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.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and John Papa
- - John's definition of value
- - The things that "light John up"
- - Speaking at conferences, getting involved, and gaining noteriety
- - John's unexpected genesis as a trainer
- - John the Pluralsight author
- - How John got started in software
- - Solving real problems for real people instead of doing things just for show
- - John's story of failure - an attitude of encouraging failure, the thing happening against which you carefully guarded
- - John's success stories - fostering autonomy as a parent, letting go of control, foresight into the rise of Single-Page Applications
- - How John stays current with what he needs to know
- - John's book recommendation
- - The things that have John most excited
- - John's sources of pain and suffering
- - The things about which John likes to geek out
- - John's prediction for the future of software
- - John's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with John
Resources:
- John's Blog
- John's Pluralsight Author Page
- Aaron Skonnard
- K. Scott Allen on Developer On Fire
- Troy Hunt on Developer On Fire
- TRS-80
- War Games
- Thomas Edison's Attitude of Creativity
- aurelia
- Rob Eisenberg on Developer On Fire
- Build Your Own MVVM Framework - Rob Eisenberg
- JavaScript: The Good Parts - Douglas Crockford
- Progressive Web Apps
- Xamarin
- NativeScript
- React Native
John's book recommendation:
John's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Listen - Really LIsten
- Don't jump to a solution immediately
- Look at what other people are doing, but make your own judgement