Sirar Salih talks with Dave Rael about burnout, human connection, community involvement, and caring about good software that serves people
Sirar Salih is a solution architect working at Making Waves. He is the creator and maintainer of the node-server-ar-drone library at NPM, co-founder of the AngularJS Oslo user group, program committee member of the Mobile Era Conference, board member of the Norwegian .NET User Group Oslo, the Oslo Software Architecture user group and the Oslo F# user group. Sirar loves holding presentations and has experience from speaking at international conferences such as; Norwegian Developers Conference Oslo, JavaZone, DDD Wales, SATURN, Trondheim Developer Conference and HTML5 Developer Conference. He also frequently shares his knowledge in the tech community by blogging at; https://sirarsalih.com/.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Sirar Salih
- - Sirar's discovery of the importance of empathy and interpersonal communication and skills
- - Sirar's motivations for speaking and being involved in running user groups and conferences
- - Sirar's utility of downtime
- - The appeal of working with drones and making software freely available
- - How Sirar got started in software
- - Sirar's current position at Making Waves
- - Sirar's story of failure - experiencing burnout
- - Sirar's book recommendation
- - Recovering from burnout, perspective gained, and a new emphasis on the human interaction inherent in the craft
- - Sirar's advice for those suffering stress
- - Sirar's success story - becoming a solution architect
- - The benefits of being a user group organizer
- - Sirar's top 3 tips for delivering more value
Resources:
- node-server-ar-drone
- Angular Oslo
- Mobile Era Conference
- https://www.nnug.no/
- Oslo Software Architecture (OSWA)
- OsloFSharp
- Pavneet Singh Saund on Developer On Fire
- Practical Empathy: Unlock the Super Power - Pavneet Singh Saund
- Jim Rohn on the "Average of the Five People You Spend the Most Time With"
- Funcom
- Austin Bingham on Developer On Fire
- Making Waves
- Panama at the FIFA World Cup
- Pablo Rivera on Developer On Fire
Sirar's book recommendation:
Sirar's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Have a positive and kind attitude
- Treat your peers and managers well
- Think of yourself first, especially your health