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but hello hello it's dnn dave and i hope everybody's doing well today today we have the privilege |
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and honor to reconnect with the true og the dnn hero |
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our dnn desk pedestal the solo coder the one we could always go to for a nice |
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dnn chat for the latest and greatest in dnn news |
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he's a teacher to the core and my good friend patterson oliveira hello hello |
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and welcome madison hello hello dave it's very good to be here man you don't know |
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how much i miss you in everybody know oh man it's so good to see you because like you know it used to |
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be like we could depend on like what at least two or three times visiting you |
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during the week now it's like where is addison yeah |
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yeah we we we we're doing i mean we're doing the the monthly catch-up and then there were |
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the the subgroups that i was part of so we were i was always around |
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quite but participative as well but i was always so it was always good to i mean i thought |
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it was great and i still consider myself you know an honorary member of the dining community |
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and again i mean i love the community though now we have one matter of housekeeping |
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here before we really dive in patterson for people that do not know you |
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this is very important my name is not what |
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not anderson you know you know what i mean this this site i have it i don't know for so many years |
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i've never ever changed much but any anytime that someone pronounced my name incorrectly |
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i had the pleasure to send a link to these sites and again i take that as a joke and it's just uh |
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you know something that we can't we can have a good laugh about you know |
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it's it's uh it's great i thought this was wonderful because people they would always mess up your name |
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right they'd always call you anderson and you could see it's like okay it's fun at first |
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but and then you put the sign up i was like oh this is just brilliant |
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and the thing is that i was never mad about that but again i use that as a hook as an |
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angle you know yeah exactly so good to see you i mean what what in |
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the world have you been up to lately uh what's in your world you know what let |
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me tell you this dnn has never left never left my word so i still do |
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dnn day in day out but on top of that i'm a teacher i'm an instructor |
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so just to give an idea next week i'm starting the new semester and i have right now |
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165 students in line for coding for programming for |
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for for c sharp you know we start with c sharp it starts with the base of c sharp you know wow so i mean |
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you're still you're still kind of focusing on coding and really i mean i've always thought of you |
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as a teacher man you know it's it's kind of kind of cool uh that you're |
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it seems like you're you're you're finding your your element there you know what it's when you say that |
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because i was a teacher being in here it's all about teaching you |
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but it never really i don't know i never internalized that |
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and that caught me out of guards two and a half years ago and i said man that's really who i am |
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you know i like teaching that's what i do now in different formats different ways but that's what i do so so what you're |
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doing now is what is it more formal kind of teaching |
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so it is more formal so uh i work in a one of my activities let's put this way |
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from professional activities is working in a local college so it's uh they have all kinds of tracks from a |
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technology standpoint i handle the people that are starting with coding |
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and i do that vice sharp i also do that a little bit with nodes as well |
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but c sharp is still the the way to go and there are some more advanced courses |
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that i go through mvc and i go through you know web apis and oh all that jazz so so in a way i |
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reconnected deeply with coding because my time during dna here really was not deeply coding |
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it was more of administration set up configuration but again when i went to college to |
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teach at in a local college 2018 i had to reconnect with my coding bases and |
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i found a new uh a new passion for coding again so that's what i am that's so cool do |
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you just out of curiosity do you get to utilize dnn kind of in your teaching these days or is it uh |
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more i don't know i mean i guess you're teaching these fundamentals and so forth so much you |
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know that it's not really in context of a larger scale kind of implementation but |
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that's correct it's not i i mentioned about dna in the first class i always bring no dna |
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here and what i've done there but no there's it's it's a very |
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introductory class that is not doesn't give me the chance to |
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to do something like you know to include something like dnn uh in the mix um i may i may bring that |
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up at some point but it does not allow me to include that for instance this semester it's |
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programming two so they're still working through classes with |
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um you know polymorphism interfaces and this kind of stuff you know |
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man like oh let me google that what does that mean [Laughter] |
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that's great man that's so great well um i i know you're accustomed to being on the other |
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side of these videos right you know you're the usually the interviewer |
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not the interviewee so how does that feel i have to restrain myself because |
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i like i like to talk i like to you know keep going and going and going |
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and i ramble a lot so i really try to make things short and sweet |
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so it doesn't bug you as my host that much all right i don't think you can do |
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anything to bug me friend you ramble on i so i'm going to ask you |
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a question because i mean like believe it or not there are probably people in the dna community right now |
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that don't know who you are so like tell me a little bit about yourself |
