Making a Career out of Your Jobs
summary
Argues that concrete side projects change careers by providing specific skills and visibility: worked on diaspora, a Ruby on Rails federated social network; added tests, moved data from MongoDB to MySQL, and helped design federation protocols for deletes and error handling. A Kickstarter ask of $10k → $200k creates intense media attention and incubation; the project delivers real distributed‑systems experience and directly opens doors into larger systems roles.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 5:48Your career is a narrative.
- 9:09Small levers can have an outsized effect.
- 18:51You don't need to know how it ends.
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