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2 episodes with pragmatic thinking
2 episodes with pragmatic thinking
“When you take on the responsibility of leadership, you're not taking on additional responsibilities. You are changing your career.” Joining me on today's episode is the incredible Rohan Dredge: the CEO of Pragmatic Thinking, a behaviour and motivation strategy company who has worked with the likes of Qantas, Toyota, Suncorp and Geronimo. Rohan's first episode ‘How to be a Leader People Actually Want to Follow' is one of our MOST listened-to episodes. When we were down in the Gold Coast we knew we HAD to get him back on the poddy to continue to level up our leaders. When we go into the health and fitness industry, we all have one goal: to help people get fitter, stronger and lead happier lives. But as your business grows, your role shifts from directly helping members to leading and managing teams. And it's not a change most of us are prepared for. Join me as I ask Rohan all of your most commonly asked leadership questions including: 01:26 - What are the qualities of a highly effective leader? 03:23 - What are some of the operating systems that create a highly effective leader? 06:35 - How can you make confident decisions as a leader? 08:45 - How can you become a leader who responds rather than reacts? 18:48 - The right way to give performance reviews and give staff feedback EVEN if it's hard 26:29 - What do you do when your team has a poor culture? 32:56 - If you don't like confrontation… How do you enforce changes that will upset your staff? 35:33 - What if you're afraid to push a team member for fear they might leave? 38:16 - How to empower your team without micromanaging them 43:20 - The Controversial Question… Can anyone be a good leader? … and a whole lot more Listen to the OG episode with Rohan about How to Be a Leader People Actually Want to Follow over on Spotify / Apple. Learn more about Rohan Dredge and Pragmatic Thinking by visiting www.pragmaticthinking.com or heading over to Rohan's LinkedIn here. Prefer watching to listening? Check out the video version of the podcast here. WANT MORE: To say thank you for listening to the pod we'd like to gift you a FREE session to brainstorm a 3 Step Action Plan for your gym or fitness studio so you know EXACTLY what step you need to take to grow. Book in yours here Find out more about working with Geronimo at thegeronimoacademy.com Want to follow along behind the scenes? Check out @thegeronimoacademy and @hey.doza
Today, I have the privilege of sharing a recent conversation with Rohan Dredge. I have known Rohan and his incredible wife Megan for nearly 25 years. He has consistently been a guiding leadership voice in my life. With a Master's in Educational Psychology and extensive experience as an executive coach, Rohan has trained some of Australia's most impressive business leaders. Rohan has an innate talent for identifying blind spots in individuals, teams, and organizations. He crafts effective strategies that enhance workplace culture and significantly boost performance outcomes. He is currently the CEO of a remarkable organisation called Pragmatic Thinking. I hope you find this conversation as insightful as I did. You can connect with me here:
Deebs and Mads are in the Image online studio to talk about the win over the Giants. The upcoming clash over the Dockers and talk everything else Sydney Swans.Thanks to our sponsors Pragmatic Thinking, Dingo Landscapes and Big eSims Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Deebs and Mads are in the Image online studio Interview Justin McInerney. We talk about the Win over the Crows, preview the clash against the Giants and talk everything else Sydney Swans.Thanks to our sponsors Pragmatic Thinking, Dingo Landscapes and Big eSims Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Deebs and Mads are in the Image online studio to talk about the Win over the Cats. To Preview the clash against he Crows and everything else Sydney Swans.Thanks to our sponsors Pragmatic Thinking, Dingo Landscapes and Big eSims Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Deebs, Mads & Polly are in the Image online studio to talk Bloods footy. We also preview the game against the CattersThanks to our sponsors Pragmatic Thinking, Dingo Landscapes and Big eSims Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Deebs, Mads and the 'Gather Round Guy' Tommy Flanas are in the Image online studio to review the outstanding win over the Gold Coast, Preview the upcoming clash against he Hawks and everything else Sydney SwansThanks to our sponsors Pragmatic Thinking & OnstoneDon't miss out on our Merch! limited stock available click HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Only 3% of women entrepreneurs in the USA reach over 7-figures in their business. In this enlightening episode, we embark on a journey with Rashel Hariri to uncover the essential characteristics of 7-figure founders. Through Rashel's insights and experiences working with high net worth founders who have scaled to 7-figures and 8-figures, we dive into the 4 characteristics of successful entrepreneurs through pragmatic strategies that have propelled entrepreneurs to remarkable success. In this episode, we cover: (0:41) Intro to the 4 characteristics of successful 7-figure founders (3:35) Characteristic 1: Pragmatic Thinking (10:15) Characteristic 2: Decisiveness and Quick Decision Making (14:15) Characteristic 3: Conviction and Unwavering Belief (17:02) Characteristic 4: Flexibility and Creativity Let's keep in touch! Newsletter: https://shesinteresting-newsletter.beehiiv.com/ Instagram: @shesinterestingpodcast TikTok: @shesinterestingpodcast LinkedIn: @shesinterestingpodcast Website: shesinteresting.com Music Credits Intro music: Lifeline by Kaleido
Deebs and Mads are in the Image online studio to interview our man Errol Gulden along with the preview for the clash against the Gold Coast.Thanks to our sponsors Pragmatic Thinking & OnstoneDon't miss out on our Merch! limited stock available click HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Deebs and Mads are in the Image online studio to talk about the win over the Eagles and everything else Sydney SwansThanks to our sponsors Pragmatic Thinking & OnstoneDon't miss out on our Merch! limited stock available click HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Deebs and Mads are in the Image online studio to pull apart the loss to the Tiges. The upcoming clash against the Eagles and everything else Sydney Swans. Thanks to our sponsors Pragmatic Thinking & OnstoneDon't miss out on our Merch! limited stock available click HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Do your managers show up every day and treat your gym like it's their own? Do you feel like you're more of a lighthouse to your team or a tug boat? When we spoke to our clients in The Geronimo Academy, 100% of them at some point in the last 3 months said that team alignment (and how to be a better leader) was their biggest challenge … so we've got OUR leadership Coach Rohan Dredge on to give you some tactics and advice that will change the game so you can get the most out of YOURSELF and YOUR TEAM. Rohan is the CEO of Pragmatic Thinking, a behaviour and motivation strategy company; and works with companies like Qantas, Toyota, Siemens, Suncorp, Laminex .. Geronimo and loads more. Not only does Rohan have a master's in educational psychology and over 30 years in leadership development and organisational change - he's also one of the most passionate people I know in this space and the insights he's provided for both me personally and for our owners and managers has been life-changing. Rather than just asking any questions we decided to put a question box out to you to see what YOU struggle with the most and what you'd want to know about leadership, so in today's episode you'll hear the answers to those along with some unfiltered feedback from Rohan to Ben and I on what WE need to improve as leaders. You'll hear: How to set KPIs that your team are CLEAR on, EXCITED about and actually HIT targets The reason your managers aren't performing and following you (it's not what you think) THREE things that will set you apart from EVERY other gym and studio owner out there so you can attract and retain better TALENT, and they can attract and retain better MEMBERS for you. … and a whole lot more! Want to level up your leadership? Check out this free resource that will take you from studio owner or manager to LEADER WANT MORE: To say thank you for listening to the pod we're offering a FREE GROWTH GAME PLAN for your gym or fitness studio, which you can book in here Find out more about working with Geronimo at thegeronimoacademy.com Want to follow along behind the scenes? Check out @thegeronimoacademy and @hey.doza
This week on The Tradie Show, you'll hear from a country bloke who's gone on the be a trusted adviser for some of the biggest brands on the planet! He's also co-written a book titled: Dealing with the Tough Stuff, How to Achieve Results from Key Conversations.Meet Darren Hill, from Pragmatic Thinking, who speaks with Andy and Ange about being a leader in 2023. You'll learn practical tips and be truly captivated by this important conversation on leading a high-performing team... you'll be surprised!CONNECT WITH US: 1. Join The Tradie Show Discussion Group Click HERE to join the thousands of tradies in our Facebook Community and stay up to date with the conversations, and free information. 2. Book in a free Strategy Session with Andy In this session, you'll smash out what you need to next in your trade business to provide you with clarity and direction. Click HERE to lock in your chat now.
Americans are noted, pragmatists. It has served us well at times, but there is a problem with pragmatic thinking. Let's talk about it.
Ali Hill is the CEO of Australian Financial Review Fast 100 company Pragmatic Thinking, she's a psychologist and a best-selling author of the book “Stand Out: A real world guide to get clear, find purpose and become the boss of busy”. We discuss how to have conversations with our bosses about boundaries, acceptance and why we need modern workplaces. Join the OG Discord server! https://discord.gg/8H4arNb6 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Empowering a team starts with empowering yourself. In today's episode of IntHerrupt, Linda is joined by sales coach and Chief Growth Officer of Consult Speak Coach Cheryl Parks. Cheryl got into sales to make a nice life for herself, and she mentally walked her mind into a new way of thinking to do her best in the business. Breaking out of the mindset dichotomy: It starts with one decision. Cheryl realized she wouldn't reach her goals if she didn't change something about her life. At first, she never wanted to be seen and instead wanted to hide in the background. To be someone new, she pretends to be someone else. She started mindset shifting, preparing herself to be confident and outgoing in her work. Keep affirmations on your phone, listen to motivational music; there are many things you can do to trick your brain into a new way of thinking. The benefit of empowering your team: Buyers are significantly savvier than they were before. 70% of decision-making is completed by the time a salesperson starts a conversation. A huge proponent of diverse experiences is diverse connections. You are only as strong as the weakest person in your team. If someone isn't interested in what's happening, the team will only get that far. To improve team empowerment, prepare everyone and meet people where they are. Talk through the situation, practice, and if you see it a few more times, you'll feel more comfortable. If the person can't get past themselves, there may be a conversation about whether or not they should be a part of the discussion. Empowering other stakeholders impacted by decisions: Communication. Simon Sinek's Start with Why explains that people are more focused and supportive of an idea or methodology when they understand its why. If you can explain why you're doing what you're doing to other stakeholders, it can be helpful. Communicate with people impacted by a decision. The time and energy that goes into supporting an opportunity is an investment, and everyone will bring their best energy if they know what's happening. Other empowerment methods: Spend time with high-action people who keep you accountable. Be around people who have a similar thought process. Manages your energy - give yourself time to take a walk, get some sunshine, or do whatever you need to maintain energy. Connect with Cheryl on LinkedIn for more content and to stay up-to-date on her work. Do you have stories to tell? Connect with Linda to share them. This podcast is produced by TSE Studios. Check out other podcasts by TSE Studios, including this episode's sponsor, The Sales Evangelist, helping new and struggling sellers close more deals and achieve their sales goals. Subscribe to the IntHERrupt Podcast so you won't miss a single show. Find us on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. Audio created by Ryan Rasmussen Productions.
For the second time Ben and Tim talk to psychologist Al Hill. The first time Ali interviewed Ben, Tim and Dr Dan Pronk…. And Ben and Tim nicked the audio! This time around they interview Ali on ‘Stand Out Lives'. Talking ‘working from anywhere', psychological transition and what leaders need to be aware of in this brave new world! Also- what are your moments Ali is CEO of AFR Fast 100 company Pragmatic Thinking, Ali is a Psychologist, an award-winning business woman, an influential keynote speaker, producer and host of Stand Out Life podcast, regular on mainstream media, and a best-selling author. 4:30 What has Ali done since Christmas? More health and adventure! 08:00 How Ali manages business partner and life partner (the same person!)- and psychological transitions from work to home? 09:50 Multi-tasking is a myth… how to work from anywhere…. But not work from everywhere 15:00 How will the COVID working experiment play out? The importance of face to face working….. can we risk losing it? 17:25 What does a hybrid look like? 19:25 The new challenges for leaders…. Are there any? 24:40 Dealing with the tough stuff- having difficult conversations 28:30 How do we find the moments of magic? 31:10 Moments that matter …. Decipher these in your life. Our first sporting analogy (in this episode)! 34:45 Our second sporting conversation- on cricket and training mindfulness in order to be very attentive 38:50 Tuning into the little things…. Becoming a virtuous circle. 39:45 The author's journey. Ali talks about writing. 44:30 Ali's 6 must reads for 2022…. The window into Ali's soul 48:10 How would I know I was wrong about this? 50:50 What is Ali's powersong? www.unforgiving60.com Email us at debrief@unforgiving60.com Instagram, Twitter: @Unforgiving60 External Links https://www.alisonhill.com.au Music Mitchell Martin available on Spotify The Externals – available on Spotify Nick Kali- Available on Spotify Ben Frichot - available on Spotify
Today we are joined by Rohan Dredge of Pragmatic Thinking. For over two decades Rohan has developed leaders, cultures and tribes that work at deep levels of connection and strong levels of execution. He specialises in sustainable and high performing cultures that help technical experts become people leaders. You'll learn:
Today we are joined by Rohan Dredge of Pragmatic Thinking.For over two decades Rohan has developed leaders, cultures and tribes that work at deep levels of connection and strong levels of execution. He specialises in sustainable and high performing cultures that help technical experts become people leaders.You'll learn:
Do you ever knock on wood to keep something bad from happening or cross your fingers when you want something good to happen? Do you make a wish when you blow out candles and have an item of clothing or a thing that you consider lucky . All of these ideas are connected to a term called magical thinking . In this episode of Get Big Out Loud we ll explore how magical thinking works and discuss how striking a balance between magical and pragmatic thinking can not only give us hope but also help us take action towards things that matter in our lives. Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/
FLG_S2_E22: For Leaders Global www.forleadersglobal.com Alison Hill has years of knowledge and experience through her work within clinical psychology, as well as starting and maintaining a business. However, what makes Alison's expertise so powerful, is that she is also a prolific teacher and writer. Alison has an incredible aptitude when it comes to diffusing the complexities of business and life, and making the solutions tangible and pragmatic for all types of learners. On this episode, Alison speaks with a captivating tone where you just need to hear “what's next”. From purpose, to passion, to people and culture, hybrid work and well placed authentic empathy, Alison has the topics covered. This show will help you stand out by encouraging you to find your rhythm - where performance is at the maximum and your personhood is fueled by passion and cause. This show will also challenge some notions of the way you might approach your work day, coaxing you to think and function differently when it comes to the hybrid model. ABOUT ALISON HILL: pragmaticthinking.com Ali is a registered Psychologist, author and CEO of three-time AFR Fast 100 company, Pragmatic Thinking—a behaviour and motivation strategy company that helps organisations build better leaders by building better people. Co-awarded Educator of the Year in 2018, as business woman and international keynote speaker, Ali's work has made its way into businesses you may have heard of... Amazon, Virgin Australia, Suncorp, PepsiCo, Siemens, McDonalds, and Commonwealth Bank, to name a few. On top of all this, Ali's the author of three best-selling books, as well as host and producer of one of Australia's top podcasts, Stand Out Life where she digs into the stories behind some of the world's greatest thought leaders and talents who lead truly inspiring lives. FOR LEADERS GLOBAL: To discover your leadership voice order and explore resources and opportunities for you or your organisation, head to www.ForLeadersGlobal.com or email: hello@forleadersglobal.com
