156 JSJ Soft Skills and Marketing Yourself as a Software Developer with John Sonmez

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03:36 - John Sonmez Introduction

Twitter
GitHub
Simple Programmer
The Entreprogrammers Podcast
Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Sonmez
How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course

04:29 - Mastermind Groups

Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century by Napoleon Hill

05:53 - “Soft Skills”

Why Care About Soft Skills?

People Skills
Finances
Fitness

11:53 - Learned vs Innate

Lifting Limited Beliefs
Practice

14:14 - Promotion (Managerial) Paths

The Peter Principle

17:52 - “Marketing”

Value: Give Away 90% / Charge For 10%
Seeming “Spammy” (Resistance to Sell)
Neil Patel's Blog
Documentation for Yourself

AJ O'Neal: How to Tweet from NodeJS

29:53 - Get Up and CODE!

#086: Figure Skating and Software Development with Aimee Knight
#067: Weight Loss Plan for Charles (Max Wood)

33:47 - Burnout

Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
Systems and Habits (Routines)

Methods of Execution

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Picks

The Recurse Center (Jamison)

Code Words Blog (Jamison)

DayZ Player Sings (And Plays Guitar) For His Life (Jamison)

Demon (Jamison)

Mastodon: Leviathan (Jamison)

Jan Van Haasteren Puzzles (Joe)

Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn (Joe)

AngularJS-Resources (Aimee)

Superfeet Insoles (Aimee)

Good Mythical Morning (AJ)

The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz (Chuck)

Streak (John)

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber (John)

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini (John)

Do the Work by Steven Pressfield (John)

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (John)