Episode 52: Slowness Guilt and I Have No Side Projects

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Episode 52: Slowness Guilt and I Have No Side Projects

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26 minutes

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Mar 21, 2017

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Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

I feel guilty about how slow I’m working. What should I do?
I’d like to find a job, but I don’t have any completed side projects or an interesting GitHub profile. How can I explain this?

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Mar 21, 2017

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