Lernen und Kompetenz: Können ist wie Machen mit Ahnung In dieser kne:buster-Folge »Lernen und Kompetenz« sprechen Alexander Jungwirth und Stefan Knecht über ebendas: wie Kompetenzen entstehen und aus Einsteigern Experten werden. Experten werden können — wenn ein paar Randbedingungen passen. »Kompetenz entwickelt sich nicht durch Einsicht sondern durch emotionale Labilisierung: in Beziehung gehen, sich öffnen -- Vertrauen haben etwas zu tun, was man sonst nicht tut.« — (Arnold 2015) TL;DR? ( »too long, didn't read«) kleiner Anreisser-Beitrag auf digitalien.org: Die Guglhupf-Analogie: wie lernen Menschen? Quellen, Literatur Arnold, Rolf. 2015. “Wie man führt, ohne zu dominieren - Wie man lehrt, ohne zu belehren” https://youtu.be/5CdcCFd7JGY 48min, Vortrag am 5. KATA-Praktikertag am 20.11.2015 Stuttgart Benner, Patricia E., Christine Tanner, and Catherine Chesla. 1992. ‘From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice'. Advanced Nursery Science, 14(3), , 13–28. Bloom, Benjamin S., and Lauren A. Sosniak, eds. 1985. Developing Talent in Young People. 1st ed. New York: Ballantine Books. 978-0-345-31951-7 978-0-345-31509-0 Dreyfus, H. & Dreyfus, St. (1986/87). Künstliche Intelligenz. Von den Grenzen der Denkmaschine und dem Wert der Intuition. Reinbek b. Hamburg: Rowohlt. (Orig.: Mind Over Machine. The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer. New York: The Free Press, 1986). Gobet, F. & Charness, N. (2018). Expertise in chess. In K. A. Ericsson, R. R. Hoffman, A. Kozbelt & A. M. Williams (Hg.), The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. 2. Auflage (597–615). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Gruber, H., Harteis, C. & Rehrl, M. (2006). Professional Learning: Erfahrung als Grundlage von Handlungskompetenz. Bildung und Erziehung, 59, 193–203 Hakkarainen, K., Palonen, T., Paavola, S. & Lehtinen, E. (2004). Communities of Networked Expertise: Educational and Professional Perspectives. Amsterdam: Elsevier Hayes, John R. 1981. The Complete Problem Solver. Philadelphia, Pa: Franklin Institute Press. 978-0-89168-028-4 Honecker, Erich — zitiert in der Festansprache zum 40. Jahrestag der DDR, 7. Oktober 1989, glasnost.de -- siehe auch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VphPebctAsM Hunt, Andrew. 2008. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your ‘Wetware'. Pragmatic Programmers. Raleigh: Pragmatic. (daraus stammt die Dreyfus-Geschichte, p22ff) “In the 1970s, the brothers Dreyfus (Hubert and Stuart) began doing their seminal research on how people attain and master skills.” “Once upon a time, two researchers (brothers) wanted to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence. They wanted to write software that would learn and attain skills in the same manner that humans learn and gain skill (or prove that it couldn't be done). To do that, they first had to study how humans learn.” “The Dreyfus brothers looked at highly skilled practitioners, including commercial airline pilots and world-renowned chess masters. Their research showed that quite a bit changes as you move from novice to expert. You don't just “know more” or gain skill. Instead, you experience fundamental differences in how you perceive the world, how you approach problem solving, and the mental models you form and use. How you go about acquiring new skills changes. External factors that help your performance — or hinder it — change as well. Unlike other models or assessments that rate the whole person, the Dreyfus model is applicable per skill. In other words, it's a situational model and not a trait or talent model.” Kruger, Justin, and David Dunning. n.d. ‘Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (PDF Download Available)'. ResearchGate. Accessed 9 February 2017. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12688660_Unskilled_and_Unaware_of_It_How_Difficulties_in_Recognizing_One's_Own_Incompetence_Lead_to_Inflated_Self-Assessments. Lehmann, A. C. & Gruber, H. (2006). Music. In K. A. Ericsson, N. Charness, R. R. Hoffman & P. J. Feltovich (Hg.), The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (457–470). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Neuweg, Georg Hans. 2020. “Etwas können. Ein Beitrag zu einer Phänomenologie der Könnerschaft” in: Georg Hans Neuweg; Rico Hermkes; Tim Bonowski (Hg.)Implizites Wissen Berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogische Annäherungen. 2020. ISBN: 9783763965953 -- E-Book (PDF):ISBN: 9783763965953 -- DOI: 10.3278/6004682w - wbv-open-access.de Schön, D. A. (1983). The Reflective Practitioner. How Professionals Think in Action. New York: Basic Books. Williams, A. M., Ford, P. R., Hodges, N. J. & Ward, P. (2018). Expertise in sport: Specificity, plasticity, and adaptability in high-performance athletes. In K. A. Ericsson, R. R. Hoffman, A. Kozbelt & A. M. Williams (Hg.), The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. 2. Auflage (653–673). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Welcome to the Financial Secrets Revealed podcast episode where Amanda Cassar introduces Alison Hill, CEO of Pragmatic Thinking and host of the Stand Out Life Podcast and The Business of People. I first met Ali through the fabulous Australian networking group Business Chicks, where I admired from afar as she trekked off to Malawi with The Hunger Project and built her firm with hubby Darren into a AFR Fast 100 company.Ali is a fellow Gold Coaster, mum, chief Head Mechanic, author, speaker, and podcaster, and features regularly in the media.Ali shares her personal and business journey including financial setbacks and having to revisit her own money story after relocating interstate and how she now manages her money.“We now keep a close eye on the figures, work out where to invest in the business and make sure our ‘business and life' strategy meets our family's needs.” – Alison Hill.LinksAli Hill (alisonhill.com.au) (Speaking Website) Stand Out Life on Apple Podcasts (Stand Out Life Podcast)Alison Hill | LinkedIn (LinkedIn profile)Pragmatic Thinking - Lead Better | Leadership Training (Corporate Website)The Business of People Podcast | Pragmatic Thinking The Business of People Podcast Offer Purchase your copy of Financial Secrets Revealed on Amazon: Financial Secrets Revealed: Cassar, Amanda: Amazon.com.au: BooksPurchase your copy of the book on Booktopia:Financial Secrets Revealed, Collective Wisdom from Business Gurus, Financial Geniuses and Everyday Heroes by Amanda Cassar | 9781925648546 | BooktopiaPurchase your copy of the book on Barnes & Noble:Financial Secrets Revealed by Amanda Cassar, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)Follow Catch up with Amanda Cassar, host of Financial Secrets Revealed on Twitter and Instagram @financechicks or on LinkedIn at Amanda Cassar | LinkedInWebsites: https://amandacassar.com.au/ https://www.wealthplanningpartners.com.au/ (company website)https://trustedagedcare.com.au/ (company website) Or follow Ali's adventures on Twitter @alihilltweet or Instragram @alihill Support the show
Ned and Meg revisit one of their favorite books, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, by Andy Hunt, and they discuss the concept of an expansive context. Also, multitasking makes you stoopid, so knock it off and remove that “skill” from your resume. Thank you for listening to us (especially Buster), and wash your hands, wear a mask, get the shots, don't be a dick.
The panel gets together to discuss how they learn new things and what things are important to learn. They start out discussing how to learn new things. They they go into how to keep up on the never-ending releases within the JavaScript ecosystem. Panel Aimee KnightAJ O'NealCharles Max WoodDan Shappir Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorRaygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trialPodcastBootcamp.io Picks Aimee- The Cloudflare BlogAJ- Crockford on JSAJ- Beyond Code Project IdeasAJ- JS.ORGAJ- Markdown Cheat SheetAJ- BlissCharles- Level up | Devchat.tvCharles- Pragmatic Thinking and LearningCharles- 131 RR How to Learn | Devchat.tvDan- Dan Shappir on TwitterDan- Devchat.tvDan- WebPageTest Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote SpeakerGitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight )Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight )LinkedIn: Aimee K.aimeemarieknight | InstagramAimee Knight | Facebook Contact AJ: AJ ONealCoolAJ86 on GITBeyond Code BootcampBeyond Code Bootcamp | GitHubFollow Beyond Code Bootcamp | FacebookTwitter: Beyond Code Bootcamp ( @_beyondcode ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tvDevChat.tv | FacebookTwitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir )LinkedIn: Dan ShappirTwitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir )
The panel gets together to discuss how they learn new things and what things are important to learn. They start out discussing how to learn new things. They they go into how to keep up on the never-ending releases within the JavaScript ecosystem. Panel Aimee KnightAJ O'NealCharles Max WoodDan Shappir Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorRaygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trialPodcastBootcamp.io Picks Aimee- The Cloudflare BlogAJ- Crockford on JSAJ- Beyond Code Project IdeasAJ- JS.ORGAJ- Markdown Cheat SheetAJ- BlissCharles- Level up | Devchat.tvCharles- Pragmatic Thinking and LearningCharles- 131 RR How to Learn | Devchat.tvDan- Dan Shappir on TwitterDan- Devchat.tvDan- WebPageTest Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote SpeakerGitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight )Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight )LinkedIn: Aimee K.aimeemarieknight | InstagramAimee Knight | Facebook Contact AJ: AJ ONealCoolAJ86 on GITBeyond Code BootcampBeyond Code Bootcamp | GitHubFollow Beyond Code Bootcamp | FacebookTwitter: Beyond Code Bootcamp ( @_beyondcode ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tvDevChat.tv | FacebookTwitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir )LinkedIn: Dan ShappirTwitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir )
The panel gets together to discuss how they learn new things and what things are important to learn. They start out discussing how to learn new things. They they go into how to keep up on the never-ending releases within the JavaScript ecosystem. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Picks Aimee- The Cloudflare Blog AJ- Crockford on JS AJ- Beyond Code Project Ideas AJ- JS.ORG AJ- Markdown Cheat Sheet AJ- Bliss Charles- Level up | Devchat.tv Charles- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning Charles- 131 RR How to Learn | Devchat.tv Dan- Dan Shappir on Twitter Dan- Devchat.tv Dan- WebPageTest Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote Speaker GitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight ) Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight ) LinkedIn: Aimee K. aimeemarieknight | Instagram Aimee Knight | Facebook Contact AJ: AJ ONeal CoolAJ86 on GIT Beyond Code Bootcamp Beyond Code Bootcamp | GitHub Follow Beyond Code Bootcamp | Facebook Twitter: Beyond Code Bootcamp ( @_beyondcode ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir ) LinkedIn: Dan Shappir Twitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir )
The panel gets together to discuss how they learn new things and what things are important to learn. They start out discussing how to learn new things. They they go into how to keep up on the never-ending releases within the JavaScript ecosystem. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Picks Aimee- The Cloudflare Blog AJ- Crockford on JS AJ- Beyond Code Project Ideas AJ- JS.ORG AJ- Markdown Cheat Sheet AJ- Bliss Charles- Level up | Devchat.tv Charles- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning Charles- 131 RR How to Learn | Devchat.tv Dan- Dan Shappir on Twitter Dan- Devchat.tv Dan- WebPageTest Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote Speaker GitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight ) Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight ) LinkedIn: Aimee K. aimeemarieknight | Instagram Aimee Knight | Facebook Contact AJ: AJ ONeal CoolAJ86 on GIT Beyond Code Bootcamp Beyond Code Bootcamp | GitHub Follow Beyond Code Bootcamp | Facebook Twitter: Beyond Code Bootcamp ( @_beyondcode ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir ) LinkedIn: Dan Shappir Twitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir )
The panel gets together to discuss how they learn new things and what things are important to learn. They start out discussing how to learn new things. They they go into how to keep up on the never-ending releases within the JavaScript ecosystem. Panel Aimee Knight AJ O'Neal Charles Max Wood Dan Shappir Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial PodcastBootcamp.io Picks Aimee- The Cloudflare Blog AJ- Crockford on JS AJ- Beyond Code Project Ideas AJ- JS.ORG AJ- Markdown Cheat Sheet AJ- Bliss Charles- Level up | Devchat.tv Charles- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning Charles- 131 RR How to Learn | Devchat.tv Dan- Dan Shappir on Twitter Dan- Devchat.tv Dan- WebPageTest Contact Aimee: Aimee Knight – Software Architect, and International Keynote Speaker GitHub: Aimee Knight ( AimeeKnight ) Twitter: Aimee Knight ( @Aimee_Knight ) LinkedIn: Aimee K. aimeemarieknight | Instagram Aimee Knight | Facebook Contact AJ: AJ ONeal CoolAJ86 on GIT Beyond Code Bootcamp Beyond Code Bootcamp | GitHub Follow Beyond Code Bootcamp | Facebook Twitter: Beyond Code Bootcamp ( @_beyondcode ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Dan: GitHub: Dan Shappir ( DanShappir ) LinkedIn: Dan Shappir Twitter: Dan Shappir ( @DanShappir )
Alison Hill is the CEO of AFR Fast 100 company Pragmatic Thinking, working with organisations to build better leaders, grow better teams, and shift cultures. Ali is a Psychologist, an award-winning business woman, an influential keynote speaker, producer and host of Stand Out Life podcast, regular on mainstream media, and a best-selling author.A hybrid work environment has become commonplace, and it's no wonder considering the huge potential benefits to both employers and employees. But how can you make it work for your team?This week, we interviewed Ali Hill on what exactly hybrid working is and how you can use it to create a high performing team. She answers questions like 'How do you know your people are working while at home?', 'How do we keep a good work culture?' and 'What if we have people that HAVE to be in the office?'.Ali also shares the three pillars of success when it comes to creating a framework for your hybrid work environment and how you can implement them in your organisation. Links Buy Ali's book here Check out Ali's website here Connect with Ali through her LinkedIn here Where else you can find usWebsite: https://thebreakthrough.coLinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-companyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/
In this episode Brendan Hill talks with a special guest that has something a bit different to offer our SME marketers and businesses. Our guest is pro surfing legend, Mark Matthews.Mark has made a living achieving the unfathomable: crossing the intersection of danger and excitement. He knows all too well the crippling grasp of fear.While in Tasmania, fifteen feet in front of a cliff in cold, shark infested waters, Mark hit a reef and instantly blacked out. Terror engulfed every inch of his being. Neck braced and hospital-ridden, he didn't know if he could ever surf again. At that moment, Mark made a decision never to allow fear to overpower him again.With his presentation business ” Life Beyond Fear” has him deconstructing, fine-tuning, and personalizing emotional resilience techniques to successfully strengthen one's mindset and sustain long term performance.These techniques have helped him win an unprecedented three consecutive Oakley Big Wave Awards and cement him as one of the best big waves surfers in the world. In this episode you will learn: How Mark overcomes the fear of surfing 50-foot waves and how you can apply these techniques to areas of your businessHow to get out of your comfort zone to get the experience you need to create that new comfort zone where new opportunities lieHow to build a personal brandHow Mark became a world-class keynote speaker when he couldn't even speak in front of a room of people at the beginningAdvantages of keeping your pitches raw and unpolishedHow to make your business more authentic and attract customersWhy having a high level of authenticity in every aspect of your business increases your chances of successHow to improve your presentation skillsWhy you need to have a plan in place for all business scenariosThe powerful moment that changed Mark's mindset after being told by doctors that he'd never surf againThe importance of building your own audienceHow studying standup comedy can make you a better public speakerResources Mentioned:Mark's Instagram AccountRed Bull Cape Fear (see Mark @ 48 seconds)Pragmatic ThinkingUpworkLinkedIn HelperMasterclassQuotes: When you push yourself through that fear and anxiety, usually the experience, feeling, result or success on the other side feels like that Holy Grail. You get that intrinsic reward and the external rewards that make it feel like a Holy Grail - like life's worth living.Talk to your audience like you're talking to one person, like you're talking to a friend and carry that tone. Match it to how you would just speak to a close friend, because you speak to your closest friends with the most authenticity.When you build your own audience you become like a small marketing agency yourself.There will be people that enjoy watching you do what you do. That's my model. Just stick to what you like. It's too tiring trying to be someone that you're not.What Business would you build on Mars?"It would have to be indoor wave pools. And surfing sells itself. All you got to do is offer a few free surf lessons and when people experience that feeling, what else is there going to be to do on Mars than ride a few waves? It will sell itself."Get in touch with Mark:markmathews.comMark on InstagramMark on LinkedInTranscript:Brendan:Mark, welcome to the show.Mark:Thanks for having me, Brendan.Brendan:You have an amazing LinkedIn profile, that's where I first found out about you. Can you tell us more about big wave surfing?Mark:Big wave surfing, I mean, that's my life. It's been my life for the last 15 years. It was my avenue to build a career out of the sport of surfing, even though I wasn't quite good enough or talented enough to be a competitive or a world champion level surfer.Brendan: Right.Mark:It was just this different avenue that I found that I could manufacture myself a career out of the sport that I loved.Brendan:Wow. When did you come to the realization that you could follow your passion and make that your career?Mark:It happened when I was about 20, so I was working, actually, here in Sydney, down at Darling Harbor, making coffees and cocktails at night. Out of the blue, I got asked to go on a surf trip down to Tasmania to surf a new wave that had been getting talked about in the industry. It was being heralded as one of the biggest and scariest waves that another had ever seen.