Developer on Fire
Episode 305 | David Pine - Positive Brand
David Pine is a Technical Evangelist and Microsoft MVP working at Centare in Wisconsin. David loves knowledge sharing with the technical community and speaks regionally at meetups, user groups, and technical conferences. David is passionate about sharing his thoughts through writing as well and actively maintains a blog at davidpine.net. David's posts have been featured on ASP.NET, MSDN Web-Dev, MSDN .NET and Dot Net Curry. David loves contributing to open-source projects and stackoverflow.com as another means of giving back to the community. David sat on the technical board and served as one of the primary organizers of MKE DOT NET for three years. When David isn’t interacting with a keyboard, you can find him spending time with his wife and their three sons, Lyric, Londyn and Lennyx. Follow David on Twitter at @davidpine7.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and David Pine
- - How David got involved in conference speaking
- - The importance of mentors and consequences of their absence
- - How David got started in software
- - The things that "light David up"
- - David's story of failure - getting consumed with negativity
- - Focusing on the positive
- - David's success story - getting recognized as a positive influencer in the developer community
- - David's creative side
- - David's social nature and the growth of confidence as a speaker and community member
- - How David stays current with what he needs to know
- - David's book recommendations
- - The things that have David most excited
- - David's causes of pain and suffering
- - Advice for dealing with negativity in the workplace
- - The things about which David likes to geek out
- - David's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with David
Resources:
David's book recommendation:
David's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Give respect to receive it
- Listen
- Never be afraid to ask why