Overcoming the Challenges of Mentoring
summary
Claims that poor mentoring costs organizations $31.5 billion a year and that apprenticeship style programs beat short bootcamps drive the content here, backed by a cited $31.5B figure and a 125% mentoring-success stat from survey notes. Built artifacts include a Junior Dev Mentoring website and active Slack for year-long mentor commitments, plus concrete scaffolding: HTML → CSS box model → JavaScript click events. Advice: avoid treating Stack Overflow/Slack as mentoring, set realistic goals, assess time/talent/temperament, and stop selling “coding is easy.”
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:26Kim Crayton
- 1:34Community Engineer
- 3:22Kims Story
- 8:15We Need People
- 12:13Four Quadrants
- 12:27Youth Mentoring
- 14:12Personal Mentoring
- 15:32Stack Overflow and Slack
- 17:25Mentoring
- 21:52imposter syndrome
- 22:32start late
- 23:17misconception
- 24:42selftaught
- 25:03projectbased learning
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