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Metadevelopment Digest - Issue #13

Metadevelopment Digest - Issue #13
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Let’s talk about your impact—an amount of value created per unit of work.
The first principle of having a bigger impact is to focus on high-leverage activities. Remember the Pareto principle? This is exactly what you need to utilize.
Read how in my recent article Increasing Your Impact in our community blog 🙂.
Best,
Alex Migutsky, MTDV Founder

👩‍💻 Career and Business Stuff
What I’ve learned interviewing 500 people: the interviewer skills ladder for high growth software companies 👥
No CS Degree — Inspiring interviews with successful self-taught and bootcamp developers 🚫🎓
How to Manage Your Boss — Some advice on managing up. Relevant for those, who are looking for a career in a single place of employment:
A Much Better Way To Use Slack (and any collaboration tool) — An interesting approach to manage Slack at work
Stephanie Hurlburt
An entrepreneur friend told me about a negotiation he had. The customer asked for bids from a bunch of vendors, and his was over 3 times everyone else’s bid. They went with him because they thought wow, his work must really be quality stuff. Interesting price psychology, right?
🙉 Life Stuff
⚙️ Tech Stuff
AndraZaharia
Having a personal project played an incredibly important role in my life.

Whether it was blogging or doing interviews or creating a podcast, it's helped me in countless ways:
✔️to get better at writing
✔️to organize my thoughts
✔️to pick up various skills & knowledge
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🚀 Created by MTDV Community Members
💎 Current MTDV Quest: Resolving Conflicts
The goals of the quest:
- Analyse the latest conflict you remember.
- Use the approach from Difficult Conversations book to resolve a conflict next time.
Detailed instructions 🔒.
Wonder what the Quests are? Here is a short introduction 😌
🎁 Bonus
If you are interested in moving to Czech Republic, check out the site of Brno Expat Centre, it provides all the necessary information.
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