As September draws to a close, let's embrace the back-to-school spirit and explore the world of learning and personal growth. Discover how mentoring is great for both the mentor and mentee, how to remember anything for a long time, and how visual metaphors can help you wrap your head around abstract concepts.
Meet our curator of the month
Dide is a tech lead at Futurice, where she has been for the past 2 years. After starting her career in translation, she discovered a passion for coding by chance and made a career switch – and she couldn't be happier about it! In her free time, Dide loves going for walks with her husband and two dogs and enjoys drawing everything from buildings to flowers.
In this talk, Jo Franchetti discusses the value of mentoring in the tech industry. She shares her own experiences of being both a mentor and a mentee, and explains how mentoring can benefit both parties. She shows the importance of fostering a culture of learning and growth within the tech community.
In this interactive article, which is set up as a comic, Nicky Case goes through different memory techniques like spaced repetition and active recall. It helps you understand the importance of your own learning style and the role of curiosity - but in a fun way.
In tech, we often deal with abstract and complex concepts. Maggie Appleton shows how and why we should use visual metaphors to better understand these concepts and make them accessible to more people. And, to spark your curiosity, to make her point she compares React to a potato plant.
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