Steph Smith
Blogging and Building Projects While Working
Episode Notes (by minute):
-2:00: Steph shares key takeaways from her blog post, You Don’t Need To Quit Your Job To Make
-6:00: How having a job can give you mental clarity to pursue other projects and skills
-7:00: How most people do not spend enough time and critical thinking on focusing and finding a really good job that teaches you and allows you grow. This could also be called “getting to paid to learn.”
-8:30: How to focus on jobs and roles that continue to help you learn, and the importance of that being a potential north star, as opposed to title, status, or pay. Steph describes a situation where she left a leadership because she did not think she was learning key long-term skills at this stage of her career.
-11:00: What questions to ask yourself in evaluating new jobs and projects
-13:00: Why it is important to focusing on constantly learning and adapting in today’s job market, and not focusing on a certain label (i.e. marketer, entrepreneur, etc)
-14:00: How people will be surprised on what they can accomplish, if they were to focus on learning and gradually improving. As an example, Steph taught herself how to code in a year and then built award-winning projects in a compressed time period.
-17:00: How Steph thought being a writer and starting her blog. She talks about the benefits of writing online as well.
-25:00: How to think about the benefits of remote work and to focus on impact. Steph has been working remote for 4 years and lead a remote team at Toptal for 3 years.
-31:00: How much of Steph’s recent work, projects, and personal growth has come from following her own path and curiosity, and not what society has for so-long encouraged people to do.
(Note: these are quick notes and takeaways by David Nebinski. Please see the episode for more accurate information)