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Hi, I am Lee Mallon and this is my podcast about technology, product and travelling the world with my family. I hope you enjoy, you can contact me at www.leemallon.com
It has been six months since we started our world travel and I want to share some of the stories from this time. Let me tell you the story of how we travelled to Sri Lanka, the most prolonged eight hours of stress so far. In hindsight, we handled it pretty well and weren't as stressed out at the time as I would have thought we would be in reflection.
I am reading this article from a hotel room in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. I want to share a slightly longer than planned article about our journey through four countries in Asia on our year long world travels. Over the last five months, my family and I have travelled to UAE, Sri Lanka, The Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. Along this trip, there has been a recurring theme that I haven't been able to shake, and that is that WhatsApp is the silent force underpinning the Asian tourism market, and no one knows about it.
I wish I got asked a lot more "where do I start as a new developer?" this happens rarely, and it turns out that new developers just don't want to ask. There is this belief that those more experienced are busy 😂 which if you saw how much more experienced developers mess around with home automation or build open-source libraries, you would know this isn't the case.
To combat this fear in junior developers reaching out, when I see someone online post something under #100daysofcode or similar, I Twitter DM them some words of validation (we all need that even if its from someone we don't know) and almost always in that message exchange I get asked in a roundabout way "how do I get a job?".
Travelling around the world takes a lot of planning, but during and post a global pandemic it becomes a little more complicated. We have four months to go before we leave, and it is time to start booking some things up.
I love voice and conversational technology and think it will transform how we live, but we are in a period of frustration. Can we end the nuclear winter of voice?
A rant, observations and what we can learn from the mobile app industry.
You can read the post here https://read.leemallon.com/the-nuclear-winter-of-voice-technology
This post maybe only interesting to you if you are apart of a .NET development team or want to hear how I have turned a training programme into something I can deliver anywhere in the world. Enjoy and check out www.learnxamarin.dev if you want further details.
You can read this post at https://read.leemallon.com/launching-learnxamarin-dev
Travelling for a year with my family opens up the question of working as you travel. My intention when we started to plan this trip (4 years ago) was to get up at 5 am and work until 10 am for 5-6 days a week. This would give me 25-30 hours a week of work time enough to hold down a job/run a business.
In August 2021 (all being safe to do so) my family and I will travel the world for a year, one big part of this trip will be schooling our two children. I wanted to share some approaches and research I have done about how we plan to do this.
Covered in this episode are:
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UK laws on schooling
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Keeping up with the UK Curriculum
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The digital tools we plan to use
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Learning a language as a family
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Martial Arts and BJJ
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Music and learning an instrument
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Breaking a world record
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Public Speaking
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Alternative ways of learning
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Children run businesses
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Any questions please reach me at www.leemallon.com
hi, I am Lee Mallon and this is my podcast about technology, product and travelling the world with my family. I hope you enjoy. You can contact me at www.leemallon.com