All Episodes - Greater Than Code
For a long time, tech culture has focused too narrowly on technical skills; this has resulted in a tech community that too often puts companies and code over people. Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology. Greater Than Code is providing a vital platform for these conversations, and developing new ideas of what it means to be a technologist beyond just the code.Featuring an ongoing panel of racially and gender diverse tech panelists, the majority of podcast guests so far have been women in tech! We’ve covered topics including imposter syndrome, mental illness, sexuality, unconscious bias and social justice. We also have a major focus on skill sets that tech too often devalues, like team-building, hiring, community organizing, mentorship and empathy. Each episode also includes a transcript. We have an active
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213: This Is Me with Cher
CONTENT WARNING: Eating Disorders, Substance Abuse & Addiction 01:12 - Cher’s Superpower: Making and Collecting Hot Sauce * Gastroparesis (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gastroparesis/symptoms-causes/syc-20355787#:~:text=Gastroparesis%20is%20a%20condition%20that,food%20through%20your%20digestive%20tract.) * Hobby vs Coping Mechanism 04:33 - Good Ideas Can Come From Anywhere * Drive to Execute * Becoming a Mentor/Leader * Curiosity and Understanding the Big Picture * Seeking Feedback From Others While Introspecting Feedback From Yourself 12:50 - Bravery, Enduring, and Overcoming; Eradicating Stigmas and Breaking Stereotypes * Impostor Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome) * Blowing the Top Off Gatekeep-y Assumptions in Tech * Rawness and Integrity * Nader Dabit (https://twitter.com/dabit3) & Kurt Kemple (https://twitter.com/kurtkemple) * “You’re not alone,” “I’m not special,” and “You can get here too.” * Using Your Journey to Empower Yourself and Others * MARLON CRAFT | FUNK FLEX | #Freestyle140 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNPEEsEHepg) 30:12 - Struggle, Opportunity, and Recognizing White Privilege * Activating Empathy * Manifesting Goodness Reflections: John: The incredible power we can have as people when we claim our story rather than deny it. Rein: There is a huge potential for empathy between people with a lot in common, and it’s just about unlocking the potential that already exists. Cher: Empathy is the glue that holds everything together. Jerome: The skills transfer of experience. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Cher.
212: Diversify Tech with Veni Kunche
01:17 - Veni’s Superpower: Being Adaptable and Not Giving Up 02:25 - Going From Coder to Entrepreneur * Diversify Tech (https://diversifytech.co/) * Women Who Code (https://www.womenwhocode.com/) * Code With Veni Newsletter (https://www.codewithveni.com/) 07:00 - Being Protective and Selective of Company Partnerships * Vetting Companies * Glassdoor (https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm) * Talking to Underrepresented Folx at Companies to Ask for Feedback 14:05 - Changes Veni Has Seen Over Time re: Hiring Around Diversity and Inclusion 15:38 - Things Hiring Managers Should and Should NOT Do When Hiring for Diversity * Look at Metrics * Rethink Job Description Requirements * Revisit Your Interview Process 19:13 - Entry-Level Support 21:50 - Upholding Integrity > Capitalism 25:48 - Revenue Transparency 32:13 - Finding Your Place in Tech and Serving Underrepresented People * Filtering Out Companies * Guidelines * Next Steps * Giving Company Feedback and Direction * Company Culture 51:29 - Being Vocal About Work Conditions; i.e.: “Whistleblowing” / Employee Dissent Reflections: John: The critical role that organizations like Diversify Tech have created by placing themselves in a trusted position between job seekers and companies to protect underrepresented minorities. Rein: All Veni’s work developing rubrics and intuitions about companies that are worth working for/with is extremely important and her sharing this expertise is very valuable. Veni: To learn more about how comfortable candidates/employees feel about talking about dissent within their organizations. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Veni Kunche.
211: Becoming Humble and Kind with Brandon Weaver
01:16 - Brandon’s Superpower: Recognizing Others’ Superpowers and Spotting Potential Talent * Convincing Others * Recognizing and Talking About Failure(s) 09:23 - Brandon’s Personal Journey & Transformation Towards Humility * Wanting To Be Heard * Placing Identity * Developing Empathy * Speaking Candidly Re: Growth * Talking About Negatives in Your Past 25:40 - The Importance of Community and Community Leaders * The Ruby Scholar and Guide Program (https://rubyconf.org/scholarships) * Michael Hartl’s Rails Tutorial (https://www.railstutorial.org/book) * The Beerware License (https://people.freebsd.org/~phk/) 34:35 - Being Kind vs Being Nice * Privilege 40:59 - Being Austistic and Being Visible * Tales of the Autistic Developer - The Mentor (https://dev.to/baweaver/tales-of-the-autistic-developer-the-mentor-5hi6) * Brandon’s illustrated conference talks with cartoon lemurs (https://twitter.com/keystonelemur/status/1291488545450926086) * “Looks like me” * Calling Out Hubris (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hubris) 52:32 - Tech Is Political Reflections: Jamey: When someone gives you feedback it’s because they trust you that you’re going to do something about yourself and do better. Brandon: Thinking about who is saying something. John: The power we can embrace by talking about our personal history. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Brandon Weaver.
210: Getting Sh*t Done with Harini Gokul
01:30 - Harini’s Superpower: Getting Sh*t Done 04:19 - Putting Technology to Use For Those Who Need it the Most * Co-Creation and Co-Shaping * Public & Private Partnerships * Breaking Barriers to Entry 14:04 - Crisis Management and Rethinking Blueprints * Life After COVID / Reframing Crisis As Opportunity * Creating Space / Amplifying Others * Leadership Perspective 39:45 - Duality: Humans As Interconnected Systems * Solidarity and Humanity * Facade Breaking * Rationality * Empathetic Leadership 48:16 - What do we do now (to get sh*t done)? * Storytelling * D&I (Diversity & Inclusion) * Futureproofing Education and Skilling Reflections: Amy: If we end up back where we were pre-pandemic, shame on us. Rein: To make changes effectively, we need to go to the people we’re trying to help and figure out from their perspective what they need. HindSight 28 on Change (https://humanisticsystems.com/2019/02/21/hindsight-28-on-change-is-out-now/) Arty: Getting shit done on the huge, grand, level of looking at the crisis we’re currently in and how to move forward to build the future we want as humans. Harini: The sense of urgency of highlighting the problem and how we need to come together to co-create systemic, sustainable solutions that set in place new fundamentals and new structures for the world that lies ahead. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Harini Gokul.
209: Self-Identity and Parenting in Tech with Mia Mollie De Búrca
01:25 - Mia’s Superpower: Adaptability * Applicable Skills to Basic Computer Programming * Parsing Information * Research 05:31 - Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology * Linguistic Relativism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity) (Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis) 08:36 - Parenting While Having a Career in Tech 09:42 - Objectivity and Truth in Software Development 11:04 - Tech Parenthood (Cont’d) * Maternity Leave and Returning to Work * Part-Time Flexibility * “Keep-in-Touch Days” * Returning to Work as an Individual Experience * Discrimination & Stigma * Multitasking Expectations For All * Geographic Differences * Company Culture 24:21 - Tenure in Tech, Job-Hopping, and Juggling Parenthood * Parenting in View During the New COVID/Remote Work Era “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." – Elizabeth Stone: teacher and author Psychological Safety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_safety) and Privilege Living and Operating in Fear Code-Switching (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching) Visibility of Parents 44:05 - Self-Identity in the Tech Industry * The Handbook of Return to Work (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B017YMXHM4?tag=amz-mkt-chr-us-20&ascsubtag=1ba00-01000-s1060-mac00-other-smile-us000-pcomp-feature-scomp-wm-5&ref=aa_scomp) 55:36 - Diversity Hiring Reflections: Mia: Psychological safety and privilege. John: “Just because I’m psychologically safe doesn’t mean everybody else is.” Laurie: The dichotomy of Mia and Christina’s experiences of being parents in tech. Christina: It is possible to remain optimistic that Moms in the United States will get better. Rein: Comfort and guilt in diversity hiring. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Mia Mollie De Búrca.
208: Who Tells Your Story? with Janeen Uzzell
01:42 - Janeen’s Superpower: Storytelling * The Importance of Who Tells Your Story * Accountability * Generalizations Are Harmful * Responsibility 07:56 - The Wikimedia Foundation (https://wikimediafoundation.org/) * Trust and Safety Team * Thriving Movement 11:04 - Empowering Communities To Tell Their Stories * Citations * Edit-a-thons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit-a-thon) 19:53 - Creating a Wikipedia Page 22:07 - Approaching and Engaging Youth 27:10 - Staying Connected As An Organization * Cultivating Great Leadership * Mentorship/Sponsorship * Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem by Paula Williams Madison (https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Samuel-Lowe-Jamaica-Harlem/dp/0062331639) * Paula’s Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/findingsamlowe/?hl=en) * Dr. Imani's Instagram (Paula's Daughter) (https://www.instagram.com/doctor.imani/?hl=en) 34:56 - Remote Working and Fostering/Maintaining Community 39:11 - Encouraging and Influencing Participation 47:31 - Janeen’s Move From Working at General Electric (GE) to The Wikimedia Foundation Reflections: Chanté: Making differences one edit at a time. Jamey: The importance of mentorship as something that is empowering. Rein: When a small system interacts with a larger system, it’s hard to change the larger system without being changed yourself. Jessica: Greater Than Code as an open conversation. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Janeen Uzzell.
207: Investigation and Influence with Chelsea Troy
03:36 - Chelsea’s Superpower: Software Detective Work * Grant-funded Organizations * Context Loss * Forensic Software Analysis * Software (Initially) Never Works ‼️ 08:27 - Coding in Investigation Mode * Lucifer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(TV_series)) (TV Series) * Setting Up a Debugging Environment (Includes a Velociraptor Example!) 15:05 - Chelsea’s Techtivism Blog Series (https://chelseatroy.com/category/techtivism/): Engineers Considering the Actions and Impact of Their Work Systematically * Techtivism 1: Eyes on the Mountain (https://chelseatroy.com/2019/10/30/eyes-on-the-mountain/) * Techtivism 2: The Four Levers (https://chelseatroy.com/2020/08/24/techtivism-2-the-four-levers/) * Techtivism 3: Biding Time, Boycotts, and Beyond (https://chelseatroy.com/2020/09/23/techtivism-3-biding-time-boycotts-and-beyond/) 20:20 - The Power of Influence (See Techtivism 2 (https://chelseatroy.com/2020/08/24/techtivism-2-the-four-levers/)) * Patronage: buying from or donating to an organization * Patronage Advocacy: convincing others to buy from/donate to an organization * Talent: devoting time and energy to an organization * Talent Advocacy: convincing others to devote their time and energy to an organization 26:57 - Making a Connection Between Values and Your Work as an Engineer * Privilege * The Status Quo * Incumbency 37:08 - Individual vs Collective Action ”A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.” (https://quotationcelebration.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/a-man-convinced-against-his-will-is-of-the-same-opinion-still-unknown/#:~:text=In%20other%20words%2C%20the%20argument,being%20argued%20against%20is%20CONVINCED) Confrontation Avoidance Reflections: Amy: The ways people can be both confrontational and avoidant at the same time. Damien: How what we do impacts larger systems and how we can move entire societies. Chelsea: The degree to which our fallibility creates the positions we get to occupy and what that means about the grace that we need to have about the fallibility of other people. Jessica: Chelsea is awesome! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Chelsea Troy.
206: Conscious Teaching and Learning with Brian Hogan
02:11 - Brian’s Superpower: Being Able to Teach People Stuff * Guiding Learners Towards Outcomes and Success * Connecting with Students on a Deeper Level * Active Learning 13:15 - Building Relationships * Adults vs Kids * Tapping Into Individual Motivation 18:34 - Learning Useful, Real-World Material * Exercises For Programmers (https://www.amazon.com/Exercises-Programmers-Challenges-Develop-Coding/dp/1680501224) * Systems Thinking Speech by Dr. Russell Ackoff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbLh7rZ3rhU) * Working Backwards: Identify Outcomes/Goals => Write/Build Content/Material * Docs Are (can be) Wrong! 31:39 - Constructive and Interactive Learning * Learning Happens Through Feedback and Practice * The Shannon Communication Model (https://helpfulprofessor.com/shannon-weaver-model/#:~:text=The%20Shannon%20and%20Weaver%20model%20is%20a%20linear%20model%20of,sending%20and%20receiving%20the%20message.) * Experiencing Joint Activity 37:12 - Conversation Theory (https://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/learning/Pask.htm) 43:27 - Teaching Vs Mentoring * Mentoring is a Deeper/Closer Relationship * Being Open to and Honoring Feedback * Teaching and Learning Are Activities, Not Roles Reflections: Jacob: There isn’t enough content that is in the category of, “Here’s a problem for you, go solve it,” to learn. Jamey: Identifying things (i.e. hobbies) that get other people excited and motivated to learn. Rein: Often the best way to learn something is to teach it, and often the best thing for a teacher to do is get out of the way and find ways to support the learners. Brian: The need for more complex problems to learn things. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Brian Hogan.
205: Breaking Silos and Creating Opportunity Via Remote Work with Amir Salihefendić
02:16 - Amir’s Superpower: Learning * The Value of Knowledge Work 05:42 - Growing Up As a Refugee * Maintaining Focus During Change 11:04 - A Founder’s Mindset * Trauma: Makes You Stronger * Shadow-Side Psyche (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)) * Reboot by Jerry Colonna (https://www.rebootbyjerry.com/) (Book) * Reboot.io (https://www.reboot.io/) (CEO Coaching) 19:06 - Remote Work * Opportunities and Implications * Handling Skepticism * Impact on Local Community * Remote-First Companies * Salary Transparency * Hiring Based on Mission More Resources on Remote Work From Amir: * What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work (https://blog.doist.com/remote-work-mental-health/) * Why We Don’t Have an Exit Strategy (https://blog.doist.com/no-exit-strategy/) * Asynchronous Communication: The Real Reason Remote Workers Are More Productive (https://blog.doist.com/asynchronous-communication/) Reflections: John: The impact of having a globally high salary and what that positively enables. Astrid: Negative events can help to shape you into the person that you want to be. Amir: Using trauma to drive positivity. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Amir Salihefendić.
