How do we use our professional lives to better our private ones?
Do we learn more from our teachers or from our peers?
I attended my first DEVLEARN Conference this year. It was a pivotal moment in my career because now I know much more about what I don’t know. In addition, I gained direction, motivation, new career idols, and a plan.
In the learning space, we talk a lot about how deep learning comes more from peers than from professors or teachers. At DEVLEARN I attended a podcast session led by the great Betty Danowitz. I want to be honest that I learned a lot from Betty in that session.
Since Betty is a skilled training facilitator, she allowed the room to provide ideas to support her points. One of these ideas was from Matthew Pierce (whom Betty verbally praised approximately 15 or more times in the class). He shared that a way to back up a podcast for free is to publish the audio to video with a static image of your brand. Then upload to Youtube.com as unlisted to house unlimited audio.
When I ran out of space on my Apple account for photos and video, I was asked to start paying $10 a month to upgrade my plan. It took me a moment to connect the two ideas, but I have decided to use the video I take on my cell phone to create family videos and post them as unlisted to Youtube.com. I read that listing the videos by date in this format [YYY-MM-DD] will automatically list them in the order of the date of recording.
In the process, I am:
- Backing up family memories for future generations
- Saving money to build wealth for future generations
- have a new creative outlet
Here is an example of one of these videos (which I got a little carried away with).
This is a small example of one way I have used an idea I gained from my professional journey to benefit how I live my personal life.
Improvement Dave 