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The Alan Barr Show
by Alan Barr
I'm passionate about software, software testing, and writing. The intersection of metacognition, organization, and technology.
Episodes
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Flow
00:00 Intro 01:15 What is Flow 04:40 The Autotelic Personality 07:00 Developer Productivity for Humans 13:30 Summary Engineering Enablement - Measuring Flow and Focus Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 6: Measuring Flow, Focus, and Friction for Developers
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AI / LLM Testing
(00:00) Introduction (01:12) How are we using AI. (03:40) AI Products and Testing. (06:26) AI Testing. (10:09) Summary Article: Testing LLM-Based Applications: Strategy and Challenges
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Announcement: Rebooting my podcast
Topics I'll cover in 2024. ⁃ AI / LLM / Machine Learning ⁃ Book Summaries ⁃ Domain Driven Design ⁃ Flow ⁃ Metacognition / System Thinking ⁃ Software Engineering, Testing Links: - Website - https://www.alanmbarr.com/ - X - https://twitter.com/alanmbarr - YouTube - https://youtube.com/@alanmbarr
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Alan's Updates May 15th 2022
The Start of The Journey Recovery, The Journey so far Figuring Out the Next Level of my Learning https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/health/info-2019/dementia-warning-signs.html If you like the podcast, please subscribe and share it with others.
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Creating a Podcast
Act 1 - Your Elevator Pitch Act 2 - Prepare and Edit, liberally and ruthlessly Act 3 - Three Act Narratives, but mix it up Resources Start a Podcast - Kristen Meinzer Make Noise - Eric Nuzum NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide - Glen Weldon Edison Research, April 2019 "The Podcast Consumer" Edison...
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Vision, Buddha and the Badass Book Summary
Today’s Topic is a Book Summary by Vishen Lakhiani from the book The Buddha and the Badass. Act 1 - Make a big vision and great people will find you Act 2 - Massive Transformation Purpose and Make a Stand Act 3 - Craft Your Identity
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Ephemerality
Chainguard -The Principle of Ephemerality via Carlos Santana Get on with ephemerality; it's 2022. We had no choice but to build it ourselves before then. Nowadays, chaos engineering is an option. We use serverless and stateless technologies all the time. Virtual machines aren't even on our radar....
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Alan's Updates April 10th 2022
Every week, I'll be posting one episode. I stopped in the past because I didn't have enough content to create a podcast with what I wanted to talk about. The podcast will help me improve my writing and voice. Hopefully, the content will be good as well. Improving my writing and sounding. Feel…
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Mindfulness and Awareness
Today's topic is Mindfulness and Awareness. Mayo Clinic says, "Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment." Act 1 - Awareness Act 2 - Desire and Suffering Act 3 -Be…
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50 Days After My Stroke
What Didn't Work? Phonics Elysian Disco John Maxwell Books Teen Books Tools Grammarly and Word Tune Accentia - Naver dictionary Bold Voice AnkiUse English for Everyone Vocabulary Typing.com Tutors and Preparing YouTube Videos from Tarle Speech and Rachel's English. Google search pronunciation on...
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Repeat - The Importance of Persuasion and Techniques to Try
I am out so this week. Please enjoy the techniques of Negotiation such as Never Split the Different Act 1 - What is persuasion and why should we be persuasive? Act 2 - Low Stakes Persuasive Techniques Act 3 - Higher Stakes Persuasion
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Repeat - Lessons Learned Building Dev.Lab Internal Developer Platform
2021 dev.lab internal developer. I'll be back.
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Software Design, Empathy, Personas and Career
Alan Barr Podcast Interview with Tyler Lemke Don't make me think Empathy Mapping Mentors in tech MIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon Get Your First Dev Job Danny Thompson Tyler's Youtube Tyler's Website Junior To Senior Dev Podcast
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Systems Thinking
The Five Disciplines - Systems Thinking - Personal Mastery - Mental Models - Building Shared Vision - Team Learning Leverage Points in Systems
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Junior Developers
Gergely Orosz Hiring juniors Dark matter developers "The average tenure of software engineers in small companies is only 1.5 years, where it’s 2.3 years for large companies." - Why Programmers Shouldn't Stay in One Company for a long time. Michael Nygard Coupling Definition Dave Farley Junior...
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Ultralearning
Act 1 - Your First Ultralearning Project Act 2 - Nine Principles of Ultralearning Act 3 - Alan’s Version of an Ultralearning Project/Habit Summary You will be more successful if you start by researching your learning plan. You can ask experts or review guides. Shape your environment to focus....
