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156 JSJ Soft Skills and Marketing Yourself as a Software Developer with John Sonmez
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03:36 - John Sonmez Introduction
- GitHub
- Simple Programmer
- The Entreprogrammers Podcast
- Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Sonmez
- How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course
04:29 - Mastermind Groups
- Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century by Napoleon Hill
05:53 - “Soft Skills”
- Why Care About Soft Skills?
- People Skills
- Finances
- Fitness
11:53 - Learned vs Innate
- Lifting Limited Beliefs
- Practice
14:14 - Promotion (Managerial) Paths
- The Peter Principle
17:52 - “Marketing”
- Value: Give Away 90% / Charge For 10%
- Seeming “Spammy” (Resistance to Sell)
- Neil Patel's Blog
- Documentation for Yourself
- AJ O'Neal: How to Tweet from NodeJS
29:53 - Get Up and CODE!
- #086: Figure Skating and Software Development with Aimee Knight
- #067: Weight Loss Plan for Charles (Max Wood)
33:47 - Burnout
- Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
- Systems and Habits (Routines)
- Methods of Execution
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (John)