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And no one had really photographed it at that point in time. And no part of me wanted to go and surf it, because I'd never really surfed big waves and I was absolutely terrified when I got the call. And it was funny because I couldn't figure out why they were calling me because I was kind of a no one in the industry of surfing.Brendan: Right.Mark:I found out down the track they probably called about 30 or 40 other surfers before they got to my name at the bottom of the list. Everyone politely declined because the waves sounded so scary, but I didn't have the chance of saying no. If I had said no, I would never have got my career off the ground because at that point, I didn't have the major sponsorships. Anyway, I went down to Tasmania, one thing lead to another and I ended up surfing waves bigger than I'd ever surfed before in my life.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And the photos and footage of that trip went around the world and I got my first surfing sponsorships and then that basically gave me the blueprint of what I needed to do to make a career, it was travel around the world, chase down the biggest waves I could find, surf them, create content, let that content get in the media and based on the media value, I'd get the sponsorship dollars.Brendan:Wow. So how big are these waves that we're talking about?Mark:Down in Tasmania, that first time, it was in the 15 to 20 foot range, but the way the waves break down there is what makes them so spectacular and dangerous. So super deep water waves breaking on a really shallow rock ledge, which magnifies the power and the spectacular nature of the waves. To me, way more dangerous than say, if I go and surf waves in excess of 50 feet, but break in deep water, while they look and are a whole lot bigger, it's nowhere near as dangerous or spectacular.Brendan:So in terms of taking that first step, I know that one of your mantras is life beyond fear, the other side of fear. So taking that first step. A good example, I just finished watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on Netflix and when he's walking over that invisible gap to get the Holy Grail-Mark:I know the one.Brendan:Yeah, it's that first step. And I can imagine these massive waves passing by and 15, 20 feet, I mean, up to 50 feet, as you say. Can you tell us more about that first step and how to overcome fear? Because I mean, it has parallels in business as well. That first step is always the hardest.Mark:100%. And that's the interesting thing, because as scary as big wave surfing is, and the thought or the reality of maybe drowning, for me, I find public speaking and keynoting that I do now more stressful. I get more anxiety from it, it wears me down more than big wave surfing ever did.Brendan: Wow.Mark:So that's where the corelation is between what action sports people do and what business people do because fear is fear. It doesn't matter whether it's a fear of physical danger or harm or a fear of failure or not being good enough or making mistakes. The way your body reacts is exactly the same. So across the board, I think that's where the relationship is. And then like you said, the Indiana Jones reference is perfect.It's like the steps across the invisible bridge to the Holy Grail, in my head, it's so terrifying to get out of your comfort zone to get the experience you need to create that new comfort zone where the opportunities are, whether in business or in the sport of surfing. But when you do that and you push yourself through that fear and anxiety, usually the experience or the feeling or the result or the success on the other side feels like that Holy Grail. You get that intrinsic reward and the external rewards that make it feel like a Holy Grail, like life's worth living when you push yourself like that.Brendan:Yeah. It's interesting that you say that you get more anxiety now about public speaking than big wave surfing, validating what Jerry Seinfeld always says, "Public speaking is the number one human fear, followed by death at number two." Big wave surfing, I can imagine, wouldn't be far behind these monster swells.Mark:Yeah, I think Jerry is definitely right. For an introvert, anyway, I'm highly introverted, so public speaking is the scariest thing in life for me.Brendan:So what made you jump into public speaking after your career in big wave surfing?Mark:I had a sponsor who sponsored me from when I was in my early twenties, his best friend was in the world of corporate training and had a background climbing mountains and brought that to the business world and then he had said to me, years ago, in my early twenties, that this is the career path that you should look to take while you're still big wave surfing, so that you can build it then and then be able to carry it on down the track when I'm 50, when I can't surf big waves anymore. 60, maybe. I'm pushing for 60.Mark:And at the time, I was like, "There's no way I'm ever doing that" because for me, I couldn't even stand in front of a classroom when I was a kid and read from a book, I would stutter so bad, I'd have so much anxiety, so it took a lot for me to be able to do it. Spent untold amounts of money doing every speaking course under the sun.But eventually, it was exactly like learning to surf big waves, the exposure and the experience just builds up and then you build that new skill set so that it doesn't matter who you stand in front of, who I'm standing in front now, I've got the tools and the skills to dig into my bag and perform on stage and I don't have to feel too anxious about it now but originally, it was tough.Brendan:Yeah. Do you remember your first big keynote speech?Mark:I do. I was in Hawaii and it was for an insurance company and I got offered the talk two weeks before the event and I didn't have a keynote at all.Brendan: Wow.Mark:So I wrote the keynote in the two weeks before. The only person I said it in front of was my mom.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And I did the keynote in front of her and she actually features in the keynote because she's one of my big motivators in life to be successful. And she had a tear in her eye when I told her and that was kind of enough, I was like, "Okay. We'll see how it goes." And if I look back on the delivery of the keynote that I gave, the delivery was very average, but the bed of the keynote has almost stayed exactly the same. That's what I deliver today. And the feedback that I got from the audience was amazing, off that first keynote.Brendan:Right.Mark:I had the bosses say, "This is what you've got to do in life." And they just enjoyed, I think, the fact that I was so raw and real on stage because I had no other choice but to be that way. And it wasn't really too polished.Brendan: Right.Mark:And I've always taken that as I've gone on in keynote speaking, never to become that over-polished speaker that's talking to a track, because I think for the audience, you have to remember that they're seeing you for the first time, they want it to be real. Even though I'm telling the same thing that I've told a thousand times, it needs to feel real in that moment and the connection has to be real with the audience for them to even remotely take in what you're going to say.Brendan:Yeah. It's a interesting point that you touch on there, authenticity. So I guess that's part of your brand, being really authentic and not being too polished. I mean, when we go on social media feeds, like on Instagram, everyone is looking very polished. How can businesses become more authentic and tell their real story and start to, like yourself, really resonate with their audience?Mark:Ah, man, I think it takes courage to do that and it's tricky for businesses. When you have all these insurance factors and regulators and all this stuff hanging over the top of you and then investors, and depending on what size business you're running, to really let people know authentically what's happening within the business, where you're planning to go and all that, it takes courage, but I find that if you looked into some case studies on it, it is worth while to do.And especially small businesses and small business owners needing the motivation to do what they're going to have to do to be successful in small business, which is such a small amount of people pull that off, the authenticity level has to be there where you have to really love what you're doing and believe in it and there has to be deep meaning in what you're doing for you to go that extra level to the extent that you need to to be successful.So this authenticity on both aspects is how you run your business internally, but then how you speak to your customers, I think, both of them take some courage, but worth while.Brendan:And in terms of speaking to customers, you touched on presentation skills. Obviously very important in every day business. People are presenting on the phone, presenting in their content marketing, for example. What sort of tips can you give early stage businesseslistening on at home? Obviously, you had to learn from the ground up with your presentation skills for your keynotes. You did a lot of courses. People just starting now or wanting to improve their presentation skills, where do they start?Mark:I think the best tip that I got as far as tone, when you talk to someone, is that talk to your audience like you're talking to one person, like you're talking to a friend and carry that tone. And you've got to practice it and then watch yourself on video and see if you're carrying that tone because it's really hard to do initially, because when the camera's in front of you or the audience is in front of you, naturally, the anxiety shifts you into a different tone with the way you're speaking to people. But I think if you go back and watch what you look like and then try and match it to how you would just speak to a close friend, because you speak to your closest friends with the most authenticity, you know?Brendan: True. Yeah.Mark:And then if you can keep that tone, I think that helps a lot. And then by far, the most important thing is to be prepared. Unbelievably prepared. Nothing beats the fear of public speaking like preparation. You've going to have, for me, it's the same as surfing. So when I go and surf big waves, I'm ready for every worse case scenario that could possibly happen. I have a really detailed plan put in place.For example, if I blacked out under water and I had to be resuscitated, they had to restart my heart and then I had to call for a helicopter, we have the whole plan in place. So it takes some of that fear and that apprehension that you get in your mind in the lead up to scary moments away because I'm prepared for it. So the same way, if I'm going to do a keynote this afternoon, for WordPress, actually, here in Sydney, everything that could go wrong, I know exactly what to do.The whole power can shut off and I have to do my presentation without any photos or footage or anything like that, but I'm ready to do that.Brendan: Amazing.Mark:Or if my mind goes blank, which it does in front of an audience, if something happens, I've got a line and a story where I can go straight into at any point in my presentations.Brendan:It's a good idea. Yeah.Mark:Yeah. And then give myself the time to get back on track, so overly prepared is the key todealing with that kind of fear.Brendan:And speaking of scary moments, what was the scariest moments in your big wave surfing career?Mark:I've had a recent one where I dislocated my knee surfing down the South Coast of Sydney, five hours South of here. I hit the reef on about a 10 foot wave and completely dislocated my knee, tore every ligament and tendon.Brendan: Wow.Mark:Tore the major artery that runs through my leg. Major nerves. The pain that I experienced when I did that, I knew that something really bad had happened. And then to wake up the following morning in hospital after emergency surgery, and I was basically told that I was going to have a disability where I can't move my foot, I can't lift my foot anymore for the rest of my life.Brendan: Wow.Mark:So it was the doctors telling me, "Your surfing career is over."Brendan: Right.Mark:So that, by far, was the scariest, hearing that news was the scariest thing that I've been through within surfing. But managed to prove them wrong and I'm getting my surfing career back on track. It's taken me about two and a half years, but it's getting there.Brendan:Wow. So can you talk us through that mindset from being told you'll never surf again to rebuilding your career?Mark:I have to admit, the first six weeks to two months when I was stuck in hospital in the big metal frame brace, with my big wounds from the surgery on my leg and I couldn't get out of bed at all in the worst pain I've felt, nerve pain, by far, I've had almost every other injury youcan do, broken bones and stuff, but nothing compares to nerve pain. And yeah, in that two months I got really depressed. Not on the level of depression like suicidal depression, that's something completely different, but depressed in that I didn't want to see anyone. I'd given up hope of surfing again.Brendan: Wow.Mark:I wasn't sleeping because of the pain or they'd give me ridiculous amounts of medication to try and combat the pain, so it was that. All these things just lead to me being so unbelievably unhealthy, physically and mentally. It's interesting because it wasn't until, I'd like to say I just snapped myself out of it, but I didn't.It wasn't until I actually met a young guy in hospital who reached out to me on social media. And he said, "I've been following your career since I was young. Big fan. I'd love to come up and meet you and get a photo." Because he read that I was in Canberra Hospital and he was actually in there. And I didn't want to see anyone, so I didn't even reply. It was my wife who saw the message and wrote back to him and said, "Yeah, no worries, come up and get a photo."Mark:So this kid comes up probably three hours after I'd seen the message. He gets wheeled into my bedroom by his brother, he's a complete quadriplegic and had broken his neck about six months before I hurt myself and the moment that I shook Jason, his name was, hand, and I don't know if you've shook someone's hand who's a quadriplegic, it's confronting. They can't control their arm, anything. And he stuck out his arm with a big grin on his face. And the moment that I shook his hand, it was the craziest shift that I've ever had experienced in my life where my perspective or mindset about what I was dealing with did a complete 180.Mark:So I went from being really angry, full of self-pity for what had happened to me, blaming other people, the victim of this wipeout and this injury and just done with it to just feeling like the luckiest person on Earth because if I'd had hit that reef any other part of my body, I could have so easily been dealing with what he was dealing with. And his injury's a million times worse than mine and he's dealing with it that much better. So I was overcome with gratitude, feeling lucky. And from that moment onwards, it was like that feeling of feeling lucky about my situation was the catalyst to get me back on track. Everything fed on from there.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And now, two years later, after all the rehab, I've figured out how to surf good enough withthe disability that I can get back out into big waves. But I think meeting him and that shift in mindset was the saving grace for me in dealing with that.Brendan:That's an amazing story. So tell us about the first time after this accident that you got back on the surf board.Mark:I surfed a couple of times, probably a year down the track, but I would barely call it surfing, compared to what I've been doing. It was on a longboard, I could only just stand up. I could barely turn the board and at that moment, I was like, "It's nice to be surfing again, but this is ... It's nice to be out in the ocean and the water, but it's not really surfing for me."It took about another eight months after that to where I rode a wave and got my first barrel, say inside the barrel and caught a wave. Not a big wave, just sort of eight foot wave on the Gold Coast and that moment was just a game changer for me. All the hard work paid off because I could surf good enough just to do that, to get barrelled. It wasn't big waves and get my career on track, but that was enough.I was like, "If this is it, then that's fine." But then, my surfing ability just kept getting better and better after that, just up until about six weeks ago, I got to compete in the Red Bull Cap Fear event, a big wave surfing event down in Tasmania at that first wave that went to and I got my first big barrel there and that was the icing on the cake. That's two and a half years of rehab. Yeah, it was a good journey.Brendan:Yeah, amazing journey. And can you speak more on your mom being a major point of motivation in your life?Mark:Yeah. She's just on two different levels, but she's always been the type of person who has that internal reflection and thinks about who she is, what she's like and how she can be better, and she's always had that. She eventually does a lot of meditation and has lived in ashrams around the world and became a yoga teacher, so I think that rubbed off on me.How valuable it is to know yourself. Figure out who you are and try and work on your flaws and be better. So I think that rubbed off on me a lot. And then the other part is that I've just always wanted to, down the track, when she retires, support her, be able to buy her a house one day. It's the image that I always use in my head.Before I'm about to do something scary or when I got to get up early and go to training or when I've got to say no to eating that shit food and eat this boring food. All those things, I've just got this clear picture in my head of the day I get to buy her a house and I can see the excitement and that big smile on her face in those moments. So it's those two parts that she's only inspiring to me.Brendan:Yeah, amazing. So focusing on your business, now. Your brand that you've built for yourself and you mentioned that you went around