204: Creating Community Spaces in The Age of COVID with Nicole Archambault
02:04 - Nicole’s Superpower: Empathy and Community Building * “The After-Hours Vibe” Zoom Parties (DM Nicole on Twitter for an invite!) (https://twitter.com/lavie_encode) * Discord Servers (https://discord.com/) * freeCodeCamp (https://www.freecodecamp.org/) 15:06 - Overcoming Isolation and Forming Connections in the Age of COVID-19 * Masking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masking_(personality)) * Vulnerability and Transparency 20:42 - Creating a Techincal Community * Human Resource Machine (https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine) * #CodersTeach Twitter Chats (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CodersTeach) 25:54 - Radiating Love and Compassion and Learning How-To Human * Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha (https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Acceptance-Embracing-Heart-Buddha/dp/0553380990) * Making Meaningful Connections * Authenticity and Embracing Yourself Independently * Epigenetics (https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/fundamentals/#:~:text=Epigenetics%20is%20the%20study%20of,how%20cells%20read%20the%20genes.) 39:45 - Educational Tech Entrepreneurship (EdTech) * Non-Verbal Learning Disorders * Test-Driven Learning (http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~djanzen/tdl/) * Programmatic Problem-Solving (https://www.lavieencode.net/courses/ncpss/) * Front End Happy Hour: Patron, Palomas, and Programmatic Problem Solving (featuring Nicole) (https://frontendhappyhour.com/episodes/patron-palomas-and-programmatic-problem-solving/) * Deliberate Learning * Exercism (https://exercism.io/) Reflections: Jacob: Meeting and socializing with other people outside of a professional sphere remotely since COVID. Arty: Leaning into being yourself. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) _To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Nicole Archambault.
203: Algorithmic Auditing and Accountability with Matthew Zhou
01:54 - Matt’s Superpower: Letting Things Go Easily * Nonattachment and Immigration 08:35 - Matt’s Journey From Anthropology to Tech * The Intersection of Technology and Social Science 13:42 - Algorithmic Auditing and Accountability * Internal vs External Audits * Identifying Affected Parties * Waze Hijacked L.A. in the Name of Convenience. Can Anyone Put the Genie Back in the Bottle? (https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/waze-los-angeles-neighborhoods/) * Participation in Machine Learning * People as Constituents – Not Resources 29:38 - Data Surveillance: Gathering Enough Data vs Gathering Too Much Data (and particularly the effect on Black and Brown people) * Data & Society – Ruha Benjamin presents Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (https://datasociety.net/library/databite-no-124-ruha-benjamin/) * The Invisible Institute (https://invisible.institute/) 36:57 - Speaking Out Regarding Racial Equity/Inequity and Social Justice in the Workplace 42:26 - Getting Involved in Politics on a Personal Level in 2020 48:12 - Medical/Healthcare Informatics & Thinking About Health Disparities Reflections: Jacob: Who unintended, affected by our technologies communities and people are. Chanté: Diving deeper into algorithmic auditing as it pertains to ethics and what that means for organizations and leaders who hold power and influence. Matthew: Technology platforms are far-reaching and engineers and technologists are going to have to become more fluent social scientists. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Matthew Zhou.
202: The Art of Storytelling in Technology with Asra Nadeem
00:42 - Asra’s Superpower: Unrelenting Love For Herself 02:32 - Storytelling * Storytelling is Important for Change * Taking Action with Stories 09:35 - Finding Passionate Builders * No Freedom Without Financial Freedom * Human Creativity vs Technology Automation * You Can Be Who You Want to Be 18:32 - The Responsibility of Creators and Consumers in Tech * Personal Responsibility vs Systemic Issues * Balancing Individual Responsibility with Power Dynamics and Influence * Manipulation, Fear, and Control 42:12 - Telling and Monetizing Stories Globally with Opus AI (https://opus.ai/) * Storyboarding * Democratizing Access to Technology * Oral Storytelling 48:30 - The Role of Individual Responsibility Reflections: Arty: Creating your own power. Asra: What an individual is and what they are responsible for. Rein: A system is a product of its’ interactions. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Asra Nadeem.
201: Real Rebels Pay Their Taxes with Nils Norman Haukås
02:58 - Nils’ Superpower: Storytelling * Practicing Presentation * Company/Employer-Sponsored Skill Training (such as storytelling/public speaking) * Taking Courses Unrelated to Your Own Skillset 09:39 - Deleting Code * Tension Around Deleting or Refactoring Others’ Code * Etiquette Around ^^ * Sharing Codebases 20:17 - Is it ethical to invest time in learning and using technologies from companies that pay little or no taxes? * Real Rebels Pay Their Taxes (https://nilsnh.no/2020/08/14/real-rebels-pay-their-taxes/) * Value of Everything | Mariana Mazzucato (https://marianamazzucato.com/publications/books/value-of-everything/) * The economics of open source by C J Silverio | JSConf EU 2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO8hZlgK5zc) * The Entropic Package Manager (https://www.entropic.dev/) 29:14 - What Can We Do About the Centralization of Power in Large Corporations? * Wanting an Alternative * Developer Purchasing Power * Nix VC Funding * Move Away From Framework-Thinking * Web Components (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components) * Libraries * Less Competition Between Competitors * Learning the Basics 53:18 - Using Tools for Free as Forms of Support * Alternative Cost Reflections: John: Treating tax avoidance as a social negative. Jacob: Not feeling pressure to use the next new, hot thing. Nils: Practice arguing this problem. Software development is still an incredibly young field. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Nils Norman Haukås.
200: "Bad Code" with Damien Burke
02:58 - Damien’s Superpower: Being able to hold contradictory beliefs at the same time. * Working in VERY Local Government (for the City of Los Angeles) 07:05 - What is “Bad Code”? * Episode 188: Going Off the Rails with Damien Burke (https://www.greaterthancode.com/going-off-the-rails) (Damien’s Previous GTC Episode) * Objectivity vs Subjectivity: Why does code lie on that spectrum? * Metrics to Measure Beautiful Code: * Does it make the world a better place? * Is it clear? 16:38 - What should you do with “Bad Code”? * Nothing? (I know it’s bad but it’s okay!) * Do it later? (If you can put it off and make it better later, put it off!) 19:12 - Working With Others: Agreeing on “Good Code” * Go-to Values * Can we understand this? Does it convey the meaning we want it to convey? * What is most communicative? 24:34 - Damien’s Background in Hypnosis * Speaking to the Subconscious * Prescriptivity: Judgement & Punishment 34:14 - Doing Things The Easy Way * Easy Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Fast 41:07 - Distinctions Between Teaching and Learning * Learning is Goal-Driven * Perfection * Numbers tell a story. Numbers can’t give you wisdom. 54:02 - Creating Shared Understanding (in code) Reflections: Jamey: 1) Doing things yourself. 2) I want code to be beautiful because I like things that are beautiful. Rein: The importance of small changes. Damien: The power of language and story and its’ application in the engineering world in a team and in the code you write. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Damien Burke.
199: Toxicity in Tech with Amy Newell
04:31 - Amy’s Superpower: Search Algorithms and Finding Things * Finding Things in Code * Visual vs Spacial Awareness 08:39 - Toxic Masculinity and Hierarchies in Engineering Roles * I’m not in security but whenever I hear people taking about who is more technical all I see is folks jockeying for status.(not blaming, that’s the culture we have made in software generally). But from outside whatever y’all mean when you say technical is completely opaque. (https://twitter.com/amynewell/status/1298957052694409218) * “Soft Skills” vs “Technical” 14:22 - Measuring Skill Advancement * The Individual Contributor (IC) vs Manager Track * Management vs Mentorship 21:02 - Congressive vs Ingressive * x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng (https://www.amazon.com/Mathematicians-Manifesto-Rethinking-Gender/dp/1541646509) * GTC Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng (https://www.greaterthancode.com/category-theory-for-normal-humans) 22:43 - Ways Toxicity Shows Up in The Workplace * Doing/Recognizing “Real Work” * Letting Go of Past Baggage * Amy Newell - Lessons from Bipolar Disorder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf8TYuAZY8g) (The first time Amy said the word “Patriarchy”) * Microaggressions 29:07 - Unlearning and Psychological Safety 37:07 - The Word “Nontechnical” * Respecting Expertise * Skilled/Unskilled Labor: All Labor is Skilled Labor! 40:41 - Recognizing and Feeling Value * Being Your Authentic Self * Making Culture Better for Everyone; Supporting People & Making Space * Counting Emotional Energy * Enough Leaning In. Let’s Tell Men to Lean Out. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/opinion/sunday/feminism-lean-in.html) * Yes, and-ing Reflections: Jessica: Every person has a unique set of ways they can have an impact and best contribute. Jamey: Feeling like you belong and realizing that others might not. Being aware of both mindsets. Amy: The onus really should be on people who have power and privilege in any conversation to be doing most of the work to be aware of what I see vs what they see. Special Guest: Amy Newell.
198: Learning From Failure with Ravs Kaur
02:30 - Rav’s Superpower: Learning to Learn * Success and Failure * Creating Environments Where It’s Safe to Fail * Exploring Ideas and Collecting Datapoints * Celebrating Feedback Cycles and Experiments 07:12 - Failing Fast – Getting Early Feedback Along the Way * Getting Over the “Being Polished” Hump * Learning for Self-Fulfilment 17:02 - Empathy as a Life Skill * Simulation * Empathy is Necessary to Learn Through Failure 26:40 - Uplevel (https://uplevelteam.com/): Empowering Engineers to do Their Best Work 31:49 - Productivity and Judgement Value * The Effect the Pandemic Has Had ^^ * Capturing Interruptions and Mitigating Responses * The “is work happening?” panic and fear and the worry “is innovation at the same level?” * The Ecology of Human Performance: A Framework for Considering the Effect of Context (https://ajot.aota.org/article.aspx?articleid=1873303) 41:42 - Using Data to Measure Well-Being and/or Engagement * Process Tracing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_tracing#:~:text=Process%20tracing%20is%20a%20method,political%20science%2C%20or%20usability%20studies.) * Why use ambient data (https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/latent-data-ambient-data#:~:text=Latent%20data%2C%20also%20known%20as,(OS)%20or%20standard%20applications.)? Reflections: Rein: 1) We need to take human performance necessary. 2) Steven Shorrock’s Model of Change. Jacob: Thinking more about ambient data. Jamey: Failing fast. Ravs: How do you know if you’ve built a great product if you don’t have a way to measure what people are clicking on and/or trying to find? This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Ravs Kaur.
197: Tips For New Developers with Dan Moore
02:13 - Dan’s Superpower: Ability to Keep Calm * “We need to solve this problem.” * Dealing with Frustration * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Paperback/dp/B00ZT1W1DO/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_0/132-3661810-3882807?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00ZT1W1DO&pd_rd_r=9a9d44ae-174a-45d0-9d26-209d9489e335&pd_rd_w=DdnSJ&pd_rd_wg=kqSrE&pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&pf_rd_r=63K9K68E65P4FKNM9XZC&psc=1&refRID=63K9K68E65P4FKNM9XZC) 07:11 - Maximizing Your Potential as a New Developer and Making a Good Impression * Overindex * Asking Questions * 054: Code Hospitality with Nadia Odunayo (https://www.greaterthancode.com/code-hospitality) * Try New Things, but Enjoy Your Work 17:55 - What Makes a Senior Engineer? * When is a senior engineer not a senior engineer? (http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2812) * Impact * Making Mistakes * Pragmaticism vs Perfectionism * The Efficiency Throne as Tradeoff * Recognition Prime Decision-Making 42:51 - Solving Big Problems vs Small Problems * Getting People to Care * Group Accountability & Presenting Deliverables 50:39 - Creating an Organization Where People Can Thrive and Grow * Fostering a Culture of Help 53:17 - Letters To A New Developer (https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/) 57:52 - Community and How They Help Developer Growth Reflections: Dan: Build your mental muscle around tradeoffs. Jacob: Thinking about talking to junior developers. Rein: The context we’re in when we’re thinking changes how we think. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Dan Moore.
196: Documentation as Performance with Aisha Blake
02:26 - Aisha’s Superpower: Proofreading 04:05 - Documentation * “The Code Documents Itself” * Context / Entry Points * Documentation as a Narrative * The Value of Documentation 07:54 - Forms of Documentation Worth Investing In * Onboarding * Commit Messages * Pull Requests 10:34 - Architecture and Stories * Commit Messages * References * User Stories 17:17 - Telling Stories Through Documentation * Documentation as Performance * (https://www.titleofconf.org/) * Tail Call Optimization: The Musical!! by Anjana Vakil & Natalia Margolis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PX0BV9hGZY) 23:37 - Defining Documentation 26:17 - Making Documentation Accessible & Approachable * Requires Empathy * Collaboration * Constructing Shared Common Ground 33:33 - Giving Constructive Feedback * Feedback Requires Consent * Interviewing for Interpersonal Skills That Are Required to Give Good Feedback * “Tell me a story…” / Roleplaying * Give Feedback Fearlessly – Aisha Blake (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsoh_EDE9Xc) 44:37 - self.conference (https://selfconference.org/): Focusing on Human Aspects in Technology 48:49 - Technology is NOT Neutral * Moral Responsibility * The Things We Build Have Impact * Inclusion and Exclusion This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Aisha Blake.
195: Pivoting to PPE with Christina Perla
02:33 - Christina’s Superpower: Resourcefulness, Industrial Design * Pratt Institute (https://www.pratt.edu/) * Building Physical Mockups of Items * Learning on The Go 07:30 - Starting Makelab (https://makelab.nyc/); Inspiration for 3D Printing * Enabling Creatives * Mitigating Risk * Clientele 15:15 - Pivoting to PPE in Lieu of COVID-19 * Making Faceshields * Handling Orders 22:04 - Advice for Other Women Who Want to Start a Business * Focus on What You Don’t Know * Stay Close to Customers 23:42 - Women in 3D Printing (https://womenin3dprinting.com/) * Organizing a Community * Networking * Community Outreach & Support * Responsibilities as a Founder 35:15 - Liking What You Do * Recognizing Emotional Patterns * Hacking Your Emotional API – John K. Sawers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGDRUI8biTc) 42:30 - Tackling Burnout and Getting Creative Juices Flowing Again * Going Back to Your “Why” * Feeling Changes and Self-Reflection 45:46 - Developing and Allocating Revenue to Respond to Current Events * 3D Printing for Emergency Situations * Prototyping and Always Iterating 55:30 - Manufacturing Jigs – Building the Tools to Build the Tools * Tool Making: A Practical Treatise On the Art of Making Tools, Jigs, and Fixtures, with Helpful Suggestions On Heat Treatment of Carbon and High-Speed Steels for Tools, Punches, and Dies (https://www.amazon.com/Tool-Making-Practical-Suggestions-High-Speed/dp/1146153104) 59:23 - Adaptive Capacity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_capacity#:~:text=Adaptive%20capacity%20relates%20to%20the,genetic%20diversity%20of%20species) * Embracing Discomfort * Going First Reflections: John: Being in touch with your feelings as a business skill. Christina M.: Stop, drop, and remember my why. Rein: Maintaining capacity for maneuver. Christina P.: Emotions as APIs. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Christina Perla.
