{"id":377,"date":"2015-06-21T04:23:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.wordpress.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2015-06-21T04:23:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T22:53:07","slug":"the-passionate-programmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/21\/the-passionate-programmer\/","title":{"rendered":"The passionate programmer ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading the book the passionate programmer by Chad Fowler ( No! , he is not related to Martin Fowler!) .\u00a0 Although i do not necessarily agree with all his views. Here are the few take away points for me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try to understand business domain which you are working for ! &#8211; I am a typical techie who considered business meetings to be a complete waste of time, from now on i will at least make an effort to understand it better<\/li>\n<li>Do not stagnate keep learning something new everyday!<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.&#8221; &#8211; Even if the job is boring and trivial try to do a good job instead of avoiding\u00a0 or procrastinating.\u00a0 I was very immature at my first job at Microsoft &#8211; this is a key thing!.\u00a0\u00a0 Employers do not want a super hero, but some one who can execute well and is pleasant to others.<\/li>\n<li>Take some more risks!\u00a0 <span class=\"p\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading the book the passionate programmer by Chad Fowler ( No! , he is not related to Martin Fowler!) .\u00a0 Although i do not necessarily agree with all his views. Here are the few take away points for me. &nbsp; Try to understand business domain which you are working for ! &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandeepmathew.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}