Episode 263: 263: Abstractions and Generalist Strategy with Sarah Withee

The Ruby on Rails Podcast

• Episode: Episode 263: 263: Abstractions and Generalist Strategy with Sarah Withee
• Website: The Ruby on Rails Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.5by5.tv/rubyonrails
• Duration: 00:28:11
• Published: 2019-03-06 03:00

Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, and mentor located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Director of Programming for Abstractions, a multi-disciplinary conference with an open CFP, Sarah offered advice for potential speakers and shared her thoughts on being a generalist.

Links for this episode:

• Abstractions CFP
  
• How to come up with conference proposal ideas
  
• Sarah's Site
  
• global diversity CFP day
  
• Sarah on Twitter (@geekygirlsarah)
  
• Abstractions on Twitter (@abstractionscon)
  
• Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
  
• Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
  

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