Joe Colantonio talks with Dave Rael about remote work, podcasting, building an audience, income, motivation, and reward
Joe Colantonio a test automation architect for a large Fortune 100 company. He’m able work 100% remotely from home in Rhode Island, which is fortunate because he hates cubicles and commuting. He blogs at joecolantonio.com and is the host of the podcast, TestTalks where he focuses on helping people and organizations succeed with automation awesomeness. He's an avid digital content creator who loves to share information through his blog, podcasts, videos, courses and books.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Joe Colantonio
- - Joe's ability to generate income from the content he is creating and having a day job as a source of material for content
- - Application Development vs Testing as a source of expertise for content creators
- - The Automation Guild remote conference
- - Benefits of podcasting and having a podcast as a source of conference speakers and human connections
- - The future of Automation Guild and birth of PerfGuild
- - Benefits of taking action and getting involved and Joe's involvement in an Entreprogrammers mastermind group
- - The desires of Joe's heart for his lifestyle and work
- - Remote work vs onsite
- - Joe's intent for the immediate future and how podcasting has changed him
- - Growing by doing hard things
- - Advice for software people with fear of engaging
Resources:
- Joe's Blog
- Joe's Podcast - Test Talks
- Automation Guild - Joe's Exciting Remote Conference
- PerfGuild - Joe's Other Exciting Remote Conference
- John Sonmez on Developer On Fire
- Derick Bailey on Developer On Fire
- Josh Earl on Developer On Fire
- Charles Max Wood on Developer On Fire
- Entreprogrammers - The Podcast for Developreneurs
- MicroConf
- Startups For the Rest of Us
- Aaron Olson on Developer On Fire
- David Heinemeier Hansson on Developer On Fire
- The Developer On Fire Community
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code
- John Sonmez Interviews Dave
- Uncle Bob Martin on Developer On Fire