Episode 333 | Dave Isbitski - Human Voice

Guest: @ Dave Isbitski talks with Dave Rael about career fulfillment, voice-enabled, user experiences, being your best, and Dave has been a professional speaker, trainer and evangelist for over a decade. He has taught full-day courses on many topics including mobile apps, cloud, and the web. Dave has helped launch numerous technology platforms, frameworks, and programming languages across an array of devices at both Microsoft and Amazon. Dave is also an author for Lynda.com and can be found on Twitter @TheDaveDev and the Alexa Developer Blog.
Chapters: 1:18 - Dave Rael introduces the show and Dave Isbitski
5:49 - Dave Isbitski's early experiences with Alexa
8:12 - Designing user experiences
11:08 - Dave Isbitski's unique talents and niche, the changing landscape of technology and work
15:33 - Aligning work with how you view the world and the rewards of what we do
18:22 - Making positive changes, incremental improvement, and the power of habit
23:40 - The Alexa Dev Chat Podcast
28:32 - The enabling nature of voice interfaces
31:38 - What developers should know about Alexa
40:24 - Dave Isbitski's story of failure - favoring being right over
46:50 - Dave Isbitski's book recommendations
54:09 - Dave Isbitski's top 3 tips for delivering more value
59:37 - Keeping up with Dave Isbitski
Resources: The Alexa Dev Chat Podcast
Kelly Shaver on Developer On Fire
Echo Devices
Charlie Kindel
Joel Beasley on Developer On Fire
Charlie Kindel on Alexa Dev Chat
.NET Rocks!
Carl Franklin on Developer On Fire
Richard Campbell on Developer On Fire
Zencastr
Audacity
Walter Quesada
Bob Lautenbach
Sameer Lalwani on Alexa Dev Chat
The Amazon Developer Site
Alexa on the Amazon Developer Site
Alexa Slack Team
Felienne on Developer On Fire
Gary Vaynerchuk
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care" -Theodore Roosevelt
How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
My Fitness Pal
Amazon Leadership Principles
Dave's book recommendation: Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too - Gary Vaynerchuk
Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond - Chris Crowley
Dave's top 3 tips for delivering more value: In order to deliver, you have to be able to say "no"
Invest in yourself in order to constantly be learning
Listen to find out what people need, not what they ask for