the world chasing content. So talk us through, Iguess, your content strategy. You got the footage of you surfing the big waves. What did you do next?Mark:Yeah. It was interesting because from the start of my career, it went through the whole digital media revolution.Brendan: Oh, really?Mark:The first surf trip we did was on film, with cameras and photos. And then it was just going out into mainstream newspapers and stuff. And then we just tracked through the whole evolution of digital media in that time. So it's like having one of the first blogs in surfing that people could follow.Brendan: Wow.Mark:Because in my head, I had to make up for a lack of talent as a surfer by having the business smarts and how I could get the exposure and then that would make me as valuable as the other more talented surfers out there. That was what I always had, I was always looking for different things of how I could do that.And the digital media revolution was the game changer because then it wasn't up to the print media and surf magazines who had a stranglehold on the industry on who was successful. When you build your own audience and then you could show them and you've got your own audience, you become like a small marketing agency yourself.Brendan: Yeah.Mark:So by having that business smart, I controlled my destiny a little bit more. And yeah, I think it made that career, I could extend it longer also as well. So yeah, there are so many nuance things within that, how you do it, but it's the same core principle. Just show people what I love about what I do. Show them that and there's that many people out there on social media in the digital world.There will be people that enjoy watching you do what you do. That's what's my model. Just stick to what you like. It's too tiring trying to be someone that you're not. I could have gone down that path and you try and do the things that people like or that the big celebrities are doing, but to me, that seemed exhausting. It's just like, just show what you love about surfing and then see if people like it.Brendan:Yeah. It comes back to your point about talking to your best friends when you're doing your keynote.Mark: Yeah.Brendan:Focusing on that one person.Mark:Exactly. Yeah and then it keeps you authentic in a way.Brendan:And what channels are you using at the moment? Have you gone head first into video content as well? I imagine a lot of GoPro footage and ...Mark: Yeah.Brendan:Is live streaming possible in big wave surfing?Mark:It is. GoPro is a major sponsor of mine. I've always worked with them and that was just about me wanting to use the best cameras for what we did in action sports. I was always so interested in how can I make my audience get as close to this experience as possible as what I get inside the barrelling part of the wave. If you can help them try and experience that. The tiny point of view camera is where you can give that field and then the GoPro Fusion that shoots the 360 and virtual reality type content, they're awesome tools to be able to do that.And then on the live streaming front, when the technology became where it became possible to be able to set up these high production live feeds at the drop of a hat, because the difference in surfing as a sport, in big wave surfing as a sport, compared to say, live streaming a football game is what we do is all weather dependent. So I teamed up with Red Bull in that regard to create Red Bull Cape Fear, a big wave surf event.Brendan: Right.Mark:And it's the only company that, again, has set aside that kind of financial amount on the possibility that we may get big enough waves that year to run an event. I couldn't find, there was no other company out there that would just go, "Yeah, here's this much money" eventhough the event might not happen. You might only have a 50/50 chance of it happening. Yeah, so now we're able to do that in remote locations, so we could do that down in Tasmania, which is in the middle of nowhere where this wave breaks.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And we streamed it live to, I think, the numbers ended up being about 1.5 million people across a live feed and the first replay because it happens just when it happens, so people aren't prepared for it.Brendan: Right.Mark:We give them a 24 hour window.Brendan: Okay.Mark:Because that's when we got to take that the event's going to happen and then we send the production crews in, so yeah, that's been an interesting experience. I think that's been the latest frontier in regard to that digital media revolution and the way to bring surfing and big wave surfing to people.Brendan:Yeah, that's an amazing strategy. And what's next? What problems are you working on now in your business?Mark:For me, because I've been injured for the last couple of years, my main focus is keynote speaking in the corporate training world and establishing myself within there and really researching what companies and their employees and everyone needs to manage that hectic paced life of that corporate world. Because there's that sort of disconnect where companies want so much out of their employees.They want them to work ridiculous hours and the employees are getting burned out because of that but the world's so competitive that if you don't put up with that burnout, you'll lose your job because someone else will put their hand up and try and take it on. And so it's how can I equip those employees to still do the workload or the hours but not be as drained or affected by it? So it's how can you take on that and not have it rule their life where it destroys their relationships and their personal life? And I think that's, at the moment, within the corporate world, the Holy Grail of figuringthat complex web of its meaning for the employees to want to take on all the stress, they have to find that meaning and the company has to align with them to be able to do that. And then the physical aspect of being able to cope with the crazy work hours, so there's that physical element, whether it's diet, exercise, sleep, those parts.Mark:And then the relationship aspect of their work relationships and their personal relationships because that emotional side and that relationship side is the other big part of taxing you as a human. So it's a complex web, but I love it. For me, human performance on any level is amazing.I originally loved the freak performers who were the world champions at a given sport and how they did what they did, but the more you dive into that, it's like, usually once they're best of the best at something, they're freakishly genetically talented, which isn't that interesting to me.And then if they're not really good at one thing and really good at something completely different, then it's like the tools they're using to be good at one thing might not be transferrable to anyone else.Brendan: Right.Mark:Yeah. But when you see people that can go and be the highest level in one aspect of life and another aspect of life and another aspect of life, it's like whatever's working there is then transferrable. And that's what I've tried to find with surfing.I can conquer fear in the world of surfing, but do those same techniques and rules apply to public speaking or to developing business or to just all these other aspects of life? So I've just been testing them and I'm slowly coming up and still tweaking different programs and workshops for corporate.I deliver a keynote which is more on the inspirational side and then a more detailed workshop, where if I can get anywhere from three to six hours with an audience, then you can deep dive into it and make more lasting changes with people than a keynote can.Brendan:Yeah. And how do you find these companies to do the workshops, are they through their keynotes?Mark:Yes. There's lots of work out there for keynote speakers, if you're a half decent keynote speaker, the companies are coming knocking at your door.Brendan: Wow.Mark:And that's been the case, but because it's such a short amount of time, the companies don't mind giving you that little bit of time with the audience, because it's not as big an investment for them. Because the money that they pay you is not the expense, it's the investment of having a hundred employees sit there listening to you and they're not doing whatever other work they're supposed to be doing.So to then ask for three hours or six hours or a multi-tiered program over a year, where you make a radical culture change in a company, that's a big investment, money-wise and time-wise for them. So yeah, you've got to give to get, so it's like, "Here, we'll do it for you like this for a lesser amount and you'll see the results." And then now I've got the testimonials from certain companies, then the other companies can come aboard because they can believe what you're doing.Brendan:Yeah. And can you tell us any stories of the changes in culture and the results that you've seen in some of these companies?Mark:Yeah. To me, the interesting ones or the radical ones are usually the stress reduction ones, that's huge, and where you dive into stress programs. But then, if that's the main set of programs that you're doing, but then the offshoot of managing stress and creating resilience is say, a workshop around how to have tough conversations in an organization.Because that, to me, is probably one of the main relationship emotional factors that drain people in companies because there's animosity being carried around by employees because they're not speaking up and they can't have a tough conversation with their boss or with their peers without rubbing people the wrong way. And then they just live in this world of constant stress and social pressure.Brendan:Yeah, the conflict avoidance.Mark:Yeah. So we built, a company called Pragmatic Thinking, that I work closely with, they've got the best tough conversation program or workshop that I've seen. I can do a keynote, have all this stress reduction stuff and bring them and we'll do a tough conversations piece there.Brendan: Great.Mark:And then you see radical shifts because just that small number of skills, if you can criticize someone without tearing their whole ego apart, there's an amazing ride along effect from that because you can then give criticism without destroying someone. And then that just plays out. And once a whole number of people in your team can do that, the culture change in a year's time and the progression as far as the way the team works shifts hugely.Brendan:Yeah. That's amazing. So speaking of tools now, I like to ask all the guests that come on what marketing tools they use for their business. So what's been the best investment that you've made tool-wise?Mark: Marketing-wise?Brendan:Yeah, marketing-wise.Mark:Outsourcing with Upwork, for me, having a really small business, is amazing. The talent of people out there around the world that you can access at the drop of a hat is phenomenal. So probably that, as an outsourcing tool. I probably shouldn't say this, but I had a LinkedIn helper tool that was phenomenal.Brendan: Oh, yeah.Mark:But I think it might have just got shut down recently, so I have to go back to the old way of running LinkedIn. But yeah, any of those tools that can automate things that you do but automate them in a way that it doesn't seem like things are being automated, then it's super valuable.Brendan:Yeah. And are you a big reader, Mark?Mark:More listen. I like podcasts. I do like to read, but I just recently did an IQ test and my language comprehension skills are so low. It's ridiculous. So reading for me is time consuming whereas I love to listen to different podcasts and especially when you can get two experts debating on something, I find that the most valuable way to learn.Brendan:So more of the longform podcasts?Mark:Definitely longform podcasts or lecture series. A lot of universities and professors out there put their lecture courses online, like on YouTube, so you can access almost anything these days.Brendan: Yeah.Mark:And there's amazing learning platforms, like MasterClass and a whole bunch of other ones. To read is amazing if you're a good reader because it's really good for your imagination as well, but to just be able to have the highest end quality YouTube learning video or MasterClass platform or whatever like that that can just teach you through five different mediums at once, for me, that's way more beneficial. Yeah.Brendan:Yeah, I was on MasterClass yesterday, actually, some amazing courses.Mark:Amazing stuff, yeah. I think I did one of the value ones. I did Steve Martin's comedy one.Brendan: Oh, wow.Mark:Just for public speaking. And when you see the way they break apart jokes in telling jokes, you can then learn to refine the way you would deliver a keynote because the emphasis on how much ... I heard Jerry Seinfeld say this too. He can spend a week on one line.Brendan: Yeah.Mark:Writing and re-writing one line and pausing in different places and it can make or break a joke. So as a keynote speaker, if you can dive into that level of detail on what you deliver, it's interesting. But you just got to be bothered to give it the time.Brendan:Yeah. And I know Seinfeld has another statistic, I think it's one week for every one minute of content.Mark:Oh, that's perfect. Perfect.Brendan:How long does it take you to do one minute of one of your keynote presentations, preparation-wise?Mark:It would depend, it would be in that realm, but I find, for me, the preparation and learning is every time I deliver a keynote, then watching it and then re-structuring some part of it. Yeah, it would be in that realm, I reckon. Probably less. I think comedians, it's so much harder than, I think, any other form of entertainment.Brendan:Well, you have to get a laugh every 15 secs, I think it is.Mark:Yeah. I think that's the hardest version of entertainment there is. They're re-working a minute, compared to what I do with keynote because I can tell a story and there's five or 10 minutes of content and I don't have to spend that much time to get that story, I bet it does make a difference when you get some detail in there and do some work on the delivery.Brendan:And what about online education, is that an area that you've looked at for your workshops, for example?Mark:Yeah. I've built, just recently, for a client, a big software company, a video learning series.Brendan: Right.Mark:The feedback from that's been awesome. Yeah, it was a big investment, so it was just because the client specifically wanted it that I ended up going down that track. I was thinking more in a future plan of what I'm doing, I would do that, but I just ended up doing it because the client wanted it. And they really liked it. And it's matching a simple lesson that works across the board, whether it's in the corporate world or what I do as a surfer to a surf story.Brendan: Right.Mark:So it's just an entertaining way for them to see the same lesson that they're going to see on any other learning platform or internally, they see it all the time, but when you can match a surf story to it and what's going on in the business ecosystem of professional surfing, it just anchors the message a little more. It's a good way to bring a different world to it and then for me, I know it's working with a client is when the staff start using surf examples for what they're doing. It's like, "Ah, this is just like when Mark decided to chase a virtual realityopportunity over going to chase a new market production in China for a new sponsor." It's like these scenarios, so if they're talking in that way, I'm like, "Yes, that's working."Brendan:So Mark, wanted to thank you so much for coming on. Wide ranging conversation. So many inspiring stories and tactics as well.Mark: Thanks.Brendan:But before we go, we like to ask our guests two abstract questions. So are you ready for abstract part of the show?Mark:Yeah, my dumb brain is trying to figure out what abstract means. That's my language problem in the IQ world. But yeah, fire away.Brendan:So the first question, if you could have a billboard, it can be anywhere in the world, what would it say and where would you put it?Mark:What would it say? Oh, man, I had this quote I read on the plane this morning. It's something like, is high performance is more like a cobweb than it is an organizational chart? It's something like that.Brendan: Yeah.Mark:Yeah. And it's just like that complex adaptive systems theory where everything affects everything. And it's the same way companies run, it's the same way your physiology in your body runs, but it's more so intertwined that if you leave out one aspect of performance, then all the others suffer. But if you take an entire system's approach to fixing performance, regardless of what it is, then you get crazy results.Brendan:Yeah, it's awesome.Mark:So it's cobweb versus, I think it was organizational chart or something like that. It'd be a long-winded billboard, that one.Brendan:Yeah. And the final question, you are on the first flight to Mars, with Elon Musk and the first settlers aboard the SpaceX starship Rocket. So what business do you start when you land on Mars and how do you promote it to the new Martians?Mark:It would have to be indoor wave pools, I think.Brendan:The first time I ask-Mark:And surfing sells itself. All you got to do is offer a few free surf lessons and when people experience that feeling, what else is there going to be to do on Mars than ride a few waves? So it will sell itself.Brendan:Definitely. So Mark, once again, really appreciate your time today and the value you've dropped to the audience. Is there anything you'd like to say before we wrap up and how can people get in touch?Mark:Thanks for having me first and thanks to the listeners for listening. If anyone wants to get in contact with me, my website is www.markmathews.com. And Mathews with one T.Brendan: OneT.Mark:Yeah, or on LinkedIn or social media, it's @markmathewssurf, so feel free to reach out and I'd love to work with your company and figure out this whole complex cobweb of performance, stress, energy, all of that stuff.Brendan:Yeah, amazing. We'll put all the links and resources Mark has mentioned in the show notes. And Mark, thanks for such a fantastic conversation. And I'll also put up some of your big wave surfing photos in the show notes because they're absolutely mind-blowing and hard to describe on air.Mark:Yeah. I think when people look at that, they'll be like, "No, we're not listening to this crazy person."Brendan:No, it's an awesome mission that you're out on changing many people's lives. So yeah, I want to thank you for that and thank you for coming in today.Mark:Awesome. Thanks for having me.
