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Episode 263: 263: Abstractions and Generalist Strategy with Sarah Withee
Show notes
Sarah Withee is a polyglot software engineer, public speaker, and mentor located in Pittsburgh, PA. As the Director of Programming for Abstractions, a multi-disciplinary conference with an open CFP, Sarah offered advice for potential speakers and shared her thoughts on being a generalist.
Links for this episode:
- Abstractions CFP
- How to come up with conference proposal ideas
- Sarah's Site
- global diversity CFP day
- Sarah on Twitter (@geekygirlsarah)
- Abstractions on Twitter (@abstractionscon)
- Episode Introduction and Outro by Michael Springer
- Episode Music: "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod
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