Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas.

First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills as well since you're often paid for how you work with people and enhance their work and how you put your work together in the most efficient ways.

Second, building relationships. Often other people will be able to help you find the opportunities or will be the ones to make the decisions that impact your ability to get the outcome you want. Having good relationships is key to having good outcomes.

Third, building recognition. Being known for being valuable in important ways allows you to leverage the skills you have to build better relationships and create opportunities to get what you need to get the outcomes you want by giving people what they want. A podcast is a great way to do all three. Chuck explains exactly how that works in this podcast and goes deeper as part of the Dev Influencers Accelerator.

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• Charles Max Wood

Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome.
This approach also works for speaking at conferences, selling courses, and other outcomes as well as it's the core of building a successful career as an influencer.

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• Charles Max Wood

Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do.

So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you.

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• Charles Max Wood

Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey.

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• Charles Max Wood

Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with.

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• Charles Max Wood

Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer.

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• Charles Max Wood

Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.

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• Charles Max Wood

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.

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• Charles Max Wood

Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.

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• Charles Max Wood

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

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Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.

Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice.

He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and allow you to set goals that will bring you the things you want during the next year or so.

Listen to this episode to learn how to crush your biggest goals in 2021.

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Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE
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Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.

Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice.

He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and allow you to set goals that will bring you the things you want during the next year or so.

Listen to this episode to learn how to crush your biggest goals in 2021.

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Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time.

He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.

He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how that inspired him to figure out what the other guy was doing differently. He learned that he needed to get more done with the time he was spending on his projects.

The trick? Deep Work!

Deep Work is the ability to spend uninterrupted, focused time on a task to bend your entire mind toward the goal.

Other developers call it "Flow" or "the Zone."

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In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Steve and Alex chat with Rew Islam who manages the Apple and Android engineers at Dashlane. He shares how tech debt affects developer recruitment, how collaborating with their competitors led to new features, and how Dashlane is maximizing Testflight for product improvements.

Sponsors

• Audible.com
• CacheFly

Panel

• Steve Young
• Alex Lundquist

Guest

• Rew Islam

Picks

Steve Young::

• https://store.steampowered.com/app/945360/Among_Us/

Rew Islam:

• www.prodigygame.com

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In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Azam and Chuck sit down and talk about the Reactive programming patterns and MVVM that go into building applications using SwiftUI in ways that allow the applications to be responsive, easy to test, and to grow. The discussion ranges through RxSwift and Combine to MVVM patterns that SwiftUI leads to and some of the pitfalls that you might run into using them.

Sponsors

• Audible.com
• CacheFly

Panel

• Charles Max Wood

Guest

• Mohammad Azam

Links

• https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxSwift
• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/combine
• https://azamsharp.com/viewmodel-patternshttps://github.com/ReSwift/ReSwift

Picks

Charles Max Wood:

• Overview of Docker Compose
• Adventures in Machine Learning podcast

Mohammad Azam:

• Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen, by Dan Heath

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In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Alex Bush talks to Tom Hammond about game app monetization and live ops in mobile gaming. They cover different ways to monetize your game and complexities of showing popups, surveys, and other live in-game events to players.

Sponsors

• Audible.com
• CacheFly

Panel

• Alex Bush

Guest

• Tom Hammond

Links

• Podcast – The Monetization Minute
• Roast my app – free advice for apps
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-hammond/
• https://www.theoremreach.com/

Picks

Alex Bush:

• Lean Analytics
• The Mom Test

Tom Hammond:

• Thinking Fast and Slow
• Influence

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In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Alex talks to Curtis Herbert about challenges building your own indie iOS app. They talk about technical decisions, business priorities, and benefits and disadvantages of sticking with Apple technologies.

Sponsors

• Audible.com
• CacheFly

Panel

• Alex Bush

Guest

• Curtis Herbert

Links

• https://simgenie.app
• https://getslopes.com
• blog.curtisherbert.com/tag/slopes-diaries
• https://independence.fm
• https://curtisherbert.com
• https://simgenie.app

Picks

Alex Bush:

• Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
• Clockwork by Mike Michalowicz

Curtis Herbert:

• LEGO® Pirates of Barracuda Bay
• Follow Curtis on Twitter > @parrots

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In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, the panel discusses iOS and other development books that are great resources to help during the course of the iOS developers’ journey.

Sponsor

• CacheFly

Panel

• Alex Bush
• Charles Wood

Links

• iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
• Cocoa Design Patterns
• Pragmatic Programmer
• Soft Skills
• Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide
• MaxCoder’s Guid to Finding Your Dream Developer Job
• Refactoring
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Clean Code
• Design Patterns
• Clean Architecture
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Growing Object Oriented Programming, Guided by Tests
• Reactive Programming with RxJS
• Practical Object-Oriented Design Using Ruby
• Test Driven Development by Example
• SmallTalk Best Practice Patterns
• Extreme Programming Explained

Picks

Alex Bush:

• Robert Heinlein, Author

Charles Wood:

• Breath of the Wild
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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In this episode of the iPhreaks Show, Charles talks to Alex Bush about iOS interview questions and how to navigate the challenging job market. They go over an article Alex wrote that systematizes and summarizes commonly asked iOS interview questions.

Sponsor

• CacheFly

Panel

• Alex Bush
• Charles Max Wood

Links

• iOS Interview Questions for Senior Developers in 2020
• https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire
• Architecting iOS Apps with VIPER By Jeff Gilbert and Conrad Stoll
• https://github.com/uber/RIBs
• The Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)
• Clean Architecture book

Picks

Alex Bush:

• Time Enough for Love
• System Design Interview: Get iOS Jobs At Big Companies

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