You don't need Mentors adopt a Heroe(s)
Navigating the Boundaries of Mentorship in Tech
For many tech novices, securing personalized mentorship appears to be the ideal path for career development. They envisage experienced mentors laying out clear roadmaps and providing guidance through the intricate terrain of the tech industry. However, the reality is often quite different. Many potential mentors are active employees or founders, and their time constraints often limit the feasibility of one-on-one mentorship.
Adopting Role Models over Traditional Mentorship
In light of this, aspiring tech professionals should consider an alternative approach. Instead of relying solely on direct, personalized mentorship, we encourage mentees to observe and learn from these experienced professionals from a distance. Their public activities, statements, and engagements can serve as valuable sources of insight and inspiration.
The Need for Tech Heroes and Role Models
One of the key objectives of our project is to bridge this gap and guide aspiring tech professionals towards this more sustainable, realistic approach to mentorship. We aim to provide access to curated role models who, despite not being available for direct, one-on-one mentorship, can still provide valuable guidance.
The Power of Social Learning in Tech
By following these mentors on social media and other public forums, mentees can absorb daily growth tips and insights. By applying these lessons in their own careers, they emulate the success strategies laid out by their chosen role models. This approach accelerates growth and enables mentees to progress without the need for traditional mentorship. Instead of waiting for a mentor's availability, they proactively build their own paths by learning from the best in the field.
Heroes
Creator of Ruby on Rails, Co-owner & CTO of 37signals (Basecamp & HEY), NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winner.
Director of Eng, Web Infra @google , O'Reilly Author • OpenJS Board Member
Engineering leader working on @GoogleChrome • Author • Great user & developer experiences
I do more than I tweet. 5x Author. Staff Software Engineer @HelloFresh Read my new book: http://ohans.me/ua-github
Helping developers build a faster web. Teaching about web development, serverless, and React / Next.js.
Udemy instructor with 75k+ Students. Teaching about building a successful career in tech, with emphasis on growth and standing out as a software engineer
Inclusive UI/design engineer, int'l speaker, author, trainer. • Creator of the Practical Accessibility course http://practical-accessibility.today
@platformatic Co-Founder & CTO, @nodejs TSC member, Lead maintainer @fastifyjs , Board @OpenJSF , Conference Speaker, Ph.D.
run the best tech school in the world that gets people (actually) hired at top companies (1,000,000+ pros have taken a ZTM course)
Passionate software engineer @Adevinta, Building websites in public, Tweeting about backend & frontend, Free coaching, Ex @eBay with 8 years work experience
Bilingual creative who lives at the intersection of business & design. Content creator, public speaker, workshopper. Host of top 20 Futur podcast.
Director of DevRel @aaveaave 👻 @lensprotocol 🌿 // founder @developer_dao // experimenting @arweaveeco // React* web3 and AI
Sr Software Engineer @Netflix • Building TypeScript for JavaScript Devs Course (http://tsforjs.com) • Bluesky: @ http://shaundai.com
I change the world, by helping people get started in tech and social entrepenurship
DevRel + Growth Lead ShowwcaseHQ, Technical Writer, Blockchain developer Content Creator, JavaScript | Helping people break into web3!
Solo Design Agency - Creating bold and awesome brands to: Comm. Mgr @dreamaxhq , Comm. Adv. @fof_accra
Thinker, strategist, enterprise architect, keynote speaker, analyst, book author, futurist on IT,
I research intelligence to understand what we are, and to harness it wisely. Research Director DeepMind