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Dec 13 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
Very apropo for me right now - @youngfonz is going to talk about navigating changes in your [fill in the blank] career! #AEASF
Tip #1 for navigating career changes - have patience and resilience. @youngfonz had to go outside his comfort zone seeking resources to bolster his computer science education. But it was a journey! #AEASF
Tip #2 for navigating career changes: Have a strategy. Don’t just react, have a plan. And remember to learn EQ aka “soft skills” not just hitting the books (IQ). It depends on where you’re at! @youngfonz #AEASF
Tip #3 for navigating career: Decide on the kind of impact you want to have. This depends on what you CAN do, and where you are in your career. Doing everything as an entrepreneur worked for @youngfonz when young, but then he went back to corporate and had to learn that. #AEASF
.@youngfonz missed out on 2 promotion cycles despite doing everything he was supposed to, then went to his head of design with the goal of getting clarity. Turns out the internal system wasn’t working well for him, and perhaps for others there. It’s not just about you. #AEASF
Tip #4 for navigating career changes: Mentorship. Mentors provide clarity and support when you need it. Career progression is a lot messier than just a ladder! @youngfonz #AEASF
Mentorship opportunities are at ADPlist, Rethink, dev color, Mentorpass, @GA, @LinkedIn.

@youngfonz #AEASF
.@youngfonz thinks that bootcamps CAN be a good equalizer - you don’t need to graduate from certain unis to learn. But you still need real world experience. And some of those bootcamps are 💸! #AEASF
.@youngfonz says to treat burnout, take a break! And ask yourself what you’re burnt out about. The solution depends on if you’re burnt out from your job, your company, or your industry. Find what gives you a spark (anything!) and pursue that. #AEASF
Re: short tenures at companies, @youngfonz says it’s important to treat yourself as the stakeholder of your own growth and career. (Just like companies are beholden to their stakeholders!) Be truthful when a company isn’t working for you. #AEASF

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Last at #AEASF (sadface) is @movie_pundit with his talk “What If People Weren’t the Product? Building a web that loves humanity.” (Yes, we gave each other high-fives about how we had talks about becoming person-oriented! 🙌)
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Next (and before #AEASF lunch LOL) is @kryshiggins about designing better onboarding. How do you balance understanding with “engagement” and features and prompts?
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Here for @Folletto’s #AEASF talk about hybrid meetings. Remote collaboration should not actually default to calls or meetings. Think about if they’re sync/async or in-person/virtual, but they can be combined too.
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Made it to the juicy part of @prestonso’s #AEASF talk about languages. 🏃‍♀️☕️ More CSS properties to help meet our users where they are, no matter what language they’re using:
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Markup that I never knew about, to help give readers of logographic languages more context about a character they might not know about: <ruby> and <rb>

Also, the CSS prop “text-emphasis” can customize text styles you want to bold, but bold wouldn’t look great. @prestonso #AEASF
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Learning all about ARIA attributes with @tolu_xyz at #AEASF! Some really interesting examples about how you’d indicate to assistive technologies about what’s visually happening on a component.
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First up at #AEASF is @adactio about declarative design! (Yes, I'm back to my live-tweeting thing!)

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