89: Laurie Barth on Building a Career in Tech

Adam Wathan tells us what it takes to make your own money.

He’s a prolific author, podcaster, educator, open source creator, and true fullstack developer. He shares a look into what it took to make Refactoring UI and Tailwind CSS smash hits.

Featuring

• Laurie Barth — Twitter, Website, Github, egghead
• chantastic — Twitter, Website, GitHub, egghead

Notes and Links

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should […] be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise — F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Gatsby Team
• Gatsby Cloud
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport, on Amazon (“career capital”)
• How to talk like an Engineer by Laurie, on YouTube
• Gatsby.js Tutorials
  • 0. Set Up Your Development Environment
• Svelte
• React Hooks
• React Concurrent Mode
• “assume the reader has zero prior knowledge but infinite intelligence” quoted by Dan Abramov on Twitter
• Hot Garbage Clean Code is Dead — by Me, on YouTube
• Kim Maida
• “Hell yeah!” or “no” by Derek Sivers, from Anything You Want on Amazon
• Lindsey Kopacz
• Chris Biscardi
• Imposter syndrome
• Dunning-Kruger effect
• Gridsome
• 11ty

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