Erin Mckean - Developer Relations Program Manager @ Google
Junior to Senior with David Guttman
English - June 21, 2021 12:00 - 52 minutes - 121 MBTechnology Business Careers technology javascript programming web development career Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Talking Points:
Developer advocacy
Write good documentation
Confusing the solution with the problem
Define clear goals
Learning with joy
Quotable Quotes:
"Does this solve a problem that everybody agrees is an actual problem?" - EM
"Whenever you've run into problems, it's probably a goal problem." - EM
"When you don't know what you want a function to do it can be really hard to write that function." - EM
"A lot of people just don't like to close off possibilities so they want to do everything all at once." - EM
"You can't ever make yourself irreplaceable, you can only make yourself a single point of failure." - EM
"You really have to practice being okay with feeling dumb." - EM
"You should always be looking to figure out how you can bring other people into your circle instead of keeping people out." - EM
Notes:
Erin's Website:
erinmckean.com
Erin's non-profit organization:
wordnik.com
Erin's Twitter:
Erin's GitHub: