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Congratulations, your submission is almost ready!

Just a few more finishing tips and adjustments to polish things up, and give you the highest chance of approval.

We are now getting to the end of the submission process.

Having your WHO, the PROBLEM and the TRANSFORMATION, together with a plan for your CONTENT and the ACTION that you will suggest is everything you need to write an awesome abstract!

There are two pieces you will need for your abstract, and we will deal with both of them in this lesson.

Remember from the first lesson that the CONTENT is the bridge between the PROBLEM and the ACTION.

It is the CONTENT that will inspire people to take the ACTION (that will eventually cause the desired TRANSFORMATION).

For people to decide if they will come to watch or not your presentation…
And also for the committee to decide if they will or not select your talk…

They need to think your presentation will be great.

They decide that on the title of your presentation.

Presenting at events can be a HUGE career boost for you.

To help you with that, this is the first post in a series, that will walk you through preparing and submitting talks to events.

There is a very important skill that is required of any Senior professional, and that every developer should master.

It is so important, that if you don’t have that, people will confuse you with a junior…

“The most precious thing you can give someone is your time. Because when you give your time, you are giving a part of your life to them.”

Both Sebastian Daschner and Edson Yanaga echoed this amazing insight.

There is nothing more important for our career than building skills.

It is not about acquiring knowledge.
It is all about acquiring skills.

Skills you only acquire by doing.
Doing projects. Writing code. Solving problems.

Something I discussed a lot this week:
What it means to be a senior.

You see, some people think that seniority is about your technical skills.
Or about a specific technology.

Someone even told me the other day:
you can be a senior in one thing, and a junior in other.

I don’t buy that.

Few skills are as fundamental as writing is to our careers.

We write code. That’s obvious.

Have you ever though what that means?