194: I Don’t Need You To Like Me, I Need You To Hate Racism with Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn
02:28 - Courtney’s Superpower: Speaking on the Topic of Racism “You can’t prioritize your discomfort over living your own values.” – Courtney White Liberals Are Dangerous: the “I’m liberal...I’m not that bad” narrative Action & Engaging in Antiracist Practices Over Lipservice Antiracism is a Lifelong Learning Process Not Seeing Race is Problematic – Disproportive Representation 13:16 - Adopting Attitudes Towards Antiracism Understanding White Supremacy If It’s Not Antiracist, It’s Racist 16:24 - 1000 Cut Journey (https://vhil.stanford.edu/1000cut/) "1000 Cut Journey" Launches at Tribeca Film Festival (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te5X6pV7AKQ) Culture, Narratives, and Stories are Powerful Tools Feedback & Reactions 25:59 - Empathy is Insufficient * Are you aware of how white you are? 34:34 - The Tendency to Avoid Racism and Talking About Race 39:30 - Systemic Racism and Technology * Diversity is Not About Aesthetics * Centering Race * Training & Onboarding * Hiring From Non-Traditional Backgrounds * Understanding “Social Work” * Shifting Orientation: * Being Antiracist * Being Transdisciplinary * Understanding that avoiding harm is not the same thing as achieving justice Reflections: Rein: “Intention without strategy is chaos.” – Dr. Kim Crayton (https://twitter.com/kimcrayton1?lang=en) Arty: Taking an antiracist approach to product development. Jacob: Thinking more about the phrase “transdisciplinary” and the difference between it and “interdisciplinary.” Courtney: 1. Talking about difficult things in a way that can be anchored in learning. 2. It’s not about what you believe; it’s what you do. 3. There is no neutral in marginalization and oppression. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn.
193: Optimizing For Happiness with Tudor Gîrba
02:09 - Tudor’s Superpower: Storytelling * Getting Beyond Your Self-Critic * Writing Code is Storytelling * There’s No Semantics Without Syntax 13:04 - Reading Stories (and Code) * Reading Code Takes Place in an Editor * Code is Not Text. Code is Data. 17:56 - Optimizing For Happiness Automation Creates More Jobs Choosing Tools is Important “The tools that we create end up influencing how we see the world.” – Marshall McLuhan 27:48 - Moldable Development * Making Metaphors and Building Abstractions * Glamorous Toolkit (https://gtoolkit.com/) 32:50 - Editing Code as a Joint Activity * rust-analyzer (https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer) * Simultaneous Perspectives Increase Communication Bandwidth 38:40 - Encouraging and Supporting the Presentation of New Ideas and Out-of-the-Box Thinking 58:41 - Culture is Formed by Storytelling; Identity is the Story We Tell About Ourselves * Alasdair MacIntyre (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alasdair-MacIntyre) Reflections: Rein: Reading and writing code can be different, but it can also be the same. See: the functional programming concept of lens (https://medium.com/javascript-scene/lenses-b85976cb0534#:~:text=Composable%20Getters%20and%20Setters%20for%20Functional%20Programming&text=A%20lens%20is%20a%20composable,known%20as%20the%20lens%20laws.&text=The%20getter%20takes%20a%20whole,the%20lens%20is%20focused%20on.). Jessica: At the end of the presentation, if there’s no question that makes you think, then maybe you haven’t moved anything. Look for surprises. Arty: Optimizing for happiness as a first principle. How do we do that more? Tudor: With software, we are forcing people to listen to our ideas and then act according to our thoughts. That is a big responsibility, a privilege, and we have to train that skill. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Tudor Gîrba.
192: Bringing Our Whole Selves with Siobhán Cronin
02:36 - Siobhán’s Superpower: Catalyzing Personal and Community Change 04:19 - Managing Change During COVID-19 * Experiencing Joy While Grieving * Bringing Your Whole Self to Work (a boundary being stretched like never before) * Working From Home: Ranges of Experiences and Comfort-Levels 13:51 - Pros and Cons of Bringing Your Whole/Full Self to Work * Building Affinity & Care * Interfacing with Capitalism * Painpoints as Learning Opportunities * Having Boundaries * Building Inclusive Communities and Workspaces * Extending Grace and Care 34:08 - People Have to Do Work on Themselves “You’re not categorically a good person.” – Siobhán Check Yourself: Look at Yourself Honestly Psychological Safety Reflections: John: How can we inculcate more caring into corporate environments? Jerome: Being more fearless; acknowledging consequences but not letting them stop us. Jacob: Being more visible. Siobhán: Building on each other’s ideas during the call and showing care while showing up. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Siobhán Cronin.
191: Sitting Down Together with Amy Tobey
02:14 - Amy’s Superpower: Looking at a mess and seeing the potential for what it could be. 03:40 - Generalists vs Specialists * 071: Brein Power with Rein Henrichs (https://www.greaterthancode.com/brein-power) * T-Shaped Skills (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills) “The job description should describe the capabilities that the team needs, not that the individual needs.” 15:28 - Finding a “Beautiful” Mess in Technical Systems “The biggest impediment to change is your users.” – Jessica Richard Dawkins Demonstrates Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdm5he) 22:40 - Artisanal and Industrial Modes of Production * Systems are indelibly stamped by the experience of the people who built them 28:25 - Design, Use, and Reliability 32:30 - Convincing Executives to Care About a Thing * Now vs Later * Where do we spend our attention to maximize value? * Viable System Model (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdm5he) * Context Over Control / Communication Without Authority 41:08 - Whistleblowing is Good Because Misuse of Authority is Bad 51:33 - SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) “The goal of SRE is to change the way your organization relates to the systems it runs.” – Rein Reflections: Jessica: Bonus question: Amy, why do you hate the word, “mature”? Rein: “A problem is an abstraction extracted from a mess via analysis.” – Russel Ackoff Amy: Models: We keep trying the same patterns and complaining about the same outcomes. Thinking by Machine: A Study of Cybernetics (https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Machine-Cybernetics-Pierre-Latil/dp/B0000CJKQE) Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile (https://www.amazon.com/Cybernetic-Revolutionaries-Technology-Politics-Allendes/dp/0262525968/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NIL0S9DU27P9&dchild=1&keywords=cybernetic+revolutionaries&qid=1594244894&s=books&sprefix=cybernetic+re%2Cstripbooks%2C158&sr=1-1) Greater Than Code Episode 093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina (https://www.greaterthancode.com/cybernetic-revolutionaries) Brain of the Firm (https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Firm-Stafford-Beer/dp/047194839X) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Amy Tobey.
190: Social Media, Privacy, and Security with Joe LeBlanc
01:32 - Joe’s Superpower: Hospitality * Greater Than Code 054: Code Hospitality with Nadia Odunayo (https://www.greaterthancode.com/code-hospitality) 06:20 - Social Media: It's time for us to stop acting like we are getting access to social media for free. * When you add up your household's cable/Internet/phone bills, you're paying bare minimum $100/mo. * This money isn't going to Facebook and Twitter, but it is the entry fee for bringing these platforms into your home, where they subsequently track everything you do, everyone you know, build a facial recognition database with the photos you post, and determine your sexual orientation before you even disclose it (https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/facebook-can-tell-if-you-re-gay-based-few-likes-n823416). * Nobody reads the privacy policies. * UBDI – Universal Basic Data Income (https://www.ubdi.com/) 15:36 - Owing Your Identity & Data * Email Plus: An Idea * Slack (https://slack.com/), Microsoft Teams (https://www.microsoft.com/en/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software) * A Key / Distributed Data Idea 25:25 - Protecting Children’s’ Privacy & Data 32:00 - Leading The Movement; Rolling Out a Solution: Taking back control of our data * People who are willing to be hobbyists * Experimentation & Activism Reflections: Christina: The value and the power of open source and thinking beyond giving your data out willy-nilly. Jacob: Teaching our children to be thoughtful technologists. Jerome: Keeping our kids safe is a job on top of a job, and the goalpost keeps moving! Joe: A reminder that other people are thinking about this. We are all concerned about privacy. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Joe LeBlanc.
189: Succeeding in Science with Deborah Berebichez
01:13 - Debbie’s Superpower: Having an excellent memory and a detailed-oriented brain 03:23 - Teaching Science in Fun Ways * Sourcebooks Baby University Books, Assorted Science Titles, Set of 4 (https://www.schoolspecialty.com/sourcebooks-baby-university-four-book-set-2023976?kxconfid=u7avswvjn&source=google&campaignid=9240857700&placement=shopping&keyword=&gclid=CjwKCAjw88v3BRBFEiwApwLevfrBS0j1HjYBbeJEDTBCZd6TlGLCGEJap-mjxWraRahzKDOThgol3BoCYvgQAvD_BwE) * Thermodynamics for Babies and Toddlers (https://www.amazon.com/Thermodynamics-Babies-Toddlers-Maths-Science/dp/1075151368) * thesciencebabe (https://www.youtube.com/user/thesciencebabe/videos) (Debbie’s YouTube Channel) * Ruth Spiro Books (https://ruthspiro.com/books/) 05:49 - Understanding Data & Data Literacy * First Steps to Understanding: See Examples; Do Experiments * Demystifying Data Science (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-17j6vjbfr8) * Why Correlation does not Imply Causation in Statistics (https://www.mathtutordvd.com/public/Why-Correlation-does-not-Imply-Causation-in-Statistics.cfm) * Divorce And Margarine (https://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2017/04/10/divorce-and-margarine/#:~:text=The%20correlation%20between%20the%20divorce,book%20of%20the%20same%20name.) * Metis Data Literacy Course (https://www.thisismetis.com/corporate-training/courses/data-literacy) 15:16 - Negative Results Are Important (Failure) * Education Between Boys vs Girls * Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck (https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322) * Growth vs Fixed Mindset (https://fs.blog/2015/03/carol-dweck-mindset/) * Battling Discouragement, Lack of Confidence, and Perseverance 29:20 - Human Performance is Contextual – Science can be exclusionary 34:27 - Debbie’s Inspiration to Become a Scientist * Your Story Is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice 41:17 - Debbie’s TV Career * The Physics of High Heels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIIo0SlagD8) * Dr. Debbie Berebichez Talks About Science (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCqRPJMd7EA) * Debbie’s National Geographic Reel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bfOq2O3U2w) * Humanly Impossible (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1701983/) * Debbie’s IMDb Page (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5636666/?ref_=tt_cl_t1) * Co-Hosting Discovery Channel’s Outrageous Acts of Science (https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/outrageous-acts-of-science/) 50:29 - Finding Ways to Solve Complex Concepts * Go Back to the Basics * Using Code is For Solving Problems; Critical Thinking * Taking a Holistic View Reflections: Rein: Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory (https://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/conversation-theory/) Arty: Teaching the how and teaching the why. Astrid: Perseverance and authenticity: Being yourself and allowing yourself to evolve. Debbie: This podcast was much different from being a guest on other podcasts. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Deborah Berebichez.
188: Going Off the Rails with Damien Burke
01:10 - Damien’s Superpower: The ability to hold conflicting beliefs at the same time. * Blind Men and an Elephant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant) * Law of Excluded Middle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle#:~:text=In%20logic%2C%20the%20law%20of,and%20the%20law%20of%20identity.) 04:09 - Life is Hard. How do we make things easy? * Simon’s Ant (https://everything2.com/title/Simon%2527s+ant) * Emergent Behavior (https://www.thwink.org/sustain/glossary/EmergentBehavior.htm#:~:text=Emergent%20behavior%20is%20behavior%20of,of%20a%20system's%20individual%20parts.) * Conway’s Game of Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) * Embodied Cognition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition#:~:text=Embodied%20cognition%20is%20a%20topic,the%20mind%20influences%20bodily%20actions.) * Cognitive Systems Engineering (https://www.ppi-int.com/resources/systems-engineering-faq/relationship-cognitive-systems-engineering-systems-engineering/#:~:text=Cognitive%20Systems%20Engineering%3A%20Cognitive%20Systems,is%20both%20efficient%20and%20robust.) * Joint Cognitive Systems (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=joint+cognitive+systems&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart) 12:03 - Treating Expertise as Transferable to Different Fields * Technical Privilege * Cognitive Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases) – List of Cognitive Biases * Heuristic Shortcuts * Specifications not Test (https://damienburke.com/specifications-not-tests) – Damien’s “Don’t Call it Test-Driven Development Essay * Fundamental Attribution Error (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error) 17:54 - Loving Yourself Unconditionally and Seeing Flaws “You are whole, perfect, and complete.” (https://twitter.com/ExMember/status/839518385499066368) – Damien Burke Virginia Satir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Satir): The basis of human interaction is acknowledging the inherent value in ourselves and another person. Giving Feedback – The key is authenticity. Treating People The Way They Want to be Treated vs How YOU Want to be Treated The Platinum Rule (https://blog.peoplefirstps.com/connect2lead/the-platinum-rule-2) Mister Rogers: What do you do with the mad that you feel? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viqPDiH7M9A) “The problem is never the problem; how we cope is the problem.” – Virginia Satir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Satir) 27:03 - Shakespeare was Garbage * Playing Shakespeare (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2VnxiW3oqk) * Highbrow Language * Looking For Richard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Richard) 30:08 - Sponsorship Message 31:20 - EarlyWords (https://www.earlywords.io) / Morning Pages * The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252) 36:08 - Damien’s Background in Theater and Applying it to Tech “I play the piano, but my instrument is the orchestra.” – Attribution Unknown “The conductor is the only person in the orchestra that doesn’t make a sound.” – Benjamin Zander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Zander) Being a Leader/Conductor/Manager is an Act of Service 41:42 - Ontological Coaching * Epistemic – What even is knowledge? * The Scientific Method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method#:~:text=The%20process%20of%20the%20scientific,observations%20based%20on%20those%20predictions.&text=Scientists%20then%20test%20hypotheses%20by%20conducting%20experiments%20or%20studies.) Reflections: John: Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice (https://commoncog.com/blog/tacit-knowledge-is-a-real-thing/) Rein: It is hard to translate theory into practice. Damien: Life is hard. Make everything you can easy! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Damien Burke.
