Happy New Year and welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week Julian and Bob talk about setting goals for this year 2023:- How to set your goals this year.- When and where you begin to setting your goals- How to set realistic goals that are achievable and sustainable.- How to set goals you can control.- How to love the process towards your goals.- What actions should you take to enable you to reach your goals.- How goal-setting processes can help you find purpose and meaning in your life.-The importance of small steps with consistency.Recommended books:- Atomic Habits- Pybites podcast reading listMentioned video course:- Practical Productivity With PyBitesJoin our Pybites Slack Community here.

This week we talk with Kristen Kehrer about her journey as a data scientist, developer advocate and content creator.We dive into how she got into DS and what excites her about the field.We talk about her developer relations work at Comet ML, her journey from R to Python, and some really cool data projects she has developed lately (scratching her own itch). For example the school bus one will blow your mind :)Next we move onto the importance of content creation and growing an audience (building your brand) as a developer. We talk about Kristen's content creation process, how to stay consistent and how she found success on LinkedIn, but also leverages Reddit.Then we touch upon imposter syndrome. Kristen shares her perspective on how to better cope with it.And last but not least, Kristen shares some resources to get up2speed with the data science side of Python.Mentioned / recommended books:- The Business Value of Developer Relations- Weapons of Math DestructionConnect with Kristen on LinkedIn.Feedback + ideas for our show? Email us or join the #podcast channel on our Slack.

Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have Andrew McLeod on the show to talk about mindfulness.We talk about:- Mindfulness as it applies to the tech industry and why it’s important to humanise tech.- How mindfulness humanises.- How to be more aware of different parts of the body - as opposed to only thought.- The trap of trying to use mindfulness to fix problems that require action (eg mindfulness will make you aware you are hungry, it won’t resolve the issue)- How mindfulness can help with emotional intelligence (including in the context of code reviewing).- How mindfulness and emotional intelligence can help relating with peers and improve team performance.Books:- The Miracle Of Mindfulness- Chief Joy Officer - McMindfulnessCourses:- MBSR course with certification- MBSR course (without certification - free)- A significantly longer course, both of these teachers are excellentOther resources:- The guy that 'brought mindfulness to the west'- Tara Brach's work- Mindful code reviews:  part 1 and part 2We hope you enjoy this episode!To reach out to Andrew, you can do so:- On LinkedIn- On our Slack - On Instagram

Welcome back to our Pybites podcast. This week we talk about Loving the journey to your goal. We center our discussion about: 1. Setting Goals. 2. What can you do and how can you love the process? 3. Have that Confidence and discipline to achieve your goal. And self control to learn the routine and make it a habit to maintain. 4. Choose how to respond in every situation (If you missed something today don’t be disappointed, because it’s an opportunity to learn and do more). 5. Embrace difficult situations. it only means that you’re getting closer to your goal. 6. Celebrating small wins and how far you are towards your goal. A dedicated mindset episode where we also share new Pybites / personal wins and what we’re currently reading. Links: – Our productivity course is still going strong impacting people’s lives around the globe.– Our growing Pybites podcast book list (created on Pybites Books, our favorite reading tracker and one of our first Django sites we built).Enjoy and next week we’ll have a fresh new episode for you. Do you know enough Python to be dangerous but you don’t dare call yourself a developer? And you want that to change, taking your skills to the next level to land a better job, upgrade your career, earn more freedom and give back to society? We achieve these things for people we work with in our PDM program.Check it out here and join our next related LIVE training in our Facebook group.

This week we talk with Yujian, software developer and entrepreneur.We dive into: - His background. - Why he uses Python and the switch from Java. - His core Python focus these days + cool side projects he's maintaining. - How entrepreneurship is fundamentally different from software engineering. - His viral post on certificates vs the reality of looking things up as a programmer.- Book tips (The hard things about hard things, The startup of you and Grit).- And of course the importance of mindset as a developer (we cannot leave out the Julian question right?!)Enjoy this episode and connect with Yujian on LinkedIn or on our Slack.Other mentioned links:- His PyNLP-lib opensource project- His PythonAlgos blog - The Text API

Welcome back to our Pybites podcast. This week we talk about the relatively stressful times we live in and hence the need to focus on what YOU can control.We center our discussion around 5 tips:1. Setting boundaries.2. At work ask for personal development time to skill up.3. Ask for more responsibility where appropriate (but don't burn yourself out).4. Choose how to respond to situations (it's high stress out there at the moment, but you don't have to be).5. Focus on what's important to you, that is "roles" you have in life.A dedicated mindset episode where we also share new Pybites / personal wins and what we're currently reading.Links:- Our productivity course is still going strong impacting people's lives around the globe.- Our growing Pybites podcast book list (created on Pybites Books, our favorite reading tracker and one of our first Django sites we built)Enjoy and next week we'll have a fresh new episode for you. You can watch this episode on YouTube here.---Do you know enough Python to be dangerous but you don't dare call yourself a developer? And you want that to change, taking your skills to the next level to land a better job, upgrade your career, earn more freedom and give back to society? We achieve these things for people we work with in our PDM program. Check it out here and join our next related LIVE training in our Facebook group.---

In this episode we talk with none other than Sean Tibor from the Teaching Python podcast.Did you know he recently made an important career switch from teacher to developer? You'll hear his inspiring story on how he's grown as a developer, what helped him get there (for example his teaching experience), mindset (of course!), and how his team is currently expanding.Enjoy!Links:- Teaching Python podcast- Sean on Twitter- Sean on LinkedIn- Mondelēz International job postings- The Missing README book

Today we talk about luck and how it relates to career success.It annoys the heck out of us when people say about successful people "oh they were just lucky".Sure luck has a role, but often it's the consistent hard work (discipline) that put those people into the position to become lucky.So we dedicated this episode to this and share how you can "get lucky" as a developer which basically means you have to put in the work. Simple advice, but asking yourself the honest question: are you doing this enough?As usual, we also relate this to the mindset it takes. And lastly, we also share what we're reading.By the way, this is the first time we do the podcast on YouTube so you can see us and comment. Please do so, because we produce this show for you, so your feedback is invaluable - thanks!Happy listening / watching!Relevant links: The PDM programWhat we're reading / have read recently: The BodyWillDiscipline is destinyRobust Python

This week we welcome Hugh Tipping, our newest Pybites Developer Mindset (PDM) Coach, to the podcast!These 34 minutes are packed full of inspiration and insight into Hugh's motivations as a coach.Hugh shares his thoughts on many of the concepts that we actually address within PDM so if you've been wondering what it's like, this is a great one to listen to.Building your portfolioBlogging"Overcoming" Imposter SyndromeNavigating public feedbackStoicismCommunity in codingCreativity and codingYou can follow Hugh here:https://linktr.ee/htippingBooks Mentioned:Hugh: Cal Newport - Deep WorkHugh: Cal Newport - So Good They Can't Ignore YouJulian: Cal Newport - Digital MinimalismBob: Chad Fowler - The Passionate Programmer

This week we have Russell Helmstedter (@rhelmstedter) on the show to talk about a book about learning that will blow your mind: Learn Better We talk through the six facets of learning the book discusses:ValueTargetDevelopExtendRelateRethink... and link them back to Pybites, specifically our platform. Expect a lot of useful tips that will increase the important meta skill of learning which will of course help you become a better developer as well!Links / resources:- The article that got Russell on this book- Learn Better book- Russell's extensive notes (kudos, thanks!)- Our platform that embraces a lot of what's discussed in the book.- Peak, the book on deliberate practice, and mentioned Ericsson's article / study- What is Zettelkasten? It's a note taking system - related Pybites article