What's the one resource you wish you'd had when you first got started?
This can apply to any field of work, whether you're an entrepreneur, marketer, or CTO. What's the one resource you didn't have when you first got started?
As a baby content marketer, I found one too many "X ways to do Y" blog posts and not enough concrete, well-researched, non-self-promo articles that I could learn from. As an example, Felicia Sullivan's Medium account is chock full of hands-on, practical learning.
I probably wish I had read The Lean Startup earlier, and probably read on customer discovery. Those were the single most significant leaps forward in my entrepreneurial journey.
The moment these concepts were introduced into my life, I realized the true essence of entrepreneurship: feedback-driven development, close contact with your users, and constant discovery.
Literally everything available to learn in the last 5 years.
I started back in the wee early days of 1997 and clawed my way through trying to learn how to program and build websites. I viewed page sources, I studied html from different sites, I read tutorials on how to do different things posted on peoples personal sites after they learned how to query a database in php. I learned it all on my own.
People often talk about how they miss the old days, how modern development with React/Angular/etc obfuscate code and makes it harder for the curious to learn by viewing the source of a webpage and honestly, I have Vietnam flashbacks of that time… I don't want people today to have to learn the way I had to.. We have better ways to learn, and I'm sooooo thankful that the tools available today are here.
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