187: Seeing The World with Bryan Liles
01:50 - Bryan’s Superpower: The ability to see the world as it is 06:52 - Conference Circuits / Virtual Conferencing * KubeCon (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=KC_CNC_Virtual&gclid=CjwKCAjw5vz2BRAtEiwAbcVIL7LDb7jGC7Fiq3gVMxj6_SL7f4qa0eIlnMUKGtO91vtNvKkLyU35ahoCLkEQAvD_BwE) * Keynote: CNCF Project Updates - Bryan Liles, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=two3TzF9mVY) * Beyond Kubernetes - Interview with Bryan Liles (KubeCon 2019, Barcelona) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNCUhD0Qeio) * Re-imagining Continuous {Integration | Delivery | Deployment | Whatever} - Bryan Liles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHuFqhE1HIM) (DeliveryConf Seattle Talk) * Engagement: In-Person vs Virtual * Conferences Aren’t Inclusive (as they stand) 17:44 - Working Remotely During Quarantine * Productivity * Depression * Find a Piece of Life That Makes You Happy 23:48 - The Premise of Being Greater Than Code * We Are Not Our Code 26:24 - Fighting/Overcoming Meritocracy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy) * Be the Smartest Person in the Room * Sharing Ideas * Building a Supportive Community Around Yourself “I'm not underrepresented anymore. Y'all are over-represented. Not going to use a negative to describe my existence. I'm Bryan, and I'm supposed to be here.” (https://twitter.com/bryanl/status/1134565369098756096) – Bryan Liles via Twitter If you believe in meritocracy, you believe in white supremacy. 34:50 - How People Work and View the World * Writing Things Down * Be Ready to Perform * Cockiness vs Confidence: Celebrating Success * Humans are Inconsistent: People Are NOT Perfect 42:41 - Finding Power in Something Else * Have Mantras; Center Your Life * Meek Mill - Dreams And Nightmares (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8gfqs1-NuE) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Bryan Liles.
186: The Universe Makes it Happen with Emily Gorcenski
Emily has been on GTC before! Check out her previous episode: 037: Failure Mode (https://www.greaterthancode.com/failure-mode) 01:08 - Emily’s Superpower: Hunting Nazis and Data Science * Emily’s Motivation to Do This Work – Fighting Back * What is the question behind the question? * Data Science + SCIENCE 14:55 - Being Willing to Be Wrong / Failure and Learning * Methods for Determining You’re Going to be Tracking Wrong Things * Simpson’s Paradox (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Simpsons-paradox#:~:text=Simpson's%20paradox%2C%20also%20called%20Yule,one%20or%20more%20other%20variables.) * Means Are a Lie * Detecting Nonlinearities 34:49 - Cybernetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics) * 093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina (https://www.greaterthancode.com/cybernetic-revolutionaries) 38:43 - The COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis and The Need For Systematic Restructuring * The Problem with Testing * Conditional Probability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_probability) * Bayes Rule (https://towardsdatascience.com/what-is-bayes-rule-bb6598d8a2fd?gi=2073fb276511) * Ventilator Production 47:16 - Nuance, Power, and Authority * High-Reliability Organizations * Devolution * The Safety Anarchist (https://www.amazon.com/Safety-Anarchist-innovation-bureaucracy-compliance/dp/1138300462) * The Difference Between: * Innovation * A Work-Around * A Shortcut * A Non-Compliant * Deciphering Good Actors & Bad Actors This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Emily Gorcenski.
Special Edition: #BlackLivesMatter
There are no show notes nessecary for this episode. Your job is to listen and learn from these 3 strong women. Special Guests: Isa Herico-Velasco , Kim Crayton, and Shireen Mitchell.
185: Adaptive Capacity and Mutual Aid with Michelle Glauser
02:27 - Michelle’s Superpower: Resilience * Graceful Extensibility (https://thompson.wiki.innovateoregon.org/graceful-extensibility.html) 04:59 - Techtonica (https://techtonica.org/) * The Board * Breaking Barriers Into Tech * Income Sharing Agreements * Job Placement Success * Setting Cohorts Up For Success * Becoming an Educator * Socioeconomic Factors * Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams (https://www.amazon.com/Limbo-Blue-Collar-Roots-White-Collar-Dreams/dp/0471714399) 25:35 - Adaptive Capacity and Mutual Aid * Saying vs Showing You/They Care / Investment / Helping Others * Sponsorship * Hiring * Unemployment * Survival Mode 46:51 - Techtonica Success Stories Reflections: Rein: What’s going to happen after the pandemic? How will things be different? Michelle: The world has an opportunity to change. Jamey: The things Techtonica provides to its’ cohorts to break down barriers to entry in tech is awesome. Arty: Asking what can I do to make a difference? This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Michelle Glauser.
184: The Python Software Foundation and the Future of Conferencing with Naomi Ceder & Ewa Jodlawska
01:39 - Ewa’s Superpower: Organization * PyCon (https://us.pycon.org/) 02:01 - Naomi’s Superpower: Empathy for the Marginalized 02:51 - The Python Software Foundation (PSF) (https://www.python.org/psf/) * PyCon Online (https://us.pycon.org/2020/online/) * PyPI (https://pypi.org/) 05:26 - Regional and Local Meetings: Building a Healthy Community 06:52 - “Everybody Pays” and the PSF Budget * Financial Aid 11:16 - How the Pandemic is Effecting the PSF * Financially * Moving to Virtual Conferencing * EuroPython 2020 Online (https://ep2020.europython.eu/) 13:20 - Intellectual Property * Holding in Trust for Community * Preserving Goodness * PyLadies (https://www.pyladies.com/) * Brand Integrity 16:36 - The Development of a Code of Conduct * Enforcement * Ratio of Enforcers to Attendees 23:08 - Naomi: Classics, Language, and Computer Science * Similarities and Differences * Jamshid Gharajedaghi (https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Thinking-Complexity-Designing-Architecture/dp/0123859158) 29:15: Ewa: Ending Up in Governance 31:03 - Ewa and Naomi’s Roles in PSF * The PSF Board * The PSF Staff 35:49 - Creating Emergency Funds 40:18 - Grants & Sponsorships * Humble Bundle (https://www.humblebundle.com/) * PPP Grant (https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relief-options/paycheck-protection-program) 42:33 - Contractual Agreements 46:22 - Engaging in a Virtual Setting Over In-Person Events * Python Pizza (https://python.pizza/) 51:15 - Approaching Issues Marginalized People Experience Reflections: Rein: If you want to understand how an accident happened, you need to understand why what a person was doing made sense to them at the time. “What would this mean if this made sense?” Jacob: Looking forward to new conference formats. Carina: What solutions are people pitching for moving to virtual gatherings? Naomi: Only in our space do we think it’s "weird" to talk about whether or not we need emergency reserves. Also, online Hallway Tracks? Yes or no? What do now? Ewa: Moving to online events is emotional. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guests: Ewa Jodlawska and Naomi Ceder.
183: How We Learn with Vaidehi Joshi
01:47 - Vaidehi’s Superpower: Learning new things and teaching them to other people * Teaching Things Helps YOU Learn * Deciding on Things to Learn 05:01 - Approaching Learning * Reading * Relating Things to Things Already Known * Ask Yourself, “Why do I need to know this?” * Tricks for Reading Papers * Read the Abstract & Conclusion * Pick Fights with the Paper * Using Tutorials * Accountability & Motivation * Learning with Others * Unraveled (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT7Ueqtwn_bXo1MuSWT0ji2w) * Hermeneutic Circle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutic_circle) 20:15 - Having Aha! Moments & Epiphanies: Brain Percolation * Russell Ackoff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_L._Ackoff) * Absolution * Resolution * Solution * Dissolution * Paradoxes 32:02 - Technologists Are Good Storytellers 39:03 - Improving Over Time and Doing Your Best * Hindsight Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias) * Blameless Retrospectives: Accountability 47:55 - Creating Spaces for People to Succeed * Manager Training * “Managing Up”: The Phrase – meh 52:58 - Effective Mentorship * Mentorship vs Sponsorship * Trust * Lara Hogan (https://larahogan.me/) Reflections: Jamey: Incremental learning and progress – biting off small chunks and not beating ourselves up while learning. It’s not a waste of time to just do a little at a time. Rein: Soft skills are technical skills. Vaidehi: It’s hard to measure and quantify these things. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Vaidehi Joshi.
182: Labor Organizing with Ellen Wondra
00:41 - Ellen’s Superpower: Knowing what her pets are thinking. (Observation and Paying Attention to Non-Verbal Cues.) * Virginia Satir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Satir), Congruence and Incongruence * Lie to Me (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_to_Me) * Detecting Microexpressions 10:33 - Shareholder and Stakeholder Economies * Game Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory) * Out of the Crisis (https://www.amazon.com/Out-Crisis-Press-Edwards-Deming/dp/0262541157) * Mitbestimmung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitbestimmungsgesetz) * Codetermination and Alienation * Complexity Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity_theory) 18:30 - Termination of Employment Contracts * Emergent and Deliberate Strategy 27:44 - Collective Action – Why aren’t tech workers organizing more? * Amazon Reinstates Fired Warehouse Worker After Employees Strike (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jaaq/amazon-reinstates-fired-warehouse-worker-after-employees-strike) * The Potential Usefulness and Benefits of Unions * Project Maven (https://www.blog.google/products/google-cloud/incorporating-googles-ai-principles-google-cloud/) 37:47 - Moving in the Direction of Stakeholder Value – What do we do next? * Anjuan Simmons – Lending Privilege (https://anjuansimmons.com/talks/lending-privilege/) * Talk to Your Coworkers: Build Connections; Network Architecture * Explore Worker Power * Manager Boards Reflections: John: A reminder of the value of collective action. Rein: Tech workers are workers and workers have more in common with other workers than they do with bosses. Aaron: The practical ways of implementing collective action in tech. Episode 80: Crafting a Community with Kris Howard (https://www.greaterthancode.com/crafting-a-community) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Ellen Wondra.
181: Normalcy Theater with Aaron Aldrich
02:04 - Aaron’s Superpower: Relating to people on any level because he has so many hobbies! * Useful in DevRel * Ending Up in Unexpected Places * Trying New Things and Nerding Out 06:42 - Everything Has a Technical Aspect * Music vs Computer Programming * Computer Systems as Sociotechnical Systems 10:37 - Connecting High-Performing Resilient Teams * Common Ground Within Teams * Recovering From Failure * Failover Conf by Gremlin (https://failover-conf.heysummit.com/) 14:14 - Implementing Purposeful/Intentional Communication * Team vs Individual Work * Ken Mugrage - Keynote Speaker | Everything I need to know about DevOps I learned in The Marines (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJCt041CV1s) * Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet (https://www.amazon.com/Turn-Ship-Around-Turning-Followers/dp/1591846404) 17:55 - Highlights from Failover Conf - (Videos not available) * Heidi Waterhouse (https://twitter.com/wiredferret) * Honeycomb (https://www.honeycomb.io/) 19:45 - How did an actual virtual conference go since COVID-19? * Slack (https://slack.com/) Implementation * Bots * #Hallway-track channel * Each Talk Had Its’ Own Q&A Channel * Challenges * People Interaction * Breaktime * Technical Difficulties * Zoom (https://www.zoom.us/) Chat After the Conference * Deserted Island DevOps (https://desertedisland.club/) 26:27 - The Impact of Having ADHD (https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/default.htm) * Advanced Forms of Coping Mechanisms * Quality Time * Struggling with ADHD During COVID-19 * Working From Home and Being Thrown Into Remote Work * Juggling Meetings * Maintaining Comradery 39:43 - Normalcy Theater: Maintaining a Sense That Everything is Fine (When It’s NOT.) * Grief and Loss is Happening on a Global Level * J. Paul Reed (https://twitter.com/jpaulreed) * Shed Load * Sacrificing Thoroughness: we are ALL overloaded * Recruiting Resources * Shifting Work and Time * Showing Others Grace and Empathy Reflections: John: The idea of a software team plays at software just like a music group plays at instruments. (Twitter thread) Carina: Everything has technical and human skills aspects. Aaron: It’s okay to not be getting things done right now and to be taking the time that we need to take care of ourselves. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Aaron Aldrich.
180: Open Source Freedom and Technical Purity with Tobie Langel
02:34 - Tobie’s Superpower: Bridging tribes. * Avoiding Labels 04:13 - Being a Co-Conspirator of Ethical Open Source * Contributing to the Greater Good * Finding Deeper Meaning in Open Source, Software, and Tech * Privilege, Moral Obligation, and Responsibility * Edmund Berkeley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Berkeley) * The Priority of Constituencies (https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-design-principles/#priority-of-constituencies) * Technical Purity 12:41 - Open Source: Prioritizing Implementers Over End-Users * Richard Stallman, “Four Freedoms” (https://openedreader.org/chapter/stallmans-four-freedom/) * Everything is Software, Everywhere – Impact 17:19 - Developer Attachment to Technical Purity * Privacy & Security & Safety (Spying on your spouse on Facebook example) * Flavors of Safety (Zoom (https://zoom.us/) breaches and trust) * Physical Safety and Mental Safety * Freedom From Self-Censorship * Surveillance and Tracking 34:54 - Open Source Practitioners Misguided Thinking When Building Software * Software is Written by Privileged People * Lack of Empathy for the End-User * Comfort and Questioning * Internationalization Issues 47:03 - Talking About These Issues – What gives us hope? This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Tobie Langel.
