The .NET Core Podcast Episode 31 - The Liberal Arts and Levelling Up Your Career with Thomas Betts
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Published: 2019-08-12 19:25:00

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title: The .NET Core Podcast Episode 31 - The Liberal Arts and Levelling Up Your Career with Thomas Betts
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Hey everyone!

Episode 31 of The .NET Core Podcast was released a few days ago. But, as usual, I wanted to create some show notes for it which are specific to dev.to

As a quick reminder, The .NET Core Podcast is the _only_ podcast devoted to:

- .NET Core
- ASP.NET Core
- EF Core
- SignalR

and not forgetting The .NET Core community, itself.

I wont make you browse over to the show notes page

_because I'm not the boss of you_

because I'll add a dev.to specific player here:

{% podcast https://dev.to/dotnetcorepodcast/the-liberal-arts-and-levelling-up-your-career-with-thomas-betts %}

This was an exceptionally wonderful conversation with [Thomas Betts](https://twitter.com/thomasbetts) about the ways that you can increase your ability to [communicate with your clients by studying the Liberal Arts](https://www.infoq.com/articles/great-engineer-needs-liberal-arts/), we also talk about the use of metaphor

_I particularly love one he uses which is related to coffee shops_

in getting the core idea of how the project should work across to your clients. We also talk about strategies for when your boss comes to you and says:

> I've heard of this great new technology, and I want you to build our next mission critical application with it.

The full show notes and a transcription are available at the show's website

_here's a [link](https://dotnetcore.show/episode-31-the-liberal-arts-and-levelling-up-your-career-with-thomas-betts/) directly to the show notes_

I'd love any and all feedback that you can provide on the show, this episode, or anything related to it.

### Links to Related Stuff

_these came directly from the show notes_

- [Thomas on Twitter](https://twitter.com/thomasbetts)
- [Thomas on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasbetts)
- [Thomas on InfoQ](https://www.infoq.com/profile/Thomas-Betts/)
- [A Great Engineer Needs the Liberal Arts](https://www.infoq.com/articles/great-engineer-needs-liberal-arts/)
- [Arlene Andrews on  Developer Denver](https://developdenver.org/profiles/976)
- [Indu Alagarsamy](https://dddeurope.com/2018/speakers/indu-alagarsamy/)
- [Explore DDD](http://exploreddd.com)
- [Laura Savino](https://www.savinola.com/)
- [Reading in a New Language](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3X_nhJ61Ak)
- [Egoless programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoless_programming)
- [Rick Steves in the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/rick-steves-travel-world.html)
- [Liberal Arts Education](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education)

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_but I wont harp on about that_

### Call for Guests

We're always on the lookout for [anyone who might be interested on being on the show](https://dev.to/dotnetcoreblog/open-call-for-guests-3bgp). It's about and for the community, so if you have something cool to show off, or something you'd like to talk about, then get in touch.