Rand Fitzpatrick - Senior Manager of Product Management at Hashicorp

Junior to Senior with David Guttman

Talking Points:

• Building a Mental Model
• Motivational Mindsets
• Hirable Dev Traits
• Communication Habits
• Team Skills
• Framing Your Career
• Evaluating New Technologies

Quotable Quotes:

• “What do they actually need? How can we integrate it into their workflow? What can we do to make it easier for them?” - RF
• “Creating tools for other developers involves asking a lot of questions.” - RF
• “Ask ‘why’ all the time. Take nothing for granted.” - RF
• “Giving people context is empowering to [engineers].” - RF
• “Focus on being less wrong rather than being more right.” - RF
• “I care that people take the time to understand and be understood by others.” - RF
• “We’re doing this for other people.” - RF
• “What do you want to learn, practice, and be exposed to?” - RF
• “Being able to work side-by-side with people who bring a new perspective and teach me new things as we move has been everything.” - RF
• “What is the problem that we’re trying to solve? What are its constraints?” - RF

Notes:

Rand’s Website:
tensoroverflow.com

Rand’s Twitter:

twitter.com/sixwing

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