Empathy is the Accelerant

As a developer, you have many career paths ahead of you, and a lot to learn. Do you know what paths you can take? Do you know what you’ll need to learn to follow those paths?

If you use an ad-hoc or go-it-alone strategy, you will severely limit your options and how far you go. At the center of your strategy should be empathy. By centering on empathy, you elevate and enhance the soft skills you need to level up your career like adaptability, collaboration, creativity, and leadership, just to name a few.

Empathy is the accelerant to discovering new paths, acquiring new knowledge, and achieving new levels in your career.

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1. Empathy is the Accelerant
2. Knowledge
3. Collaboration
4. Empathy
5. Knowledge Empathy Collaboration
6. Justi n Mancinelli Dir. Project Strategy @piannaf
8. • ESL Teacher
9. • ESL Teache r • Software Engineer
10. • ESL Teache r • Software Enginee r • Team Lead
11. • ESL Teache r • Software Enginee r • Team Lea d • Scrum Master
12. • ESL Teache r • Software Enginee r • Team Lea d • Scrum Maste r • Director of 
 Project Strategy
13. Failure is always an option
18. Systems Thinking Or : Ho w I Learne d T o Sto p Worryin g An d Lov e Complexit y
23. Leveling Up
24. —Lara Hogan
25. Choose your career path
27. Engineering
28. Dev Rel
29. Design
30. Product Management
31. Project Management
32. Management
33. Knowledge isn’t enough
34. Knowledge Empathy Collaboration
35. If you personally want to grow as fast as your company, you have to give away your job every couple months. If you're all triangles, you're missing out on some amazing squares in your life - that's unfair to everyone. Reach out, beyond your immediate neighbors.
36. Thanks! @piannaf Justi n Mancinelli @touchlabHQ touchlab.co