'How to Build a Meaningful Career' by Taylor Poindexter and Scott Hanselman (Strange Loop 2023)

The average person will spend a third of their life at work. Let’s do our best to make sure our day to day work aligns with what increases our happiness as opposed to decreasing it. How can you focus on what lifts your spirit while acknowledging the complexities of both people, software, and corporations? Humans are squishy. Join Taylor and Scott as they give you tips on how to create a meaningful career that brings you joy and uplifts those humans around you.

Taylor Poindexter
Spotify
@engineering_bae

Taylor Poindexter is the co-founder of Black Code Collective, an organization that strives to create a safe space for software engineers to thrive, and she is also an Engineering Manager at Spotify. In her downtime you can find her adventuring, tweeting about tech, creating whiskey videos for Instagram.

Scott Hanselman
Microsoft
@shanselman

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Recorded Sept 21 at Strange Loop 2023, St. Louis, MO.

[SiddharthKulkarniN]

You can't get enough of Scott Hanselman

[lorenzn]

Love how you lighten up the talk yet still make it interesting and easy to follow. Thanks for your insights!

[AgileRob]

8:40 Love all the implications of this "room"

[punters]

Scott Hanselman is an amazing story teller! I laughed more than watching a good standup comedy :)

[NA-sqpt]

My manager has also told me I won't make it in tech. I listen to you more than I do him. Thanks for sharing your story here and on Code Newbie, Taylor!

[christopherchildress]

didn't expect a Harry Mack namedrop in a Strange Loop talk!