Shawn Wang formerly worked in finance as a derivatives trader and equity analyst before burning out and pivoting towards tech. He's a prolific blogger who goes under the pseudonym "swyx" and recently published the excellent https://www.learninpublic.org/?c=MLE30 (Coding Career Handbook). He's a graduate of Free Code Camp and Full Stack Academy now working at AWS as a Senior Developer Advocate. Learn more about Shawn: Blog: https://swyx.io/ (https://swyx.io/) Book (Use code MLE30 for 30% off!): https://www.learninpublic.org/?c=MLE30 (https://www.learninpublic.org/) Want to level-up your skills in machine learning and software engineering? Subscribe to our newsletter: https://mlengineered.ck.page/943aa3fd46 (https://mlengineered.ck.page/943aa3fd46)
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Timestamps: (05:30) How was the learning in public idea developed? (07:45) No zero days (10:00) Does ego prevent developers from learning in public? (12:30) Pick up what they put down (17:30) Strategic thinking about coding careers (19:50) Betting on new technologies (24:00) Enhancing existing skills vs learning new things (27:40) Reading technical books cover-to-cover (30:00) Systems thinking (32:00) Updating a digitally-native book (35:00) Deciding to work at AWS (38:00) What won't change in tech? (41:30) Software business models (43:00) Rapid fire questions
Links: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/shawn-wang-podcast-interview/ (Free Code Camp interview: Leaving a $350K/year job to learn coding) https://hackernoon.com/no-zero-days-my-path-from-code-newbie-to-full-stack-developer-in-12-months-214122a8948f (No Zero Days) https://kentcdodds.com/chats-with-kent-podcast/seasons/01/episodes/you-can-learn-a-lot-for-the-low-price-of-your-ego-with-shawn-wang (You Can Learn A Lot For The Low Price Of Your Ego) https://www.learninpublic.org/?c=MLE30 (Shawn’s book: The Coding Career Handbook) https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-public/ (Learn in Public) https://www.swyx.io/writing/marketing-yourself/ (Marketing Yourself as a Developer) https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Marketing-High-Tech-Mainstream/dp/0060517123 (Crossing the Chasm) https://www.swyx.io/writing/create_luck (How to Create Luck) https://lawsofux.com/ (Laws of UX) https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/21/invisible-asymptotes (Eugene Wei - Invisible Asymptotes) https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service (Eugene Wei - Status as a Service)