Years after John Sonmez had been programming, he learned something very important: while his coding skills were important, creating content was his secret. With his blog posts, and eventual books and speaking gigs, he was attracting and growing an audience, and with that came job opportunities and career growth. He shares what he’s learned along the way and how codenewbies everywhere can use storytelling to help build their tech career.

Show Links

• Flatiron School (sponsor)
• Red Hat (sponsor)
• MongoDB (sponsor)
• Codeland 2019
• Codeland Conf
• The 10x Rule
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Soft Skills book
• Bob Martin
• Scott Hanselman
• How To Win Friends And Influence People
• Apple IIe
• Ray Wenderlich
• Top Coder
• Simple Programmer

John Somnez

John Sonmez is personal development coach for software developers. His passion is helping software developers, not only achieve their goals in all areas of their lives, but to learn how to be happy and enjoy the journey. John is the author of the best selling book, "Soft Skills: The Software Developers Life Manual" and produces, blog posts, videos, podcasts and training courses at http://simpleprogrammer.com.