Learn how to join our Facebook community, how to get technical and sales support, and how to get personal one-on-one consulting and advice from me to cater to your specific situation.

This section will cover an array of topics including core values, the importance of diversifying your project portfolio, and some cancerous traits to avoid that get devs fired and blacklisted from promotions.

Projected Roadmap

• Experience: Learning what doesn't work is often more valuable than learning what does. This module talks about how to recognize learning opportunities how to grow from other people's mistakes.
• Intrinsic Values: Learn the importance of intrinsic values such as discipline and integrity, and how developing these traits can potentially yield much greater success than talent.
• Extrinsic Values: Learn how extrinsic values differ from as well as can overlap intrinsic values, and why you should focus on them before focusing on your technical abilities.
• Jack of All Trades, Master of Some: Learn how to recognize opportunities to expand your skill set away from your core competencies so that you can consider more moving pieces when making technical decisions, delegating tasks, and so on
• Don't Be Special, Be Exceptional: Learn to understand that every team and every project is different and how to lead by example versus making the team accommodate you.
• Don't Be Your Tool Belt, Wear Your Tool Belt: Learn how to frame your perspective and control your bias regarding the tools, libraries, frameworks, and languages you bring to the project.
• Diversify Your Portfolio: Perspective and experience are everything in this industry. Clients pay for options far more than they pay for expertise. Being able to consult outside of your comfort zone is a huge value, and in this module we will cover the importance of working on projects and tools that you might not put on your resume.
• The Proactive Mindset: Learn the importance of being proactive and how your proactivity can have positive ripple effects outwards to the customer and upwards to the executive team.
• Becoming the Fixer: Learn some tricks and habits to use to become the fastest problem solver on every project.
• When To Build It, When To Buy It: Learn when and why you would want to to leverage third party services for major integrations, and when you would want to roll your own solution.
• How to Fail, How to Succeed: Learn to understand and appreciate how failure is an opportunity to grow and why we want to fail early, often, quickly, and quietly. We will then cover moments of success and the importance of humility and credit delegation.
• Build a Gut and Learn to Trust It: Learn the importance of listening to your gut instincts and how to appreciate and tap into the subconscious mind to really grow as a leader.
• Stop Multi-tasking: Learn about single-handling and why it's so much more effective than multi-tasking.
• The Zen Road: Learn the importance of work/life balance, delegation and deference, and other traits that will help prevent burn out.
• Cancerous Traits to Avoid: Learn some traits to avoid that get devs fired and blacklisted from projects.

This section includes modules that cover a wide range of daily challenges and tasks that I encounter regularly in my career, and how to leverage my approaches to come out way ahead in your own projects.

Projected Roadmap

• Hardware: In this module I'll explain the hardware setup that I use every day in my career and which purchases over the years have helped me more than others.
• Comprehensive Analysis: Learn how to get your bearings on new projects by leveraging what you already know to rapidly map out what you don't.
• New Tools: Learn how to ramp up on new tools - libraries, frameworks, databases, or technology you haven't used before.
• Security: Learn why security should be the most important component in your project, and how to stay ahead of SecOps as you build so you're not leaning on them to find security exploits with penetration tests and audits.
• Privacy: Learn some steps developers can take to ensure user privacy is protected.
• Stability: Learn why application stability is so important and how to ensure your customer-facing app remains stable when releasing new features and bug fixes.
• Scalability: Learn patterns to use to ensure you can scale your project to accommodate projected growth, and some common pitfalls to avoid that make scaling difficult and expensive.
• Static Types vs Runtime Validation: Learn the similarities and differences between types and validation. What we gain from each, and why we would want to use either or both in our project.
• Unit Testing: Learn the importance of unit tests, and how they relate to functional tests, end-to-end tests and integration tests.
• Documentation: Learn the process of documenting your project and how to avoid writing endless pages of docs nobody will ever read.
• P13n: Learn how to handle personalization in your project, and how to plan early in the code for what types of p13n the product team plans to offer.
• I18n: Learn different levels of Internationalization support and some ways to organize your locale strings to easily add new translations as your project grows.
• Clean Code: Learn some processes like using style guides, linters, and static analysis to ensure the codebase remains clean and consistent.
• Pure Programming: Learn how to leverage pure functions to avoid introducing side effects into your code.
• Functional Programming: Learn some valuable functional programming concepts such as currying, composition, and lenses, to help simplify your utility logic immensely.
• VCS: Learn some popular version control systems and why you should be using version control in your project if you are not already.
• Code Reviews: Learn the process of reviewing another developer's code; what to look for and how to provide feedback that will result in positive collaboration and a quick turnaround for any change suggestions.
• Hosting: Learn how to choose a hosting provider for your project.
• Databases: Learn how to choose a database for your project.

