Staying passionate about your craft
summary
Built a cross‑platform file‑transfer app after six months of full‑time work, leads a 14‑person team through a messy codebase, and spends 132 working days producing 70 blog posts 4,000 tweets 14 talks; a bad first performance review forces a pivot to focus on impact and almost getting fired turns into a remote job nine timezones apart. Tools used recently include React, TypeScript, Ruby, SQL and Docker, and the concrete habit that keeps passion alive is ship small increments — tiny PRs, bug fixes, or short posts.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:48Early career struggles
- 4:12First app built
- 7:22Performance review shock
- 11:57Conference struggles
- 14:47How fatherhood reshaped my work perspective
- 16:54Becoming a Google Developer Expert and building a social following
- 23:18Leading a dev team
- 26:54Getting fired benefits
- 30:45Stuck in Android
- 34:19Final advice
- 37:15Q&A
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