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How to Become Accomplished

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Talkat GOTO Aarhus 2013 · 2013-09-30..10-02· [career-development]

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name:Chad Fowler
website:http://chadfowler.com

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video:https://youtu.be/hsIcFf9pnCo
slides:none on file

summary

Gives concrete habits: treat yourself as a product by choosing a market, investing in skills and an org chart even as one person, and breaking life into subsystems to measure and iterate; uses short time slices to learn and practices relentlessly; chooses work by a hell yes or no filter; fixes "broken windows" (small defects) instead of long projects; proves it with specific wins—built a 350‑person India center, wrote Rails Recipes (2006) and The Passionate Programmer, serves as CTO at 6Wunderkinder—and tests fear by deliberately doing hard, awkward tasks to level up.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 10:04Qualifications
  3. 10:45Passionate Programmer in a Nutshell
  4. 15:25what do engineers do?
  5. 46:29DO NOT MEASURE THE PROCESS

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