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	Podcast:		Developer On Fire
	Episode:		Episode 347 \| Gwen Faraday - Confident Growth
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:39:25
	Publish Date:		2018-06-13 19:00:00
	Description:		Guest: @ Gwen Faraday talks to Dave Rael about becoming a professional developer, organizing user groups, helping people, and doing uncomfortable things Gwendolyn Faraday is a software developer from Indianapolis, IN. Professionally, she works mostly with cross-platform mobile technologies, React, and Node on AWS. For fun, she loves dabbling in other languages, working on new IoT projects, and making apps that help people learn or build good habits through gamification. Chapters: 1:17 - Dave introduces the show and Gwen Faraday 2:40 - Gwen, the user group organizer 6:47 - Self-teaching and helping people learn 9:26 - Gwen's career history before professional software development 10:30 - Getting more comfortable with people 12:10 - Gwen, the conference speaker 16:33 - Gwen's interest in blockchain 20:44 - Gwen's many technical interests and priorities 23:15 - Gwen's story of failure - getting fired because of being too quiet for customer-facing jobs 25:54 - Gwen's experiences with breaking into professional software development 29:46 - Gwen's book recommendations and productivity recommendations 33:32 - What Gwen is working on 34:40 - The things the have Gwen most excited 37:29 - Gwen's top 3 tips for delivering more value Resources: Free Code Camp Indy Indianapolis Blockchain Developers Gwen on GitHub Gwen on GitLab Free Code Camp Quincy Larson on Developer On Fire How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie Dave Fancher on Developer On Fire Indy.Code() Ted Neward on Developer On Fire Running into the Storm No Degree, No Problem - Josh Kemp Nirvana (Task Management Application Focused on the Getting Things Done Methodology) Gwen's book recommendation: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality - Scott Belsky Gwen's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Communication - ask the right questions Ask those right questions up front Resist the temptation to jump into code right away before the necessary communication
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