I feel that something is missing
Fun
Self development
Challenge your mind
Keeping up with current trends
Great for job interviews
Prepare you to the next step
But how??
Rule #1 Decide on a project
Rule #2 Commit on a schedule
Rule #3 Commit on shipment
Tip: Keep a document with all of your ideas
“Pizza night”
Once a month weekend hackathon
Late night coding
Introduce a change into your daily routine
For me it was waking up an hour early every day and arrive 20 min later to work
Spend money
Setup deadlines that you can't change
Learned swift and iOS development
helped me when I switched to mobile team
Facebook / Slack chat bots
learned about NLP and NLP services
Github crawler - Find the next hire
Building my own version of React
Writing an app for the climbing community
This talk :)