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
- Dave as guest on Simple Programmer
- 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