Automate relentlessly • Direct deposit paycheck • 401k deposits • Bill payments • Weekly, monthly, annual reminders

  25. What do you watch on Tuesdays?

  26. Outliers Target Media Consumption News TV Magazines Books Analogous to Agile Manifesto

  27. Manicure Your Stream Slow media is not for the distracted masses. It's for the focused few.

  28. Where’s the Beef? Changed my life. Opened doors. Not so much. The less news you consume, the bigger the advantage you have. Rolf Dobelli

  29. Source: Quora Example: Bill Gates

  30. - Money is Time - The more you make, the more time you can buy.

  31. Outliers Delegate

  32. Step 2: Manage Your Image

  33. Be easy to work with • Do great work • Deliver on time Pick Two Neil Gaiman Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikAb-NYkseI

  34. Be Purpose Built Neither is a plain daily driver. Neither is cheap either.

  35. Self image == greatest constraint It's not who we are that keeps us from where we want to be - it's who we THINK we are.Lisa Sayers

  36. Can I See Your Body of Work?

  37. “Do It in Public” – Jeff Atwood StackOverflow Github Hacker News Reddit Programming Twitter Google+

  38. Your Words Are Wasted

  39. Humble Beginnings

  40. Measure Your Brand • Google Alerts • TweetBeep • Online ID Calculator • www.bit.ly for shared links • Addictomatic

  41. Shelved Credentials Attract alpha geeks . Convey passion.

  42. Step 3: Own Your Trajectory

  43. The Sims

  44. Flash will kill HTML. Cory House, 1999

  45. Time = potential knowledge • Risk: Assembly line coder = Create a new x in technology y every z days

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