Ep. 076, HOWTO: Harness Capitalism

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SEASON 7 of Underserved kicks off with our guest Paul Belt In our 76th episode we cover Paul graduating from running a BBS and the warez scene into software development Paul realized quickly that many companies and hiring managers in the software industry insist that you have that piece of paper an undergraduate degree before they will consider you We also discuss the importance of the mission and the market measuring software development productivity as well as drag and how to recognize and mesh with different personality types Additional reading links from Paul Paul s first professional mentor https www linkedin com in robert-thau-78b8a665 An insightful boss from DataXu https www linkedin com in brianjdolan Best Boss Ever Marcia Goetsch https www linkedin com in marciagoetsch Marcia s the one that recognized old school computing and the value it brings to today s market a mastery of the basics her mastery is far superior to my own and helped formalize design patterns and domain-specific terminologies in a way that Northeastern failed to She gave me autonomy and taught me the difference between managers and leaders She is a leader Personal Repositories https github com belt and https hub docker com u paulbelt How does the internet work in a nutshell https en wikipedia org wiki OSI model Click here to visit this podcast episode