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your history like how did you start working with dnn i mean it was many |
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years ago i know but like how did that all happen what was the story behind that so let me try not to bore you to death |
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but back 2006 i was working for a company in toronto canada |
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and they commissioned a report from pete from pricewater |
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pricewaterhousecoopers something no pws the commissioner reports for pws to come |
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up with the right solution for their cms needs and back then 2006 |
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because we were a microsoft shop they pointed out to dnn dnn back then was the nn4 |
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so i i was the manager of a group of developers of about 20 |
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developers and they gave me the job to get to know dnn understand dnn and |
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and be able to implement dna within this network of professions that they had |
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and that's where i get to know a little bit about dna that's where i got to initially let's be |
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honest initially hate dnn of course of course as any good dnner |
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you start hating but then very quickly after that you start loving it and you get you know to know |
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the the community and it's a passion that you know what's there's never |
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a rupture you know but but that's how i i started that is that is cool i i don't know if |
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i've ever heard that so i you know it's funny because i feel like you have been in the dna community |
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forever but it seems like it really started about what four years into or three or four years into it and |
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uh really for for the life of dna i'm speaking yeah |
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uh so i started using 2006 but actually i was not active in the |
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community until 2010 so i was under the radar i was just a |
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consumer uh a passive participant of the community from 2006 to 2010 |
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but in 2010 i started dna hero i started my own business and then in here was a way for me |
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to not only to get to know dna but to expose what i knew about dnn but it became a virtual cycle as |
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the more i put out there the more opportunities show up to me as a consequence and i needed that |
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because that's when i went solo you know so you were let me guess you were |
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reading blogs from mitch sellers you were uh you were reading a post on |
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dna creative and responses from mr joe craig and scott wilkinson and |
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you know somebody you know and all that you you were because i was in that world too for so |
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long of just i'm just a user i'm just a consumer i'm trying to find my way |
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so yeah but then and and and reading books as well looking at |
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the books and going to the events but again very quietly in the back and just |
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looking at people i remember the first one that i had really a connection with was uh tweet keller |
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and so again it was a consumer for the first few years but then 2010 i started to put out there |
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to produce it so not only to consume but to produce and again i started to to join the conversations on twitter to |
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join the the the forums as well and again because video is a is a very |
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visual medium you start to get some well visibility and that's that's how |
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things started there in 2010 so at some point you something clicked and you you |
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decided to kind of go into a business because you've had several businesses over the years i |
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think in the dnn space what what what made you kind of transition that |
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was it more of a comfort of or knowledge of dnn and realizing that you you know there was a place for you |
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to fill a void there or what was it that kind of transitioned you to that |
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so with dining hero i start to put to get some projection there and that brought projects but |
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you know you know how is the life of projects no it's very it's very demanding it's very you know |
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you focus on a project now when you have the the ups and downs and the starving artists type of things so |
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i i said you know what how can i make this business a little bit more predictable |
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a little bit more sustainable and and back around 2013 14 |
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i decided to search for how to what is that i think it was how to productize a service |
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business and i came across this company in australia that was doing something very |
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interesting with wordpress they were for a fixed monthly fee they were supporting their |
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their clients on wordpress sites and i said you know what there's nothing like that on the dna |
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space so how about i bring a similar offering that with a fixed monthly fee you have a |
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supporting you have professional support in your website your dna website and that's what i did back then 2013-14 |
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and i still run this business not very not very actively to be quite |
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honest but i still have many many clients that i support on a daily basis not only myself but i have people |
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that work with me as well and again it's still going again i'm not actively promoting the |
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business anymore but i still have a lot of clients from basketball |
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it's great because like i haven't seen anybody that are to articulate this type of service in this way uh in the community |
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so i know that's been a big help to a lot of people even even agencies i believe or other companies |
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that are servicing clients that you've been able to help with this this kind of uh model as well right |
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yep and again it's it's going for what now for five six |
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years now and today i was working with some of those you know every single day |
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i have something in that support that i need to have a look take care beyond that sometimes goes beyond the |
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capabilities of the team that i have also working behind desk power yeah and i was going to say you've got a |
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really intelligent team that knows dnn as well behind you that's supporting this as well now are are you still |
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supporting wordpress as well on on this stuff or is it still focused mainly on dna |
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we we do have some dna some we do have some wordpress clients yes so it's a mix of wordpress and dnn but the |
