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Hosted by Den Delimarsky · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 94 episodes
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Most career advice out there is generic. It fades as you progress and face invisible barriers to growth. The Work Item breaks through the basics, delivering hard-earned insights from real industry pros to help you navigate tricky paths, unlock new levels, and make bold moves in your tech career.
Den Delimarsky hosts The Work Item - Real Talk on Tech's Toughest Career Choices, a technology show with 94 episodes published.
Shirley Wu is back-to-back on The Work Item - we previously talked about her unexpected career in data visualizations, but for this episode we're switching things up a little bit and instead focus on building long-term c
So, get this - how many times did you have one of your tweets go viral? Now, how many times did a tweet go viral for a project that you built around something that you really enjoy? And out of those times - how many time
We're often operating under the false illusion that the career track we have now is the career track that we somehow have to follow under any circumstances - it's easy to snap to common conventions around progression, wh
Every year, millions of students try coding for the first time through Hour of Code. But most people don't know that the technology powering those experiences is ran by someone who didn't really have a plan to become a C
In this week's episode, I sat down not with one, but two brilliant guests - the duo behind the brand-new venture known as SaaS Marketing Gym, Lianna Patch and Colleen Schnettler. As coaches and community leads for SaaS f
Chief Technology Officer - a few people I've talked to in the past year expressed some degree of interest in reaching, what seems like, the pinnacle of an engineering career. That three-letter title carries weight in boa
User research is an underappreciated art - we in tech are so used to being immersed in an ocean of quantitative data that we can forget that on the other side of the screen are real humans who want to solve very specific
This is the last episode for 2024. To make it special, it's a supercut of all the unconventional advice from every single guest that was on the show this year - Kent C. Dodds, Jerod Santo, Rob Walling, Adrienne Tacke, Da
Today, I'm thrilled to be joined by Asia Orangio, the brain behind DemandMaven, a growth agency dedicated to helping SaaS companies and their founders reach new heights. Asia's unique approach blends data-driven strategi
If you are listening to this show, you have likely heard of a programming language called Python. And if you are a Python developer, you've likely heard of a podcast dedicated to this programming language - Talk Python T
If you've been immersed in the tech world for some time, you probably have heard one specific YouTube channel mentioned more than once - Learn With Jason. It's a project started by Jason Lengstorf, a former VP of develop
Jennifer Wong is a seasoned engineering manager who started her journey in civil engineering. The fast pace of the tech industry drew her in, and she stuck with it for years since making that call. In this episode, I cha
Craig Hewitt, the founder of the podcasting platform Castos, comes from generations of entrepreneurs, and his own journey builds on the experience and stamina of those that came before him. In this show, we chat about be
In episode 81, Den Delimarsky chats with Kirupa Chinnathambi, a product manager at Google who has built his own personal brand in what is now known as kirupa.com. Kirupa is a talented web developer, designer, writer, and
One of the things that Miriam Suzanne realized early in her developer journey is that web development is a tool - she wanted to build a website for her theater company and ended up building a career and a company around
We often talk about promotions and growth, but the moment the conversation shifts towards paths to staff or executive positions, the advice goes blank. There is very little actionable information out there that can tell
One's journey from their early career to working at startups in Silicon Valley can take many forms. Some folks take the more traditional route of joining a company right after college. Others get tired of their corporate
For today's episode, I had the privilege of sitting down with Rachel Andrew, arguably one of the more influential folks in the world of web development. With a career spanning over two decades, Rachel has left an indelib
One of the things that is a bit taboo to talk about, both in the tech industry and outside of it is money. People just aren't comfortable discussing openly the hard decisions that go into things like seeking funding, inv
In this episode of The Work Item, I had a conversation with David Khourshid, founder of Stately.AI. You might know him as @DavidKPiano on social media. Today, we're breaking new ground around unconventional paths of buil
Shirley Wu
Shirley Wu Studio
2 appearances on this show
Asia Orangio
CEO & Founder · DemandMaven
1 appearance on this show
Michael Kennedy
Congressman · Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
1 appearance on this show
Jason Lengstorf
Founder · Learn With Jason
1 appearance on this show
Jennifer Wong
interim director, geriatric specialist
1 appearance on this show
Craig Hewitt
Founder · Castos
1 appearance on this show
Lena Reinhard
host of the Leadership Confidential podcast · CircleCI
1 appearance on this show
Rachel Andrew
1 appearance on this show
David Khourshid
CEO
1 appearance on this show
Kent C. Dodds
1 appearance on this show
Eric Nehrlich
Executive coach and former Google Chief of Staff
1 appearance on this show
Grace Ling
UX Designer at Electronic Arts and Founder of Design Buddies · Design Buddies
1 appearance on this show
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