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Every episode of The Work Item - real talk on tech's toughest career choices.

#94 - Exploiting Your Unfair Advantages - Shirley Wu (Shirley Wu Studio) - episode artwork
#93 - What's It Like To Be A Data Visualization Wizard - Shirley Wu (Shirley Wu Studio) - episode artwork
#92 - You're Thinking Wrong About Your Career - Lenn Pryor (Executive Coach, Author) - episode artwork
#91 - The Future Of Software Engineering - Simon Guest (CTO, Code.org) - episode artwork
#90 - The Death Of SaaS Has Been Greatly Exaggerated - Lianna Patch & Colleen Schnettler (Co-Founders, SaaS Marketing Gym) - episode artwork
#89 - So You Want to Be a CTO - Taiwo Oyeniyi (CTO, Distrobird) - episode artwork
#88 - Best-Kept Secrets on Becoming a Great User Researcher - Marisa Morby (Principal Researcher, Observable) - episode artwork
#87 - A Wrap-Up Of 2024 Unconventional Career Advice - episode artwork
#86 - The Only Real Way To Know Is To Talk To People - Asia Orangio (CEO, DemandMaven) - episode artwork
#85 - Building A Business From Python Expertise - Michael Kennedy (Founder, Talk Python Training) - episode artwork
#84 - Tools Do Not Matter - Jason Lengstorf (Founder, Learn With Jason) - episode artwork
#83 - Don't Take The Easy Path - Jennifer Wong (Engineering Leader) - episode artwork
#82 - Stop Building SaaS Landing Pages - Craig Hewitt (Founder, Castos) - episode artwork
#81 - Making A Career Out Of A Hobby - Kirupa Chinnathambi (Product Manager - Google) - episode artwork
#80 - Web Development Is Theatre - Miriam Suzanne (CSS Working Group, OddBird) - episode artwork
#79 - How To Get Promoted To Tech Executive - Lena Reinhard (VP Engineering, CircleCI, Travis CI) - episode artwork
#78 - I Left Hawai'i To Work In Startups, With Katie Fujihara - episode artwork
#77 - Write About The Things You Learned, With Rachel Andrew (Google) - episode artwork
#76 - Be OK Talking About Money, With Saron Yitbarek - episode artwork
#75 - From Pandemic Pastime To Real VC-Funded Startup, with David Khourshid - episode artwork
#74 - Books, Remote Work, and Q&A, with Adrienne Tacke - episode artwork
#73 - Put The Passion Aside And Go For The Market, with Rob Walling - episode artwork
#72 - Give People What They Came For, with Jerod Santo - episode artwork
#71 - Going Solo As A Developer Educator, with Kent C. Dodds - episode artwork
#70 - Building a Career In Developer Tools, with Kenneth Auchenberg - episode artwork
#69 - Product Management In The Era Of Generative AI, with Shyvee Shi - episode artwork
#68 - Why You Need An Executive Coach, with Eric Nehrlich - episode artwork
#67 - Building Design Communities, with Grace Ling, UX Designer at Electronic Arts, and Founder of Design Buddies - episode artwork
#66 - Becoming The Best Product Manager You Can Be, with the CEO of Product School, Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia - episode artwork
#65 - Data, Impact, and Sustainability, with Jane Yang - episode artwork
#64 - Diving Into Industrial Design, with Anson Cheung - episode artwork
#63 - Beyond Just Engineering Skills, with Adrienne Braganza Tacke - episode artwork
#62 - Building Sustainable Practices, with Jason Fried - episode artwork
#61 - Career Moats And Beyond, with Cedric Chin - episode artwork
#60 - Defining A Force Multiplier, with Sam Saccone - episode artwork
#59 - Building On Your Own, with iOS Developer Donny Wals - episode artwork
#58 - Becoming a Game Studio Co-Founder, with Moon Studios' Gennadiy Korol - episode artwork
#57 - From Turbo Pascal to CodePen, with Chris Coyier - episode artwork
#56 - Reverse Engineering The Halo API with Alexis from HaloDotAPI - episode artwork
#55 - Open Source and Web Development, with Monica Powell - episode artwork
#54 - From Apple to Netflix, with Carola Nitz, Sr. Software Engineer at Netflix - episode artwork
#53 - Find Your Mentor And Complementary Skills, With Nicole Zhu, Senior Engineer At Vox Media - episode artwork