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focus was really always dnn but yes there are some wordpress clients yeah that's great so |
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it's good to know that's still alive and kicking so you know for those of you that don't know about this i know you're not promoting it and everything but hey |
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you know go check it out if you need some help with your dna insider some i mean everything from administration to |
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uh content updates and things like that they can they can definitely help and they know dnns so uh go check them out |
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deskpal.com so i you know one one venture that i |
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that that i love that you started a while back and i know it started as something different than what it is now uh |
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but i i found it a fascinating uh endeavor when you started doing |
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videos for the solo coder tell me a little bit |
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about that and what what you know i know you're using this for now so kind of take us from the |
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beginnings of it to what it is now maybe okay you know what again i have to be very careful here david because |
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otherwise i won't stop talking but let's try to be objective here so around |
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2017 2018 i john 1718 yeah i think so uh i said |
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you know what uh i have i have a message for coders here i have a message that |
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you can go beyond the code you can with your coding skills you can build |
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your own business as well as a solo professional or as dave for instance as as the an agent's owner you can build a |
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business out of your skills and i wanted to to bring it up i i felt that i had the message |
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to tell people about that you know i i felt the desire the drive the needs to put this out there and i started 2017 |
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more or less i said you know what i'm gonna do a hundred days a hundred rambles talking about what i have done with my |
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being a coder running my own business how i did things and what what i what i thought should be as the formula |
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for a successful coder to do their own business and i put that out there and didn't get too much too much |
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traction it was just me rambling and i interviewed a few people including david as well if you have a |
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look there david is one of the uh people that i have interviewed for the podcast which was a mix of again |
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there was a podcast element and uh uh my solo voice rambling along |
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for 100 episodes so that was the beginning and that has transformed itself i'm |
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gonna i'm gonna put a pause here and see if you have anything there because again i won't stop i you know i |
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i know it didn't you know get the traction necessarily that you were you were hoping for or looking for but i |
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know it was good experience for you uh to talk about all these the subject matter but like for anybody i mean even |
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if you're not just a solo uh coder there's some content in here that is |
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just really rich i mean you you interviewed people you you talked about that i mean i don't |
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know how in the world you came up with all this kind of content but this is an incredible |
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resource so go check out the solo coder on youtube out here as well as |
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thesolocoder.com or solocoder.com sorry and that will have the podcast on it |
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yeah but that was the first incarnation okay so that incarnation |
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morphed and transformed into what it is right now so what it is right now again |
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so i i paused there i paused for one or two years and i came back around august 2019 |
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so about a year and a half ago i started with weekly podcasts i started a video but i |
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said you know what i want to focus on the audio aspect so i quickly moved to audio only so right now |
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on a weekly basis i think that we are in episodes 75 every single week |
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i publish a conversation with a coder all kinds of different coders at |
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this point in time from front end to back ends to machine learning |
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to people like um handsome men to people like you know |
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uh again so so so many people whoever i see |
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that is doing something interesting on the web maybe by video maybe via blogging maybe |
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via course creation that is related to coding i try to talk to them i have been trying to talk to again a |
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lot of people a lot of my my big coding stars from the past creators of the creator of c sharp i've |
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been trying to get in the podcast but i have not been successful as of yet but again i have i got people that i |
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never thought that i would be talking to um the i'm trying to remember one of the |
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names again from hanzo man to oh all kinds all walks of of life here all kinds of developers |
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a lot of women that are doing fabulous stuff from a coding perspective front |
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end machine learning backhands you name it i'll talk to them so that's that's what i do |
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and the reason the main reason that i do this is because i love bringing voices |
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from the industries from the industry to my students and i bring this to my students but not |
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only to them i mean i open this up to anyone that wants to consume that and let me tell you |
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this gets a lot of traction now it's a different medium it's not video it's just |
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audio podcast which may transform the future but again at this point it's just audio |
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podcast this is great so i mean what is the cost to this anderson i mean like what what do people |
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have to pay to get access to this well what do you mean |
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so you've heard it people i mean there's some incredible content out here you know i i'll have to admit i knew you were doing |
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some things but i didn't know you had the frequency that you you have here this is |
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unbelievable every week every week and uh again 75 |
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strong after we are done with this talk today i'm gonna go and edit the seventh sixth episode |
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awesome okay okay this is great you know i i that's one of those mediums that i know |
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a lot of people love uh driving you know to to to work or or whatever you know they're |
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listening to these podcasts and uh so this could be really good now is this available |
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just on this side or is it published to uh just click on them |
