Scott Hanselman talks with Dave Rael about the benefits of getting involved, bringing balance to all things, family, and empowering individuals
Scott Hanselman is a web developer who has been blogging at http://hanselman.com for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has three podcasts, http://hanselminutes.com for tech talk, http://thisdeveloperslife.com on developers' lives and loves, and http://ratchetandthegeek.com for pop culture and tech media. He's written a number of books and spoken in person to almost a half million developers worldwide.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Scott Hanselman
- - Getting involved
- - The things that "light Scott up" - not content to just learn something, but multiplying the benefit by sharing
- - Humility in sharing information - the importance of portraying yourself not as an authoritative source, but as a fellow traveler
- - The value of consistently producing and being a well-known name is only indirectly beneficial
- - Clarification on the use and coining of the term "dark matter developers"
- - Balancing the messages of the acceptability of being a dark matter developer with the benefits of getting involved
- - Scott on balance in parenting
- - Scott on diversity in the workplace
- - Scott's definition of value
- - Scott's attitude on failure and stories of silly mistakes - "If you don't get in trouble at least twice a year, you're not pushing hard enough"
- - Empowerment to goof up and to ask potentially stupid questions, the good and bad of fear
- - Scott's attitude on success (and failure) - the virtue of the even keel with Type 1 Diabetes as an example of its importance
- - Being deliberate in the choices and objectives of your most important relationships, managing and understanding expectations
- - How Scott stays current with what he needs to know
- - Scott's book recommendation
- - The things that have Scott most excited
- - Scott's greatest sources of pain
- - The impact of being a diabetic
- - The things about which Scott likes to geek out apart from software
- - Scott's prediction for the future of software
- - Scott's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Scott
Resources:
- Scott's Blog
- Scott's Podcasts
- Scott's Books
- Get Involved In Tech - Documentary Film by Rob Conery and Scott Hanselman
- Dark Matter Developers (Scott's Blog Post on the Subject)
- Poornima Vijayashanker on Hanselminutes
- David Fowler
- Damian Edwards
- Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns - The Programmer's Priorities - Scott's Blog Post on Investments to Take Care of Yourself
- Science Friday
- Fresh Air
- Charlie Rose
- Inside the Actors Studio
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Scott on Diabetes
- Geek Relationship Tips with Scott's Wife on Hanselminutes
- More Relationship Hacks with Scott's Wife on Hanselminutes
- The Relationship Hacks Book (to be finished)
- Dave on the Developer Soup podcast
- Scott Hanselman's Complete List of Productivity Tips
- Scott's Description of Charles Petzold Reminds of Tom Preston-Werner's The Git Parable
- Does Visual Studio Rot The Mind - Charles Petzold
- Zencastr
- Josh Nielsen on Developer On Fire
- myEcho
- Scott Sounds like Mr. Miyagi
- Greg Shackles on Developer On Fire
- Oculus Rift DK2
- Google Search on "Scott"
Scott's book recommendation:
Scott's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Listen more than you do
- Be kinder than you are
- Sleep more