Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 133 | Laurence Bradford - Shared Journey
Laurence Bradford talks with Dave Rael about taking action, sharing the learning experience, humility, and growth
Laurence Bradford is a digital entrepreneur specializing in front-end development and website content strategy. She is entirely self-taught and is dedicated to helping others acquire digital skills. When she's not working, she's writing on her blog at learntocodewith.me, which equips and empowers those trying to adapt their skillsets to fit an increasingly technological world.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Laurence Bradford
- - Motivations for wanting to learn to code and disillusionment with an economic development career while in Tailand
- - Fearlessness, discomfort, excitement, and pursuing what you want
- - Why Laurence started blogging on her experiences
- - Laurence's current projects, typical activities, and outlook
- - The Learn To Code With Me podcast
- - Laurence's definition of value
- - The things that "light Laurence up"
- - Laurence's story of failure - overestimating financial success and underestimating costs, leading to severe stress
- - Laurence's success story - creation from nothing, making connections, the rewards of helping people
- - The message of a collaborative journey rather than trying to set oneself apart as an authority
- - How Laurence stays current with what she needs to know
- - Laurence's book recommendation
- - The things that have Laurence most excited
- - Laurence's causes of pain and suffering
- - The meaning of "money mindset"
- - The things about which Laurence likes to geek out
- - Laurence's prediction for the future of software
- - Laurence's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Laurence
Resources:
- Learn To Code With Me
- Learn To Code With Me Podcast
- Learn To Code With Me Podcast On iTunes
- Laurence's Blog Post About the Launch of the Podcast
- Newbie Coder Warehouse
- Girl Develop It
- Economic development
- Ari Meisel on Developer On Fire
- Carl Franklin on Developer On Fire
- FancyHands
- Growth vs Fixed Mindset
- T. Harv Eker
- MIT Robotics Videos
Laurence's book recommendation:
Laurence's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Practice empathy and understand the perspective the person you're trying to help
- Think about the form of your solution
- Do - take action
