Programming Throwdown Episode 68, Soft Skills with Simple Programmer.

Take it away, Jason. Hey hey everyone this is a super cool

episode people might remember you know when I said what was my favorite book a while ago

it was it was not you know the awesome Ballstad book on on statistics or things like that

or the AI book it, it's actually negotiating

for dummies. That's the book that's really the biggest impact on my life. And so these sort of things

are extremely important. And I'm really excited that we could dedicate kind of a whole show to all

the other aspects beyond just learning you know, learning the code,

tabs versus spaces, arguing over Emacs, VIM, all these things, different languages.

We also now have a chance to really dive into all the different sort of soft skills

and all the really important kind of career skills and really personal skills that can help

kind of push people forward. And to do we have john sonmez who uh is the uh you know founder of simple programmer

which is a site where he talks all about this and and and he kind of indulges us in his expert

information so thanks for coming on the show john yeah thanks for having me, guys. I'm glad to be here and throw down.

All right. Sounds good. So why don't you tell us, you know, what is simple programmer,

you know, why did you kind of start that and where did that come from?

Sure. So what it is now is much different than what it was then and the why I started it has changed

into the purpose of it now.

So to go back in time, I started it really out of two main motives.

One was just because it was a passive aggressive waygressive way where I was at to get people

to listen to me. Because if someone reads something on the internet, it has a lot more, it has a lot more

clout, even if it's unpalibu, even if you just publish it yourself rather than me saying it. And plus,

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