Navigating your career is difficult and it sometimes feels like there's no map, and nowhere to go for guidance. As a coach, I feel like there are a bunch of things that would make many tech careers go a whole lot smoother, if only we could have known them from the start. It's almost as if there should have been a course at some point, but the content didn't make the cut when they were grooming the curriculum. So in this talk, I'm going to rectify that as much as I can.

I'm going to pack this session with advice I would have loved as my earlier self. We'll talk about reasoning about technology, heuristics for making difficult choices, and how to navigate career growth in an industry that wants to keep you in a neat little box. Frameworks and languages come and go, but your core skills will remain relevant, even in the age of AI. And with things like choosing employers, or learning new skills, we don't get an infinite amount of attempts, so we better try to get it right.

Attend this session, so that when your next career decision comes around, you will have a better mental model to think about what you should do.