Ali Hill is the CEO of AFR Fast 100 company http://www.pragmaticthinking.com/ (Pragmatic Thinking) which is a Behaviour and Motivation Strategy company , She's also a Psychologist, an award-winning business woman, an influential keynote speaker, producer and host of https://www.alisonhill.com.au/standoutlife (Stand Out Life podcast), regular on mainstream media, and a best-selling author. Ali's books are: https://www.alisonhill.com.au/shopalison ('Stand Out: A real world guide to get clear, find purpose, and become the boss of busy'), best-selling co-author of the top business bookhttp://www.toughstuffbook.com/ ( 'Dealing with the Tough Stuff: How to achieve results from key conversations'), https://www.amazon.ca/Work-Anywhere-Essential-Becoming-World-class/dp/073039087X (“Work from anywhere. The essential guide to becoming a world class hybrid team”) Follow Ali Online: website: https://www.alisonhill.com.au/ (alisonhill.com.au) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alihill/ (@alihill) In this episode we discuss: What it means to live a stand out life Understanding who you are when living your Stand Out Life and how to live in alignment with that optimal version of yourself consistently. How to be the boss of busy and find that “work life balance” for your lifestyle. Ali's thoughts on Performance Coaches and other modalities working on mindset and human behaviour from her professional psychologist perspective And The 4 P's that are holding you back from making progress on your goals and visions. That's Pessimism, Procrastination, Perfectionism and People Pleasing… This part of the chat was gold and I KNOW you guys are going to gain so much value from this section alone because I hear from so many of you and work on these challenges with so many of my clients. Even if we don't realise it, as humans, these behaviours are deeply connected to a personal belief that “we're not good enough” in some area of our life. It triggers our fear- like fear of failure or fear of judgement or FOPO: Fear Of People's Opinions, as legendary sports psychologist Dr Michael Gervais terms it… It's so common and so paralysing or crippling for people that I've created a Free Resource for you - a short step by step process for driven people who know they can achieve more but need to break through some fears, doubts or limiting behaviours to take their life to the next level! It will help you: Drop your Fear of Failure and support you to take action Stop procrastinating and putting off important tasks Release your thoughts and worries of other people's judgements of you Drop your self judgement of not being worthy or good enough Reignite your passion and purpose towards your goals and visions Enjoy life from a more energised perspective Simply go to https://brettrobbo.com/breakthroughfear/ (brettrobbo.com/breakthroughfear) and get that free step-by-step process.
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What's your working from home vibe? Do you clear out your wardrobe for the 278 time at 11.11am? Or wake up early, knuckle down and have half your work knocked over by 9am? Well, whatever your style, Alison Hill, a psychologist and author of Work From Anywhere, has advice on how to be more efficient and WFH like a boss. WANT MORE FROM ALISON? Find out more about Alison's book, Work From Anywhere (Wiley, $27.95), here. Suss out her business, Pragmatic Thinking, here, or follow her on Instagram @alihill WANT MORE BODY + SOUL? Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode or some feedback? DM us or host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley. In print: Each Sunday, pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Get this: you'll spend around 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime - that's nearly a third of your life. Whether you like it or not, work relationships matter and we need to be the “hero” and nurture them, says Alison Hill. She's a psychologist, CEO of Pragmatic Thinking and author of Work From Anywhere, and in this episode, she tells us how. WANT MORE FROM ALISON? To hear today's full interview, where Alison discusses how to work from anywhere like a boss, and how to beat procrastination and find motivation, search for Extra Healthy-ish wherever you get your pods. Find out more about Alison's book, Work From Anywhere (Wiley, $27.95), here. Suss out her business, Pragmatic Thinking, here, or follow her on Instagram @alihill WANT MORE BODY + SOUL? Online: Head to bodyandsoul.com.au for your daily digital dose of health and wellness. On social: Via Instagram at @bodyandsoul_au or Facebook. Got an idea for an episode or some feedback? DM us or host Felicity Harley on Instagram @felicityharley. In print: Each Sunday, pick up the latest copy of the Body+Soul/Stellar flipbook inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), the Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland), Sunday Mail (SA) and Sunday Tasmanian (Tasmania). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
One of the positives that’s come out of the past year of COVID-related lockdowns and restrictions, has been the revelation that many employees can work from anywhere. A lot of businesses are adopting a hybrid model – a combination of working from home and working in the office. If you’re looking to do the same, how do ensure your team still works as efficiently as before? Alison Hill, CEO of Pragmatic Thinking, outlines what a work-from-anywhere policy looks like, and she has tips on how to communicate and engage with staff as easily as pre-COVID times. Business Essentials Daily is produced by: SoundCartel soundcartel.com.au +61 3 9882 8333 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Constantly curious, forever the student and passionate about building cultural magnificence in her own organisation as well as helping other organisations do the same. Alison Hill is passionate about making work an extraordinary experience. Alison is a registered Psychologist and CEO of three-time AFR Fast 100 company, Pragmatic Thinking. She was awarded Educator of the Year in 2018, is an international keynote speaker and author of two best-selling books; 'Dealing with the Tough Stuff: How to achieve results from key conversations and Stand Out: A real world guide to get clear, find purpose and become the boss of busy. Alison is also the host and producer of one of Australia’s top podcasts, Stand Out Life Enjoy! Alison can be found at: Pragmatic Thinking https://pragmaticthinking.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/alihill LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fromalihill/
If there is one thing you wish society would talk more about, what would it be? “A topic that isn’t talked about nearly enough is Identity: or more specifically, shifting identity states. It plays a massive part of our lives and governs so much of our behaviour, yet we know SFA about it.” ___ A behavioural scientist, Darren Hill knows first hand what’s required to build high performance cultures. Along with a client book of Fortune 500 and ASX 200 companies, Darren’s the co-founder of Australia’s premier Behaviour and Motivation Strategy company, Pragmatic Thinking — a company that has made the Australian Financial Review's Fast 100 list the last 3 years running. Darren's a best-selling Author, published in multiple languages and is a regular in mainstream media, such as Sky Business News and Channel 9 and the Australian Fin Review. In 2018 Daz was awarded the Australian Educator of the Year award by the Professional Speakers Association, a remarkable feat given the only person who can read his writing on a whiteboard is his Executive Assistant. Daz & I have known each other for a number of years and you couldn’t find a more down to earth, quintessential aussie bloke who cuts through the crap & always gets you thinking. Connect and find out more about Darren here;- Instagram: www.instagram.com/pragmaticthinking Facebook: www.facebook.com/pragmaticthinking Website: www.darrenhill.com.au LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fromdarrenhill And for more information about the Wabi Sabi Series, please find us here:- https://wabisabiseries.com/ Instagram @thewabisabiseries Facebook @thewabisabiseries If you have a burning topic you’d love society to talk more about, or know someone who’d be great to come on our podcast, drop us a line at hello@wabisabiseries.com
This week I caught up with Alison Hill, CEO of three-time AFR Fast 100 company, Pragmatic thinking. Pragmatic thinking are a behaviour and strategy motivation company who work with organisations to build better leaders and better cultures through their people strategies.Alison shared how business strategies live and die through their people strategies and that teams need to be engaged, lit up and motivated to deliver great business outcomes. Alison and her team work mainly with company leaders on leadership development, developing a leadership narrative and story that people will want to follow. Plus how to have the critical and tough conversations within teams and people when they aren't performing or motivated. Alison finds that having a strong feedback culture can improve a business incredibly plus the impact of culture on performance. We also discussed how this year during Covid that leadership and team work had affected every company dramatically and going forward companies are going to want to see evidence that leaders had lead virtual teams. If you are leading a team or you work in HR - Alison shares some great advice about on-boarding team members plus having difficult conversations and providing performance feedback. This conversation is not to be missed. You find find Alison and her team:www.pragmaticthinking.comAbout me: My name is Samantha McIntyre and after 30 years in business and technology - from starting out on the helpdesk to getting to and staying in the C suite, being on Executive boards and being a mother and entreprenuer! I am passionate about helping women in their careers. What I have enjoyed the most in my roles is helping those around me succeed - particularly women! I have lead technology teams for some of the biggest businesses and brands in Australia and the world such as Tesco, Loreal, Coles, Woolworths and Sportsgirl.So if you're looking for someone who knows what it is like to be a women in business and technology plus being a mother and an entrepreneur then you've come to the right place.Contact:Website: https://www.lady-leadership.com/LinkedIn: Samantha McIntyre Twitter: sjmcintyre1Facebook: @Samantha McIntyreInstagram: @sammijmac and @lady.leadership
Dealing with the tough stuff is not new to any of us, but actually doing this and doing it well can be a challenge for many us. Thankfully this is at the heart of what Ali Hill loves to support leaders and organisations to do daily. Ali is a registered psychologist and CEO of three-time AFR 100 company Pragmatic Thinking. Using her expertise across leadership, culture and psychology, she and the team at Pragmatic thinking help organisations build better leaders by building better people. Ali is also the author of two best selling books and the host of one of Australia's top podcasts Stand Out Life. In this episode Ali talks us through the opportunity we each have in our organisations to create high performing teams, how we can embrace the ability to support our remote and distributed teams, her shift in thinking around the link between culture and performance and shares how the team at Pragmatic Thinking have implemented three key structures into their day to help them focus their motivation and productivity. Ali gives us a few tips on how we can have the tough conversations and the impact of “contaminated space” and our emotional memory and how we can still continue to have our tough conversations even over zoom! A really insightful conversation on the actions that we can each take to support our teams and continue to adapt to our evolving environments. www.melissamarsden.com.au Pragmatic Thinking Pragmatic Thinking – Linkedin Ali Hill – Instagram
In this episode of Courage in a Crisis, my special guest is Darren Hill. Darren is a behavioural scientist and co-founder of Pragmatic Thinking, Australia's premier Behaviour and Motivation Strategy company. As an expert in human behaviour and motivation, he shares his expertise around how we can manage our response to this crisis practically and emotionally, to improve our health and wellbeing - and get back to building a successful practice or business. His advice is invaluable. Make the time to listen to Darren today. You can find Darren on LinkedIn or at http://www.darrenhill.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to Episode 100 of Stand Out Life podcast series. It’s an incredible feat to reach 100 episodes with incredible guests, and I wanted to celebrate this episode with someone closer to home, someone very special. In fact he’s the most special person in my life I sat down with my business partner, my life partner, my husband, Darren Hill. We talk all things from where his work ethic comes from to abattoir worker, to now a trusted advisor and sought after strategies for Fortune 500 and ASX Top 20 companies. In 2018 he was recognised as Educator of the Year. We’ve been in business together for over 13 years, the last 10 years in our current business Pragmatic Thinking, Behaviour and Motivation Strategy company, driving leadership programs and cultural change initiatives across big corporates. We unpack business in the age of COVID-19, how we’ve needed to pivot and the principles that decisions have been made amongst uncertain times. This is a beautiful conversation, it’s a long conversation, but there is reflection and even a spoken word poem at the end that you won’t want to miss. Soak up more of Darren’s spoken word poetry pieces here. Enjoy this conversation with the deep thinking, and the person who pursues life like no-one else I know. Connect with Darren at: Website: www.darrenhill.com.au Instagram: www.instagram.com/fromdarrenhill YouTube: Wordcraft Project - spoken word poetry pieces https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYolt7K6djAEYpBVEc4sIepc5YRg1eB7q
If there was one thing you think society should talk more about, what would it be? “What I would love society to have more conversations around is the art of questioning. The art of asking deeper questions, different questions, sitting in questions, not running to the answers.” ___ Alison Hill is a Registered Psychologist, Telstra Business Woman Award finalist and CEO of AFR Fast 100 company Pragmatic Thinking, a motivation and behaviour strategy company. She is co-author of the top business book 'Dealing with the Tough Stuff: How to achieve results from key conversations, and author of Stand Out: A real world guide to get clear, find purpose and become the boss of busy. An influential keynote speaker, producer and host of the incredible Stand Out Life podcast - which I’ve had the pleasure of being on twice now. Ali is a regular on Channel 9 has regular articles published with Fairfax Group (including the AFR, SMH & The Age), News Limited (The Daily Tele & Courier Mail), and The Huffington Post (http://www.alisonhill.com.au/in-the-media/). Her work has found its way inside a few big businesses you might have heard of… PepsiCo, Siemens, McDonalds, Sydney Trains, BHP Billiton, Bond University, Griffith University, and BlueCare just to name a few. Ali presents her unique and authentic message as a sought after international keynote speaker and MC where she engages her audience with humour, practicality and real-world thinking. Ali & I met in Uluru at a conference many years ago & connected instantly. Ali is an incredible conduit of helping people find their voice and it’s a thrill for me to get her on the other side of the mic as it where & be the one asking the questions for a change. Ali’s Stand Out Life podcast can be found here: https://www.alisonhill.com.au/standoutlife We talked about a specific interview that Ali did with Teela Reid - Episode 87: The truth-teller of our time. Since then, Ali has just finished a second interview with Tesla (# 99 - Facing our truth). They are both fantastic interviews so be sure to check them out. __ Connect with Ali here:- Instagram: www.instagram.com/alihill Facebook: www.facebook.com/standoutlife Website: www.alisonhill.com.au LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fromalihill/ And for more information about the Wabi Sabi Series, please find us here:- https://wabisabiseries.com/ Connect with us on Instagram here:- @thewabisabiseries Connect with us on Facebook here - @thewabisabiseries If you have a burning topic you’d love society to talk more about, or know someone who’d be great to come on our podcast, drop us a line at hello@wabisabiseries.com
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Today I'm joined by Cullen Roche who is best known for his work on monetary economics and portfolio construction. I asked Cullen to join us and share his unique take on what’s happening in the financial markets today. Specifically: Where we might be headed What retirement investors can do in response The impacts of a $2 trillion stimulus package I hit record and told him not to hold back today. You may need to listen to this one twice!
Ned and Meg discuss the concept of embedding failure, which we read about in one of our favorite books, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt (2008, The Pragmatic Bookshelf). In section 7.3, the author discusses approaches to failure. We talk about adding failure deliberately into our own work process/life process to ensure that we continue to learn and grow. Failure is great, come enjoy it with us!
