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Episode 094 | Hadi Hariri - Leading By Example

Feb 5 '16

Guest:

Hadi Hariri talks with Dave Rael about life at JetBrains, perspective, education and fundamentals, setting targets, and working with teams

Hadi Hariri is a developer and creator of many things OSS, his passions includes Web Development and Software Architecture. Has authored a couple of books, a few courses and has been speaking at industry events for nearly 15 years. Currently at JetBrains leading the Developer Advocacy team. Spends as much time as he can writing code.

Chapters:

0:27 - Dave introduces the show and Hadi Hariri
1:57 - The way JetBrains serves several different languages, tools, and platforms
3:06 - Hadi's role at JetBrains
5:45 - Hadi's definition of value
9:28 - The things that "light Hadi up"
11:20 - Hadi's story of failure - business dependencies
16:59 - Hadi's story of success - leaving education to take an opportunity for working on open source software
19:41 - The real value of schooling and the importance of the fundamentals
22:03 - How Hadi stays current with what he needs to know
23:54 - The lessons learned from having run a failed business and the perspective that gives for a software person
25:00 - Hadi's book recommendation
27:17 - The things that have Hadi most excited
28:16 - Hadi's involvement in development around JetBrains stuff
29:34 - Rider is an Integrated Development Environment and the differences between IDEs and editors
32:05 - Hadi's greatest sources of pain
35:00 - The things about which Hadi likes to geek out
37:08 - Hadi's prediction for the future of software
41:01 - Keeping up with Hadi

Resources:

Hadi's book recommendation:

Badass: Making Users Awesome - Kathy Sierra

Hadi's top 3 tips for delivering more value:

1. Set yourself targets on a daily/weekly basis and make sure you deliver on those targets
2. Get feedback on what you do
3. Enjoy life