Meet Côté 

Côté is a Dev Superman

Côté Works at the best place EVER

Côté is working on some really interesting projects along side some really bright developers

But after a while Côté starts to

feel that something is missing

He wants to try out the new framework everybody is talking about

He's interested in writing mobile apps / Machine learning / IOT

Product management / Marketing /

SEO / Blog writing

He wants to learn new skills such as 

But... Côté ain't got

time for this sh*t

Sounds familiar?

Let's talk about

Side Projects

Some of the immediate benefits

Fun

Self development

Challenge your mind

Keeping up with current trends

Great for job interviews

Prepare you to the next step

But how??

The 3 Rules of Successful Side Projects

Rule #1   Decide on a project

Rule #2   Commit on a schedule

Rule #3   Commit on shipment

Rule #1

Decide on a project

Tip: Keep a document with all of your ideas

Rule #2

Commit to a schedule

Rule #2 - Commit to a schedule

Rule #3

Commit on shipment

Some of My Side Projects

Learned swift and iOS development

helped me when I switched to mobile team

FB chat bot

learned about NLP and NLP services

Github crawler - find the next hire

Building my own version of React

Playing with iBeacons

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Who knows maybe your next side project will be like these former side projects

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