#163 Learn fewer skills but go deeper - the Caleb Curry interview

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Caleb Curry. He's a software engineer and prolific computer science educator. He recently started mentoring dozens of developers directly and helping them with their skills and careers. We'll talk about his experience getting laid off as a dev and how we prepared for his mid-career job search.

We talk about:
- How Caleb got laid off and went about landing his next developer job
- How most people sleep on networking and recruiters, but shouldn't
- Why Caleb is so serious about teaching system design concepts
- How Caleb pairs his deep focus with broad extracurricular learning through podcasts and white papers

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

- Caleb's course on Database Design: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/database-design-full-course-43233664125b/

- Caleb's system design lecture playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e7yQ43bUtg&list=PL_c9BZzLwBRLSs6x50D5WIH76VCUxJs9E

- Caleb on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebcurry/