Becoming an Outlier: Career Reboot for the Developer Mind

As a developer, your image and your mind are your product. So to get what you’ve never had, you must do what you’ve never done with these precious tools. If you want to make a bigger impact, raise your income, and code with purpose, join us. This session is about making a paradigm shift in how you manage your career. We’ll discuss concrete activities and skills that transform average developers into outliers. You’ll learn why developers can’t afford cable, ways to improve your “luck surface area”, and techniques to compress your career through accelerated development. Prepare to think about your development career in a whole new way.

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With just about every slide, @housecor is hitting a home run. I wish these sessions were recorded!

— Eric Lawrence (@ericlaw) January 10, 2014

Show up early to @housecor’s Becoming an outlier talk tomorrow to get a seat. Saw it at @iowacodecamp and it was great #codemash

— Kevin Knowles (@kprknowles) January 9, 2014

Just attended an excellent life changing #codestock session “Become an Outlier” by @housecor!

— Arlene Gray (@WhimSQL) July 13, 2013

My vote’s in for @housecor to keynote #CodeMash next year. He’s amazingly entertaining. (In his crowded “Becoming a developer outlier” talk)

— Eric Lawrence (@ericlaw) January 10, 2014

Loved the talk by @housecor today. Transformative and inspirational. 🙂 #codemash

— Dave Mosher (@dmosher) January 10, 2014