You're Not Paid to Write Code
How to become the go-to developer
The developers who get ahead aren't the best coders. They're the ones seen as the go-to. This talk reframes what you're actually paid for: understanding problems, not just solving them.
VS Live — San Diego
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Visibility Is a Technical Skill
Get seen for the work you already do
Visibility isn't self-promotion. It's a learnable, technical skill. How to make your thinking and your work visible to the people who make decisions, so you're sought after instead of overlooked.
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The 15 Minute Authority Blueprint
Building authority as a developer doesn't take a personal brand or hours of extra work. It takes fifteen focused minutes. The daily moves that turn quiet competence into visible authority. Yours free for attending.
You're not being overlooked because you're not good enough.
You're being overlooked because nobody knows what you're good at.
Six days. One action each day. At the end you'll have a short list of people who should know who you are, and you'll have started the conversation with the first of them.
- Days 1–2: take inventory of what you've already done that nobody outside your team has seen
- Days 3–4: pick one place to be visible and put three pieces of proof there
- Days 5–6: turn that into conversations with people who make decisions
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I'm Tony Champion — 25 years building software, Microsoft MVP, and I write to about 8,000 developers about getting known for the work they already do.
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