Which Way is up ?
summary
A concrete path from imposter syndrome to contribution: start a GitHub repo, write short focused code, publish a blog post, and open a pull request on a real project. Examples: a small “lazy loading with rum JS” post climbs Hacker News for three days and scores 594 points, a long-shot PR to an Angular repo gets merged after iterations, and the moment someone hits press the green button changes confidence more than endless tutorials. Small wins stack; open source work is hard but effective.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:12Meet Jerry the developer
- 3:18Jerry’s jQuery comfort zone
- 5:50Jerry’s journey to Salem
- 7:16Frameworks and impostor syndrome
- 9:52Angular 1 to Angular 2 shock
- 11:41Feeling out of place at conference
- 12:23Eric’s advice on learning
- 14:09Overcoming self-doubt
- 15:53Jerry’s GitHub struggles
- 17:16Challenges of open source
- 18:44Turning negatives into positives
- 20:30Jerry starts blogging
- 21:52Dealing with harsh feedback
- 22:53Positive impact of sharing
- 24:19Jerry’s viral success
- 25:43Teaching to learn better
- 26:48Stepping outside comfort zone
- 28:32Open source contributions
- 30:19Jerry’s future and lessons
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