Cory House talks with Dave Rael about self-mastery and being an outlier, breaking out of one's shell, and the pleasures of teaching and learning
Cory is an independent consultant specializing in front-end development and clean coding practices. He is a Microsoft MVP, and author of multiple Pluralsight courses. Cory is founder of OutlierDeveloper.com, a career oriented blog for developers who aspire to be exceptional. He speaks internationally at conferences like NDC, Fluent, and Codemash. Cory blogs at bitnative.com and tweets about software development on Twitter as @housecor.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Cory House
- - How Cory got started in software
- - Cory the idea of being an outlier - self-mastery and self-help
- - Cory's definition of value
- - The things that "light Cory up"
- - The flexibility of writing software - doing new things without having to start from the beginning
- - Cory's story of failure - naive contract negotiation, building without requirements clarity, focus on technology and not the problem
- - Cory's greatest success - shedding the shell - becoming a speaker, trainer, and leader
- - How Cory stays current with what he needs to know
- - Cory's book recommendation
- - The things about which Cory is most excited
- - The greatest sources of pain in Cory's life and work
- - The things about which Cory likes to geek out apart from software
- - Cory's prediction for the future of software
- - Cory's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Cory
- - Farewell
Resources:
- Cory's Blog (One of Them)
- Outlier Developer (Another one of Cory's Blogs)
- Cory on Medium
- Cory's Pluralsight Author Page
- Ted Neward - Iconoclasts (probably not the venue Cory saw it, but probably same/similar content)
- Ted Neward on Developer On Fire
- Alan Cooper on Developer On Fire - Also a Message of Virtue in Interdisciplinary Knowledge
- Dave Thomas on Developer On Fire
- Jeff Atwood - How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead
- Martin Fowler
- David Heinemeier Hansson on Developer On Fire
- The Pareto Principle
- Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice
- Dave on the Paradox of Choice
- Southpark on the quality of choices in elections
- The Imposter Syndrome
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life - Scott Adams
- Scott Adams on the Tim Ferriss Show Podcast
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg
- No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no. - Derek Sivers
Cory's book recommendation:
Cory's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- "Goals are for losers and systems are for winners" -Scott Adams
- Be more conscious of the things you do habitually
- Get comfortable with saying no