Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 230 | John Sonmez - Bold Truth
Guest:
John Sonmez talks Dave Rael about speaking boldly, relatively valuing freedom and security, teaching and learning, and being lit up
John is the founder of Simple Programmer at simpleprogrammer.com, where he tirelessly pursues his vision of transforming complex issues into simple solutions. He is a prolific producer of developer training on Pluralsight. He's a seasoned software professional, podcaster, author, entrepreneur, and fitness enthusiast. John is a life coach for software developers, and helps software engineers, programmers and other technical professionals boost their careers and live a more fulfilled life. He empowers them to accomplish their goals by making the complex simple and is the author of Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and John Sonmez
- - John's updated and context-specific position on boldly addressing controversial topics publicly
- - Determining when to speak freely and when to exercise caution, staying on topic, and the benefits of taking controversial positions
- - John's goals, role, and future - "I help software developers to become cool."
- - Finding the thing you would do not matter what else is happening around you and maximizing your impact, getting lit up
- - What John is doing with his time
- - Learning to keyboard properly despite having a nonstandard technique that was good enough for a long time
- - Balancing long term and short term focus
- - Freedom and security, John's advice for living your values
Resources:
- John's Site - Simple Programmer
- The Simple Programmer YouTube Channel
- John's First Appearance on Developer On Fire
- How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer
- The Developer On Fire Facebook Community
- Cory House on Developer On Fire
- Mark Seemann on Developer On Fire
- Jeremy Clark on Developer On Fire
- John's Blog Post on Why JavaScript is Doomed
- Gordon Ramsay
- Ward Bell
- The EntreProgrammers Podcast
- Tony Robbins
- The New Man
- A Simple Programmer Blog Post by Dave: You Don't Have To Do What You Are Good At
- Duolingo
- Oculus Rift
- Patrick Herny's "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" Speech
