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Episode 031 | Scott Wlaschin - Learn from Diverse Sources

Scott Wlaschin talks with Dave Rael about the value of sharing your knowledge, the need for broad expertise, and that all problems are about people and never technical in nature.

Scott Wlaschin is a .NET developer, architect and author. He has over 20 years experience in a wide variety of areas from high-level UX/UI to low-level database implementations. He loves learning programming languages, his favorites being Smalltalk, but also Prolog, Python, and more recently, F#, which he blogs about at fsharpforfunandprofit.com.

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Scott's book recommendation:
Scott's top 3 tips for delivering more value:

1. Listen to your customers
2. Learn from your mistakes and learn from them as fast as possible
3. Broaden your knowledge and experience - diversity is good in teams, it's good inside your brain, too


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