Becoming an Outlier: Reprogramming the Developer Mind
Explore the habits and career tactics that create remarkable developers. Take control of your career, and set yourself apart from the pack. Become an Outlier.
What you'll learn
As a developer, your image and your mind are your product. So to get what you’ve never had, you must do what you’ve never done with these precious tools. If you want to make a bigger impact, raise your income, and code with purpose, this course will outline the path to get you there. This course is about making a paradigm shift in how you manage your career. We’ll discuss concrete activities and skills that transform average developers into outliers. You’ll learn why developers can't afford cable, ways to improve your “luck surface area”, and techniques to compress your career through accelerated development. You'll learn the foundational skills for becoming an outlier: command your time, hack your image, and own your trajectory. Prepare to think about your development career in a whole new way.
Table of contents
- Introduction 3m
- Habits Build Experts 7m
- Seven Facets of Life 3m
- The Multithreaded Commute 5m
- Rethink Giving Back 1m
- The Multithreaded Life 5m
- Be Modal 4m
- Stay Modal 2m
- Clear Your Mind 2m
- What's Your Default Mode? 2m
- Manicure Your Media Stream 3m
- Life Changing Media 5m
- Focus on Your Realm of Influence 2m
- Money is Time: Outliers Delegate 4m
- Summary 2m
- From Passive to Active 4m
- Why Freedom Matters 2m
- Two Keys to Freedom 2m
- Key to Freedom Number 1: Slack 5m
- Key to Freedom Number 2: Skills - The Technology Adoption Curve 9m
- Programming Your Brain 3m
- Exploration and Exploitation 2m
- Assembly Line Coder 3m
- Opportunity Curve 2m
- Search for Scale 4m
- Summary 2m
About the author
Cory is the principal consultant at reactjsconsulting.com, where he has helped dozens of companies transition to React. Cory has trained over 10,000 software developers at events and businesses worldwide. He is a seven time Microsoft MVP, and speaks regularly at conferences around the world. Cory lives in Kansas City and is active on Twitter as @housecor.