Keynote – Saron Yitbarek
summary
Shares concrete lessons from years helping new developers and building communities: built CodeNewbie podcast network with 300+ episodes and millions of downloads, ran weekly Twitter chats that scale to hundreds, launched Disco web and mobile apps after raising a little over $2 million but sees low uptake and pivots, highlights community projects like exorcism reaches over a million developers a month, and names the specific practices and moments that actually helped newcomers persist and get hired.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08Defining programming as art
- 3:35Learning through hardship
- 7:32Finding the Ruby community
- 10:56Lessons from the flat iron dean
- 13:39Mentorship and collaboration
- 17:44Giving back to the community
- 20:01Overcoming imposter syndrome
- 22:47Learning from industry peers
- 26:01The impact of kind mentorship
- 29:19Building businesses and lessons
- 33:31Love as a superpower