179: Conference Magic with PJ Hagerty
02:43 - PJ’s Superpower: Convincing people that karaoke is a good idea. * PJ’s Karaoke History * Why Karaoke is Awesome 07:13 - The DevRel World (DevRel = Developer Relations) * Jim Weirich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Weirich) 13:42 - Online vs In-Person/Live Conferences * Body Language and Delivery * Hallway Track: Is not a literal 'track.' It's all the interactions, conversations, talk follow-up, etc. that happen at a conference outside of the formal schedule. Hallway tracks are when people interact socially about the issues being discussed at the event. For instance, between talks or over lunch. Most hallway track conversations are open and casual. Sometimes hallway track conversations inspire a future lightning talk, Ignite talk, panel discussion, or full talk. * Can you emulate an in-person conference online? * Luck and Visibility 25:54 - Making Conferences Diverse & Inclusive * Putting People on Stage That Don’t Look Like You * Passing on “Lucky” to Others 33:01 - Prompt (https://promptconf.com/) and Talking About Mental Health * Ed Finkler on Open Sourcing Mental Illness at Distill (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqRPln8X1sc#action=share) (this was the talk that launched Prompt) * Greg Baugues: Devs and Depression (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIa-Mc2KSk) * OSMI = Open Sourcing Mental Illness (https://osmihelp.org/) * CodeDaze 2016 - Paying Off Emotional Debt by Justine Arreche (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YppMGmdaxn4) * Madalyn Rose Parker: Overcoming Mental Health Hurdles at Work (https://www.alterconf.com/talks/overcoming-mental-health-hurdles-work) * Mental Health Summit - php[tek] 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U627ps3og3M&list=PLJPRYJOPv4pTLHxR1hkeikrUn2TlOsE2R&index=3&t=0s) 43:10 - Making Conferences Diverse & Inclusive (Cont’d) * Being Seen -- White Cis Men * The Colored Musicians Club (https://www.cmctheclub.com/) * Aggressive Inclusion * Micro Opportunities * Lightning Talks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk) 54:14 - Accessibility * Time and Monetary Expenses * Conferencing in the time of COVID-19 PJ's First Ever Full Talk at RubyMidwest: Act Locally - Think Globally (https://youtu.be/O8IzXwNDtqA) Reflections: Carina: The exaggerated visual of putting a hand down and throwing people into the air to lift them up. Jamey: Holding onto the feeling of being lucky while feeling awful. Jessica: Getting pushes to make output. PJ: Be a Jim Weirich. Have a “Hello World” attitude. Human connection is important. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: PJ Hagerty.
178: Data Science and Sponsorship with Emily Robinson
Manning Publications (https://www.manning.com/) has been kind enough to give our listeners a discount code. They're giving listeners of the show a permanent 40% discount, which is good for all products in all formats for everyone. Again, this is a PERMANENT discount code for all Greater Than Code listeners. Use the code PODGREAT20 every time you shop Manning. 02:30 - Emily’s Superpower: Finding all the dogs to pet. 05:05 - Emily’s Data Science Journey * Organization Behavior * Qualitative / Quantitative * Research: Women in STEM Fields 08:21 - The Idea of Passion * Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-Press/dp/0262632691) * Gatekeeping 10:46 - Defining Data Science * Analytics * Decision Science * Machine Learning 13:48 - Emily’s Book: Build a Career in Data Science (https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-career-in-data-science?query=Emily%20Robinson) 16:11 - Dealing with Failure * PyData Ann Arbor: Jacqueline Nolis | When Data Science Projects Fail (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2dqQksRwo) 18:30 - Sponsorship * Emily’s Post on Sponsorship: The Importance of Sponsorship (https://hookedondata.org/the-importance-of-sponsorship/) 20:08 - The Spread of Data Science Roles * Strengthening Job-Critical Skills * The Art of Statistics (https://www.amazon.com/Art-Statistics-Learning-Pelican-Books/dp/0241398630/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=The+Art+of+Statistics&qid=1586796001&s=books&sr=1-2) * How Charts Lie (https://www.amazon.com/How-Charts-Lie-Getting-Information-ebook/dp/B07P88R6DW/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=How+Charts+Lie&qid=1586795985&s=books&sr=1-1) * The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (https://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-Guide-Statistics-Larry-Gonick/dp/0062731025) * Statistical Rethinking (https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Rethinking-Bayesian-Examples-Chapman/dp/1482253445/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Statistical+Rethinking&qid=1586804227&s=books&sr=1-1) * The Book of Why (https://www.amazon.com/Book-Why-Science-Cause-Effect/dp/B07CYJ4G2L/ref=sr_1_1?crid=S9D75K7C9UAB&dchild=1&keywords=the+book+of+why&qid=1586804292&s=books&sprefix=The+book+of+why%2Cstripbooks%2C217&sr=1-1) 27:09 - Sponsorship (Cont’d) * Sponsorship vs Mentorship * Having a Solid Community / Network * R-Ladies (https://rladies.org/) * Capital * Smaller Acts of Mentorship * Trey Causey's Do you have time for a quick chat? Post (https://medium.com/@treycausey/do-you-have-time-for-a-quick-chat-c3f7e46de89d) * Sponsorship and Mentorship Work Best When There's a Concrete, Stated Goal * Data Helpers (https://www.datahelpers.org/) * Mentorship Should Be Part of Our Formal Career Ladder 36:20 - Themes Learned From Writing Build a Career in Data Science (https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-career-in-data-science?query=Emily%20Robinson) * Communication Skills * Proactivity * Community (Network is Important) 40:02 - Companies Should Train People to be Mentors * What does a tech lead do? (https://www.bitlog.com/2017/10/12/what-does-a-tech-lead-do/) 43:07 - Measuring Productivity * Thinking Fast and Slow (https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555) * How to Measure Anything (https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Business-ebook/dp/B00INUYS2U/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=How+to+Measure+Anything&qid=1586805526&s=books&sr=1-1) * The Tyranny of Metrics (https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Metrics-Jerry-Z-Muller-ebook/dp/B07K458MZG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Tyranny+of+Metrics&qid=1586805544&s=books&sr=1-1) * Engineering Career Development at Etsy (https://codeascraft.com/2019/10/02/engineering-career-development-at-etsy/) 45:48 - External vs Internal Data Science * People Scientists 47:18 - Women and Diverse Representation in Data Science * Groups & Resources * AI Inclusive (https://www.ai-inclusive.org/) * PyLadies (https://www.pyladies.com/) * Data Umbrella: NYC URGs and Allies in Data Science (https://www.meetup.com/nyc-data-umbrella/) * Black in AI (https://blackinai.github.io/) * Harvey Mudd (https://www.hmc.edu/) * Rice University (https://www.rice.edu/) * Why Women Are Flourishing In R Community But Lagging In Python (https://reshamas.github.io/why-women-are-flourishing-in-r-community-but-lagging-in-python/) Reflections: Avdi: Mentorship does not have to be a huge commitment to be useful and sponsorship is often as important -- or more important than mentorship. Chanté: What are the things that we’re willing to do for people who need an extra boost or push or support? Jacob: Mentorship is possible without the mentors knowing they’re even doing it. Rein: If you’re a mentor and your mentees aren’t coming to you with well-formed questions, it’s your job to coach them into that as a mentor. Emily: There aren’t enough resources for senior engineers on the non-technical side of things. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Special Guest: Emily Robinson.
Special Edition: COVID-19
Content warnings for discussion of pandemic and sickness, American politics, and mental health issues. In this special episode of Greater Than Code, several of our panelists have a candid conversation about the current COVID-19 situation, how it has been affecting them personally, and how they believe it will affect the tech industry as a whole. Discussion topics include how it feels both to be working and unemployed during the pandemic, productivity while quarantined, the effect on WFH and conference culture, the current political climate, and human resiliency in the face of the unknown. Links Mentioned: I Want to Know What Day It Is - Foreigner Parody (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4TVYT1OYQ) Becoming More Fully Human with Virginia Satir (https://www.awaken.com/2017/03/becoming-more-fully-human-with-virginia-satir/) Additional show notes: Jamey wanted to report that after recording was finished, they called their favorite restaurant back and was able to successfully order takeout after all. . . . . This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
177: Source Docs and People with Chris Stead
00:56 - Chris’ Superpower: Not Knowing In Public * Asking Questions 02:53 - Source Documents and Their Relation To People * Grace Hopper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper) * Maintaining Code to Give People Context (Writing Code For People) * Critical Complexity * Indu Alagarsamy (https://indu.dev/) 06:44 - Encouraging Others To Write Code For People * Modeling Behavior * Event Storming * ECO Mapping (Ego, Command, Outcome) (http://chrisstead.net/2020/01/17/ECO-mapping.html) * Creating Culture * Arlo Belshee: Naming is a Process (http://arlobelshee.com/tag/naming-is-a-process/) 12:39 - Naming Things in Code / Narratives in Software and Business 18:53 - Asking the Right Questions * Google-Fu (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Google-fu) * Mobbing Interviews 22:38 - Interviewing for the Benefit of the Interviewee * The Problem with Being Transactional * It’s People All The Way Down * Empathetic Interviewing 33:44 - Treating People as People; Making Things More Humane * Peopleware (https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439) * Books by Gerald Weinburg (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Gerald+Weinburg&ref=nb_sb_noss) * The Mythical Man-Month (https://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Anniversary-Software-Engineering-ebook/dp/B00B8USS14/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1L37LXA2PI79D&dchild=1&keywords=mythical+man+month&qid=1586297658&sprefix=mythical+man%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-2) * The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings On Linux And Open Source By An Accidental Revolutionary (https://www.amazon.com/Cathedral-Bazaar-Musings-Accidental-Revolutionary/dp/0596001088) * Willem Larsen (https://twitter.com/techgreatness) 38:23 - Code Stores Emotion * Measuring Progression * The Valley of Despair 45:19 - Deciding: “Will this be helpful for someone else?” Reflections: Jessica: The idea that code can convey emotions. Even code can be Greater Than Code. John: Structuring interviews with goals around comfort and familiarity so people can perform at their best. Jamey: Imbuing things with the feeling when you wrote it. Chris: If you’re feeling frustrated, kind is great. Also, everything is a systemic whole. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Chris Stead.
176: Career Karma with Ruben Harris
01:44 - Ruben’s Superpower: Believing in people more than they believe in themselves and helping people to meet their potential. 03:00 - How Ruben Developed His Superpower * Natural Belief In Self * Father and Mother’s Example 06:35 - Benefits Of Being Underestimated * Conquering Challenges * Career Karma Coaches And Squads 11:15 - Career Karma Success Story 13:50 - Fires Lit Inside 15:03 - Origin Of Career Karma * App Launched January 2019 * CareerKarma.com/schools (http://www.careerkarma.com/schools) * Learn And Experience The Companies * Breaking into Startups (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/breaking-startups-ruben-harris-1?articleId=5964022070152015872#comments-5964022070152015872&trk=public_profile_article_view) * The Reality of Breaking Into Startups: The First Product You Build Is Yourself (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reality-breaking-startups-first-product-you-build-yourself-harris?articleId=6121165669871411200#comments-6121165669871411200&trk=public_profile_article_view) 18:10 - How Career Karma Secured Funding 23:38 - What Makes The Success Of Career Karma Different * Culture of Experimentation 25:25 - What It Feels Like To Know You Are Doing What You Are Meant To Be Doing * Pay Attention To The Patterns In Your Life 31:21 - Impact of Coronavirus 36:15 - Who Will Benefit From Remote Work 38:00 - The Career Karma Team * Pay It Forward 42:30 - If You Want To Be A Master In Life, You Have To Submit To A Master 44:30 - What’s On The Horizon For Career Karma 48:20 - The Biggest Lesson Ruben Has Learned Thus Far LINKS: State of the Bootcamp Market Report 2020 (https://careerkarma.com/blog/bootcamp-market-report-2020/) Remote Working Tips and Complete Guide to Telecommuting in 2020 (https://careerkarma.com/blog/remote-working-guide/) How to Pay for Coding Bootcamp: The Ultimate Guide (https://careerkarma.com/blog/how-to-pay-for-coding-bootcamp-ultimate-guide/) Income Share Agreements: State of the Market 2019 (https://careerkarma.com/blog/income-share-agreement-market-report-2019/) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Ruben Harris.
175: Developing for the Long Term with Eric A. Meyer
00:57 - Eric’s Superpower: The Ability To Explain Things In A Way That Makes Sense To Most People 02:37 - Legacy Capability Of The Web * Web Technologies Are Long Term * Frameworks * Lynx (https://lynx.browser.org) * Y2K 11:30 - Creating Long Term Within Frameworks * Static Can Be Good 15:50 - Ethical Dimensions * RAINN (https://www.rainn.org) * Information Accessible As Widely As Possible * Long Term vs. Short Term Code 20:50 - Longevity Of The Web 23:11 - Edge Cases - Stress Cases * Evan Hensleigh @futuraprime (https://twitter.com/futuraprime) * Design For Real Life (https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-real-life) 25:44 - Make Everything Accessible To The Most People * Diverse Teams Are Stronger * Making Assumptions * Write People Off Explicitly 44:00 - Design For Real Life * Challenging Team Assumptions * The Designated Dissenter * Sarah Parmenter @sazzy (https://twitter.com/sazzy) Reflections: John: The designated dissenter idea. Doing a pre-mortem on a project - planning ahead. Carina: A whole other conversation could come of the philosophy of agile and move fast and break things. Jacob: How the dissenter could be a challenging position to be in. Eric: The dissenter is stress testing, not criticizing. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Eric A. Meyer.
