[Weekend Drop] Grifters and Content Creation Traps

<p><em>Welcome to Weekend Drops! Every weekend I drop one full length interview or conversation I had recently. This is for folks who want to keep up with me — if you came for the 5 minute mixtapes, I hope its easy enough to delete! Let me know how I can improve this for you.</em></p><p>Video source: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_uefhT51g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_uefhT51g</a></p><p>Share original tweet: <a href="https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1372013877731368961">https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1372013877731368961</a></p><p><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p><strong><br></strong><br></p><p><strong>Maksim Ivanov: </strong>[00:00:00] having a one today. We're going to be talking with Shawn Wang. Who is mostly known as Swyx and we're going to discuss, Oh Shawn, could you please introduce yourself first? </p><p><strong>swyx: </strong>[00:00:19] Hey everyone. I'm Shawn. I am also known as Swyx. I am head of developer experience at Temporal dot IO, but I'm also on Twitter a lot, and a general content creator.</p><p>And my principal capacity. So I'm here to talk about that. </p><p><strong>Maksim Ivanov: </strong>[00:00:32] I mostly know about Shawn by reading his article learning in public, which is great. And also other essays. You probably know him as well. If you read this article, it's about we surely learning in public, actually showing your progress, sharing your progress putting out the material and learning by, by doing right.</p><p><strong>swyx: </strong>[00:00:49] Yeah, exactly. It's something that when I reflect on my own career every time I've done it it's really been the determinant of the majority of my success. So that's when I went to do a speech for my bootcamp. That was the title of my speech. I wrote it down in like one afternoon and then I tweeted it and it just went viral.</p><p>I was like, okay, this is something that people want to hear about. And three years later I'm still doing it. It's it's still amazing. And I want to spread the word. </p><p><br><strong>Maksi