Episode 272 | Marc Grabanski - Teaching Impact

Guest: Marc Grabanski @1marc Marc Grabanski talks with Dave Rael about impact via software, impact via teaching, and impact via business Marc is the CEO and creator of Frontend Masters, dedicated to teaching advanced web development skills. Before that he was heavily involved in open source and created one of the most popular UI elements on the web, the jQuery UI Datepicker.
Chapters: 1:33 - Dave introduces the show and Marc Grabanski
3:10 - The origin of and motivation for Frontend Masters
7:45 - Bringing together great people to teach
10:40 - Marc business experiences and building the business of Frontend Masters
16:11 - The responsibility of providing a living for the team and the enormous stress of hardware failure in a big moment for the business
21:46 - The intent of Frontend Masters and what it has to offer
28:40 - Marc's opportunities to write code in the face of business needs
31:33 - How Marc got started in software
37:02 - Marc's history with speaking at conferences and the realization that teaching mattered to him
39:36 - Creating widely used software with the jQuery Datepicker and the evolution of open source
43:17 - How Marc stays current with what he needs to know
46:13 - Marc's book recommendations
47:26 - Marc's top 3 tips for delivering more value
49:58 - Keeping up with Marc
Resources: Frontend Masters
jQuery UI DatePicker
Kyle Simpson on Developer On Fire
Estelle Weyl
Brian Holt
Marc's book recommendation: Holy Bible: New Living Translation - null
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja - John Resig
Marc's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Attract haters
Release something to the public
Solve problems identified from the negative feedback