174: Resilience
01:38 - What Does Resilience Mean To The Panelists? * John - [It’s] Like A Flexible Tree That Can Bend With The Wind Or Environment - It Does Not Resist Or Break * Chanté - Tenacity And Grit And Being Able To Cope Or Withstand Something That You Didn’t Foresee - It Doesn’t Break You, It Makes You Stronger * Antifragile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile) * Rein - [It’s] About Unforeseen Surprises 03:36 - Thoughts On David Woods - Four Concepts for Resilience (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276139783_Four_concepts_for_resilience_and_the_implications_for_the_future_of_resilience_engineering) * Resilience As Rebound * Resilience As Robustness * Resilience As The Opposite Of Brittleness * Resilience As Sustained Adaptability 04:49 - Applying Resilience To Leadership * High Performance Organization - HPO (https://www.hpocenter.com) * People Make Up Companies 14:40 - The Difference Between Sustainability And Resilience 17:20 - Welcoming The Resilient Mindset 18:30 - Creating And Acknowledging Resilience 21:54 - Organization Resilience And Adaptive Capacity * Richard Cook’s REdeploy 2019 Talk On The Resilience Of Bone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LbePBiOvZ4&t=3s) * Convincing Employers To Become More Resilient To Reduce Harm To Employees 27:15 - Resilience Related To Diversity And Inclusion * Families And Communities 31:00 - Resilience Within Software Development * Software Being Made Robust, Not Resilient * Rejection Proof (https://www.amazon.com/Rejection-Proof-Became-Invincible-Through/dp/080414138X#ace-g8881249860) - A Parallel Between People And Software * Casey Rosenthal REdeploy2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSLBKoFi1jk) 36:27 - What Price Do We Pay For Not Prioritizing Resiliency * Existential Risk 39:00 - Rein’s Wrap-Up On Resilience This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
173: The Ethical Open Source Movement
02:22 - Coraline Talks About Her Work With The Open Source Movement * Seth Vargo: @sethvargo (https://twitter.com/sethvargo) * The Open Source License - The Hippocratic License (https://github.com/EthicalSource/hippocratic-license) * Bruce Perens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Perens) 08:14 - Who Wrote The Open Source License * The Libertarian Platform * Balancing Our Individual Freedoms With Societal Good 10:26 - The Open Source Initiative (https://opensource.org/) 11:25 - Licensing And The Evolution Of Open Source * Realizing The Impact Of Open Source On Human Society * The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Thomas-Kuhn/dp/0226458083) - Thomas Kuhn * Procrastination * Assimilation * Revolution 18:43 - Litigation Thoughts * Promoting Arbitration Over Litigation * Advantages Of Adopting The License * Putting The Power In The Hands Of The Creators 23:31 - Creators’ Rights * Corporations Are Benefiting From The Free Labor Of The Community 26:00 - Tying The Hippocratic License To Open Source * The Declaration of Human Rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights) * Matt Boehm: @bigolewannabe (https://twitter.com/bigolewannabe) * Accepting Critique * The Ethical Source Working Group (https://ethicalsource.dev/) 28:48 - Other Prongs Of Approach Other Than The License * Scholarship 30:50 - Coraline’s Candidacy For The OSI Board * Tobie Langel: @tobie (https://twitter.com/tobie) 34:00 - What Open Source Means To The Panelists 38:50 - The Concept Of Community * How Maintainers Have Changed Their Relationships With Communities * Writing Values And Aspirations In Codes Of Conduct ethicalsource.dev (https://ethicalsource.dev/) firstdonoharm.dev (https://firstdonoharm.dev/) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
172: Limitations of Human Knowledge with Miko Matsumura
02:12 - Miko’s Superpower: Not Knowing Things. 03:30 - Coming To Your Senses * Breaking Out Of Thinking * Detecting - Venture Capitalism * Pattern Making And Pattern Matching 06:45 - Understand The Limits Of What You Can Know And What You Do Know * Knowing People * Knowing Industries * Most Humans Don’t Know A Lot Of Things * Impermanence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence) 11:45 - Human Decision Making Is An Embodied Process * The Gut Feeling * Enteric Nervous System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system) * Sympathetic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system) And Parasympathetic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasympathetic_nervous_system) Nervous Systems * Central Nervous System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_nervous_system) * The Heart Feelings * Feelings Are Emotions 18:30 - Interviews As Coachable And Teachable Moments * The Gig Economy (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gig-economy.asp) * Prioritizing The Development Of Relationships * Exhibited Behaviors That Match Patterns Are Coachable And Teachable 25:33 - Problems With The Interview Framework 29:23 - Human Action Is Connected To Emotion * The Human Brain 34:30 - Not Knowing As A Superpower * Action Potential (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_potential) 39:56 - Small Mind, Big Mind * Losing Your Mind And Coming To Your Senses 45:50 - Being Over Reliant On The Posture Of Knowing * Andrew Yang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yang) * Peter Thiel - Zero to One (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_to_One) * Human Advantage Over Machines 50:16 - The Notion Of Marriage * Dr. John Gottman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottman) * The Idea Of Magic Reflections: Jessica: Favorite part is the idea that if we think we know something, that leads to despair sometimes. The release of admitting we don’t know everything is a source of hope. Jacob: Feeling like I’m known personally and professionally is important to me, but being known in a deterministic way resonated with me. Artemis: The Bob Marley principle that was mentioned. Thinking about that philosophy connects with the ideas we talked about. When you realize all the intelligence that is out there, thinking of how small you are. If we can lose our mind and come back to our senses and see that we are part of this fabric, we’re not really all that different. Miko: “You can’t fool all the people all the time.” It is a way of connecting with the world of limitation. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Miko Matsumura.
171: Web Accessibility with Chris DeMars
01:14 - Chris’s Superpower: His Ability to Sleep. 01:50 - Why Chris Wants To Talk About Web Accessibility * Top 3 Priorities When Building on the Web * Accessibility * Performance * Security 02:45 - Whose Responsibility Is It To Build An Accessible Web? * Anyone Building On The Web * Dominos’ Lawsuit (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-dominos-pizza/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-dominos-bid-to-avoid-disabilities-suit-idUSKBN1WM1P1) * WCAG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines) 07:38 - How To Inform And Get Colleagues On Board With Accessibility * Understanding The Clientele * Have Numbers To Back It Up 11:45 - Image Descriptions * Alt Attributes * Twitter Adds Alt Text For .gifs 16:34 - Companies Deal With Accessibility Lawsuits 19:07 - Where To Start Making Changes * Only Shipping One Experience That Works For Everybody * Make Sure You Are Using Semantic Markup * Color Contrast * Make Sure There Are Alt Attributes On Your Images 27:50 - What Can Developers Do Today To Make Changes * Start With An Audit * Compare To Competitors 31:06 - Work Collaboratively With The Designers 34:15 - How To Be Accessible For Various Disabilities * Hearing * Cognitive * Physical 37:10 - Accessibility Can Benefit Everyone Reflections: Chris: Accessibility is not a requirement, it is a must. From Marcy Sutton: Every little bit of accessibility you contribute is so necessary and so needed. Carina: The concrete useful examples such as audits are beneficial to business people. Jacob: Wants to get better at using a screen reader to gain empathy about what the right thing is to do. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Chris DeMars.
170: The Case for Vanilla JavaScript with Chris Ferdinandi
00:53 - Chris’s Superpower: Derailing conversations and having a knack for taking complex tasks and breaking them down into smaller, simpler parts that people find easy to understand. 01:44 - The Pitch for Vanilla JavaScript 03:06 - Peoples’ Biggest Challenge as a Developer * Having Trouble Keeping Up * Adding Processes and Tools Make it More Difficult to Get Started * “The Right Way To Do It” 05:50 - The Problem With The Way We Do Things Today * Front-End Development * Back-End Developers Move to Front-End 08:30 - Modern Web Development * The Use of Frameworks * Package Managers * “The Cascade is Bad” - Using More JavaScript 11:42 - A Better Approach To Web Development * Sometimes Old Is Better * Don’t Ditch The Old Just Because Something New Came Out * Embrace The Platform * Think Smaller And More Modular * Remember That The Web Is For Everyone 17:15 - CSS and JavaScript * Web Bloat That Affects The End User * Accessibility - Being Able To Work On Improvement * Accessibility Audit On Gutenberg (https://wpcampus.org/2019/05/gutenberg-audit-results/) * Being Too Heavily Focused On One Programming Language 25:05 - The Notion of Development At Scale * The Google Hiring Process And Frameworks 27:45 - Silos Of Technology 31:10 - Complexity And/Or Simplicity * Focusing On Quality Over Volume * Factoring For Growth 37:20 - Advocating For Vanilla JavaScript * Documentation * Unexpected Incidentals 44:10 - Gradual Movement Of The Code Base 45:30 - Using The Word “Just” 49:30 - The Concept Of State 52:45 - Use Of Static HTML 53:40 - Do Companies Actually Build For The Web Like This * Netflix Page Loads With Vanilla JS * Happy Middle Ground 58:05 - Summation Of Positives Of Vanilla JavaScript * Ease Of Beginner Developer Onboarding * Allowing Non-JavaScript Developers To Participate More Meaningfully In Your Process * Overall Resilience And Performance For The End User Reflections: Rein: Pick the thing that reduces your suffering the most. Jacob: If you are just starting to learn JavaScript, it is ok to not learn a framework immediately. It is also ok to dive into something else and come back to learn vanilla JS. Also, Noel Rappin - Modern Front-End Development for Rails (https://pragprog.com/book/nrclient/modern-front-end-development-for-rails), takes a great approach to using differing technologies and what they can bring to your project. Chris: Thinking about the instances where it does make sense to use some of these tools as opposed to reasons why you shouldn’t use them. Liked the talk about minimizing your pain. If you feel like there are too many moving parts to JavaScript, you are not alone, it’s not you, and you’ve totally got this. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Chris Ferdinandi.
169: Career Elbows
01:49 - Rein Talks About His Recent Career Transition From Being a Consultant to a Full-Time Employee 03:52 - Jamey Talks About the Decision to Leave Their Job * Making The Decision To Leave Your Comfort Zone 05:34 - Pros and Cons of Staying for Job Stability and Comfort * Learned Helplessness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness) * Being a Part of a System * Don’t Be The Smartest Person in The Room * Shared Space (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space) 13:20 - Resilience and Regulatory Mechanisms * Dr. Richard Cook - REdeploy 2019 Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LbePBiOvZ4) 15:59 - Interviews * Watching Interviewers’ Reactions to Challenging Their Questions * Gerald Weinberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg) - Secrets of Consulting (https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Successfully/dp/0932633013) * Most of the Things We Do Have No Effect Whatsoever in the Larger System 20:20 - Job Success and Effort 22:22 - Safety and Resilience * Aviation and Tech * Kubernetes * David Woods - Resilience is a Verb (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329035477_Resilience_is_a_Verb) 26:05 - Interview Anxiety * Who You Know * Group Bias 30:25 - Team Creating/Building * Assuming Competence * Consideration of New Team Members * Dealing With Change After Being Comfortable * Sidney Dekker - Understanding Human Error (https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error/dp/0754648257) 38:04 - Feeling Comfortable in Tech * Privileges of Being in the Field * Switching Career Paths 47:20 - Visualize How You Will Feel Working Somewhere * Analytical vs. Emotional Decision Making 50:08 - No One in Tech is an Expert in Human Performance - Interviewing * Ask Questions of the Interviewer * Being the One That Gets to Make the Decision * Avdi on the Interview Process - We Should be Able to Speak Up 58:25 - Discovering How to Make Better Systems * Tell More Stories This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
168: Appolition with Dr. Kortney Ziegler
01:06 - Kortney’s Superpower: Being a visionary. Seeing things that aren’t necessarily there. 01:50 - How Appolition (https://appolition.us/) Came to Be * Grassroots Company Crowdfunding Money for Incarcerated Black Mothers * Tweeted About Using the Change Round Up Model * Educating Those in Tech About What Bail Is * Gaining Trust 07:20 - Kortney’s Professional Background * Building Things in Technological Space * PhD in 2011 - difficulty finding substantial employment * Filmmaker, Scholar * Encountered a lot of discrimination in professional career * Became Entrepreneur in 2012/2013 * Attended Filmmakers Hackathon * Launched Trans*H4CK (http://www.transhack.org/) * Appolition (https://appolition.us/) 13:10 - Appolition Specifics * Bail is Predatory * Educate Yourself About Bail * Partnered With Outside Team * 2000 Users, Waitlist of 8000 * Then Brought In House * Unlimited Users * Web App - No Download Required 19:45 - Partnering With Others To Provide Education 21:00 - Surprises/Ah-Ha Moments * The Expenses * Humbling to Recognize the Work That Goes Into It * Naming of the App Traveling in Media Convos 25:10 - The Goal of Appolition * How We Can Leverage Technology That Exists 30:00 - Lessons From A Hackathon * Went As Award Winning Filmmaker * Engineers Not Willing to Hear Ideas of Creators * Led to Creating Trans*H4CK (http://www.transhack.org/) * Refuge Restroom 35:19 - Changes Seen At Tech Events Since Trans*H4CK * Great Conversations and Events Happened * Startups Can Shift Rules, They Haven’t been As Inclusive As the Discourse Surrounding Them Was Encouraging Them To Be * Some Things Were Good, Some Things Were Bad, Some Things Need Improvement 43:08 - Plans After Leaving Tech * Getting Back to Creative Side * Filmmaking * Self-Improvement 45:49 - Fatigue 50:00 - Future Endeavors Follow @Appolition (https://twitter.com/Appolition) #AppolitionBookList Reflections: Jamey: Appolition being a webapp so that it is accessible to those who don’t have smartphones. Chanté: Going back into self improvement and self reflection is being tucked into the back of my mind. Jacob: What are conversations I can have that I have access to about diversity and inclusion before the professional gets called in. Kortney: Moved by the idea of finding community in tech. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Dr. Kortney Ziegler.
167: Clarity of Thought with Ted M. Young
01:20 - Ted’s Superpower: Translating things for people to understand better. 02:49 - Coding on a Live Stream * Curiosity is Useful and Dangerous * Comparing Coding to Puzzles 07:13 - Research is a Drug * Finding Answers is Gratifying * Current Reading Infects Daily Thought * Anders Ericsson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Anders_Ericsson) 10:45 - Connecting the Academic Idea of Expertise to Everyday Context * Worked Examples (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worked-example_effect) * Memory Limits * Gaining a Solid Foundation for Training Purposes * The Path of Decision-making 16:50 - Code Reviews * Learning About Decisions Made Along the Way * Pair Programming and Mob Programming * Externalizing Your Thinking * Curse of Knowledge 19:41 - Recording Yourself Coding/Learning Something New * Gaining Empathy * Improving Documentation and Communication 21:56 - Live Streaming as an Introvert * What Other People Get Out of It * Seeing People Struggle and Being Able to Help * We All Get Lost * Building Community * Being Comfortable Showing Frustration 29:41 - The Difference Between Training and Live Coding * Suz Hinton (https://medium.com/@suzhinton) * Accountability in Live Coding * Privilege 35:35 - Applying Research to TDD Teaching Technique * James Shore (https://twitter.com/jamesshore?lang=en) * The Thinking Part and the Predictive Aspect * It’s Not About the Test Failing, It’s About Validating Your Mental Model * Retrieval Practice * Formative and Summative Assessments (https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/basics/formative-summative.html) * Spaced Repetition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition) * AnkiApp (https://www.ankiapp.com) * The Purpose of Patterns 48:27 - Human Learning * Stop Teaching People What They Know and Find Out What They Don’t Know Reflections: Jamey: ‘Predictions’ in TDD - Having more succinct language for things in your head strengthens understanding. Artemis: The concept of strengthening and muscle. If we can work deliberately on strengthening these muscles then in the moments of our everyday work we can improve the quality of our day to day decisions. Ted: An aspect of expertise is you start connecting more things. We have to find a place for the ‘why.’ This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Ted M. Young.
