How I Work

Calvin Conaway@calvinconaway

calvin@conaway.comzenbilling.com

Key principles

•Learn

•Invest

•Practice

•Debug

•Leave & come back

•Make mistakes

•Follow inspiration

•Polish

•Ship

•Listen to the code

Keyboards

QWERTY

Dvorak

3 weeks

Dreaming of keyboard layouts!

Invest in equipment

Invest in learning

Tools

Get the right tools (=Mac)

Learn how to use them (TextMate

macros)

Leaky abstractions

Go to the (open) source

You have to understand what’s

underneath

Full stack

Ship often

Bugs don’t matter(as much as you think

they do)

Details later

Troubleshooting by elimination

Follow the inspiration

Lady Gaga

Polish

Listen to the code

Fear

Personal development

Have courage