This section will cover various cross-team interaction techniques, and how I've learned to excel in each area, ranging from one-on-one pair programming to building rapport with the executive teams.

Projected Roadmap

• Communication Mastery: Learn some highly valuable communication practices that will help you collaborate on your teams.
• Underlying Motivation: Learn the concept of the underlying motivation and how learning your colleagues' underlying motivations can help you.
• Pair Programming: Learn the art of pair programming and why it's so crucial to rapid knowledge transfer and building rapport.
• Mentoring: Learn how to grow into a mentor role and help junior devs rise up to your level, and why you absolutely want to do this.
• Interviews: Learn the art of interviewing candidates and some approaches I take to filter ideal prospects quickly.
• Cross-team Relationships: Learn common cross-team relationships and how to get the most out of each one.
• Developer Relationships: Learn how to master the art of working with other devs.
• Vertical Relationships: Learn some common roles in the engineering department and some tips on working with the people in these positions.

This section will talk about various outlets to use to market yourself to the outside world, which platforms to avoid, and when to take which platforms seriously.

Projected Roadmap

• Stack Exchange: Learn about Stack Exchange websites like Stackoverflow.com
• LinkedIn: Learn how to populate your LinkedIn profile and what you can gain from connections.
• Hired: Learn when and why to use job-placement websites like Hired.com.
• Github: Learn how to present yourself on Github in a way that is appealing to potential employers scouting your page.
• Medium: Learn when to use a blogging platform like Medium and what topics you should focus on and avoid.
• Social Opinions: Learn when and why to avoid social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
• Hackathons and Meetups: Learn about hackathons and meetups; what they are and things to consider when deciding whether or not to attend one.

This section will cover methodologies and successful career decisions that I recommend to all my peers which have helped me get to where I am now and continue to help me advance my own career.

Projected Roadmap

• Location Matters: Learn the importance of understanding geo-proximity in relation to brick-and-mortar developer wages. When to work on-site, and when to work remotely.
• Always Have A Mentor: Learn the importance of always striving to be better than you were yesterday, but never being the best in your network, and to always have someone above you that you can lean on for guidance and feedback.
• Your Personal Brand: Learn about building your personal brand and reputation so you can be known for things that will advance your career.
• Goals Mastery: Learn the importance of setting measurable goals and tracking them like you do any other task in your projects.
• Compensation / Title Correlation: Learn the importance of your title and how it attract or repel employment opportunities.
• Interview Mastery: Learn the process I use when interviewing at new positions or projects.
• Work For An Agency: Here I'll share my thoughts on why working for an agency is far superior to working for a typical company.
• Sales: Learn how to change your perspective of sales so that you and the prospect can both get what you want.
• ABC (Always Be Coding): Learn the importance of always having a small side project that's outside of your comfort zone.

This section will cover the steps you will need to take to work for YOURSELF and realize your own goals instead of realizing your employer's. I'll cover how I manage my debts and expenses, the process of becoming a 1099 independent contractor, and ultimately forming a corporation and investing in yourself.

Projected Roadmap

• Pay Off Your Debts: Learn the importance of reducing monthly financial obligations to put you in a position where you can stand firm on wage negotiations, take time off between projects, and enjoy reduced stress overall.
• 1099: Learn when and why you would want to work for yourself as an independent contractor instead of a salaried employee.
• Incorporate: Learn when and why you would want to form a company and put an entity between you and your client.
• Invest In Your Company: Embrace the idea that instead of buying stocks and crypto, you put that money into your own company to grow.

This section will contain interviews with colleagues in my network in various positions along our ideal career path, ranging from junior developer all the way to CTO. You'll gain valuable perspective on the challenges, responsibilities, and opinions from each role to help you ensure that the path you're currently on is right for you.