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Episode 377 | Michael Dowden - Autonomy and People

Guest:
Michael Dowden talks with Dave Rael about business, people, writing, speaking, and lifestyle design

Michael is a Co Founder and Product Architect for startups Andromeda, FlexePark, and M2D2. For more than 20 years he has been writing code and geeking out over cool technology. He is passionate about keeping things simple and focusing on what provides real value to the end user. Michael enjoys helping other developers grow in their career, speaking at conferences, user groups, and coding academies. In 2015 he wrote Programming Languages ABC++ to share programming languages with children.

Michael's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Listen - check your ego at the door and be willing to accept that you may be wrong
  2. Practice compassion
  3. All other things being equal, simpler is always better

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