166: From Software Engineer to Management with Phil Wheeler
01:10 - Phil’s Superpower: Putting Himself in Others’ Shoes. 02:03/09:14 From Software Engineer to Management * Empathy Through The Career Shift * The Learning Curve * Making a Conscious Choice To Switch * Gaining Leadership Skills * Making Your Own Opportunities 03:34 - How Phil Came Into The Greater Than Code Community * Found Through Twitter * Codemania (https://codemania.io/) 05:54 - Commonalities Between Issues Between USA and NZ * Inclusion, Equality in Technology 07:05 - Life Science Software Experience * Cloud Based, LT * Awareness of Accessibility 16:45 - To Get Into Management or Not * It’s Not For Everyone * Impostor Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome) 18:55 - The Parallels Of Management And Parenting 26:17 - Working From Home Or The Office * Setting The Right Examples For The Team * Encouraging People To Take Leave, Learning And Development Opportunities, Health Reasons Without Repercussions 31:47 - Living In A College/University Town 32:54 - Overcoming Impostor Syndrome * Exists In The Technology Sector * Exists In Other Disciplines * Turn The Ship Around! (https://www.davidmarquet.com/turn-the-ship-around-a-true-story-of-turning-followers-into-leaders-by-david-marquet/) * The Manager’s Path (https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897) 35:58 - Empathy For Managers And Employees * Leadership Development * Self-Reflection/Self-Awareness * Journaling/Note Taking * Becoming A Technical Leader (https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Technical-Leader-Problem-Solving-Approach/dp/0932633021) 51:11 - Phil’s Thoughts For The Future * Citizens Before Consumers * What Can We Do Better? * The Global Digital Citizen Foundation (https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/) Reflections: Jacob: Happy being an individual contributor but contributing to the art of management by being a better employee and having empathy for managers. Phil: Self-Awareness and empathy. Wanting to push his people in a certain direction but taking that step back and determining where that motivation is coming from. Chanté: Impostor syndrome: at some point in time we’re all impostors. Doing reading about leadership can help whether you are taking that path or not. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Phil Wheeler.
Fast & Furious with Penelope Phippen
Please enjoy this mini-episode of Greater Than Code featuring guest Penelope Phippen (https://twitter.com/penelope_zone) as we begin to pivot to our new podcast theme, the Fast & Furious (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_%26_Furious). * ( * Just kidding, we are still a tech podcast.) But we do hope you enjoy this set of outtakes where we grill Penelope on her Fast & Furious knowledge and speculate about the future of the franchise.) This is the kind of content we normally release exclusively to our Patreon subscribers, but we didn't want to hoard such joy, so it's a gift to all of you. But if you want more content like this, an invite to our Slack group, AND an invite to the Fast & Furious party at Jamey's house, please support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) * ( * That is also a joke, if you're a Patron, thank you for your support, but please don't show up to Jamey's house unannounced.) Special Guest: Penelope Phippen.
165: Rubyfmt with Penelope Phippen
01:37 - Penelope’s Superpower: An extremely cursed knowledge of the Ruby programming language’s grammar. 03:09 - Writing Ruby Programming 05:50 - Why Penelope is Doing This the Way She Is * Were Any Bugs Found in the Ruby Grammar * There is No Spec * There is No Written Standard for How Ruby is Supposed to Work 07:32 - Inability to Extract Parse.y Out * Penelope’s Ideas 12:02 - What Problem Penelope is Trying to Solve With This Program * Rubocop Doesn’t Well Solve This Problem 18:30 - Hierarchy of Nitpicking 20:35 - Opportunities for Collaboration 22:44 - Major Challenges Faced * Finding Time * No Major Challenges * Community Overwhelmingly Welcoming * This is Not a Gem 25:58 - What Others Will Do With Rubyfmt (https://github.com/penelopezone/rubyfmt) 28:08 - Finding Time and Motivation to Work on Rubyfmt (https://github.com/penelopezone/rubyfmt) 30:00 - Why Penelope Hasn’t Got Pushback * There Isn’t Another Tool in This Class for Ruby 34:25 - Heretically Creating An Ergonomic Way To Work With ASTs 37:00 - The Fate of Regional Ruby Conferences * Regional Conferences Are Valuable For Other People * Speakers Can Get Their Start * Local Conferences Can Benefit Local Speakers * Struggling to Get Speakers * Organizers Burnout and No One Takes Over * $$ - Hard to Break Even This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Penelope Phippen.
164: Psychological Balance with Dr. Mireille Reece
01:14 - Mireille’s Superpower: Being just herself. The sense of respect around the individuality of every person. 02:30 - Being Different From Others is a Good Thing * Nature vs. Nurture * Epigenetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics) 05:59 - Our Brains and Empathy * Mirror Neurons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron) * Dr. Dan Siegel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Siegel) * The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon/Frequency Illusion 11:15 - The Brain vs. The Mind * Extended Cognition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_cognition) * Sensation and Perception * Survival Rules - Virginia Satir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Satir) 19:22 - Three Brains in One (https://psycheducation.org/brain-tours/3-brains-in-one-brain/) 21:51 - HPA Axis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothalamic%E2%80%93pituitary%E2%80%93adrenal_axis) * Dr. John Briere (http://s1097954.instanturl.net/) 23:06 - Overcoming Unconscious Impulses * Fight or Flight * Collateral Data * Brené Brown (https://brenebrown.com/) * Grounding 26:56 - Affective Prosody (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Psycholinguistics/Prosody) * Gavin de Becker - The Gift of Fear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_Fear) * Incongruence 33:26 - Balancing Transparency at Work * Humanity in Tech * Codeswitching * Arianna Huffington (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna_Huffington) * Relationships at Work * Psychological Safety * Shame * Learned Helplessness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness) 48:41 - Effort Over Outcome 56:15 - Using the Word “While” 59:25 - Decoding Your Anger * Using Energy 01:05:28 - “Plays” or Neural Routes 01:09:20 - Correlation vs. Causation Reflections: Rein: Bringing our whole self to work without thinking about punishment or reprisal. Finding psychological safety. Jacob: How he thinks one of the biggest problems in the tech industry is that there is this brick wall around feelings and how feelings and work don’t mix. Rather than a brick wall, what kind of filter can we put in front of our emotional lives that is appropriate for the professional world? Mireille: It really is around being able to see other people as people and when we do that most of the time people are not trying to make our lives more difficult. Check out Mireille’s podcast Brain Science here (https://changelog.com/brainscience). This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Dr. Mireille Reece.
163: Cause A Scene with Kim Crayton
01:24 - Kim’s Superpower: Being a Black Woman in Tech with a Strategy and a Platform. 02:21 - Continuously Validating Your Space as a Black Woman * Technical vs. Technology * Kamala Harris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris) Suspending Her Campaign * Inclusion, Diversity, and Business Strategy 08:10 - The System was Built to Harm and Oppress Black Women * Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing) * Stacey Abrams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Abrams) * F*ck Civility * White People are on a Spectrum of Racist * Ibram Kendi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibram_X._Kendi): How To Be an Antiracist * Black People Cannot be Racist 15:42 - The Only Power Black People Have is the Power Whiteness Has Given Them * Capitalism, Communism, Marxism, Socialism are Theories Rooted in White Supremacy 21:24 - White Feminism is Bullsh*t * White Women are Now the Default Diversity in Tech 25:50 - Being a Strategist * Influencing Small to Medium Sized Business * Making Meaningful Impactful Change in Tech 33:15 - #causeascene (https://hashtagcauseascene.com/) 35:41 - Price Asymmetry 36:48 - Kim’s Six-Step Process 40:15 - Stop Looking for Simple Solutions to Complex Problems * Defining Racism Beyond the Dictionary Definition 44:29 - Future of Jobs Report from World Economic Forum (https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2018) 45:55 - Strategies for Developing Your Other Technical Skills 48:15 - Bounded Rationality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality) * Facts Change, Truth Remains the Same * Collaboration Over Competition 52:10 - Can We Have Antiracist Capitalism? 01:00:59 - Defining Racism This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Kim Crayton.
162: Glue Work with Denise Yu
00:58 - Denise’s Superpower: She is a classically trained musician and is good at transcribing music in her head. 03:30 - Glue Work (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19846720) * Tanya Reilly (https://twitter.com/whereistanya) * Doing Tasks That Are Adjacent to Coding * Scheduling * Making Sure Meetings Have Agendas * Who Tends to do Glue Work * Emotional Labor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_labor) 13:07 - What Denise Has Done to Improve the Glue Work Situation * Having the Terminology Helps A Lot 17:31 - How to Address Changing the Structure of Glue Work * Thinking Globally and Acting Locally * Burnout * Writing More Feedback Than Managers Expect * Writing Feedback About Glue Work * Virginia Satir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_labor) 31:40 - Offboarding Yourself 37:10 - Release Engineering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_engineering) 39:45 - Being a Product Manager 46:39 - Being Back in the Development Role * Working With Teams Reflections: John: The distinction between glue work that is just work that you are doing and glue work that you are enjoying and getting satisfaction out of. See what he can do to add glue work tasks into evaluations and part of everyone’s job. Rein: Burnout isn’t just working long hours. Burnout becomes a real danger when those things combine with acute alienation. Jacob: If product managers tried to be more transparent with their day to day tasks, and trying to listen more himself to what the PMs are saying. Denise: Thinking globally but solving locally. Always be offboarding yourself. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Denise Yu.
161: Making Space with Bärí A. Williams
01:48 - Bärí’s Superpower: Being a Black Woman 05:20/22:50 - Admitting and Knowing What You Don’t Know * Intersectionality and Culture 10:00 - Born and Raised in Oakland * Gentrification * What is the Deficit of the City * Being Connected to Your Roots 19:30 - Unintended Consequences * Building Algorithms That Fact Check * You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know * Facts Are Not Facts Anymore * Tutorial to Boy Scouts About Getting Stopped by Police * Keeping the Kids Alive 33:15 - Where is the Light (In the Technology) * Technology is the Mirror of the People Creating It * Creating an Open Space * Prioritizing Important Events 42:34 - Getting Organizations to Buy Into the Open Space Concept 48:50 - Who’s Job is it to Educate the Children About Bias * Allyship * Seeing White Podcast (https://www.sceneonradio.org/) 58:47 - Diversity or Inclusion * Lagging Metric or Leading Metric * Draw People In With Inclusion 01:03:59 - Taking Space and Making Space Reflections: Arty: Multigenerational roots, becoming your own being, being raised to be proud of yourself and say what you think. Be the roots for the people around you. There has been a loss of grounding. Chanté: Bärí is the real deal. It takes only a few to change history. Being real is valuable. Jacob: Wants his son to know that he won’t have to worry when being pulled over, and he should be troubled by that fact. Bärí: What do you connect to, who do you connect to? What and who are you thankful for? Think about that. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Bärí A. Williams.
160: Thermodynamics of the Twitterverse
01:50 - Getting Sucked into Twitter Vortexes 03:06 - Dynamics of Human Emotion * Willem Larsen Episode (https://www.greaterthancode.com/reinventing-education) * Prometheus Rising (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Rising) 05:36 - Creating Safe Spaces for Emotionally Charged Conversations 07:57 - Radical Inclusion * Shared Conversation About Humanity 09:49 - Overidentification/Over Attachment to Tribalism * Race and Ethnicity are Socially Constructed (yes!) 12:15 - Digital Activism * Retweeting What We Agree With, Not What We Disagree With (How it’s Taken) * Encouraging Good Faith Disagreements 15:22 - Tribal Dynamics 16:45 - People From Oppressed Groups Have the Right to Rage * Being an Advocate * Making Space 24:30 - The Changing Frequencies of People 26:58 - Call-Out Culture * Calling In * Invisibilia (https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia) * Wanting to See People Make Right/Not Shunning Them 32:20 - We Are All Human! Reflections: Arty: How much our connectivity is an opportunity to see our diversity and the strength and power and creative coolness of one another and if we can come together in shared space, what is the vision we can craft together. Chanté: Synchronicity and thinking about the way things happen. Glad to have this conversation. Jacob: How to make a community of people that can have difficult conversations, certain boundaries need to be respected. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On this day in Paris in 1948, the United Nations issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/), a milestone document that sets out the fundamental rights and privileges of all people and all nations. In honor of the anniversary of this document, the panelists of Greater Than Code have come together to share their reading of the document with all of you.
159: Bias in AI with Lauren Maffeo
02:26 - Lauren’s Superpower: Remembering Useful Yet Sentimental Facts About People 03:57 - Lauren’s Professional Background 07:35 - Bias in the Downsides of AI * Automation vs. Augmentation * Meredith Broussard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Broussard) 11:15 - Media and AI/How the Media Affects People’s Perception of AI 14:32 - Concerns of Small and Midsize Businesses Pertaining to AI 18:37 - How to Mitigate Bias in AI 22:23 - Ethics in AI * Loomis v. Wisconsin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomis_v._Wisconsin) 25:39 - Defining Bias in AI * Georgetown University Law Center (https://www.law.georgetown.edu/) * Unconscious Bias * Harvard Implicit Bias Test (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html) 32:04 - Fairness vs. Accuracy in Algorithms 38:30 - Preventing Bias in AI Resources * Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/en) * Towards Data Science Blog (https://towardsdatascience.com/) * Github (https://github.com/) 41:00 - Working Remotely * Proactively Communicating * Setting Boundaries 50:45 - Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace * Slack (https://slack.com/) * Aubrey Blanche, Atlassian (https://www.atlassian.com/) Reflections: John: Lauren talking about the work she’s doing to pre-educate people so they can prevent themselves from getting in trouble even before they build their models. Chanté: It’s not enough to just be doing this internally. Bias happens in all shapes, sizes, and forms and it’s important to recognize that. Jacob: In a biased society we can’t expect completely unbiased data; therefore we can’t train an algorithm on the theoretical equitable world that we want to create. There will always be a trace of the bias we have now. Lauren: The first step is acknowledging the bias exists in the first place. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps,LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Lauren Maffeo.
158: Exploring Company Values with Ariel Caplan
01:22 - Ariel’s Superpower: Extreme Irritability * How to Address What is Irritating You 07:30 - Accessibility Needs - Learning What Irritates Others * Disability Simulation in the Workplace * Hot-Keys vs. Mouse Use 16:05 - Rabbinical School * Learning to Ask Complex Questions * Edge Cases (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_case) 20:30 - Developing Company/Corporate Values * Purpose of Company Values * Revisiting the Values * When to Remove a Value * Wording of Values * Aspirational Values * The Right Time to Put Values into Writing Reflections: John: Using the process of establishing and/or revising values as a way of pulling in the experience of marginalized people in the company. Jamey: Think about who your values put pressure on. Jacob: Balance between whether values should be aspirational or should they be a reflection of things that people in the company have already internalized. Ariel: Aspirational vs. Reflective values and when is the right time for each. Also, there is a point of giving too much weight to the values. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Ariel Caplan.
