She stopped setting goals and she's way happier now — Unspoken Tech S1E2

Design engineer Maggie Appleton is brilliant. She's proven her ability to grow and master a skill set multiple times throughout her career, making a name for herself as an illustrator, a product designer, and beyond. But she's not worried about labels. She's not worried about... well, ANY of this stuff, really. I got the chance to sit down with her for lunch and learn why she's so dang happy, how she sets goals, and what it means to her to "be successful".

Presented by Sentry (https://lwj.dev/sentry)

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WHAT IS UNSPOKEN TECH?
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Learn the skills that talented, successful, and — most importantly — happy web professionals learned the hard way. Seasoned developers sit down with host Jason Lengstorf for a meal and a deep conversation about careers, resilience, and finding meaning.

These experts have:

Built careers that are resilient in the face of an ever-changing software industry
Achieved proper compensation and recognition for their efforts
Found joy and growth in their work — instead of burnout (or sometimes on the other side of it)

In each conversation, you'll learn the strategies, mental frameworks, and techniques that got them there. Watch to learn how you can build your own resilient, lucrative, joyful career.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:12 Design engineering
3:27 Multiple skill sets
4:04 Interviewing at scale
4:40 Choosing what to learn
6:21 Internal vs. external validation
8:06 "I do what I do because _______"
8:44 How to set goals
11:56 The most important part
13:49 Networking
15:05 The enemy of progress


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