Episode 333 | Dave Isbitski - Human Voice

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Dave Isbitski talks with Dave Rael about career fulfillment, voice-enabled, user experiences, being your best, and

Dave has been a professional speaker, trainer and evangelist for over a decade. He has taught full-day courses on many topics including mobile apps, cloud, and the web. Dave has helped launch numerous technology platforms, frameworks, and programming languages across an array of devices at both Microsoft and Amazon. Dave is also an author for Lynda.com and can be found on Twitter @TheDaveDev and the Alexa Developer Blog.

Chapters: 1:18 - Dave Rael introduces the show and Dave Isbitski5:49 - Dave Isbitski's early experiences with Alexa8:12 - Designing user experiences11:08 - Dave Isbitski's unique talents and niche, the changing landscape of technology and work15:33 - Aligning work with how you view the world and the rewards of what we do18:22 - Making positive changes, incremental improvement, and the power of habit23:40 - The Alexa Dev Chat Podcast28:32 - The enabling nature of voice interfaces31:38 - What developers should know about Alexa40:24 - Dave Isbitski's story of failure - favoring being right over 46:50 - Dave Isbitski's book recommendations54:09 - Dave Isbitski's top 3 tips for delivering more value59:37 - Keeping up with Dave Isbitski

Resources: The Alexa Dev Chat Podcast Kelly Shaver on Developer On Fire Echo Devices Charlie Kindel Joel Beasley on Developer On Fire Charlie Kindel on Alexa Dev Chat .NET Rocks! Carl Franklin on Developer On Fire Richard Campbell on Developer On Fire Zencastr Audacity Walter Quesada Bob Lautenbach Sameer Lalwani on Alexa Dev Chat The Amazon Developer Site Alexa on the Amazon Developer Site Alexa Slack Team Felienne on Developer On Fire Gary Vaynerchuk "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care" -Theodore Roosevelt How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie My Fitness Pal Amazon Leadership Principles

Dave's book recommendation: Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too - Gary Vaynerchuk Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond - Chris Crowley

Dave's top 3 tips for delivering more value: In order to deliver, you have to be able to say "no" Invest in yourself in order to constantly be learning Listen to find out what people need, not what they ask for