Do you want 10x Engineers?

In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the pleasure of discussing with Julien Danjou. Julien has more than 20 years of experience as an open source software hacker. Julien wrote two books about Python.

I wanted to ask him about the myth of 10x Engineers and what advice he could have for Engineers who want to grow their skills.

According to Julien, above the technical aspect that everybody think of, two other aspects are essential to grow as a software engineer: understanding the business, and understanding the social component.

I loved all the examples Julien gave and that could be put into practice immediately. It resonates a lot with me and I think it aligns very well with Michael and I shared in our new book I am a Software Engineer and I am in Charge. I hope that I will have the opportunity to discuss the book with Julien soon!

References:

• About Julien
• Serious Python
• The Hacker’s Guide to Scaling Python
• Mergify

Le Podcast – Season Two

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  The Gift of Play with Portia Tung
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  Delivering Delight with Avi Liran
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  Build a Product with Gojko Adzic
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  Hiring and Diversity with Lucinda Duncalfe
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  Leadership and Teamwork with Jeremy Brown
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  Community and Leadership with Scott Amenta
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  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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  Can Software Teams learn from Sporting Teams?
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  Agile and Open Innovation with Mary Provinciatto
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  Radical Focus with Christina Wodtke
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  Human-Centric Agility Coaching
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  The Job of an Open Leader – Preethi Thomas

Le Podcast – Season One

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  Grow your Software Engineering Career with Emilien
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  Jason’s Thirteen Rules of a Team
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  All about OKRs with Bart
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  Do you want 10x Engineers?
• 
  The Anatomy of Peace
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  Psychological Safety
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  When your team is distributed
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  Changing Your Team with John Poelstra
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  Coming to terms with terms – Michael DeLanzo
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  How (not) to provide feedback – John Poelstra
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  How to deal with your stars – Frank Jansen
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  Do cultural differences influence the adoption of agile?
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  How to create great goals?
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  Celebrating the audiobook with Michael Reid
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  How to form a team?