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Episode 141 | John Papa - Family And Foresight

John Papa talks with Dave Rael about values and priorities, rewards and joy, and making your own judgements

John Papa is a Google Developer Expert and Microsoft Regional Director specializing in Web technologies. You can often find him speaking and training at various events around the world in keynotes, workshops, and sessions for events such as Build, ngConf, AngleBrackets, TechEd/Ignite, and VSLive. You an also find him on the popular weekly podcast Adventures in Angular. He enjoyed being the host of the popular show Silveright TV on Channel 9 and hosted many events including the MIXer and Open Source Fest at major conferences. He currently enjoys authoring courses for Pluralsight. You can reach him at johnpapa.net or on twitter at @john_papa.

John's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Listen - Really LIsten
  2. Don't jump to a solution immediately
  3. Look at what other people are doing, but make your own judgement

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