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BitLab - Do IT Yourself

BitLab - Do IT Yourself

My talk at the semester kickoff at BitLab entitled "Do IT Yourself".

Kasper Tidemann

September 07, 2017
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  1. BitLab - Do IT Yourself A talk by Kasper Tidemann

    to kick the semester off right!
  2. This is about you. I am not that much into

    talking about myself. I’d like to talk about you instead.
  3. Learn how to develop software. Software development is an art

    form. Master it and you can create almost everything.
  4. Practice how to express yourselves. Tech is not about bits

    and bytes. It’s about conveying messages and making sense of things.
  5. I was inspired by a lot of things, including Ruby

    on Rails by David Heinemeier Hansson.
  6. I had no idea what I wanted to accomplish with

    my life. But I loved software. So, where to go from there?
  7. … but we got a yearly supply of free ice

    cream! Hooray! Seriously, that was a lot of ice cream.
  8. We ended up working a lot as consultants and very

    little as a startup. … and that scales poorly. So, time for something else?
  9. I bought a newspaper for Mr. Big from Sex &

    The City at the local Starbucks on Park Avenue. My biggest New York takeaway?
  10. – Either you continue having a broad perspective or you

    focus on becoming amazing at developing software. I told myself this in San Francisco.
  11. So I spent most of my time from 2012 to

    2014 on software development. Namely taking part in the Ember.js community.
  12. I was tasked to create an app and a dashboard

    for executive protection. For Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg.
  13. Seriously, I was nervous like never before when demoing the

    software. Just me vs. eight people from Facebook.
  14. My take on the difference between the US and Denmark.

    Taxes, people, possibilities and more.
  15. My story goes to show that IT can take you

    anywhere. It’s an adventure!