Pivot Points - Recognizing Opportunity, Turning Challenges to Strengths.
summary
Chronicle of concrete pivots: learning to read to join a choir leads to self-taught web work in 1995, a Virginia Tech thesis that streams live feeds, and a run of production projects — custom PHP/MySQL job boards and grant systems, a 1998 database-driven tourism site, then leading the Examiner.com migration where the team built 18% of Drupal 7 and migrated a massive ColdFusion site to Drupal using MongoDB pre-beta; medical and family crises become motivators, diagnosis of learning differences reframes weaknesses as strengths.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:20My mother
- 0:41Learning disabilities
- 2:16Diagnosis
- 2:46Choir
- 3:33Learning to read
- 3:46Traditional learning
- 5:37Learning to do
- 9:30Redefining Yourself
- 12:15Two Parts
- 16:46Launching Point
- 17:10Board of Directors
- 17:24Adoption
- 19:17Building Friendships
- 19:36Never Be Afraid To Ask For Help
- 19:48Summary
- 20:46Thank you
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