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The Career Adventures of Johnny JavaScript

Max Antonucci on April 05, 2018

In my ongoing quest to find good books that are both manga and non-fiction, one coder in my network recommended "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko" by...
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Darrell Washington

This was great! Very insightful and I couldn't agree more! Being that I am the youngest dev in the office by a pretty big margin, I run into advice like this by seniors pretty often. I made simple mistakes on my first ticket. Everyone joked about it at first but on a serious not they all preached lesson 5 to me. It was an mistake I can learn and grow from. Everyone should realize no matter what stage you are at you will always run into "Excellent Mistakes"

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Max Antonucci

It's great to hear that your senior devs encourage those kinds of mistakes and learning from them. That's one of the best things for younger devs on a team, it's certainly helped me become a more regular part of the workflow at my position. Having a supportive environment is often the difference between "excellent mistakes" and just "mistakes."

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Darrell Washington

Absolutely, keep releasing great information like this it's extremely helpful.

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Ben Halpern

An "excellent mistake" is one where the benefits of how we grow from it outweigh its initial consequences.

Always worth remembering

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Max Antonucci

My own take on this lesson for a while has been "learn so much from failures they become successes." Looks like this book beat me to that lesson, although I actually pretty good about that.

I just wish I'd learned it from the book instead of from some past car trouble...

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rhymes

I feel like all this advice is relevant for life in general. Great post!

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Max Antonucci

Especially the last tip. All of them are great for work and life, but how we leave an imprint behind us best reaches to everything - work, relationships, home, fun, pizza, petting huskies, and the other life essentials :)

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rhymes

petting huskies makes everyone a better human

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Max Antonucci

It makes the whole world a better place too.

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Maria Campbell

Excellent piece Max, and I agree. Very curious about the book. Definitely will pick up a copy!

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Max Antonucci

Thanks, very glad my piece can help spread word about the book. My post really doesn't do it justice haha.

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Maria Campbell

Haha! The post may not do the book justice, but it achieves ITS goal!

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Francisco M. Delgado

Incredibly well written! Following rn

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Lord_Sarcastic

Did you just tag this article a '1 min read'?

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Max Antonucci

I have no control over that, and certainly think it's more than that haha.

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Felippe Regazio

Man, one of the best posts i read here. Thx!

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Max Antonucci

Thanks, I'm very glad you liked it!

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J Beetz

When I was younger, an older friend once told me to "invest in failure". That has stuck with me for almost 20 years.
I apply it to all aspects of my life.

Great article. Thank you for posting it.