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\nJoe Casabona<\/a><\/b> is speaking on Have Empathy when Teaching<\/a><\/b> at WordCamp Minneapolis.<\/div>\n

What inspired or motivated you to give this talk at WordCamp?<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

How do you \u201ccreate intention\u201d in your job, career, or life?<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

If you were a WordPress Plugin, what Plugin would you be and why?<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

If you were not doing your current job, what profession would you be in and why?<\/h2>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

What professional and\/or research resource(s) can’t you live without?<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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