#52 - Grow Your Career in Data Science, with Nick Wan, Director of Analytics for Cincinnati Reds - episode artwork
#51 - Finding Your Engineering Passion, with Vicente Plata of 500 Startups LatAm, Shopify, and More - episode artwork
#50 - Problem And Product Management, with Isaac Hepworth - episode artwork
#49 - Product Management in Government, with Director of Product Management for the City and County of San Francisco, Adrianna Tan - episode artwork
#48 - The Story of Working In Developer Relations, with Dan Shaw - episode artwork
#47 - 2021 Reflections, Creativity, and More, with Mayuko Inoue - episode artwork
#46 - From Journalism to Developer Engagement, with Christina Warren - episode artwork
#45 - Startups, Growth, and A Quest to Build People-focused Companies, with Jennifer Kim - episode artwork
#44 - So What Is Product Marketing, with Isaac Levin - episode artwork
#43 - Ins And Outs Of Developer Advocacy, with Brian Douglas - episode artwork
#42 - Building The World You Want To See, with Jeff Atwood - episode artwork
#41 - Why Big Tech Is Not For Me, with Chloe Shih - episode artwork
#40 - Engineering and Team Empathy, with Amro Mousa - episode artwork
#39 - Focus on Delivering Value, with Dan Shaw - episode artwork
#38 - Becoming a Polymath, with Salman Ansari - episode artwork
#37 - Be A Builder, With Jack Zerby - episode artwork
#36 - Diving Into Open Source Engineering, with Jenn Creighton - episode artwork
#35 - From Pre-Med To Product Management, with Janine Co - episode artwork
#34 - Busting Career Myths with Laurie Barth - episode artwork
#33 - Engineering In A News Organization And Beyond, with Nicole Tibaldi - episode artwork
#32 - Camille Fournier on Engineering Management Paths - episode artwork
#31 - Lessons In Leadership, with Chad Fowler, VP of Technology at DEVCON - episode artwork
#30 - Creativity in Code and Beyond, with Monica Dinculescu, Engineer Extraordinaire - episode artwork
#29 - Building Things You Love, with Ben Sandofsky, Head of Development for Halide - episode artwork
#28 - The Art of Engineering Management, with Rebecca Murphey, EM at Stripe - episode artwork
#27 - How to Build a Career in Human Resources, with David Daniels - episode artwork
#26 - How to Grow as a Product Manager, with Dan Olsen - episode artwork
#25 - How to Build a Career in Design and Pitch Gary Vee, with Jack Zerby - episode artwork
#24 - Building Communities with Jess Lee - episode artwork
#23 - From Servers, Phones, and Voice Assistants to Space with Charlie Kindel - episode artwork
#22 - Paige Bailey on Building a Career In Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - episode artwork
#21 - Mayuko Inoue on Building a Content Creator Career Path - episode artwork
#20 - Scott Hanselman on Intentionality - episode artwork
#19 - Wrap Up Episode For 2020 - episode artwork
#18 - Megan Risdal on Building a Career at the Intersection of Data Science and Product Management - episode artwork
#17 - Christos Matskas on Going From Consulting to Corporate and Building Identity Tools - episode artwork
#16 - Bill Kenney on Building Brands That Last - episode artwork
#15 - Tarun Gangwani on Innovation, Navigating Product Decisions, and Building Growth Engines - episode artwork
#14 - Interview with Richard Lander - episode artwork
#13 - Interview with Amanda Silver - episode artwork
#12 - Interview with Christina Weng - episode artwork
#11 - Interview with Eric Martel - episode artwork
#10 - Interview with Sara Chipps - episode artwork
#9 - Interview with Philipp Cannons - episode artwork
#8 - Interview with Charmaine Lee - episode artwork
#7 - Interview with Dan Fernandez - episode artwork
#6 - Interview with Matt Swanson - episode artwork
#5 - Interview with Jin Yang - episode artwork
#4 - Interview with Clint Rutkas - episode artwork
#3 - Interview with April Speight - episode artwork
#2 - Career Starts - episode artwork
#1 - Remote Work - episode artwork