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uid: 3a156e17-731c-4042-aeda-7357592c9240
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title: Introspection
date: 2016-08-25
tags: conference, introspection
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authorid: jahyoung
author: <NAME>
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"How can you underscore your strengths, overhaul your weaknesses, and maximize your potential?"

Simple phrases - a simple premise. Yet, they're some that we attempt to answer throughout our lives. (At least, I do.) The answer changes as we change, and there are some events in our lives that cause us to question what we know. This month, I was given the honor of speaking at Code on the Beach - a developer conference hosted in Jacksonville, and my first conference ever - where I got to meet some great people with a lot of wisdom to impart. I expected to attend a code conference and give a small talk; I didn't expect Code on the Beach to be an event which would cause me to revisit these questions.

This will be a short post - no code, no tech, just introspection. I'll recount three of the lessons I learned, accompanied by some quotes that have stuck with me.

## Lead with what you know

I had the privilege of meeting <NAME> at the conference. A program manager at Microsoft, Jeff works with the ASP.NET team. The first thing you notice about Jeff is that he really knows his stuff. If I had an hour-long conversation with him about ASP.NET, I'd walk away with knowledge I'd have to sift through for weeks. The second thing you notice is that he's really passionate about what he does and what he believes in; hearing him talk about the things he and his team wanted to accomplish was really inspiring.<commit_msg>Publish introspection.<commit_after>---
uid: 3a156e17-731c-4042-aeda-7357592c9240
layout: post
title: Introspection
date: 2016-08-25
tags: conference, introspection
published: true
authorid: jahyoung
author: <NAME>
---

"How can you underscore your strengths, overhaul your weaknesses, and maximize your potential?"

Simple phrases - a simple premise. Yet, they're some that we attempt to answer throughout our lives. (At least, I do.) The answer changes as we change, and there are some events in our lives that cause us to question what we know. This month, I was given the honor of speaking at Code on the Beach - a developer conference hosted in Jacksonville, and my first conference ever - where I got to meet some great people with a lot of wisdom to impart. I expected to attend a code conference and give a small talk; I didn't expect Code on the Beach to be an event which would cause me to revisit these questions.

This will be a short post - no code, no tech, just introspection. I'll recount three of the lessons I learned, accompanied by some quotes that have stuck with me.

## Lead with what you know

I had the privilege of meeting <NAME> at the conference. A program manager at Microsoft, Jeff works with the ASP.NET team. The first thing you notice about Jeff is that he really knows his stuff. If I had an hour-long conversation with him about ASP.NET, I'd walk away with knowledge I'd have to sift through for weeks. The second thing you notice is that he's really passionate about what he does and what he believes in; hearing him talk about the things he and his team wanted to accomplish was really inspiring.
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