Humans are Hard, Code is Easy
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Claim: technical chops land interviews but coding skills get you the job and soft skills — listening, clear questions, influence — influence gets you the career. Shows concrete tactics: debugging with print statements, code katas and pair programming, knowledge-transfer sessions, working agreements, and a 60-day PIP turned an introverted developer around. Describes a field trip to customer-service reps that produces measurable empathy and faster decisions, and a delegation anecdote where a 10-minute fix costs twice the time to teach.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:56One superpower
- 3:55Overview
- 6:47Code is Easy
- 8:11John
- 10:02Coding Skills
- 10:50My First Job
- 13:29Working as a Developer
- 15:02Eric
- 16:38Ben
- 19:18Essentialism
- 20:54Professional Relationships
- 23:03Career Transitions
- 27:35Coding Cutter
- 30:20Part 2 Code is Easy
- 32:01Lessons Learned
- 32:52Mastering Basic Skills Requires Guidance
- 33:49Leadership is Language
- 35:33Influence
- 36:08Leading Change
- 36:57Story Time
- 38:58Conclusion
- 39:36Questions
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