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You Are Who Your Friends Are

John Sonmez · Dec 12, 2013 · 1 min read

Want to be a better software developer?  Good.  Hang around better software developers.

One rule in life we can’t ever avoid is that you are who your friends are.

You may think it doesn’t pertain to you, but if you look closely at your own life and your career, you’ll see that every step of the way who you hung around and spent time with greatly influenced your own success or failure.

In this video, I talk about how important it is to carefully choose the people you hang around with for better or for worse.

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John Sonmez

John Sonmez

John Sonmez is the founder of Simple Programmer, author of "The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide" and "Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual." He helps software developers build remarkable careers.