Kent C. Dodds - Software Engineer Educator at Kent C. Dodds Tech

Junior to Senior with David Guttman

Talking Points:

• The transition from full-time software engineer to full-time educator
• How teaching solidifies understanding
• Involvement in the open-source community avoid losing touch with the newest tech
• Going beyond following tutorials
• Ways to get exposure to different problems
• Importance of motivation
• Being flexible in project scoping
• Practice Interview skills by interviewing
• Importance of blogging

Quotable Quotes:

• “Sharing my knowledge is a great way to solidify my understanding” - KCD
• “I quote Ashley Williams ‘Teaching is nature’s way of showing you how sloppy your understanding is.’ ” - KCD
• “Anytime I run into a situation where - it works this way, doesn’t work that way - and I don’t know why, I have to figure out why.” - KCD
• “I find that the best way to gain experience as a developer is by exposing yourself to problems” - KCD
• “You need to do something that will motivate you and would be exciting” - KCD
• “It’s a marathon, not a sprint” - DG
• “The cost for everybody else in the world for you to publish a new blog post is zero” - KCD
• “You can’t control your luck, but you can increase the number of situations where you’re lucky” - KCD

Notes:

Kent’s LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentcdodds/

Kent’s Website:

https://kentcdodds.com/

KCD Community on Discord

https://kentcdodds.com/discord/

Kent’s Github:

https://github.com/kentcdodds/

Testing Javascript Website:

https://testingjavascript.com/

Epic React Website:

https://epicreact.dev/

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