It was an absolute pleasure to spend this time speaking with Mikey. I learnt so much from his views on leadership, ideas to create strong engagement with people in the workplace and I personally loved seeing how his perspective on life has changed over the years. You'll notice that Mikey is quite philosophical, a deep thinker who truly cares about the people around him, and is always conscious of his actions and bettering himself as a human. A "Flâneur" since birth, he has always been observing his surroundings, and you'll see how that has influenced his career and life. Mikey can be described as a lifelong teacher and student, bookworm and is currently a Culture Strategist at Pragmatic Thinking, a company that helps create thriving workplace cultures, he brings with him experience from Vinomofo, having being the Head of Culture there for a number of years. I hope you all enjoy this episode, please let us know what you think! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sherry-emami/message
This week's guest is Mikey Ellis, a Culture Strategist at Pragmatic Thinking. In our chat, we explore the age-old question of what it takes to build a great work culture, including the leader's responsibility, as well as that of the employee. Mikey and I share a passion for creating workplaces that empower people to do great things together, as well as a love and appreciation for a glass of great wine from time to time! Follow Mikey on IG @mikey.ellis Follow me everywhere on social @cywakeman
Andy Hunt is a celebrity in the world of software development. Or at least he is one to me. The Pragmatic Programmer is a classic book on software development book. He is an author of the agile manifesto and started the book company that has published many great books, including several by recent guests. Today I talk to Andy about how software engineers can get better at thinking and learning. How can we develop this meta-skill and how can being aware of common mistakes our brain make us more productive? Show notes: The Pragmatic Programmer Pragmatic Thinking and Learning Conglommora Webpage for Episode
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus RedisGreen Cachefly Panel Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins David Richards Dave Kimura Summary Charles Max Wood puts the question to the panel, how hard is it to learn ruby on rails? This leads them on an discussion of the evolution of ruby on rails. The simplicity of rails is a theme through their discussion of learning and teaching rails. The panel talks about the importance of collaboration and using the rails community to learn and to avoid messy architecture. The panel shares tips and resources for learning ruby on rails while discussing their mentoring experiences. The panel ends by coming back to the initial question and gives their final answers on how hard is ruby rails to learn? Links Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt https://thinkster.io/ https://www.railstutorial.org/ http://learn-rails.com/learn-ruby-on-rails.html https://www.facebook.com/RubyRogues https://twitter.com/rubyrogues Picks Nate Hopkins https://pragprog.com/book/rails5/agile-web-development-with-rails-5 Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis David Richards A Philosophy of Software Design 1st Edition by John Ousterhout How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers 1st Edition by Sönke Ahrens Charles Max Wood https://www.jamesfend.com/learned-ruby-rails-12-weeks-launch-freelancify Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini That’s Influence by Robert B. Cialdini Dave Kimura https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ2R2LL/A/magic-trackpad-2-silver https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-whiteboard/digital-whiteboard-app
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus RedisGreen Cachefly Panel Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins David Richards Dave Kimura Summary Charles Max Wood puts the question to the panel, how hard is it to learn ruby on rails? This leads them on an discussion of the evolution of ruby on rails. The simplicity of rails is a theme through their discussion of learning and teaching rails. The panel talks about the importance of collaboration and using the rails community to learn and to avoid messy architecture. The panel shares tips and resources for learning ruby on rails while discussing their mentoring experiences. The panel ends by coming back to the initial question and gives their final answers on how hard is ruby rails to learn? Links Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt https://thinkster.io/ https://www.railstutorial.org/ http://learn-rails.com/learn-ruby-on-rails.html https://www.facebook.com/RubyRogues https://twitter.com/rubyrogues Picks Nate Hopkins https://pragprog.com/book/rails5/agile-web-development-with-rails-5 Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis David Richards A Philosophy of Software Design 1st Edition by John Ousterhout How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers 1st Edition by Sönke Ahrens Charles Max Wood https://www.jamesfend.com/learned-ruby-rails-12-weeks-launch-freelancify Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini That’s Influence by Robert B. Cialdini Dave Kimura https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ2R2LL/A/magic-trackpad-2-silver https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-whiteboard/digital-whiteboard-app
Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for 2 months free on Sentry small plan Triplebyte offers a $1000 signing bonus RedisGreen Cachefly Panel Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins David Richards Dave Kimura Summary Charles Max Wood puts the question to the panel, how hard is it to learn ruby on rails? This leads them on an discussion of the evolution of ruby on rails. The simplicity of rails is a theme through their discussion of learning and teaching rails. The panel talks about the importance of collaboration and using the rails community to learn and to avoid messy architecture. The panel shares tips and resources for learning ruby on rails while discussing their mentoring experiences. The panel ends by coming back to the initial question and gives their final answers on how hard is ruby rails to learn? Links Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt https://thinkster.io/ https://www.railstutorial.org/ http://learn-rails.com/learn-ruby-on-rails.html https://www.facebook.com/RubyRogues https://twitter.com/rubyrogues Picks Nate Hopkins https://pragprog.com/book/rails5/agile-web-development-with-rails-5 Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis David Richards A Philosophy of Software Design 1st Edition by John Ousterhout How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers 1st Edition by Sönke Ahrens Charles Max Wood https://www.jamesfend.com/learned-ruby-rails-12-weeks-launch-freelancify Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini That’s Influence by Robert B. Cialdini Dave Kimura https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ2R2LL/A/magic-trackpad-2-silver https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-whiteboard/digital-whiteboard-app
My guest today is Ali Hill. She’s the CEO of Australian Financial Review Fast 100 company Pragmatic Thinking, she’s a psychologist and a best-selling author of the book “Stand Out: A real world guide to get clear, find purpose and become the boss of busy”. Seems like a pretty good idea, right?Her podcast is called “Stand Out life” and can be heard wherever podcasts are - probably the same place you hear this one. She’s got a lot to say about psychology and the role of psychology in negotiation in the workplace, care at work and how to manage stresses that come with a modern life - but you’ll hear all of that in the next hour. You can find her on IG at @alihillHope you enjoy this chat with Ali Hill. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In today’s episode, Phil chats with Andy Hunt. Andy is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher. He’s authored a dozen books including the best-selling “The Pragmatic Programmer,” and was one of the 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto and founders of the Agile Alliance. He also co-founded the pragmatic bookshelf, publishing award-winning and critically acclaimed books for software developers. Andy shares his story about why he chose I.T as his career and reveals his best and worst experiences in the I.T world. Listen to his career tips and advice. There is a lot to learn from Andy that will help you to become the best that you can be. KEY TAKEAWAYS: [1:21] Phil asks Andy to expand upon the brief introduction provided. Andy shares the story of how he had a real interest in radio electronics at that time. He says that he was very interested in early computers with the S100 BUS and CPM. He recalls that he loved how programming lets you go in and create your own world which, for Andy, is still the most exciting aspect of it. Andy says that programming was easier and much more self-contained back then. The programming world is a very different place than it used to be. [2:41] Phil requests for Andy to share a unique career tip for the I.T Career Energizer audience, one that the audience should know but don’t. Andy excitedly answers that he’ll give two tips. He talks about his 2008 book “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning”, the thesis being that the two things you do more than anything else as a programmer are learning and communication. We communicate with the machine. We communicate with each other, and to end users to gather requirements, to learn requirements. Besides the tech stacks and the latest language of the day, you’re learning how the evolving system behave, you’re learning how your team behaves, and you’re learning how the end users work and what they expect, what the market demands. So, we’re all about learning in communication. Those are the important things. [3:42] Andy’s first tip is to never stop learning. When you come across something unfamiliar, a term you don’t know, a framework you’ve never heard of, a new language, look it up, Google’s right there. It’s on your phone. It’s right on your screen. Take the 5 seconds when something you’re unfamiliar with comes up and see what it is. Look into it. Look more into it if it’s something interesting or something that you might have to work with. So, always take that extra step and pursue the unfamiliar. That’s part one. [4:16] Andy says that this second tip makes the biggest difference for people who are successful. Always write down your ideas. Carry something with you always where you can jot down a quick note. It doesn’t have to be electronic. It might even be better if it’s not. Use an App on your phone, send yourself a voicemail. Andy says that he found out that most of the processes in the brain are asynchronous. You get interesting ideas or the seeds of great ideas randomly and usually when you’re not at a computer and not at work. So you need something with you to jot them down because you won’t remember it later. And then, when you have a chance later, when you’re at the computer, when you’re working, whatever, follow up on it. Make a note somewhere else more permanently. That’s really key to capturing the great ideas that you have but most people just loose. And Phil totally agrees with the idea. [6:54] Phil asks about Andy’s worst career moment and what he has learned from it. Andy recalls a story from early in his career when, between the time of being interviewed and starting the job, his interviewer had been fired and the position eliminated. Andy was therefore assigned to a different group. It was an awful place to work and within a year the company went out of business which made an impact on him. The myth of working for a big company and having stability is just a myth. You’re not stable with a big company. You’re not necessarily stable with a small startup either. So, in terms of career preparation, you really can’t count on the organization being there for you for any number of reasons. Later on, during Andy’s consultant career phase, one project that he rather enjoyed and he had a good time at. It was very clear from their practices and what they were doing on the project that they were going to fail. Andy made his report, talked to the boss and said, “Okay, here’s the problem. This is what you need to fix.” They said, “Thank you very much.” and didn’t change a thing. They lost $14 million. That was a lot of what inspired Andy to get on the early train of lightweight methods which was when the term ‘agile’ was coined. Andy then provides some insight into the Agile Manifesto. [12:34] Phil asks about Andy’s career greatest success. Andy recalls one of his projects which was highly successful. It was replace a debit card transaction system. In fact, that’s the project where Andy met his partner Dave Thomas. They wrote “The Pragmatic Programmer” together and founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf. He recalls that it was one of those insane projects where it was just the two of them. The key was that they had access to an on-site customer who knew the existing system inside and out. They got the project done and the system was subsequently the preferred solution when the company merged with other companies. Andy and Dave’s system did what it was supposed to do and did it better than the other companies solutions that cost a lot more money and had been written by large teams. [15:46] Phil asks Andy about the future of the industry and careers in IT. Andy says that he is amazed when he watches his nephews and nieces, toddler age, navigating an iPad and buying apps. The idea that being able to learn at an early age how computers work and how to create and adapt software yourself, that’s critical. Because if you don’t take that next step and learn how to manipulate this world, you’ll be powerless in the future. He adds that he thinks we’ve barely scratched the surface of technology. [18:42] Phil asks what first attracted Andy to a career in IT? Andy recalls when he was at a radio shack, it was in the 70’s, and there was a book about microcomputers. Andy thought that it was fascinating and as cool as any science fiction he had ever read. The author was convinced that this is going to happen in the future. It wet Andy’s appetite and he started from there. [18:54] Phil asks what the best advice Andy has ever received. Andy says don’t focus solely on the technology because the tech comes and goes. And the companies behind the tech come and go. Andy says that people are much harder to program and deal with than with computers, but this is the world we now live in. This is what you’ve got to learn to do. If you focus solely on the tech, you’re going to get steamrolled. [23:15] Phil then asks Andy what he would do if he had to begin his IT career again right now. Andy says that it would be AI, genetic algorithms, machine learning, that whole world. [24:59] Phil asks Andy what objectives he is currently focusing on and Andy says that it’s retirement and going out with a bang. He wants to come up with something interesting. [25:22] Phil then asks Andy what has been the number one non-technical skill that has helped him in his career so far. Andy thinks that all non-technical skills are critical. The sort of basics such as continuous learning and reading voraciously. Read everything you get your hands on. Write to remember. Take note and summarize. Write it in your own words. The act of writing stuff down like that really helps wire it in and to cement it in your memory. Do user group talks or write a blog if you don’t like talking in front of people. Talk to people at work, such as brown bag lunches. Be an advocate for the stuff that you’ve discovered, that you’re passionate about and that’s interesting. [26:37] Phil asks Andy for a parting piece of career advice. Andy thinks that the number one piece of advice is to realize that you’re never done and that you’ve never made it. If you’ve learned some great framework, some great language, don’t stop there. The technology, the methodology that you used in the last project that was so successful might not work at all in the next project. That could be a completely different context. You might need completely different tools. So, the number one thing is to be prepared for that and to be ready to learn something completely different all the time. BEST MOMENTS [18:00] Andy: “Turbo Pascal when it came out was brilliant. It was 79 bucks and it included an IDE and a multi-pass compiler, and it was like, “Oh my God that genius.” At the time that was a real breakthrough. These days you can get the hardware and any language you’ve ever heard of and just download it. So I think that’s pretty exciting and pretty remarkable and I think we’ve barely scratched the surface of where we can go with that.” “The stuff you learn in college you probably will not use much more than the first couple of years out in the world just because things change. So the tech comes and goes, and that’s fine. You need to know the basics. You need to understand how it all works at the lowest level.” “The hard part is that the tech keeps improving, but people are still people, and we are deeply flawed creatures. We are not like these brilliant computers that we work with. We have got major cognitive processing issues.” “You have to remember that whatever you think of the pace of change at the moment, this is the slowest that the pace of change will ever be because it is ever increasing. So as bad as it is now, this is slower. It’s going to be slightly faster tomorrow and slightly faster the day after that, on and on and on and on. So if you want to keep up, you have to keep going.” ABOUT THE HOST Phil Burgess, an I.T. consultant, mentor, and coach, is the creator and host of the I.T. Career Energizer Podcast. His podcast continues to inspire, assist and guide anybody wanting to start, develop and grow a career in I.T. by inviting successful I.T. professionals, consultants, and experts to share their advice, career tips and experiences. CONTACT THE HOST Website: itcareerenergizer.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/philburgess ABOUT THE GUEST Andy is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher. He’s authored a dozen books including the best-selling The Pragmatic Programmer, was one of the 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto and founders of the Agile Alliance and co-founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf, publishing award-winning, critically-acclaimed books for software developers. CONTACT ANDY HUNT Andy’s Website – www.toolshed.com Twitter – https://twitter.com/PragmaticAndy @PragmaticAndy LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pragmaticandy/ The Pragmatic Programmer – www.pragprog.com Andy’s Latest Sci-fi book – www.conglommora.com Software Methodologies – www.growsmethod.com
Panel: Charles Max Wood Shai Reznik Ward Bell Special Guests: Neil Brown In this episode, the Adventures in Angular panel talks to Neil Brown about learning to code and learning to code better. Neil works as a research fellow at Kings College in London where he works in computing education. He is very interested in how people learn to program and also making tools that make learning to program easier. They talk about things that experts can do to help new people pick up programming easier, how you can use live programming to teach novices, and the importance of having a supportive community. They also touch on what he has learned from his research, the necessity of practice over time, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ruby Rogues Episode 257 Neil intro Learning to code better What kind of things can we do to help new people pick up programming easier? Experts operate differently than novices How an expert codes VS how a novice codes Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt Putting yourself in a new programmer’s shoes Experts forget how much knowledge they’ve got How do you need to design instruction for novices? Live programming Seeing that people make mistakes along the way all the time Keep the mistakes Computer science degree VS self-taught VS boot camps People learn differently Element of having a supportive community Do you see any threat to people transitioning to online schooling? The curse of knowledge What have you learned in your research? You need a lot of practice Helps to have spaced practice The best way to learn Ten quick tips for teaching programming by Neil Brown And much, much more! Links: Ruby Rogues Episode 257 Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt Ten quick tips for teaching programming by Neil Brown @neilccbrown Neil’s Website Sponsors Angular Boot Camp Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Charles Get a Coder Job Video Course South Pacific Shai snyk.io American Crime Story Neil Last Chance U
