89: Laurie Barth on Building a Career in Tech

Laurie Barth joins us to talk about building a career you’ll love, networking you won’t hate, and a proven strategy to beat imposter syndrome.

Laurie Barth — Twitter, Website, Github, egghead
chantastic — Twitter, Website, GitHub, egghead

Notes and Links

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should […] be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gatsby Team
Gatsby Cloud
So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport, on Amazon (“career capital”)
How to talk like an Engineer by Laurie, on YouTube
Gatsby.js Tutorials

0. Set Up Your Development Environment

Svelte
React Hooks
React Concurrent Mode
“assume the reader has zero prior knowledge but infinite intelligence” quoted by Dan Abramov on Twitter
Hot Garbage Clean Code is Dead — by Me, on YouTube
Kim Maida
“Hell yeah!” or “no” by Derek Sivers, from Anything You Want on Amazon
Lindsey Kopacz
Chris Biscardi
Imposter syndrome
Dunning-Kruger effect
Gridsome
11ty

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