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My notes from the talk on how to maximise success

Carla Harris, Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, explains exactly how she got ahead in a male dominated industry.

Here’s what stood out for me:

  1. Your authenticity is your advantage.
  2. There are two currencies when it comes to success. 1 Is performance currency and 2, relationship currency. You need both to succeed, but only relationship currency get’s you to the pinnacle.
  3. She pointed out how doubtful some people are. She learned a thing from her white male colleagues. They were “frequently wrong, but never in doubt”, in other words they had confidence all the time.
  4. Perception is realities’ cop-pilot. What people perceive you to be is often how they think you actually are. You need to make sure that you make it easy for people to perceive in the same good way you do yourself. You can train others on what they should think about you. How should people describe you when you’re not in the room?
  5. If you offer that which is not valuable you will not get any reward for it.

Watch the video below

In case the video fails to show, heres the link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yflSZODY6YU

Comparing Software Engineering to RailRoads in the 1800’s

An amazing (biased) talk about the rust language by one of the core contributors. Comparing accidents in the rail road industry to computer programming and memory safety.

Getting air-breaks approved in passenger and freight trains took a long time.

I’m starting to consider Rust as my next language to learn. The idea is growing in me as Rust allows you to write software at a much lower systems level. The other languages I know (PHP, Javascript, GO) are more targeted at web and server technologies. I have yet to write code for an embedded system.

Have a listen to the talk. I found it very interesting and I’m sure you will too.

a brilliant talk on how to prepare for success

I watched this talk and it answered most of the questions I had about how to succeed and make an impact.

The talk is titled “You and your research/career”, implying your career is something to be studied.

You should watch it yourself, but for me, the main take away is: “Work on important things with important people”.

I hope you learn something that inspires you to take charge of your career. Where do you want to be, who do you want to work with and what kind of legacy do you want to leave behind.

I got this talk from: Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer

Creative Computer Science

I read an interesting article on how personal development as a Software Engineer should be largely focused on thinking rather than specific technologies.

To add to this, when you happen upon the new shiny tool, language or technology you should look at it and try to decipher the underlying ideas and concepts that allow it to exist.

We need to focus more on ideas and less on implementation and specific technologies.

Link: https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2014/05/19/dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-think/