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Episode 138 | Federico Tomassetti - Languages And Humility

Federico Tomassetti talks with Dave Rael about education, humilty, domain-specific languages, and natural languages

Federico Tomassetti is a Consultant Software Engineer. He is always looking for new things to learn about software. After 1 PhD, experiences in 4 countries, writing, working in different companies (including TripAdvisor and Groupon), he realized he has so many new things to learn. He is mostly interested in Language Engineering: building languages and tools to represent ideas and reason about them.

Federico's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Understand what someone else needs
  2. Communicate
  3. Be humble and honest and accept input from even an intern

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