My colleague T.K. Coleman says “If you want to be a developer at Google, don’t go be a developer for another company. Build your development portfolio on the side and do anything you can to get in with Google, even if it means sweeping the floors.” There are two reasons why this is a valuable …
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Started 2018 with the Opening Seminar for my first-ever class as the Praxis Bootcamp Advisor lineup, the January crew.Opened up the month with a whole slew of advising sessions. Coached over 100 people, did over 400 1-on-1 advising sessions, and countless amounts of coaching via email and Slack messages. Learned a lot about coaching. Learned …
In Episode 2 of Talkin’ ‘Bout Praxis, T.K. and I talk with Praxis alum and SDR manager Luke Ruffing. Luke’s a baller — he moved from Maine to San Francisco (East Coast to West Coast, small town to big city) to work at his first startup, PandaDoc, and then moved again before the end of …
I’m now co-host of a podcast, titled Talkin’ ‘Bout Praxis, and we launched our first episode today! In this podcast, Praxis Education Director T.k. Coleman and I interview our program participants and alumni about their Praxis experiences — what brought them to Praxis, what they worked on in the program, where they apprenticed, what they …
The Interview: https://www.jordanharbinger.com/jocko-willink-why-discipline-beats-motivation-every-time/ The Analysis: coaching insights from a warrior (ex Navy SEAL). Notes jotted in chronological order (a few with rough time stamps) and taken from a coaching perspective. The Notes: •if Jocko could tell his 20-year-old self anything, it would be that he doesn’t know anything. Growth happens in five year increments — …
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Location: Bob’s Diner, Carnegie, PA Date: 4.1.18 (Easter) The Game: while waiting for your food at a diner (or any public place, really, though diners are most fun), choose and describe people around you. Don’t give away any blatantly obvious details, but write with the intent that someone could look around the room and pick …