Keeping Up with the Codeashians. Dealing with our fast paced industry.

Scott and Wes talk about how to deal with being overwhelmed with our fast paced industry. How do you keep you and your team's skills up to date?

Wes' Note: Scott came up with the title for this one. I know.

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Show Notes

1:00

• WELCOME
• Scott is 32! Happy Birthday
• Wes Relaunched his React for Beginners course!

4:00

• That feeling
• Being okay with not knowing everything

9:00

• How to wait it out
• When you should jump into a library
• 1.0 of libraries
• Dogfooding

13:00

• Just In Time learning
• Doubling down on the fundamentals

21:00

• What is JAM Stack?

22:00

• Why do you need to stay up to date?
• Moving or Losing Jobs
• Comfy Chairs

25:00

• Hipster Web Developers

27:00

• Someone think of the customers!
• Technical Debt
• Falling in love with web development again
• Constantly challenging yourself

30:00

• Complacency in Web Devleopment
• Motivating Comfortable Web Developers
• You have to stay up to date

32:00

• Working on the weekends
• Real Talk: part of your job is staying up to date
• How to find time to learn on the clock

36:00

• Adding new tech to projects as a way to learn

39:00

• What if your senior developer is holding back progress?
• How to convince your team or boss that you aren't just a hipster and this new tech is worth it
• Show them the why!

47:00

• Okay, I want to stay up to date. How?
• Strong handle on fundamentals
• Twitter
• Twitter
• WebDev Reddit
• NodeJS is Cancer
• Kitze's LOL Tweet
• JavaScript Weekly
• Lunch and Learns
• Meetups

Siiiiiiiick Pixxxx

• Scott: Never Split The Difference
• Wes: Containers Podcast

Shameless Plugz

• Scott: Pro Gatsby
• Wes: React For Beginners

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