40: Lift as you Climb with Cassidy Williams. On React, Redux, and GraphQL at CodePen, teaching, @smkmeetup, following your dreams (literally), and building your dream network.

Cassidy Williams is a Senior Software Engineer CodePen in Seattle — using React, Redux, GraphQL, and Apollo Client to build the frontend of CodePen and CodePen Projects.

Chantastic asks about building a startup on a plane, maximizing side hustle effort, the importance of networking, and what it's like to meet your heroes.

They discuss tips for getting great advice from smart people, building passive income, finding safe workplaces, and what it looks like to lift as you climb.

Featuring

• Cassidy Williams — Twitter, Github, Website
• Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Links

• GraphQL
• Apollo Client
• Britis Always' In-Flight Hackathon Spawns Solutions To The Engineering Crunch — TechCrunch article on Ungrounded "Innovation Lab In The Sky" and AdvisHer.
• Kelly Hoey
• Kimberly Bryant — founder of Black Girls Code.
• Professor Sue Black
• Bulding Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World — by J. Kelly Hoey
• @smkmeetup — Seattle Mechanical Keyboard Meetup
• CKEYS — Keyboards and Workshops
• Massdrop x Hasbro Scrabble Keyboard
• JavaScript and React for Developers: Master the Essentials — Cassidy's Udemy course.

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