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and you're gonna see the defeat there but you're gonna you can get this on okay iceland's on google play it's |
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teacher spotify any player that you might be running there in your devices |
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it will play fantastic this is so good um yep that's being added to my list |
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there so here i've learned something new okay so i this is great this is great um you let's talk about some of the |
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things that you've done over the years too like um you you you mentioned events earlier like i'm assuming you're talking |
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about like dnn uh community events and and conferences and so forth i |
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i remember um one particular speaker session that you did on pomodoro |
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and that was a it correct me if i'm wrong but like when you discovered pomodoro and you |
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started teaching others about it it was a pretty aha moment for you right |
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it was it was okay but i have to tell you i have to admit that lately i have been very very |
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low uh you know i i kind of left behind pomodoro i'm i'm a big promoter but once i start to |
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teach david i don't know things things but me in a because sometimes i had to teach |
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for two three four hours straight and i said you know what there's no pomodoro for me during those |
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hours so the pomodoro maybe broke apart a little bit but i'm a big promoter and i and i do |
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that for my students as well i said you know what are you struggling with uh you know |
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having the mental space to focus try pomodoro because again that is simple 25 minutes focus on |
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one thing take a break maybe you focus on the next thing maybe you focus you go back to where you were before but |
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again 25 minutes chunk not much try that makes a difference |
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yeah all right so i remember that one uh that you know i tried to do some of that it was you know i |
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think uh different people in different stages in life were able to you know something like that really |
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grasp song you know and uh finding what works for you is pretty cool but i remember that one that one stood out to me but |
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what are some of the other topics that uh do you remember speaking on it at these conferences uh |
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i i was always a big fan of the of that rushed presentation how how how do they |
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call it it's because you have five minutes oh like these ignite things yeah that every |
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15 seconds it goes to the next slide in the next slide and it's fun because again as a |
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presenter you try to keep track and you get the audience entertained as well because |
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they see that you are struggling there you know again so i only i try to put |
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myself in this in those things that are i mean i'm not i'm not a big shot no but |
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i try to put myself in those things that are more inconvenient that pushes the agenda forward that and that |
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will make you a better person though so so pomodoro was a big one i also i also did one presentation about |
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the one thing because that i'm still a fan i'm a promoter of |
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that the one thing in the essentialism the one thing is really you know for instance on your daily on |
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your daily agenda on your daily to do what is the one one thing that needs to |
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be done that day that is non-negotiable that you have to get that done because that's important for your |
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long-term projects for your long-term vision of your career of your business whatever it is but |
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what is the one thing that is not negotiable in your to-do make sure that you do that and then you get the sense of accomplishment |
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and after that you can do anything within your day but again in a day on daily basis see what is one |
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thing for that day that aligns with your goals for that week for that month for the next six months months for the |
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next year for your vision of five years period of your business whatever it is but again they |
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won't think i'm a big big big fan of that of that concept you know so easy to not uh not focus on that |
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thing or lose sight of it among all the things that you believe you need to accomplish |
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because usually let me tell you usually what is most important is not a screaming priority david's |
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it's not screaming your face a client that needs something done is screaming as yelling in your face |
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you get that done but usually what is the most important for you in the long run is not yelling your face |
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it's not screening your face it's not on your face you know so again it's a it's to find what is priority you |
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know priority should not be we should not have a plural for priority priority should be priority |
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not priorities um oh preach it |
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amen yes yes hallelujah probably use the lord sorry i cannot resist the medea uh |
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references so uh you also at these events i remember |
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uh for gosh i guess several years you were the uh a trainer |
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uh for the full day training uh you i think you focused on what administration |
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uh administration and then that's and again i it was staring on my face |
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there that i i was a good trainer i i liked that and nobody ever shook me and say you are |
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a trainer you are an educator that's what you should be doing and again i was so excited to do those |
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things i i always try to bring you know new initiatives to to to that training and i love to do |
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that i really really love it was exhaustive because it was eight hours straight yes but i just love it yeah they didn't |
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even let you eat lunch right i mean [Laughter] only the students |
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[Laughter] was that probably one of the closest |
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things um in your dnn uh days |
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to what you're doing now uh it is no doubt i mean i had to play and i i it |
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took me a lot of time to do the plan for those sessions and i really put a |
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lot of effort in thought process on that train you know so it is it is when i look back at my dna |
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trajectory those moments of training they were big clues that were staring my face and |
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i i couldn't see them i wanted to i you know i wanted to point |
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because we would be remiss if we didn't talk about some of your videos through the years i |
