TL;DR 🥱
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Long Story Long 📖
Since I joined the software world in 2015 I've been exploring how we developers can code, learn, and communicate with more fun. I've always enjoyed creating things, connecting people, and easing people into tech.
Apart from code, I love to chat about Productocracy and progress in basically any area of life.
Coaching & Freelancing
I've been doing quite a bit of private coaching, public speaking, and ad-hoc projects in the past, most noticeably here:
CodementorAaaand I'm also helping mid-sized companies to build their software, evolve their team processes, and connect the development teams to marketing endeavors. Here's the full stack trace:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-steinmetz/
Engineering Visuals
I've always dreamt of being able to draw and visualize simple things. Thus now, you, my dear reader, as long as you navigate this domain's pages, have to endure this sometimes:
The long-term hope with my drawings is not to become the next Rembrandt, though. It's rather to tap into the potential of visual thinking in programming and computer science. Too many abstract concepts are explained too often using words and code only.
When I learned to code, I was always craving images and visuals that would explain complex concepts. Especially as a non-native English speaker from a non-technical background, the imagery would have helped me quite a bit.
map() map together.Sketchnotes
Somehow, one day, I also became a "published Sketchnoter". This means that at least one of my sketchnotes was published on a website by another human being who apparently found joy in their content being summed up visually:
Off-topic
Fun fact: I speak 4 human languages 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 , I've worked in 4 completely different fields 🔫💰🃏👩💻, and I lived in 4 countries. In many Asian countries, the word 4 has the same pronunciation as "Death"💀. In Germany the word "vier" (translated as four) is pronounced as fear.
Where is Waldo?
You can find my voice and body movements on different podcasts, communities, and video platforms:
But I also sometimes look into my LinkedIn and Twitter accounts:
Meanwhile, in my personal life...
👶👧🧒 hanging out with famz and friends
😊 too old to be an emoji heavy user 🙈
🎧 put them on, even with no music (deep work hack)
📖 daily activities: breathing exercises - power list and time block planning - reading tech books - exercise - listening to podcasts - real foodz