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Deliberate Advice from an Accidental Career

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This was the Keynote talk at Devoxx UK - well worth a watch IMO!

I looked through the slides, i skimmed the text bits on the website; i still have no hint of an idea as to who this guy is and why i should bother to spend half an hour or so watching a video to find out. If you're gonna post content that is highly reliant on knowledge of a certain topic that is not widely spread, at least provide some meta info.

http://qconlondon.com/london-2014/speaker/Dan+North

> The originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and Deliberate Discovery, Dan has published feature articles in numerous software and business publications, and contributed to The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends

There's a lot of information on the link you can refer to before spending your valuable half an hour on this video. But I will make sure I post some details in the title.

Perhaps I'm misreading your tone, but it comes across as very elitist.

Who cares if the person speaking is famous or not. Does notoriety somehow make words more true?

Some of the most important things people have said to me were never famous. I hardly remember their names or faces, but what they've said has resonated and stuck with me. That's the important part.

Keep an open mind.

He said nothing about the guy being famous. It's only worth dropping half an hour on some advice video if you can be at least somewhat confident that the topic at hand is relevant to you, and the giver of advice has any record of success whatsoever. None of this context has been provided.

The slides give you nothing. I recognized every boss, good and bad, in his examples.

Here are my two main takeaways from his talk:

1. How to recognize situations and know what your superior did wrong and how to respond

2. How to be a better boss yourself, someone people will recognize years later as someone who really helped them grow

I started listening and didn't really have the time to give yet this has ended up being the best use of my time all week.

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