How to survive family gatherings and birthday parties
summary
Gives concrete tactics and lived results for talking tech at family events: use Skillcrush 30-day email bootcamp to learn plain definitions, coach at Rails Girls to practice explaining, and hand out a Makey Makey as a low-friction demo (dad loved it) while avoiding a Raspberry Pi which proved too hard; keep project lists in a GitHub repo, describe “bootstrapping” as self-funded, and actually turn off devices to run a kind of test-driven interaction during conversations
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 4:38Websites vs. web applications
- 5:13We're bootstrapping
- 6:22Open Source
- 6:47Cyber security
- 9:19ninja
- 19:19Turn off your devices.
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