Hasty Treat - The Power of Hobbies

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about hobbies — how they can improve your life and make you a better developer, as well as the hobbies they enjoy.

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Show Notes

3:19 - What are our hobbies?

Wes: Focus on one thing, learn it, move along
- Kombucha, Fermentation and Curing Projects
- Bike flipping
- Kids ride on repairs + hacks
- ATV fixing
- ICE to Battery conversion
Scott:
- Dance - 15+ years
- Weightlifting / fitness
- Video games
- Watching hockey
- Design
- Computing / coding
- Snowboarding
- Kung fu movies

9:00 - Why are they good?

Fuel your coding project
Maybe could even become your key to a job you love
They keep your mind sharp
Good for downtime
Good for mental health and mood
- Can be meditative
- Be cognizant of what they do to your mental state
Promotes creativity and critical thinking
Fun man

17:54 - How do you find a hobby?

Wes
- I always need an end game
- I want to grow hot peppers
- I want a wicked ATV for cheap
- I think batteries are fascinating but I need something real to do
Scott - I start with the fascination
- I think dancing is cool, but I could never learn
- I think _____ is cool, but I don’t know where to start
Deep dark YouTube holes
- YouTube has an endless selection of educational content
Facebooks groups or forums
Meetups / volunteering
- Introverts will have a hard time with this, push yourself

22:50 - What is your hobby?

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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 Toroloko Tolinsky.
0:25.0	Oh, welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat.
0:31.0	We're going to be treating you with the topic of hobbies and we like to talk about hobbies but this is going to be talking a lot about how hobbies can help you be a better developer, how they can help you in your life and how they can just make things a little
0:45.1	bit cooler for you overall so we're not just wrapping ourselves in code 24-7.
0:51.6	My name is Scott Turbo Tolunsky.
0:55.0	So is that what you're going by now?
0:57.0	Yeah, that's what I'm going by.
0:59.0	You're getting rid of El Toro Loco?
1:01.0	El Toro Loco?
1:02.0	Yeah. I'm not crazy about it.
1:04.0	I'm sorry.
1:05.0	We'll see.
1:06.0	El Toro Loco literally means crazy, doesn't it?
1:10.0	Crazy Bowl.
1:11.0	Loco.
	...

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