Hasty Treat - Goal Setting
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk goal setting - why it’s important, when to do it, how to stick to them, and more. Tweet us your goals with the hashtag #syntaxgoals.
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Show Notes
4:14
- Setting SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time)
7:45
- What kinds of thing should you set goals for?
10:49
- Business goals
16:50
- Visualizing Goals
22:58
- When should you set goals?
27:42
- Accountability
Links
Tweet us your tasty treats!
- Scott’s Instagram
- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Monday, Monday, Monday, |
| 0:02.0 | Open wide Dev fans. |
| 0:04.0 | Get ready to stuff your face |
| 0:06.0 | with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, |
| 0:09.0 | get workflows, |
| 0:10.0 | break dancing, soft skills, web development, |
| 0:12.0 | the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is |
| 0:18.1 | Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toro Loco Tolinsky. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Syntax. |
| 0:28.0 | This is the podcast with the tastiest web development treats |
| 0:31.0 | and today is a hasty treat, which is short version we usually try to keep it I don't |
| 0:34.9 | between 15 and 22 minutes long and 22.5 minutes is kind of our our ceiling on that thing so we better get going. |
| 0:46.3 | Today's hasty tree is sponsored by Sentry. |
| 0:49.6 | Sentry is one of the best error tracking services out there. |
| 0:53.0 | I use Century myself. |
| 0:54.4 | I have for a long time and I actually have teamed up with Century previously |
| 0:59.9 | in my learned Redux course if you remember if you've ever taken that and they're back to sponsor a little bit more. |
| 1:05.3 | So what Century does is that it catches errors on any of your platform. |
| 1:09.9 | So whether you're running a Python or a PhD server or whatever, I specifically use Century |
| 1:14.8 | both on the back end in my node API and that catches any errors that happen on my server. |
| 1:20.4 | And then I also run it on the client side, which is extremely helpful to know when errors are happening in my user's browsers. |
| 1:28.0 | And then when an error actually happens, I'm able to aggregate all of those things together, take a look at, okay, it seems like I specifically had a problem once where a whole bunch of users were complaining about not being able to download something on a download page and we actually narrowed it down to only |
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