The Work Item - A Career Growth and Exploration Podcast
1) #94 - Exploiting Your Unfair Advantages - Shirley Wu (Shirley Wu Studio)
Shirley Wu is back-to-back on The Work Item - we previously talked about her unexpected career in data visualizations, but for this episode we're switching things up a little bit and instead focus on ...Show More
2) #93 - What's It Like To Be A Data Visualization Wizard - Shirley Wu (Shirley Wu Studio)
So, get this - how many times did you have one of your tweets go viral? Now, how many times did a tweet go viral for a project that you built around something that you really enjoy? And out of those t...Show More
3) #92 - You're Thinking Wrong About Your Career - Lenn Pryor (Executive Coach, Author)
We're often operating under the false illusion that the career track we have now is the career track that we somehow have to follow under any circumstances - it's easy to snap to common conventions ar...Show More
4) #91 - The Future Of Software Engineering - Simon Guest (CTO, Code.org)
Every year, millions of students try coding for the first time through Hour of Code. But most people don't know that the technology powering those experiences is ran by someone who didn't really have ...Show More
5) #90 - The Death Of SaaS Has Been Greatly Exaggerated - Lianna Patch & Colleen Schnettler (Co-Founders, SaaS Marketing Gym)
In this week's episode, I sat down not with one, but two brilliant guests - the duo behind the brand-new venture known as SaaS Marketing Gym, Lianna Patch and Colleen Schnettler. As coaches and commun...Show More
6) #89 - So You Want to Be a CTO - Taiwo Oyeniyi (CTO, Distrobird)
Chief Technology Officer - a few people I've talked to in the past year expressed some degree of interest in reaching, what seems like, the pinnacle of an engineering career. That three-letter title c...Show More
7) #88 - Best-Kept Secrets on Becoming a Great User Researcher - Marisa Morby (Principal Researcher, Observable)
User research is an underappreciated art - we in tech are so used to being immersed in an ocean of quantitative data that we can forget that on the other side of the screen are real humans who want to...Show More
8) #87 - A Wrap-Up Of 2024 Unconventional Career Advice
This is the last episode for 2024. To make it special, it’s a supercut of all the unconventional advice from every single guest that was on the show this year - Kent C. Dodds, Jerod Santo, Rob Walling...Show More
9) #86 - The Only Real Way To Know Is To Talk To People - Asia Orangio (CEO, DemandMaven)
Today, I'm thrilled to be joined by Asia Orangio, the brain behind DemandMaven, a growth agency dedicated to helping SaaS companies and their founders reach new heights. Asia's unique approach blends ...Show More
#86 - The Only Real Way To Know Is To Talk To People - Asia Orangio (CEO, DemandMaven)
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10) #85 - Building A Business From Python Expertise - Michael Kennedy (Founder, Talk Python Training)
If you are listening to this show, you have likely heard of a programming language called Python. And if you are a Python developer, you've likely heard of a podcast dedicated to this programming lang...Show More