Rahul gives unsolicited advice

I keep rewatching this talk by Randall Koutnik on Developer Career Path every so often, just to reevaluate my own developer career. I think the "Solution Implementer", "Problem Solver", "Problem Finder" career path that Randall talks about makes a lot of sense, especially in the career path I am currently on. A highlight of his talk is the discussion around shapes and sizes of problems and that the developer career path should ideally expose the developer to a large number of shapes and progressively increasing sizes of problems. Thinking about my own career path in terms of shapes and sizes of problems makes me realize that there are still a lot a lot of shapes that I haven't worked with. I think I'm a "Problem Solver" at this point, while also doing a bunch of "Solution Implementer" work but I'm far from being a good "Problem Finder".  

Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey are two of my favorite YouTube channels and I watched this video from Kurzgesagt yesterday night, which reminded me of the older CGP Grey video. I love knowing what goes into producing the amazing content on these channels. The CGP Grey video is especially interesting because he talks about the content production process in the context of understanding how a mistake was made and dissects where all in the production process they could have/should have noticed and fixed the error. Wait a second. This actually just reminded me of another favorite channel of mine, Every Frame a Painting .

 I came across the bangbangcon conference a long long time back and I came across it again this weekend. It's nothing like the other software conferences that I have come across. Here are four amazing talks that I think exemplify what the bangbangcon is all about.  

 I came across these two videos yesterday night and I think they are videos that everyone needs to watch. Especially at this point in time. I've been a fan of Kurzgesagt in general and it was a little surprising to come across these videos that are subjective, unlike most of their videos which are fully objective.