Q&A #3: Personal Development, Podcast Goals & More with Patrick Akil
Beyond Coding19 Apr 2023

Q&A #3: Personal Development, Podcast Goals & More with Patrick Akil

We're back with another Q&A episode! 🙌

Tons of great questions and a very special guest jumps in here and there as well!

The man with many names, my friend and producer: Roald Willemsen


🎙Enjoy! 🤗


Full episode on YouTube ▶️
https://youtu.be/srJp0N9_iLc

New episodes every Wednesday with me 🎙Patrick Akil!

Big shoutout to ⁠Xebia⁠ for making this episode possible!


OUTLINE:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:47 - If you could start your career over what would you do differently?
00:05:00 - How valuable did you find the podcast in terms of personal development and giving back to the community?
00:05:07 - Personal Development
00:10:07 - Giving back to the community
00:11:49 - What’s next for the podcast?
00:13:05 - Patrick Akil Podcast
00:14:55 - Are you a native English speaker?
00:17:33 - How much do you work remote and how much do you go to the office?
00:20:31 - If you couldn’t do the podcast anymore what would you do?
00:22:17 - How does a new software engineer make themselves valuable as an employee in this era of AI and machine learning?
00:27:12 - As a software engineer, what is the one thing you'll never actually want to do?
00:29:23 - Who or what has inspired you in your career?
00:33:53 - How would your 10 year old self react to what you are doing now?
00:35:14 - What do you remember most about your first job?
00:43:53 - Outro

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