Be Good At Lots of Things

A talk from Phoenix Design Week 2015.

Transcript

1. HELLO! Lynn Fisher @lynnandtonic
2. FOCUS
3. SPECIALIZE
4. BE GOOD AT ONE THING
8. INTERMEDIA
9. INTERMEDIA
13. CREATE ART IN THE SPACE WHERE DISCIPLINES OVERLAP
14. TRY
15. LEARN
16. BE GOOD AT LOTS OF THINGS
17. IS IT POSSIBLE?
19. SPECIALIZATION IS A GOOD THING
21. WHERE HAS OUR CURIOSITY GONE?
23. SPOILER ALERT
26. SPOILER OVER
27. “You’ll never be as good as someone who spends all their time on it.”
28. YOU DON’T KNOW ME
29. THAT’S OK.
30. “You don’t have to become a pro to get value from learning something.” PHILIP ROBERTS
31. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING?
34. EVERY PROJECT IN EVERY INDUSTRY REQUIRES WORK OF VARYING DIFFICULTY
35. EVERY PROJECT IN EVERY INDUSTRY REQUIRES WORK OF VARYING DIFFICULTY
36. “If there’s anything worse than a web designer who doesn’t know how to code, it’s a web designer who codes poorly!”
37. “Developers need designers, not bug making machines.”
38. “I’m not a developer and I wouldn’t want my code in production.”
39. WTF?!
40. “Our culture doesn’t support beginners.”
41. “I’m a bad teacher.”
42. “Do you only hire senior developers?”
43. CODE DOESN’T CARE WHO WROTE IT
44. WHAT ARE YOU?
45. “A title has no business attempting to capture the seemingly infinite ways by which individuals evolve.” RANDS
46. BEYOND CATEGORY
50. YOU ARE NOT A PIE
51. “Don’t dilute someone’s skill set by trying to expand it, play to the strengths of your team”
58. THAT’S OK.
63. CREATE ART IN THE SPACE WHERE COMMUNITIES OVERLAP
66. LITERALLY EVERYTHING IS ABOUT PEOPLE
67. BRING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO WORK
68. BRING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO WORK
69. “Do or do not. There is no try.” YODA
71. TRYING IS VALID AND VALUABLE
72. IT REMINDS US WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE A BEGINNER
73. WE MAY FAIL
74. “You’re not a real ______ unless you ____________” SOME JERK, PROBABLY NOUN ARBITRARY CONDITION
76. WE DEFINE WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT
77. WE DECIDE WHAT MATTERS
78. “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” HENRY VAN DYKE
79. PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF SO MUCH
80. TRY
81. LEARN
82. BE GOOD AT LOTS OF THINGS
83. THANK YOU Lynn Fisher @lynnandtonic