Episode 347 | Gwen Faraday - Confident Growth

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Gwen Faraday talks to Dave Rael about becoming a professional developer, organizing user groups, helping people, and doing uncomfortable things

Gwendolyn Faraday is a software developer from Indianapolis, IN. Professionally, she works mostly with cross-platform mobile technologies, React, and Node on AWS. For fun, she loves dabbling in other languages, working on new IoT projects, and making apps that help people learn or build good habits through gamification.

Chapters: 1:17 - Dave introduces the show and Gwen Faraday2:40 - Gwen, the user group organizer6:47 - Self-teaching and helping people learn9:26 - Gwen's career history before professional software development10:30 - Getting more comfortable with people12:10 - Gwen, the conference speaker16:33 - Gwen's interest in blockchain20:44 - Gwen's many technical interests and priorities23:15 - Gwen's story of failure - getting fired because of being too quiet for customer-facing jobs25:54 - Gwen's experiences with breaking into professional software development29:46 - Gwen's book recommendations and productivity recommendations33:32 - What Gwen is working on34:40 - The things the have Gwen most excited37:29 - Gwen's top 3 tips for delivering more value

Resources: Free Code Camp Indy Indianapolis Blockchain Developers Gwen on GitHub Gwen on GitLab Free Code Camp Quincy Larson on Developer On Fire How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie Dave Fancher on Developer On Fire Indy.Code() Ted Neward on Developer On Fire Running into the Storm No Degree, No Problem - Josh Kemp Nirvana (Task Management Application Focused on the Getting Things Done Methodology)

Gwen's book recommendation: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality - Scott Belsky

Gwen's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Communication - ask the right questions Ask those right questions up front Resist the temptation to jump into code right away before the necessary communication