Very engaging and funny. Very appropriate content for a lot of developers that are expanding their knowledge base. I dig his candor, passion and excitement.

I really enjoyed the talk. The topics you touched on were similar to ideas I'd pondered myself, but hearing them come up in a reasonable and straightforward way, more or less affirmed my previous thoughts. It was refreshing, and inspiring.

While I enjoyed hearing your progression from regular dude to programmer with no talent, I think it could have been condensed just a little bit (10% shorter maybe?). However, I know you were running on NO SLEEP, so it may have just been that.

I really enjoyed the talk, it re-enforced a lot of things I'd been thinking about for the last year, and gave me some great new ideas (specifically the measuring against myself on a regular basis to see the progress I've made).

Brilliant and engaging.

Very exciting to find another developer interested in the stuff that fascinated me: how do I get better? I've read most of the books you quoted and found them inspirational. I would add Chip and Dan Heath's "Switch" and Carol Dweck's "Mindset" to the list. Excellent kick in the pants!

Very inspiring and insightful

Excellent presentation.

John's a very talented presenter ;)

What a phenomenal talk! This resonated with me and several of the points he made are things that I thought about time and time again since hearing it. Things like 'compare yourself to your past self' and 'moving from the general to the specific.' Really useful stuff, it was a privilege to have heard this message, and an honor to have met John.

A very delightful talk. I especially appreciate the researched quotes that all point to the fact that 'talent' or 'genius' is not an innate ability, but instead the result of hard work and determination to meet a challenge.

Thank you for your presentation and thoughts in this arena.

Really interesting and funny.

Why can't I hear audio?

Excellent! I really enjoyed.