Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 247 | Kelsey Hightower - Depth and Dedication
Guest:
Kelsey Hightower talks with Dave Rael about minimalism, work ethic, life at Google, going deep, and helping other be better
Kelsey Hightower currently works as a Developer Advocate at Google and enjoys finding simple solutions to complex problems.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Kelsey Hightower
- - Kelsey and Google
- - The Developer Advocate Poisiton
- - The things on which Kelsey works
- - The things that "light Kelsey up"
- - How Kelsey got started in software
- - Kelsey's athleticism and the lessons learned
- - Kelsey's story of failure - pushing tools before the team is ready for it
- - The temptation to use tools and methods because you want to rather than to try to solve a problem and the virtue of swallowing one's pride
- - Kelsey's success story - committing to diving in on good technologies with persistence and effort and the good fortune of choosing good tools
- - Kelsey's story of leveraging his work ethic to succeed and acquiring depth
- - Putting things in front of people and getting critical feedback
- - How Kelsey stays current with what he needs to know
- - Kelsey's book recommendation
- - The things that have Kelsey most excited
- - Kelsey's causes of pain and suffering
- - Happiness, motivation, simplicity, misleading incentives, and empathy
- - Kelsey's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Kelsey
Resources:
Kelsey's book recommendation:
Kelsey's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Learn how to agree to disagree and make other people better
- Understand who you are and what you like
- Appreciate what you have
