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Building an Innovation
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Take a Moment

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Self-Actualization

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Who do you want to be when you grow up?

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Where do you want to live?

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What do you want to
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The Long Game

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Most valuable asset?

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Is it thejob market?

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Is it thecapital?

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Is it thebusiness success?

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Delete them all.

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It’s the people.

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Innovation happens
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 developers & designers.

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Forming a 
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You can too.

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Becoming a Developer

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“DO IT BY MY OWN!”

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I loved video games.

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I really loved hardware.

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I knew hardware was made by nerds like me.

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If they could do it, I could do it.

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Step one of becoming the person I wanted to be.

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• Ignition • Deep Practice • Master Coaching

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Ignition

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What’s possible

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Someone you can identify with

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Someone you can aspire to become

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This is why diverse voices matter.

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Ignition is about belief

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Imitate then innovate

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Who can be the example?

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• Meetups • Hack Nights • One-Day Workshops • K-12 Outreach • Brown Bag Lunches

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Deep Practice

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“Five Years Experience”

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Deep practice is not busy.

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Deep practice is not tiring.

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Deep practice is difficult.

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Deep practice pushes limits.

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You tell your friends about it.

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Deep practice builds scar tissue.

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It takes 1200 hours to 
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• Algorithms • Data Structures • Domain-Specific Challenges • Collaboration • Refactoring

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But deep practice is
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Coaching & Feedback

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75% Instructive

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Feedback is purposeful.

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Your code uses poor naming. specific Your variables should be snake_cased.

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The ad needs more “pop”. measurable The ad needs to be 
 readable at 1000 feet 
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This class mixes multiple concerns. actionable Responsibilities need to be 
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Your Backbone app is slow. 
 Rewrite it with Angular. realistic Your app is slow. 
 Add monitoring to find out why.

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The code you wrote last week
 needs refactoring. timely Your exercise from this morning
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• Specific • Measurable • Actionable • Realistic • Timely

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Culture of Coaching

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Igniting 100 people 
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Coaching 3 people
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You put in just
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They put in
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You have three developers
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But coaches don’t need to be experts.

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Apprentices can coach after just 300 hours / 10 weeks.

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Each apprentice can practice through coaching three others.

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This force-multiplier leads to 40 apprentices in 20 weeks.

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And over 100 developers in 16 months.

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Coaching 3 people
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Coaching 3 people
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Is that who you want to be?

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Is that where you want to live?

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In Action

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turing.io

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github.com/turingschool

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“If you can do the job,
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TechHire

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Building an Innovation
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