What inspired or motivated you to give this talk at WordCamp?
I find a lot of people (perhaps even more in the tech community) try to downplay the difficulty of things for the sake of making things seem easy. I was guilty of the same until I was teaching my students the difference between posts and pages, and thankfully one spoke up and mentioned I wasn’t doing a great job. I realized I forgot what it was like to be a first-time WordPress user.
How do you “create intention” in your job, career, or life?
Have passion! I know it sounds simple but I’m lucky enough to do what I love as my job and my hobby. Solving problems and helping people through programming & teaching is an amazing opportunity. I love doing it, so I’m very passionate about it.
If you were a WordPress Plugin, what Plugin would you be and why?
I think I would probably go with CMB2. I’m pretty well known among a specific community of WordPress folks but don’t have mass appeal, I’m hard working, and my coworkers love me.
If you were not doing your current job, what profession would you be in and why?
I’d like to think Photographer because it’s a genuine interest of mine; perhaps that or writing (which I do a bit of anyway). I mean, unless you mean dream job. Then it’s, “guy who travels to Disney parks and tests stuff.”
What professional and/or research resource(s) can’t you live without?
I hope I don’t get flack for this, but StackOverflow can be a great tool if you’re selective enough and try to understand what’s going on, not just copy and paste code. I find myself going to that well, the WordPress Codex, and lately the jQuery API a lot.