"Businesses hate fun" and other lies (Salma Alam-Naylor, Web Lunch)

Presented by Sentry (lwj.dev/sentry) - How much of yourself is too much to put online? Salma Alam-Naylor talks about being a person vs. being a persona, aligning creativity and self-expression with business goals, and inventing villains as an excuse for not doing our best work. #creativity #career #happiness
More about Salma: ‪@whitep4nth3r‬ whitep4nth3r.com/
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WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS EPISODE
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- Coming to terms with being extremely online
How much of yourself is too much to put online? Should we truly be ourselves, or a persona that we inhabit online? This is... complicated. We dig into it.
- How to reconcile our creativity with business needs
Is it possible to be creative at a job that expects us to deliver business value? (Spoiler: yes.) Salma and I discuss how we find creative opportunities within the constraints of a full-time job, the power of learning the business side of things, and our strategies for connecting our ideas to monetary return to the company.
- How to get buy-in for creative ideas
It's possible to pitch and work on extremely fun, creatively challenging work as part of your day job - if we can convince stakeholders that it's going to get them great results. We talk about how to make the business case for creative ideas.
- What success actually means (maybe)
How do you know you're "successful"? Is it financial gain? Fame? Title? Salma talks about different measures of success that are more fulfilling than any of these for her.
We talk about what kind of impact we care about - and which kinds we actively reject these days.
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WHAT IS WEB LUNCH?
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In Web Lunch, host Jason Lengstorf joins talented, successful, and - most importantly - happy web professionals for a meal and a conversation.
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- Built careers that are resilient in the face of an ever-changing software industry
- Achieved proper compensation and recognition for their efforts
- Found joy and growth in their work - instead (or sometimes on the other side) of burnout
In each conversation, Jason aims to learn the strategies, mental frameworks, and techniques that got them there. Watch to learn how you can build your own resilient, lucrative, joyful career.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:42 What does it mean to own the internet?
2:13 How much of yourself should you put in public?
3:55 Connecting creativity and business
6:32 Getting creative with non-creative constraints
9:21 What drives you?
10:18 Goal setting
12:21 What is a "good career"?
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[@AnthonyDMays]

"Put on headsets and stare into each other's eyes" I knew this was going to be a banger from jump. Thank you Jason and Salma!

[@learnwithjason]

thanks so much Anthony!

[@peruvianidol]

Salma is objectively the best.

[@whitep4nth3r]

❤❤

[@TrostCodes]

This is what I was going to say!

[@whitep4nth3r]

@@TrostCodes ❤❤❤

[@learnwithjason]

facts

[@agilix_]

Great episode again! I also loved Salma's take on a good career and for what it's worth, you both helped and inspired me!

[@learnwithjason]

so happy to hear it! Salma is the best. thanks!

[@clarkio]

Absolutely loved this and Salma as always is amazing to learn from. Well done all around

[@whitep4nth3r]

Thank youuuuu! ❤

[@TheGameIsOverCy]

Amazing video! Thank you both !

[@anfytrion]

Love this format

[@BaldBeardedBuilder]

I'm 60% through the video. Salma has finished her lunch and Jason just took his first bite. I was eyeballing that sandwich like "dude, take a bite. don't leave that sandwich." Great stuff. Keep it coming! Also, I'm hungry.

[@whitep4nth3r]

Jason had three lunches that day. This was his second.

[@BaldBeardedBuilder]

@@whitep4nth3r This makes me love this video even more. Just imagining what's going through his head... "uuuuugh... more ham..." 🤣🤣

[@whitep4nth3r]

@@BaldBeardedBuilder 🤣

[@learnwithjason]

at no point in my life have I been sad about more ham

[@BaldBeardedBuilder]

@@learnwithjason My man!

[@yannickbidois8212]

I really love the Web Lunch format. So refreshing!

[@learnwithjason]

thanks so much! I love making these

[@tonyjaradev]

More of this please! Awesome and wholesome.

[@learnwithjason]

more coming! thank you!

[@realmumptastic]

Two of my favorite creators in one video?! Hell yeah! Both of you are massive inspirations to me to just create.

[@learnwithjason]

💜💜

[@whitep4nth3r]

❤❤

[@alveek]

Top content here 🔥🔥🔥 Great conversations, thank you

[@learnwithjason]

thanks for watching!

[@brorentilhammad]

I feel like I've had several versions of this conversation with myself a gazillion times. I'm trying to lean into Salma's perspective of being a tree 🌳 😊

[@whitep4nth3r]

Let's just all go be a forest 🌳

[@brorentilhammad]

@@whitep4nth3r Team oxygen! Let the people breathe!

[@joshua_chris_ofurunna]

Hi Jason! 👋

[@learnwithjason]

👋