When Your Disney Playlist Saves Your Tech Career
summary
Claim: using a curated Disney playlist provides emotional scaffolding that lets someone persist through steep learning curves. The narrative reports leaving 21 years in retail, learned Clojure and Emacs at once over about two years, solo-developed a Clojure web app "fabric stash", and landed a job at Nimble Logic building Elixir and LiveView apps. Playlist examples that reinforced iteration are "Try Everything", "Let It Go", "A Whole New World", and the build succeeds in getting employment.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:27Story
- 1:11Acceptance
- 1:46The Unknown
- 2:47Inspiration
- 3:04Try Everything
- 3:20A Whole New World
- 3:45Outro
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