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API Design
In this episode, I review a few books on API Design. The Design of Web APIs by Arnaud Lauret the API Handyman, Irresistible APIs by Kirsten Hunter, and API Design Patterns by JJ Geewax. I also brainfart may refer to Kirsten Hunter as Kirsten Stewart so just ignore that. Act 1 - What is the goal…
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Log4Shell
What do you do when the majority of software in the world is vulnerable to a remote code execution exploit via the logger? The one type of system the majority of programs run. How can we get better as an industry to benefit from sharing our code but also keeping our code up to date? Can we show...
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Self-Leadership
Act 1 - Self-Awareness Act 2 - Emotional Regulation Act 3 - Patience and Acceptance
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Fundamentals
If mastering the fundamentals sets us apart, what are those fundamentals?
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Influence, Sales, Negotiation
Act 1 - Influence Automatic Triggers - We use mental shortcuts to reduce thinking such as adding because to justify something which most people will simply accept. Reciprocity - Return favors and gifts. Commitment and Consistency - Human desire to stay consistent with commitments we made in the...
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API-First Design
What is design Mike Montiero says, "A designer solves problems within a set of constraints". What is API Design? The goal of API design is to try and get the defined API interface as right as possible at the beginning because the consequences are severe and lasting when you don't get them right....
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Wardley Maps
Wardley Maps are a technique to visualize business strategy on a dual-axis of value from invisible to visible and another axis to illustrate the evolution. From genesis to commodity. Sun Tzu's Five Factors of Strategy Team Roles Make your own map. Cheatsheet and reference material. In progress...
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Digital Gardens
A digital garden is a website featuring personal notes you share. The purpose is to curate, grow, and prune the thoughts you are developing. The benefit is that you can share your ideas with a wide community without the overhead of a full blog post. Linkerd certificates expired this week so...
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Credibility
Credibility is core. Never sacrifice it. You might win deals because of your credibility and reputation where others wouldn't.
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KubeCon North America 2021 Recap
Presentations - Some in person, Some recorded with presenter on hand in slack or the platform. Some given virtually. Wide spectrum of quality and content. Upstream Kubernetes Focus Downstream Kubernetes Focus Vendor related Individual experience related to Kubernetes or tangential topic API…
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Kubernetes Conference North America 2021
Kubernetes, Platforms, Networking!
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Generosity
Make content generously. Act 1 - Local Act 2 - National Act 3 - Global
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Product Strategy
Act 1 - Alignment Act 2 - Product Thinking Act 3 - Agile is not enough
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Public Speaking
Practice and find opportunities to give talks Use pauses for effect Connect with your audience Tell stories Use your tone Be you and tell your stories Prepare for uncertainty and let hiccups wash past you Use words like imagine and call out names of people in the audience Every talk cannot be...
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Leveraging Your Gifts
Act 1 - Developing Self-awareness of your gifts Act 2 - Tools to Reflect on your and others strengths Act 3 - Leveraging your gifts
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Be a Great Communicator
Act 1 - Communication is sales Act 2 - Mediums, methods, and repetition Act 3 - Writing is the ultimate vehicle for communication leverage Tool For Recording to Writing Otter Recording
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Relationships
Relationships are the key to your success. Nurture them and learn from others.
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Organizational Change
Act 1 - Preparing for Change, Unlearning, and Learning Act 2 - Training and Communicating the Change Little by Little Act 3 - Transform Yourself
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Defining a Vision
A vision will make your journey easier. Deferring the creation of a vision is like saying. I want to make this as hard as possible. Visualizing the future. Feel it in your body and share it out. Help people see the journey and their part in it. Act 1 What's the point of a vision? Defining an...
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Change and the Internal Developer Platform
Kubernetes is the abstraction layer for infrastructure standardization. Act 1 - Advocating and starting the change for a new platform. People Process Technology Unlearning and learning. Communicate and engage leadership to advocate for your platform. Act 2 - Marketing, Education, Training…
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Writing and What It Is For
Todays Topic is Writing. Table of contents Act 1 - Writing is for communicating ideas to others that add value Writing as thinking FAST, CRIBS. David Perell and his articulate thoughts on writing. Act 2 - Writing for others Software Documentation four types of documentation. Writing in context.…
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The Importance of Persuasion and Techniques to Try
Act 1 - What is persuasion and why should we be persuasive? Act 2 - Low Stakes Persuasive Techniques Act 3 - Higher Stakes Persuasion Conclusion Add tone, mirroring, and labeling as part of your daily low-stakes practices.
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Lessons Learned Building Dev.Lab Internal Developer Platform
In this episode, I explain the lessons I learned in making an internal developer platform built on Kubernetes.
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I'm passionate about software, software testing, and writing. The intersection of metacognition, organization, and technology.
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