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The Soft Skills Episode 🍦

Episode Summary

This episode we talk through everything that isn't code. Career, communication, productivity and more. Learn all the tips and ticks to make yourself a more effective software developer.

Episode Notes

Welcome to Iteration, a weekly podcast about programming, development, and design.

What are soft skills? Why are they important? Are they important?

Wikipedia defines "soft skills" ...

Soft skills are a combination of people skills, social skills, communication skills, character or personality traits, attitudes, career attributes, social intelligence and emotional intelligence quotients, among others, that enable people to navigate their environment, work well with others, perform well, and achieve their goals with complementing hard skills.

tldr; people skills

Hard skills, also called technical skills, are any skills relating to a specific task or situation. It involves both understanding and proficiency in such specific activity that involves methods, processes, procedures, or techniques

Conversation is loosely based on this book, the author is famously kind of a dick. Doesn't mean there aren't some solid takeaways, using it as a framework for conversation.

Section 1: Career

Few tips to improve your career:

John

JP

Recommended Career Books

Section 2: Marketing yourself

John

JP

Section 3: Learning

From SS: "Learn you want? Teach you must."

John:

JP:

Section 4: Productivity

From SS: Focus

From SS: Pomodoro Technique

From SS: Kanban

John:

JP:

Sections 5 and 6 — Financial and Fitness

Section 7: Spirit

From SS: power of positive thinking

From John:

JP:

BONUS From John: Communication

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