All The Things
In this episode, I am chatting with Morten Rand-Hendriksen. As someone who has taken most, if not all his courses on Lynda.com - all I can say is WOW - this is awesome. Let's get started!

Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Instructor, educator, speaker at LinkedIn Learning, helping people master WordPress, the web, and online communication.

Since joining forces with Lynda.com (now LinkedIn Learning) in 2010, Morten has 60+ published courses on WordPress, front-end web design and development, and web standards, reaching hundreds of thousands of viewers from all over the world. He also contributes to the web community as a public speaker, author, educator, web developer, and design philosopher.

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Show Notes

Morten's Website
@mor10 on Twitter
Linkedin Articles

Some topics we discussed:
Twentyseventeen
The Case for WordPress Telemetry
WordPress Theme Customizer
Creating Web Icons with SVG
Essential Javascript Training
Migrate DB Pro course on Lynda.com
WP-Tonic Podcast

A takeaway worth noting:

What should WordPress developers be focusing on?

You need to learn how to build things without WordPress. WordPress is a tool in your toolkit but it cannot be the tool you stand on when you do all your work. WordPress is literally a content management system that uses PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript to create front-end content. --Morten Rand-Hendriksen

All Morten's Courses on Lynda.com

Transcript
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Jackie
Hey, everybody. It's Jackie D'Elia with another episode of Rethink.fm. This is Episode 15. I have my very special guest, Morten Rand-Hendriksen who is a senior staff instructor at Linkedin Learning. Hey, Morten.
Morten
Hi.
Jackie
Thanks for joining me.
Morten
Good to be here.
Jackie
For those who don't know you, and I can't imagine there is a lot of people that listen to this show that don't, is there anything else that you want to fill in about what you do?
Morten
Well, my main job is as an instructor at Linkedin Learning and Lynda.com, I also contribute to the WordPress Project in odd and unusual ways. I don't really write a lot of code patches for WordPress but I ask a lot of questions about decisions that are being made. I propose things that should be done. I also contribute to the Community Project, like we're working on something. I'm peripherally involved in a non-hard and heavy code sense in that project.
Jackie
Well, before we jump into that, I've just got a couple of questions for you. How did you get started teaching?
Morten
At random. Let's see. This must have been 2009, 2008, something like that. I was working on a project, just some random client project. My wife was, at the time, doing what eventually became vlogging.