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	Podcast:		Developer On Fire
	Episode:		Episode 031 \| Scott Wlaschin - Learn from Diverse Sources
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:45:15
	Publish Date:		2015-09-06 19:00:00
	Description:		Guest: Scott Wlaschin @ScottWlaschin Scott Wlaschin talks with Dave Rael about the value of sharing your knowledge, the need for broad expertise, and that all problems are about people and never technical in nature. Scott Wlaschin is a .NET developer, architect and author. He has over 20 years experience in a wide variety of areas from high-level UX/UI to low-level database implementations. He loves learning programming languages, his favorites being Smalltalk, but also Prolog, Python, and more recently, F#, which he blogs about at fsharpforfunandprofit.com. Chapters: 0:28 - Dave introduces the show and Scott Wlaschin 5:24 - Scott encourages everyone to blog and shares the benefits of explaining and teaching 6:44 - Scott's definition of value 9:11 - The things that "light Scott up" 10:38 - Learning as an end in and of itself 12:05 - How Scott got started writing software 12:56 - Software and LEGOs 14:14 - Scott and the functional approach 15:25 - Scott's story of failure, the importance of listening to customers 17:22 - Quotable quote: "We thought the problem was a technical problem and it's never a technical problem. It's always a people problem." 17:27 - Quotable quote: "No matter what the problem is, it's always a people problem." - Gerald Weinberg 18:48 - The problem with Google 20:29 - Scott's greatest success story, getting customer feedback and making Agile work, delivering ahead of schedule 24:52 - Testing with F# and making illegal states unrepresentable 29:56 - How Scott stays current with what he needs to know 34:00 - Scott's book recommendation 36:37 - The things that have Scott most excited about his present and future 38:23 - The greatest sources of pain in Scott's life and work 40:48 - The things about which Scott like to geek out apart from software 41:53 - Scott's prediction for the future of software 42:58 - Scott's top 3 tips for delivering more value 44:53 - Farewell Resources: Scott's Blog Site: F# for fun and profit Gerald Weinberg Ward Cunningham's collection of Gerald Weinberg quotes Jeff Atwood on the Gerald Weinberg quote The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist - Frederick Brooks Scott's book recommendation: The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is - Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg Scott's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Listen to your customers Learn from your mistakes and learn from them as fast as possible Broaden your knowledge and experience - diversity is good in teams, it's good inside your brain, too
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