Panel: Charles Max Wood Shai Reznik Ward Bell Special Guests: Neil Brown In this episode, the Adventures in Angular panel talks to Neil Brown about learning to code and learning to code better. Neil works as a research fellow at Kings College in London where he works in computing education. He is very interested in how people learn to program and also making tools that make learning to program easier. They talk about things that experts can do to help new people pick up programming easier, how you can use live programming to teach novices, and the importance of having a supportive community. They also touch on what he has learned from his research, the necessity of practice over time, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ruby Rogues Episode 257 Neil intro Learning to code better What kind of things can we do to help new people pick up programming easier? Experts operate differently than novices How an expert codes VS how a novice codes Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt Putting yourself in a new programmer’s shoes Experts forget how much knowledge they’ve got How do you need to design instruction for novices? Live programming Seeing that people make mistakes along the way all the time Keep the mistakes Computer science degree VS self-taught VS boot camps People learn differently Element of having a supportive community Do you see any threat to people transitioning to online schooling? The curse of knowledge What have you learned in your research? You need a lot of practice Helps to have spaced practice The best way to learn Ten quick tips for teaching programming by Neil Brown And much, much more! Links: Ruby Rogues Episode 257 Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt Ten quick tips for teaching programming by Neil Brown @neilccbrown Neil’s Website Sponsors Angular Boot Camp Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Charles Get a Coder Job Video Course South Pacific Shai snyk.io American Crime Story Neil Last Chance U
Panel: Charles Max Wood Shai Reznik Ward Bell Special Guests: Neil Brown In this episode, the Adventures in Angular panel talks to Neil Brown about learning to code and learning to code better. Neil works as a research fellow at Kings College in London where he works in computing education. He is very interested in how people learn to program and also making tools that make learning to program easier. They talk about things that experts can do to help new people pick up programming easier, how you can use live programming to teach novices, and the importance of having a supportive community. They also touch on what he has learned from his research, the necessity of practice over time, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ruby Rogues Episode 257 Neil intro Learning to code better What kind of things can we do to help new people pick up programming easier? Experts operate differently than novices How an expert codes VS how a novice codes Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt Putting yourself in a new programmer’s shoes Experts forget how much knowledge they’ve got How do you need to design instruction for novices? Live programming Seeing that people make mistakes along the way all the time Keep the mistakes Computer science degree VS self-taught VS boot camps People learn differently Element of having a supportive community Do you see any threat to people transitioning to online schooling? The curse of knowledge What have you learned in your research? You need a lot of practice Helps to have spaced practice The best way to learn Ten quick tips for teaching programming by Neil Brown And much, much more! Links: Ruby Rogues Episode 257 Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt Ten quick tips for teaching programming by Neil Brown @neilccbrown Neil’s Website Sponsors Angular Boot Camp Digital Ocean FreshBooks Picks: Charles Get a Coder Job Video Course South Pacific Shai snyk.io American Crime Story Neil Last Chance U
We all have these things in our life that we accept as a first principle while having no scientific basis or reason for believing in that thing. Today we do a deep dive of the world’s raddest man: Elon Musk. We’re exploring the wildly popular Elon Musk series by “Wait but Why,” focusing on the last article titled “The Cook and the Chef: Elon Musk’s Secret Sauce” which explores just how Musk might be able to do all the things he can do. And most importantly, we discuss how any of us can use these tools to enhance our own thinking and work. How any of us can be more chef than cook. We cover a wide range of topics, including: Emulating Musk’s way of thinking for extreme advantages Musk’s businesses and how he began them How Musk thinks compared to the way most people think Challenging your existing beliefs and redefining your perspective A strategy for designing your reality and pursuing your goals How the way that you think is much more influential than your natural-born talents Shedding dogma-based thinking and instead, thinking based off of first principles Turning fear into excitement And much more. Please enjoy and be sure to check out the article! Mentioned in the show: Hyperloop One [15:20] Boring Company [15:20] Neurolink [15:21] OpenAI [15:38] Square [16:28] Elon Musk’s cameo in Iron Man 2 [17:23] Diagram for designing your reality and pursuing your goals [26:34] The history of SpaceX article [29:27] Unlimited Brewing Company [30:53] Zara Clothing [32:17] Shark Tank [35:24] Crispr [41:57] Zip2 [45:08] Paypal [45:24] eBay [45:29] Elon Musk and Peter Thiel’s early days [46:40] Peter Thiel blood transfusions from children article [47:45] PayPal Mafia [48:28] The 49ers [49:34] Made You Think episode on The Sovereign Individual [51:37] Bitcoin [51:50] Made You Think episode on Cryptocurrency [52:03] Uranium on Amazon [55:57] AC Propulsion [56:38] Ad Astra [56:55] Nat Chat podcast [57:28] Calvin and Hobbes comic strips [1:00:30] Crony Beliefs by Kevin Simler [1:02:42] Melting Asphalt [1:02:51] Jordan Peterson’s Biblical Series podcast [1:06:02] Made You Think episode on The Way of Zen [1:18:18] Tyranny article [1:18:26] Made You Think episode on Emergency [1:20:25] Two Somali immigrants rape case in Canada [1:22:07] Good Beer Hunting podcast [1:29:37] Magic Hat [1:29:42] Estee Lauder [1:37:35] Growth Machine [1:42:53] Made You Think episode on Finite and Infinite Games [1:44:15] Uber [1:49:11] Airbnb [1:49:12] Tim Ferriss Podcast [2:03:25] Killing the Lion: Turning Anxiety into Excitement article [2:04:55] Made You Think episode on Amusing Ourselves to Death [2:12:58] Made You Think episode on Letters from a Stoic [2:13:05] Grand Theft Auto [2:13:28] Bookinabox [2:15:37] Books mentioned: Steve Jobs’ Biography [14:52] Tropic of Cancer [24:22] The Goal [25:53] (Nat’s Notes) (episode coming 11-28) The 50th Law [38:10] (Nat’s Notes) Principles [39:13] (Nat’s Notes) (episode coming 12-5) The Score Takes Care of Itself [49:40] (Nat’s Notes) The Sovereign Individual [51:37] (Nat’s Notes) (MYT episode) Surely You’re Joking [1:07:45] (Nat's Notes) The Way of Zen [1:18:18] (Nat’s Notes) (Neil’s Notes) (MYT episode) Emergency [1:20:25] (Nat’s Notes) (MYT episode) The E-Myth Revisited [1:41:58] (Nat’s Notes) Finite and Infinite Games [1:44:15] (Nat’s Notes) (MYT episode) Pragmatic Thinking and Learning [1:47:45] (Nat’s Notes) The Red Book [1:50:33] The Cook and the Chef on Amazon [2:15:40] People mentioned: Elon Musk Jim Cramer [3:09] Tim Urban [3:38] Albert Einstein [9:03] Peter Thiel [12:10] Jeff Bezos [13:18] Steve Jobs [14:50] Walter Isaacson [14:52] Jack Dorsey [16:27] Henry Ford [18:50] Genghis Khan [18:50] Marie Curie [18:50] John Lennon [18:50] Ayn Rand [18:50] Louis C.K. [18:50] Henry Miller [24:24] Eliyahu M. Goldratt [25:54] Ray Dalio [39:13] Galileo [44:25] Reid Hoffman [48:59] Max Levchin [49:03] Bill Walsh [49:37] Kevin Simler [1:02:44] Dr. Jordan Peterson [1:06:02] Richard Feynman [1:07:40] Tim Ferriss [1:17:22] Justin Mares [1:17:45] Sam Harris [1:32:24] The Dreyfus Brothers [1:47:47] Carl Jung [1:50:33] Nassim Nicholas Taleb [2:00:02] (Antifragile MYT episode) Seneca [2:02:39] (Letters from a Stoic MYT episode) Robert Greene [2:02:42] (Mastery MYT episode) 0:00 - Perspective challenging, introductory quote and an outline of what the discussion will be about. Also, some information on giveaways, upcoming episodes, the mailing list, and the podcast notes. 3:31 - How the Wait but Why article is outlined and some talk about challenging your existing beliefs. Some examples of challenging your beliefs, as well. 9:40 - The first section on us being constrained by existing beliefs and then, some examples of how Elon Musk thinks. 11:48 - The possible benefits of being on the Asperger or autistic spectrum in regards to life and business. Also, some thoughts on Elon’s companies, his deadlines, and the huge scale of the things that he does. 15:50 - Some discussion on how Musk may allocate and divvy up his time, and the many different projects that he has going on. 18:06 - The software versus hardware idea, how a different way of thinking is more powerful than your natural-born intelligence or talents. 20:08 - How where you’re born can have very little impact on your success, and some examples of very successful people born or raised in poor situations. 26:12 - Discussion on the strategy for designing your reality and pursuing your goals from the article (diagram here). Also, some examples of various companies operating using this system and being successful. 34:21 - How Elon uses this thinking strategy, continually adjusts it, and tests everything. 36:56 - Learning to not become attached to any of the goals and be willing to let it go if something better comes in. Also, being honest with yourself and be willing to invalidate things, instead of validating them. Some examples of doing this and lying to yourself. 40:50 - The story of Musk when he was in college, and how he thought “What would most affect the future of humanity?”. Also, how he focused mostly on expanding the list of things that were possible, instead of focusing on his wants at the time. Musk’s thoughts on engineering being preferable to science, as well. 45:06 - Elon’s first companies and how he was able to fund his next companies. 47:28 - (Tangent #1) The possible health benefits of blood transfusions from younger people. Also, some discussion on various trees of people who are either all successful or not. 50:46 - The history of PayPal, some of its original goals, and some of the feats that the company has accomplished. Also, what came next for Elon after PayPal. 58:12 - The comparison between most people’s way of thinking compared to Musk’s and the importance of always asking “Why?”. 1:02:23 - Some discussion on The Great Depression mindset and how it may be negatively affecting most of us, as well as our future generations. Rooting out these negative beliefs that are passed onto us by our peers, environments, parents, and more. 1:07:37 - The problem with learning things based on dogma, rather than on first principles. Making your way of learning and thinking more antifragile. Also, some examples of these things based on dogma. 1:13:30 - Thoughts on tribalism in political parties, life, social circles, and religion. Some discussion on blind versus conscious tribalism and universal based income, as well. 1:20:59 - Testing people on how tribal they are and challenging their core beliefs. Also, some more talk on tribalism and various issues in the world like rights, cultural differences, health care, and laws. 1:29:22 - Some examples of us not using first principles in our judgment, and some thoughts on various events that completely change your perspective on something. 1:36:20 - Some core heuristics from the Cook and the Chef article for improving your thinking and life. Also, thoughts on growing a business and how you can be the Chef instead of the Cook. “The Chef creates, while the Cook, in some form or another, copies.” 1:45:39 - The necessary need to become the cook and develop intuition before you become the chef. Also, how Musk is the chef and how this all relates to his way of thinking. 1:54:39 - How the ability to become a Chef is infinitely greater now than it was a hundred years ago. How easy it is to try things risk-free currently and the large number of things that we can now try. 1:56:58 - Explaining the three types of cooks and then, the chef. Where most people lie in regards to these four types and recognizing these types, as well. 2:02:45 - Obtaining an accurate view of reality and the benefits of an extreme honesty policy within a company. 2:04:16 - Two mental tricks to overcoming public speaking anxiety and some details on these tricks. Also, how the chef doesn’t give into rational fear and turns fear into excitement, and how the chef doesn’t get tied up in their own identity. 2:10:39 - How a misplaced identity and getting caught up in your history can affect what you allow into your want pool and your view of reality. Thinking things are a lot riskier than they are and the selection bias within stories. 2:13:21 - The final part regarding us essentially playing Grand Theft Life. Us taking much more risks and going after the largest opportunities if our life was inside of a simulation, similar to Grand Theft Auto. 2:15:18 - Wrap-up, some closing thoughts on the article, some bits on the future of the podcast, where to contact us, and information on what our newsletter offers. If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to subscribe at https://madeyouthinkpodcast.com The more I learn about Musk and other people who seem to have superhuman powers—whether it be Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Genghis Khan, Marie Curie, John Lennon, Ayn Rand, or Louis C.K.—the more I’m convinced that it’s their software, not their natural-born intelligence or talents, that makes them so rare and so effective. - Tim Urban
Rails Remote Conf 01:14 - Justin Weiss Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Avvo Practicing Rails: Learn Rails Without Being Overwhelmed by Justin Weiss 02:15 - “Learning Rails Without Getting Overwhelmed”? Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz 02:34 - Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have 04:35 - Learning New Things 08:05 - What is a success? 09:02 - What can senior devs do? What shouldn’t they do? Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman David H. Hoover and Adewale Oshineye Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt Brandon Hays: The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development 15:43 - Are there still “Architects”? 20:45 - The Existential Crisis of Software Development Integrated Tests Are A Scam Emo Philips: The best God joke ever - and it's mine! 22:26 - The Responsibility of the Students 26:08 - How can new developers obtain objective evidence of their blind spots? Bias Blind Spot The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge Asch Experiment 33:49 - Early Career Developers Working Together 37:03 - Learning Practices Picks emoj (Coraline) Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning (Coraline) The Lies of Locke Lamora (Sam) Gorilla Tape (Sam) Portillo's (Chuck) iPad Pro (Chuck) Apple Smart Keyboard (Chuck) Apple Pencil (Chuck) GoodNotes (Chuck) Podcast Movement (Chuck) The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen (Justin) How to Write in Plain English (Justin) Avvo (Justin)
Rails Remote Conf 01:14 - Justin Weiss Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Avvo Practicing Rails: Learn Rails Without Being Overwhelmed by Justin Weiss 02:15 - “Learning Rails Without Getting Overwhelmed”? Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz 02:34 - Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have 04:35 - Learning New Things 08:05 - What is a success? 09:02 - What can senior devs do? What shouldn’t they do? Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman David H. Hoover and Adewale Oshineye Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt Brandon Hays: The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development 15:43 - Are there still “Architects”? 20:45 - The Existential Crisis of Software Development Integrated Tests Are A Scam Emo Philips: The best God joke ever - and it's mine! 22:26 - The Responsibility of the Students 26:08 - How can new developers obtain objective evidence of their blind spots? Bias Blind Spot The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge Asch Experiment 33:49 - Early Career Developers Working Together 37:03 - Learning Practices Picks emoj (Coraline) Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning (Coraline) The Lies of Locke Lamora (Sam) Gorilla Tape (Sam) Portillo's (Chuck) iPad Pro (Chuck) Apple Smart Keyboard (Chuck) Apple Pencil (Chuck) GoodNotes (Chuck) Podcast Movement (Chuck) The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen (Justin) How to Write in Plain English (Justin) Avvo (Justin)
Rails Remote Conf 01:14 - Justin Weiss Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog Avvo Practicing Rails: Learn Rails Without Being Overwhelmed by Justin Weiss 02:15 - “Learning Rails Without Getting Overwhelmed”? Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz 02:34 - Problems New Developers Don’t Realize They Have 04:35 - Learning New Things 08:05 - What is a success? 09:02 - What can senior devs do? What shouldn’t they do? Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman David H. Hoover and Adewale Oshineye Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt Brandon Hays: The Conjoined Triangles of Senior-Level Development 15:43 - Are there still “Architects”? 20:45 - The Existential Crisis of Software Development Integrated Tests Are A Scam Emo Philips: The best God joke ever - and it's mine! 22:26 - The Responsibility of the Students 26:08 - How can new developers obtain objective evidence of their blind spots? Bias Blind Spot The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge Asch Experiment 33:49 - Early Career Developers Working Together 37:03 - Learning Practices Picks emoj (Coraline) Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning (Coraline) The Lies of Locke Lamora (Sam) Gorilla Tape (Sam) Portillo's (Chuck) iPad Pro (Chuck) Apple Smart Keyboard (Chuck) Apple Pencil (Chuck) GoodNotes (Chuck) Podcast Movement (Chuck) The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen (Justin) How to Write in Plain English (Justin) Avvo (Justin)
