156 JSJ Soft Skills and Marketing Yourself as a Software Developer with John Sonmez

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• Twitter
• GitHub
• Simple Programmer
• The Entreprogrammers Podcast
• Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Sonmez
• How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course

04:29 - Mastermind Groups

• Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century by Napoleon Hill

05:53 - “Soft Skills”

• Why Care About Soft Skills?
  • People Skills
  • Finances
  • Fitness

11:53 - Learned vs Innate

• Lifting Limited Beliefs
• Practice

14:14 - Promotion (Managerial) Paths

• The Peter Principle

17:52 - “Marketing”

• Value: Give Away 90% / Charge For 10%
• Seeming “Spammy” (Resistance to Sell)
• Neil Patel's Blog
• Documentation for Yourself
  • AJ O'Neal: How to Tweet from NodeJS

29:53 - Get Up and CODE!

• #086: Figure Skating and Software Development with Aimee Knight
• #067: Weight Loss Plan for Charles (Max Wood)

33:47 - Burnout

• Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
• Systems and Habits (Routines)
  • Methods of Execution

Get John’s How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course for $100 off using the code JSJABBER Comment on this episode for your chance to win one of two autographed copies of Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Sonmez Picks The Recurse Center (Jamison)
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Demon (Jamison)
Mastodon: Leviathan (Jamison)
Jan Van Haasteren Puzzles (Joe)
Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn (Joe)
AngularJS-Resources (Aimee)
Superfeet Insoles (Aimee)
Good Mythical Morning (AJ)
The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz (Chuck)
Streak (John)
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber (John)
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini (John)
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield (John)
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (John) Special Guest: John Sonmez.

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