Software Craftsmanship's Missing Link: Apprenticeship

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This gives a concrete playbook: a private GitHub checklist apprentices fork and submit pull requests to, regular pairing and weekly personal retros, and a scoped final client project to prove competence. It covers hiring signals (look at meetups and GitHub not resumes), paying apprentices fairly, running a three-month apprenticeship, and handling failures with feedback and referrals. Watch if needing actionable patterns to build an apprenticeship program; skip if only high-level philosophy is wanted.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:50Core Values
3. 1:49Permaculture
4. 4:54Culture
5. 5:57Friendship
6. 8:25Preparation
7. 10:15Apprenticeship Patterns
8. 10:39My Barber
9. 11:41What Now
10. 13:22Hire Multiple People
11. 14:37Failure
12. 16:10Patterns
13. 16:43Mentorship
14. 18:42Personal Retros
15. 19:22Agile Retros
16. 19:49Real Life Events
17. 21:20Safe Client Projects
18. 22:26Speaking Writing
19. 23:06Improving the Process

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