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um i i was curious uh in prepping for this i i came out to your main uh dnn hero |
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channel uh here on on youtube and you can just search address and oliveira uh out here or dnn |
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hero and i think you'll find this um and i'll post the links by the way down in the in the description |
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below and oh by the way if you like this content and you want more content like this be sure to hit subscribe |
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get the little alert notification thing there so you'll be alerted whenever there's live streams |
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and post a comment below and let me know what kind of things you want to uh want to see and hear um but anderson i |
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was looking through this and i i i found this little feature over here to sort by the |
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the oldest and it was 10 years ago march |
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uh when you posted your first video here and i 44 000 views now |
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um you know not too shabby and uh it was about installing dnn |
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and our own screen here but you know it wasn't too much longer that we found that you started going on screen |
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a little bit more with your video oh my god here we go we got to see uh got to see what |
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anderson looked like back in those days and these are some of my favorites here |
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uh but uh the table is to the same table |
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interesting but i mean you've had some great videos through the years and i mean like |
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i mentioned earlier you have people that are probably looking up you know mitch seller blogs or back in the day looking at dna and |
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creative stuff and everything i mean you you obviously produced a lot for dnn hero |
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but i mean you had a ton of stuff out here just open right on youtube right you know for |
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people to see i mean everything from what interviews to tips to you know some |
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training type things your monthly chats uh incredible my amount of content my goal |
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my flow at that point uh david was one video a day so every day i had |
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a little snippet a little a little nuggets i if it was a longer topic i would break |
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it down and chop it down mutual parts so so for about a year or two it was one video |
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every single day of the weekend not not weekends but five days of the week yes wow |
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do you have any idea the count of videos that you actually have on this |
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channel it very simple very easily we can see that if you search for |
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for dining hero you can see the result and you can see the number of videos it should be about 500 videos oh wow wow okay yeah i was |
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trying to figure out how to get a account there but you i think you're right in the search results it'll it'll show that |
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but some amazing content through here and i'm i know some of this is is old and older versions of dnn and so |
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forth but i mean a lot of it's still absolutely relevant today uh still funny enough |
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the the view that still gets the most views if you look at the stats in the channel |
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because i see i still pick i still have a quick look it's the first one is the installing one yeah |
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people want to know how to get started right now is that that relevant anymore i mean not |
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that much but uh but yes some relevance but still i mean it shows |
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you that uh you know i i uh here i'm gonna just uh go ahead and fess up here as i was looking through |
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this i was like you know what uh this tells me something that being the most popular one well we need more |
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content out there about current ways to install dna inside i probably will do something like that |
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right why not why not follow the stats a bit sometimes you know |
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but i i i'm just impressed with all that you have done over the |
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years uh your contributions to this community |
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i don't know how you'd even measure it i mean that's it's the same the same |
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that i put in the same i i got way more from the community |
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it's i would not be here doing what i'm doing even though most of |
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what i do right now is not related directly with dna but i would not be here if it wasn't because of that |
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journey that you see there if it was because of you know what i've contributed i gained way way more back |
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from the community from from the feedback that i got from people how helpful those things were so |
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what can i say it's a it's a two-way thing you know david uh you i mean it's |
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cliche but what you put out there comes back to you it's cliche i know but it is true you know that's so true i've |
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heard uh our friend will stroll talk about this quite a bit you know the abundance principle in the community it's kind of where |
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things started in dnn and it's where they are still today i mean of course you have |
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some people that don't necessarily |
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phases and you understand embrace that philosophy of you know um |
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i'm i'm gonna give here and it'll it'll come back but you don't do it to |
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get you do it to give and you learn in the process as well so thank you and if the intention |
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is not genuine you cannot keep up for too long you know that's because if if the if the idea is |
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a short-term mentality you cannot withstand years and years of of doing that and and |
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looking at 50 views 60 views maybe 100 views i mean look at the numbers you |
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don't you don't see big numbers there you know yeah yeah i mean you're right i mean |
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you're not doing it for the fame of it right |
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well i i i just i would be remiss but i didn't mention all of that that you've done i mean i remember you |
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you started the toronto area uh dn users group as well um i know that was a fairly short-lived uh |
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thing but uh yeah that was it was it was it existed before and i said you |
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know what let's resurrect that and i run that for about a year and a half and when i decided to phase things |
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off i decided to put a pause on that as well yeah yep yep well um so |
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anderson like tell us okay we're going to bring it back full circle |
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to back to current present day what you mentioned you're you're teaching at |
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the the university uh there or college at sorry i don't know exactly what it's a title |