Andy Hunt (@PragmaticAndy), Jared Richardson (@JaredRichardson), and Don Gray (@DonaldEGray) joined me (@RyanRipley) to discuss the Grows Method for agile adoption. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Andy Hunt Presenting at The Path to Agility Conference 2013 – Copyright COHAA[/featured-image] Andy is one of the 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto. He is the author of 9 books including: The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (with Dave Thomas), Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware, and Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World (with Venkat Subramaniam). Andy publishes books with Dave Thomas at the Pragmatic Bookshelf. He blogs at toolshed.com. Jared is an agile coach, blogger, and speaker. He is the founder of Agile Artisians and the author of Ship It! – A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects (with William A. Gwaltney). Don works with executives and managers to build coherent organizational structures, processes, policies, and goals that allows teams to flourish. He co-teaches one of the top coaching workshops offered globally – Coaching Beyond the Team – with Esther Derby. Don brings both wisdom and humor to his coaching practice. In this episode you'll discover: What is the Grows Method for Agile Adoption How to gradually grow agile in an organization What is essential to be agile How to get alignment between executives and agile teams The point is to ship software. Let’s focus on that, perhaps!?!Tweet This Links from the show: The Grows Method Coaching Beyond the Team – The next session is in Costa Mesa, California. Use discount code “AgileForHumans” to get the friends and family discount. Pragmatic Bookshelf – Use the discount code “AgileForHumans” for 35% off of your next purchase The Business of Agile: Better, Faster, Cheaper – Come see me (Ryan Ripley) present at Agile2016 [callout]The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process–taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users. It covers topics ranging from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse. The Pragmatic Programmer illustrates the best practices and major pitfalls of many different aspects of software development. Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout] [reminder]What is your go to method to help people adopt agile? Does the Grows Method fill a gap that you’ve seen in your practice? Let’s discuss![/reminder] Want to hear another podcast about craftsmanship? — Listen to my conversation with Ron Quartel about FAST Agile and bringing craftsmanship back to software development on episode 10. We discuss scrum, extreme programming (XP), and the concept of craftsmanship applied to agile software development. One tiny favor. — Please take 30 seconds now and leave a review on iTunes. This helps others learn about the show and grows our audience. It will help the show tremendously, including my ability to bring on more great guests for all of us to learn from. Thanks! This podcast is brought to you by Audible. I have used Audible for years, and I love audio books. I have three to recommend: Turn the Ship Around: A True Story of Turning Followers in to Leaders by L. David Marquet Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland The Lean Startup by Eric Ries All you need to do to get your free 30-day Audible trial is go to Audibletrial.com/agile. Choose one of the above books, or choose between more than 180,000 audio programs. It's that easy. Go to Audibletrial.com/agile and get started today. Enjoy! The post AFH 042: The Grows Method for Adopting Agile Software Develpoment [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We get to work to make sense of a sensemaking framework for human work systems, and learn how to build stronger teams with better communication. Kenneth & Kevin are joined by Danie Roux (@danieroux) & Kevin Trethewey (@KevinTrethewey) to chat about their Spine model, a sensemaking framework for human systems. Danie & Kevin are both involved in doing consulting work, and have distilled the Spine model from their experience helping teams in various companies. Having its roots in Extreme Programming and NLP, the Spine model is about having the right conversations. For more information on the Spine model: * http://www.spinemodel.info * http://www.spine.wiki Follow Danie & Kevin on the internet: * https://twitter.com/danieroux * http://www.danieroux.com * https://twitter.com/KevinTrethewey * http://drivenalliance.com Here are some resources mentioned during the show: * Extreme Programming - http://www.extremeprogramming.org * Nonviolent Communication - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication * Rhetoric - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric * Systems Thinking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking * Values elicitation exercises * Dreyfus model of skill acquisition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition * Pragmatic Thinking and Learning - https://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning * Heuristics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic * Cumulative Flow Diagrams - http://brodzinski.com/2013/07/cumulative-flow-diagram.html * Story points - https://agilefaq.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/what-is-a-story-point/ * Agile2015 Presentation in Washington DC - http://sched.co/370b * Complexity vs Complicated - https://hbr.org/2011/09/learning-to-live-with-complexity * Cynefin Framework - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_Framework * "Teams are immutable" - https://twitter.com/richardadalton/status/569275411508682752 * Extreme Programming Explained - http://amzn.com/0321278658 And finally our picks Kevin Trethewey: * Russell L. Ackoff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_L._Ackoff * "Team Tourism" Danie: * Freedom from Command and Control: A Better Way to Make the Work Work - http://amzn.com/0954618300 * Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030355.do * The Nature of Software Development - https://pragprog.com/book/rjnsd/the-nature-of-software-development Kevin: * Coding Horror: The Book - http://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-horror-the-book/ Kenneth: * How to Build Stable Systems - http://bit.ly/217sVkr Stay in touch: * Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/ * Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping * Subscribe and rate in iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/za/podcast/zadevchat-podcast/id1057372777
02:36 - Software Development and Reality Construction by Christiane Floyd Hermeneutics 05:42 - Peter Naur: Programming as Theory Building 07:55 - The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill by Karla McLaren 13:14 - Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun by Dave Thomas 14:32 - ng-book 2 16:09 - Paper Reading Group Adrian Colyer's Blog We hear you like papers by Ines Sombra (Slides) 19:58 - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck 20:29 - Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell 22:01 - Ruby Rogues Book Club Books Episodes Ruby Rogues Episode #23: Book Club: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns with Kent Beck Ruby Rogues Episode #87: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby with Sandi Metz Ruby Rogues Episode #68: Book Club: Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests with Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce Ruby Rogues Episode #97: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture with Martin Fowler Ruby Rogues Episode #178: Book Club: Refactoring Ruby with Martin Fowler 22:43 - Books to Learn When You’re Learning to Become a Software Developer Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Phillips Brooks Software Project Survival Guide by Steve McConnell Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike 33:07 - Technical Programming Books Programming Perl: Unmatched power for text processing and scripting by Tom Christiansen (The Camel Book) Unix Power Tools by Shelley Powers Ruby Cookbook by Lucas Carlson Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide by Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt Agile Web Development with Rails 4 (Facets of Ruby) by Sam Ruby SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL by John Viescas The Art of SQL by Stephane Faroult PostgreSQL: Up and Running: A Practical Introduction to the Advanced Open Source Database by Regina O. Obe SQL Pocket Guide by Jonathan Gennick SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming by Bill Karwin Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby Why The Lucky Stiff 41:17 - Pramming and Business Books The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) by Chad Fowler Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual by John Sonmez The Rails Freelancing Handbook by Mike Gunderloy The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online by Violet Blue Doxing Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World by Venkat Subramaniam Picks Mark Manson: The Most Important Question of Your Life (Jessica) Dan Luu: Normalization of Deviance in Software: How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal (Coraline) The Noun Project (Avdi) Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen (Avdi) CES (Chuck) Bill Buxton: Avoiding the Big Crash (Jessica)
02:36 - Software Development and Reality Construction by Christiane Floyd Hermeneutics 05:42 - Peter Naur: Programming as Theory Building 07:55 - The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill by Karla McLaren 13:14 - Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun by Dave Thomas 14:32 - ng-book 2 16:09 - Paper Reading Group Adrian Colyer's Blog We hear you like papers by Ines Sombra (Slides) 19:58 - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck 20:29 - Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell 22:01 - Ruby Rogues Book Club Books Episodes Ruby Rogues Episode #23: Book Club: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns with Kent Beck Ruby Rogues Episode #87: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby with Sandi Metz Ruby Rogues Episode #68: Book Club: Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests with Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce Ruby Rogues Episode #97: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture with Martin Fowler Ruby Rogues Episode #178: Book Club: Refactoring Ruby with Martin Fowler 22:43 - Books to Learn When You’re Learning to Become a Software Developer Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Phillips Brooks Software Project Survival Guide by Steve McConnell Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike 33:07 - Technical Programming Books Programming Perl: Unmatched power for text processing and scripting by Tom Christiansen (The Camel Book) Unix Power Tools by Shelley Powers Ruby Cookbook by Lucas Carlson Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide by Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt Agile Web Development with Rails 4 (Facets of Ruby) by Sam Ruby SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL by John Viescas The Art of SQL by Stephane Faroult PostgreSQL: Up and Running: A Practical Introduction to the Advanced Open Source Database by Regina O. Obe SQL Pocket Guide by Jonathan Gennick SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming by Bill Karwin Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby Why The Lucky Stiff 41:17 - Pramming and Business Books The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) by Chad Fowler Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual by John Sonmez The Rails Freelancing Handbook by Mike Gunderloy The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online by Violet Blue Doxing Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World by Venkat Subramaniam Picks Mark Manson: The Most Important Question of Your Life (Jessica) Dan Luu: Normalization of Deviance in Software: How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal (Coraline) The Noun Project (Avdi) Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen (Avdi) CES (Chuck) Bill Buxton: Avoiding the Big Crash (Jessica)
02:36 - Software Development and Reality Construction by Christiane Floyd Hermeneutics 05:42 - Peter Naur: Programming as Theory Building 07:55 - The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill by Karla McLaren 13:14 - Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun by Dave Thomas 14:32 - ng-book 2 16:09 - Paper Reading Group Adrian Colyer's Blog We hear you like papers by Ines Sombra (Slides) 19:58 - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck 20:29 - Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions by Gayle Laakmann McDowell 22:01 - Ruby Rogues Book Club Books Episodes Ruby Rogues Episode #23: Book Club: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns with Kent Beck Ruby Rogues Episode #87: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby with Sandi Metz Ruby Rogues Episode #68: Book Club: Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests with Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce Ruby Rogues Episode #97: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture with Martin Fowler Ruby Rogues Episode #178: Book Club: Refactoring Ruby with Martin Fowler 22:43 - Books to Learn When You’re Learning to Become a Software Developer Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick Phillips Brooks Software Project Survival Guide by Steve McConnell Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike 33:07 - Technical Programming Books Programming Perl: Unmatched power for text processing and scripting by Tom Christiansen (The Camel Book) Unix Power Tools by Shelley Powers Ruby Cookbook by Lucas Carlson Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide by Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt Agile Web Development with Rails 4 (Facets of Ruby) by Sam Ruby SQL Queries for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Data Manipulation in SQL by John Viescas The Art of SQL by Stephane Faroult PostgreSQL: Up and Running: A Practical Introduction to the Advanced Open Source Database by Regina O. Obe SQL Pocket Guide by Jonathan Gennick SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming by Bill Karwin Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby Why The Lucky Stiff 41:17 - Pramming and Business Books The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life) by Chad Fowler Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual by John Sonmez The Rails Freelancing Handbook by Mike Gunderloy The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online by Violet Blue Doxing Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World by Venkat Subramaniam Picks Mark Manson: The Most Important Question of Your Life (Jessica) Dan Luu: Normalization of Deviance in Software: How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal (Coraline) The Noun Project (Avdi) Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen (Avdi) CES (Chuck) Bill Buxton: Avoiding the Big Crash (Jessica)
02:37 - Dave Thomas Introduction Twitter Blog The Pragmatic Bookshelf 04:17 - How Dave Got Started in Programming 06:34 - Tools and Constraints “An Enthusiast’s Problem”? Is the focus on tools a form of cargo culting? Leadism Over Chosen Technologies and Its’ Effect on Innovation Switching Tools and Making Excuses 19:29 - Limerence Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love by Dorothy Tennov Irrational Interest and Defensiveness 28:54 - Ruby = Happiness: Does it Hurt? 31:00 - Tools and Falling in Love with Tools Fear of Falling Behind; Fear of Irrelevancy Different Tools for Different Contexts 35:08 - When Do You Learn? When Do You Train? (Not Falling Behind) 38:01 - Choosing Similar Tools and Technologies vs Choosing Different Tools and Technologies Gulp => Grunt => Browserify Example Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt 43:36 - Relationships and Identities 46:08 - Looking Forward vs Looking Back (Knowing Your History) Resources, Curriculum: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) by Harold Abelson (SICP) Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth (Series) Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) Brainstorming Example 01:01:48 - Is the rampant use of social media hindering the learning of big ideas? Self-Curation = Key 01:08:15 - How You Learn a Language / Decide You Like a Language Sudoku Solver Markdown Parser Picks Slack (Dave) Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Dave) Philly Emerging Tech Conference (Dave)
02:37 - Dave Thomas Introduction Twitter Blog The Pragmatic Bookshelf 04:17 - How Dave Got Started in Programming 06:34 - Tools and Constraints “An Enthusiast’s Problem”? Is the focus on tools a form of cargo culting? Leadism Over Chosen Technologies and Its’ Effect on Innovation Switching Tools and Making Excuses 19:29 - Limerence Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love by Dorothy Tennov Irrational Interest and Defensiveness 28:54 - Ruby = Happiness: Does it Hurt? 31:00 - Tools and Falling in Love with Tools Fear of Falling Behind; Fear of Irrelevancy Different Tools for Different Contexts 35:08 - When Do You Learn? When Do You Train? (Not Falling Behind) 38:01 - Choosing Similar Tools and Technologies vs Choosing Different Tools and Technologies Gulp => Grunt => Browserify Example Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt 43:36 - Relationships and Identities 46:08 - Looking Forward vs Looking Back (Knowing Your History) Resources, Curriculum: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) by Harold Abelson (SICP) Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth (Series) Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) Brainstorming Example 01:01:48 - Is the rampant use of social media hindering the learning of big ideas? Self-Curation = Key 01:08:15 - How You Learn a Language / Decide You Like a Language Sudoku Solver Markdown Parser Picks Slack (Dave) Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Dave) Philly Emerging Tech Conference (Dave)
02:37 - Dave Thomas Introduction Twitter Blog The Pragmatic Bookshelf 04:17 - How Dave Got Started in Programming 06:34 - Tools and Constraints “An Enthusiast’s Problem”? Is the focus on tools a form of cargo culting? Leadism Over Chosen Technologies and Its’ Effect on Innovation Switching Tools and Making Excuses 19:29 - Limerence Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love by Dorothy Tennov Irrational Interest and Defensiveness 28:54 - Ruby = Happiness: Does it Hurt? 31:00 - Tools and Falling in Love with Tools Fear of Falling Behind; Fear of Irrelevancy Different Tools for Different Contexts 35:08 - When Do You Learn? When Do You Train? (Not Falling Behind) 38:01 - Choosing Similar Tools and Technologies vs Choosing Different Tools and Technologies Gulp => Grunt => Browserify Example Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt 43:36 - Relationships and Identities 46:08 - Looking Forward vs Looking Back (Knowing Your History) Resources, Curriculum: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) by Harold Abelson (SICP) Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth (Series) Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) Brainstorming Example 01:01:48 - Is the rampant use of social media hindering the learning of big ideas? Self-Curation = Key 01:08:15 - How You Learn a Language / Decide You Like a Language Sudoku Solver Markdown Parser Picks Slack (Dave) Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?) by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Dave) Philly Emerging Tech Conference (Dave)
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Pete and Dom announce PreneurMedia.tv, the new site for the Podcast, and they discuss the book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning. They focus on the idea of learning more about the tools you use every day as a simple way to improve your overall efficiency. -= Links =- - Web Links: http://preneurmedia.tv - PreneurMedia.TV - the New Home of Preneurcast http://www.screencastsonline.com - Screencasts Online - Excellent resource for finding out about new and existing Mac Software - Books Mentioned: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning -=- For more information, visit us online at www.preneurmedia.tv or drop us a line at: preneurcast@preneurgroup.com
I've been reading the Software Craftsmanship mailing list where they were discussing whether software is a craft. Someone brought up the concept of what makes a “Master Craftsman” in software and I started thinking about how to determine if someone is an expert or master. There are a few concepts out there including these: Someone who has read at least 3 books on a subject. Someone who knows more about a subject than someone else. Someone who has published something on a topic. As discussed in Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers)
Andy Hunt is the author or co-author of several programming books including: The Pragmatic Programmer Programming Ruby (the Pickaxe book) Pragmatic Unit testing in C# with Nunit Practices of an Agile Developer Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware He's also one of the original signatories of the Agile Manifesto. Andy is a great person to talk about regarding Agile Development. Here are some things he says you need to become agile and where to start: Do a little of the right things all the time You'll be the expert on the project at the end of the project. Defer important decisions until you understand the problem. Stand up meetings Set ground rules Make sure you have a stable build environment and version control Unit Tests Continuous Integration Code Reviews/Pair Programming – Check the code Involve the Customer Produce something every 1-4 weeks Retrospectives – Get Feedback Download this Episode
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