How Punk Rock & Long Distance Running Explain Web Development
What does training for a marathon have to do with learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript? What does Fugazi have to do with your sense of career satisfaction and on-the-job happiness? And, what can we do when we’re ready to throw in the towel while trying to stay up-to-speed with the latest and greatest development methodologies?
I’ll take ten minutes to talk with you about how two things in my day-to-day life (punk rock and long distance running) have informed and shaped a third part of my life (my career as a developer) and how I think those two things explain all of our careers.
About Patrick Fulton
Working with the Web since 1998, Patrick Fulton is currently a front end developer at Bearded in Pittsburgh, PA. He is co-organizer of Refresh Pittsburgh, a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet designers and developers in Pittsburgh & the surrounding areas.
