Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 120 | Quincy Larson - Teacher With Enough
Guest:
Quincy Larson talks with Dave Rael about listening to users, family, building a community, the importance of teaching, and fulfillment
Quincy Larson is a teacher at Free Code Camp, an open source community where you learn to code and practice by building projects for nonprofits.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Quincy Larson
- - Quincy as teacher vs founder, leader, etc. - teacher as exalted term
- - The origins of Free Code Camp and the choice of JavaScript
- - Free Code Camp for experienced software developers
- - Quincy's experience and motivation in learning to code
- - Quincy's definition of value
- - The things that "light Quincy up"
- - Quincy's story of failure - misunderstanding of the user
- - Applying the lessons of the failure of Course Forward to Free Code Camp and practicing "Camp-Driven Development"
- - Qunicy's family life and the integration of Free Code and life itself
- - Qunicy's success story - contentment
- - Has Quincy "made it"
- - How Quincy stays current with what he needs to know
- - Quincy's Book Recommendation
- - The things that have Quincy most excited
- - Quincy's prediction for the future of software
- - Quincy's top 3 tips for delivering value
- - Keeping up with Quincy
Resources:
- Free Code Camp
- The Free Code Camp Medium Publication
- Medium Posts Written by Quincy
- Craig Newmark
- AutoHotkey
- Uncle Bob Martin on Developer On Fire
- Gene Roddenberry
- The Terminator
- HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Lieutenant Commander Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Pinal Dave on Developer On Fire
- Isaac Asimov's Robot Series
- The Three Laws of Robotics in Isaac Asimov's Robot Series
- Reid Hoffman
- Alan Cooper on Personas
- The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity - Alan Cooper
- Alan Cooper on Developer On Fire
- "If you're not embarrassed.. you've launched too late." - Reid Hoffman
- Joseph Heller on Having Enough (turns out is was Kurt Vonnegut that relayed the story)
- Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition - Joseph Heller
- Chad Fowler on Developer On Fire
- Atwood's Law
- Jeff Atwood
- Discourse
- Consumer Surplus
Quincy's book recommendation:
Quincy's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Think first of delivering value and only later on capturing it
- Don't use blackhat user experience
- Think about capturing value after (and only after) delivering