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um what is that your foreseeable uh future or do you have some other |
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things that you you know what what's what's next for anderson so |
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as i mentioned i'm i'm i embrace teaching but i embrace teaching from a very |
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holistic point of view it's not just the traditional instructor in front of people lecturing them my teaching style |
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goes on on video i like to produce contents i like to help people i mentor students |
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that are getting into the space as well so my future my foreseeable future |
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is deeper and deeper into teaching it might be with courses i produced a course on |
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machine learning if you have a look at udemy uh about uh six months ago machine |
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learning i have three 3 500 students there so i like teaching and i want to do that |
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more and i like to help people get into the industry as well so it's going to be a mix david of |
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uh of actually not not not really a mix but it will be more |
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teaching but different ways the podcast is a big aspect of my journey it's what i like to |
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do is it's one of the ways that i because just as an individual you just have your experience your life |
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experience to share but with the interviews with the podcast i'm privileged |
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to have a peek at somebody else's life somebody else's experience and i bring that to my |
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teaching as well so again now i coach students on how to get into the industry and how |
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do i do that by my own experiences but now i have the collective experiences |
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of 75 and i'm not stopping there of 75 people that i listen to that i so you're going |
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to see more of that with me solo coder is a big part of who i am is a big part |
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of my forcible future and again more about teaching i'm i have a |
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i have a coach not a coach but a masterminds program that i have been working with |
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students that are graduates already they joined the mastermind group and we do some interesting stuff |
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together we have a bi-weekly meeting that we we go through some real projects and we |
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go and we talk to industry experts as well so it's part of what i'm building as well |
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is this is this uh group that i call the master branch which is again a group for people that |
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are transitioning from i'm a graduate to i'm not yet in the job market and i want to be there |
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and i feel with this group i feel this gap there wow okay so i don't think your name is |
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adderson i think it's superman |
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it comes with a cost no david sometimes i'm sure i'm sure you you you you've created a |
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monster as i would say sometimes you know because you you you feel the need to to keep going um our friend vikram |
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uh is uh joined on the live live stream here and uh says he misses you in the in the |
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community so awesome thank you he says i thank you both for your |
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content and helping many please convey my regards to adderson his tips were so helpful |
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my request for him to continue dnn video for the latest version [Laughter] |
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awesome i understand that so uh i i think we let's wrap things up but |
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in doing so i'm going to give you the final word here anderson um what is i'm going to take it back to |
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the thing that you know is is so important to you uh focus wise uh what is the one thing |
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that you would say to the dna community or anyone watching |
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uh this video that you could impart to them what is the was the one thing that you would focus on |
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i would say be grateful for the community contribute to the community i |
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have to tell you i've been slightly away from the community well very away from |
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the past about two years and in my talks in my conversations |
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going beyond dnn and above i have never seen such a tidy |
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group of people that are so closely connected as our community i would still say our |
| 40:35 |
community because i still have a leg i feel i feel that it's a it's a it's a company that i left but i |
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love the people in that company it's this community that i kind of left but i love |
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i love the feeling of this community i love the you know how how will |
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the willingness of this community of the members to share openly and to keep this going you know |
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to keep this connection going forever you know and uh so what i would say is be grateful be |
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grateful for the community that you have because it's not very common it's not it's not |
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couldn't have thought of a better thing to say thank you anderson i really appreciate |
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you joining and i you know we started it off with hello hello and you know i |
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i hope you don't mind but i had to take that because that's how everybody knows you and i had to take it because it's it's a |
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legacy that needs to live on people need to be reminded of you and your contributions this community and |
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yes you are still a part of our community whether you're on camera daily or whatever |
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about the end doesn't matter you're you're still one of us so we we love you man awesome awesome again |
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hello hello i still use it for all my videos and again that's what |
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so you stick around with me you know for but again please use it use it well it was my pleasure david it |
| 42:06 |
was my pleasure really to be to be here and talking back to to the community i love |
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i mean i had to make some calls a few years ago and i i put a video just to say goodbye |
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to the community and it was it was really hard for me you know it's like you know breaking uh i don't know |
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but but i had to make some calls and i said you know i need to focus on some other things |
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that yeah that um you know you have to make choices in life you know absolutely and we support you in those |
| 42:39 |
choices absolutely thank you so much thanks for joining us so is it appropriate for us to say |
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goodbye goodbye or i never tried that but my you my my way |
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is now cheers hasta la vista and bye ah i tell you what let's get you to do |
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that again one more time and that will be the end of our stream awesome cheers hassela vista |
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and bye |