157: Reinventing Education with Willem Larsen
01:12 - Willem’s Superpower: Meta 02:20 - Accelerated Community Learning * Self-Sustaining Communities 12:45 - Reimagining the Education System * Unschooling * Open-Space (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology) * Systems of Privilege * Jordan Fink @buildsoil (https://twitter.com/buildsoil?lang=en) 24:20 - Stages of Human Life * Age Segregation in School * Storytelling of Culture 41:10 - The Thermodynamics of Emotion Symposium (https://thermodynamicsofemotion.com) 57:01 - Listening to What the Community Needs The Fall of Civilizations Podcast (https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/) Reflections: Jacob: Local communities can surely agree on and find really innovative ways they can provide for each other. Arty: The magic can only happen with the existing system being out of the way and space being created for the people with the spaces and the people with the programs to work together around the shared interest. Willem: Our culture has all these impediments to navigating complex systems in wise ways. We should get out of the way of people we have more power than and listen to the system and provide resources to the system. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Willem Larsen.
156: Authenticity in Interviewing with James Edward Gray II
01:30 - James’ Superpower: Spending time chasing his daughter and her robots around. Helping with her robotics club at school. 02:37 - “Just Be Yourself” is Terrible Advice 03:50 - What Are You Trying to Accomplish in the Interview 06:00 - Be Authentic: Which Parts of Yourself to Show Be a Strong Communicator Be an Avid Learner Don’t be a Jerk 07:25 - Turn Your Interviewers into Your Advocates 12:42 - Technical Interviews Saying “I Don’t Know” is OK 16:00 Interviewee as the Interviewer Make Sure You Want to Work Here Answer Questions Honestly 18:53 - Prepare for Common Interview Questions Rephrasing Weakness 23:34 - Intrinsic Motivation Mastery by Robert Greene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery_(book)) 29:29 - Storytelling in the Interview Being Confident in Your Accomplishments Interviewers Explain Why You Are Asking the Question 37:15 - Management Techniques Richard Cook (https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/richard-cook/) Herbert Simon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon) 45:00 - Why Technical Interviews are Challenging Cracking the Coding Interview (http://www.crackingthecodinginterview.com/) Reflections: John: Setting the context for being approachable as an interviewer is important. Rein: Some of this advice works all the time, and some of this advice only works when you have been able to develop a personal connection with the interviewer/interviewee. James: Think about if this is a place you want to work while interviewing. Avdi: Turning your interviewer into your advocate can help them also be able to tell you if this place will be a good fit for you. Jessica: It’s not just about being able to interview well as the interviewee, but we need to choose a company that can interview well too. Ask your personal contacts about what it is like to work at a certain company. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: James Edward Gray.
155: Ethical Open Source with Don Goodman-Wilson
01:10 - Don’s Superpower: He is a generalist. He has lots of skills he can bring together in one place. 02:25 - Ethics and Open Source Open Source is Broken (https://medium.com/@degoodmanwilson/open-source-is-broken-d836efbceb4f) OSI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative) How Can we Make Sure Our Code isn’t Weaponized 08:34 - Consequentialism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism) vs Contractualism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contractualism) OSI FAQ (https://opensource.org/faq) Free Software Foundation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation) 18:15 - The Paradox of Tolerance/Paradox of Openness 19:15 - Is Licensing the Right Mechanism for Bringing Ethics into Open Source 23:40 - Enforceability of Open Source Licenses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license) 28:40 - Compensation as an Ethical Consideration 34:30 - Quantifying the Value the Open Source Software Gives 38:24 - Empowering People Who Participate in Open Source It’s OK to Question Authority Not Everyone Has the Privilege to Participate in Open Source Ethics in Open Source Licenses 48:31 Tierney Cyren @bitandbang (https://twitter.com/bitandbang) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Don Goodman-Wilson.
154: Filtering Your Brain with Ambreen Hasan
01:12 - Ambreen’s Non-Technical Superpower: She is Very Good at Zoning People Out Learning necessary information from conversations 03:20 - Ambreen’s Technical Superpower: Any Challenge She is Given She Will Try to Just Do It Comfort with Uncertainty 06:03 - Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset It’s OK to Not Know Everything Using Resources to Your Advantage 08:40 - Ambreen’s Hobbies Outside of Software 10:10 - Thinking About Things in a Molecular Way Taking Chunks at a Time When Learning Something New Breaking Down Big Concepts into Small Things You Can Learn Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable 13:45 - Ambreen’s Journey to Software Engineering C++ Turning a Love Into a Career Ruby, Rails, Go, Docker 20:30 - Self-Advocating for New Work Experience 22:00 - Empathy in Engineering Auditory Fatigue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_fatigue) Pair Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming) vs Mob Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_programming) Reflections: John: Intentionally recognizing uncomfortable learning situations and be okay with it. Jacob: Your emotional state does matter at work and we as professionals need to recognize that this has relevance to one’s ability to do work. Arty: It is important to help others to be able to come out of their comfort zone and be ok with not knowing everything. Ambreen: Likes Jacob’s idea of being productively lost, but there is progress being made. There are many different styles of learning. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Ambreen Hasan.
153: Your Favorite Philosopher Is You with Mannah Kallon
01:16 - Mannah’s Superpower: He is Comfortable in His Own Skin Being Yourself 02:17 - Assessing Identity and Evaluating Sense of Self in New Culture What a Philosopher is 03:42 - Quoting Beyoncé and Using the B Word Who Takes Offense? Is Everyone Given the Same Consideration? 06:25 - Moments of Self Doubt When Someone Doesn’t Believe You Simone de Beauvoir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir) Addressing Terms of Identity with Conversation Botham Jean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Botham_Jean), Forgiveness, and Role Reversal 09:14 - Empathy Who is Your Favorite Philosopher Having the Ability to Consider and Alternative Viewpoint 11:22 - Retaliation is a Thing Impeachment Whistleblower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Ukraine_controversy) Kavanaugh Investigation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh) Rowena Chiu (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-harvey-weinstein-accuser-rape-rowena-chiu_n_5d767361e4b0fde50c2ac3c9) Colin Kaepernick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Kaepernick) 16:33 - How to Deal With Coming Across a Viewpoint You Don’t Think Has Merit It is Healthy to Have a Level of Empathy for Your Enemies Assigning Value to Situations 18:56 - The Supreme Court Voting on Protections Systemic Hatred Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_Happiness) 23:23 - Origins of Thoughts and Root Causes 28:57 - Recognizing Privilege Rowena Chiu: Opinion | 'Harvey Weinstein Told Me He Liked Chinese Girls … (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-rowena-chiu.html) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Mannah Kallon.
152: Embracing Mathematics with Philip Wadler
02:35 - Philip’s Superpower: Being Not Afraid of Mathematics 04:07 - Programming Language Foundations in Agda (https://plfa.github.io/) Propositions as Types (https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as-types/propositions-as-types.pdf) Isomorphism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphism) Software Foundations by Benjamin C. Pierce (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13413455-software-foundations) The Coq Proof Assistant (https://coq.inria.fr/) 15:32 - Using a Proof Assistant 22:57 - Human Creativity + Insight QuickCheck (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck) CompCert (http://compcert.inria.fr/) 30:02 - Specifications Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon.pdf) The Evolution of Testing Methodology at AWS: From Status Quo to Formal Methods with TLA+ (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/aws-testing-tla/) How Amazon web services uses formal methods (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2699417) 35:25 - How To Translate Abstract Concepts So Practitioners Can Use Them Reflections: Rein: The way we are taught math makes us hate it. Jess: There’s a difference between learning the foundations of programming and learning the skills of programming Chanté: How do we make conversations like this more accessible? Jacob: Ways of getting quick and seamless feedback as you are writing a program. Joint Cognitive Systems: Foundations of Cognitive Systems Engineering (https://www.amazon.com/Joint-Cognitive-Systems-Foundations-Engineering/dp/0849328217) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Philip Wadler.
Special Edition: Becoming an Elder & the "Stage Two" of Life
There's a point in life, somewhere around the halfway mark, where the reality check hits -- you're going to die. There's a future without you in it. There's a new generation of children growing up, learning their way through the world, and humanity will keep moving forward without you. On one hand, this is depressing. Everyday, we go through the motions. Everyday, we play the game. And suddenly, it all seems so meaningless. The characteristic period of "mid-life crisis" starts with falling into a pit of nihilistic despair, and a quest to answer the most basic existential questions. Does anything really matter? Who am I? What do I live for? On the other side of these questions, something magical happens. The finiteness of Life is also what gives it meaning. Every breath is something to cherish. Every joyful memory is a gift. And right now, in this moment, we have the opportunity to live and be, whoever it is we want to be. Who are your heroes? Who do you admire? What character do you want to play? How can you use your special gifts to lift the people around you? Like a cacoon-shattering phase change, a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, we become an Elder, a steward, and a leader that works on behalf of the children of our future. This audio clip is a conversation between Claire Lew (https://twitter.com/clairejlew), CEO of Know Your Team (https://knowyourteam.com/) & Arty Starr (https://twitter.com/janellekz) about the journey of becoming an Elder, and why Arty decided to change her name. If you want a bit more backstory, you can also check out this thread: this is great stuff! Artemis is a badass.— Miko Matsumura ㋡ (@mikojava) October 13, 2019
151: Off Meta with Amir Rajan
02:27 - Amir’s Superpower: Sensitivity to Development Pain A Picture of Amir’s Keyboard and Battlestation (https://twitter.com/amirrajan/status/1172565179806224384) Eye Tracker (https://www.tobii.com/) 06:59 - Developer Productivity and Breaking Constraints Magic Leap (https://www.magicleap.com/) 16:58 - Idea Flow 21:00 - Building an Environment That Enables You File Watching Automating Leverage 28:18 - Optimizing Local Maxima Bret Victor: The Future of Programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4) Delta Time 41:01 - Questioning Fundamental Assumptions Continuity of Design™️ Gradual Stiffening 46:55 - Game Development Unity (https://unity.com/) 56:05 - Extremeness and Pushing Boundaries: Being a Weirdo/Being an Outlier/Thinking Differently Off Meta, Super Smash Brothers Melee Gods (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJrEhy4ya74) Meta and Off Meta DragonRuby Game Toolkit Sandbox (http://fiddle.dragonruby.org) Reflections: Jess: “A pin on my upkeeps.” Avdi: Meta and off meta. John: Continuity of design. Rein: Continuity and discreteness. Janelle: Process-oriented thinking. Amir: Being consistent with philosophies. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Amir Rajan.
150: Cultural Transformation with Brian Lonsdorf
01:34 - Brian’s Superpower: Communicating and Listening 02:36 - The Role of Empathy in Teaching/Communicating * Process Empathy * Empathetic Report 04:11 - Learning and Teaching Functional Programming * Lawful Composition Thinking Functionally with Haskell (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107452643/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1107452643&linkId=b8c8bcf8f27165517d6b53a2b87fedd6) Compositional Thinking Category Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory) 11:13 - Compositional Programming in JavaScript 16:02 - Problems That Can Be Solved by Learning Functional Programming Livable Code by Sarah Mei (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI77oMKr5EY) Scalable program architectures (http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/04/scalable-program-architectures.html) 25:03 - Category Theory Categories for the Working Mathematician (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0387984038/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0387984038&linkId=0aa85e8a54efad0135dbd75f39abe43c) Reading Papers Finding Applications for Concepts 32:41 - Machine Learning and AI Generative AI L-Systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system) Do be do be do (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.09259.pdf) 53:54 - Discrete Representations of Continuous Phenomena 56:17 - Making Teaching Fun, Engaging, and Interesting Learning as a Conversation Reflections: Brian: Looking into L-systems further and thinking in terms of ranges. Rein: Dimensionality is imperative. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Brian Lonsdorf.
149: Creating Effective Culture with Jesse James
01:49 - Jesse’s Superpower: Empathy by Learning to be Empathetic * Taking a Step Back * Mental Triggers * Neurodiversity and Empathy 07:51 - Culture * What is culture? * Culture Fit * Creating/Building/Forcing Culture * Culture as a Descriptor * Affecting Culture * Culture as an Ongoing Process * Agile Methodologies for Culture * Culture Facilitators * Improving Heuristics * Meta Heuristics * Cultures Evolve Rapidly * Alienation * Survival Rules * Problematic Performance Reviews * Derision of Management * Manager Contribution Reflections: Jacob: Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523095563/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1523095563&linkId=0b9c9b297df4c215fa20049e47bdde89): Community isn’t defined ahead of time. They define themselves. Rein: The more important aspect of any organization is the structure of the relationships between the people in that organization, including and especially, power relationships. Jesse: Personally taking effort in taking effort in finding third-party resources and sharing them with others. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jesse James.
148: Floober and Cognitive Outsourcing with Jacob Stoebel
00:43 - Jacob’s Superpower: Being Obsessive Re: Specificity; Allergic to Ambiguity on Teams 02:09 - Talking About Neurodiversity in Workspaces * Self-diagnosis * “Masking” * Jacob’s Background and Intro to Software Development 13:49 - Driving Desire to Learn About Things 22:04 - Automating Boring Work * Personal Automation * Cognitive Outsourcing 34:41 - “Floober Feature” 36:07 - Passing On Strategies and Data Organization CodeStream (https://www.codestream.com/) 47:37 - Storycrafting and Succession Planning Reflections: Jessica: Consult a human when you don’t know, but often from the context of what directory you’re in and what branch you’re on the computer CAN figure it out. Chanté: Sociotechnical systems and thinking about personal automation. Jacob: What can I do to better organize to be a positive legacy? Arty: What are the ingredients to light your spark and your fire about software? This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
147: Organizing Organizations with Jennifer Tu
00:52 - Jennifer’s Superpower: Seeing Inefficiencies in Processes 02:56 - Coaching Clients to Reorganize Their Organizations Due to Growth Jean Hsu: Re-structuring a growing team (https://medium.com/better-programming/re-structuring-a-growing-team-3ac30d93b637) Communicating Change and Values Encouraging Thoughtfulness Asking Questions + Questions as a Form of Communication Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Oren Jay Sofer (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161180583X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=161180583X&linkId=404f89e44474ffefe366cb2dc0990ec8) Jennifer’s Podcast: Storytime with Managers (https://www.wecohere.com/podcast-storytime-with-managers/) 25:24 - Deleting Old Code; Being Emotional Over Code 30:34 - Avoiding Non-Consensual Teaching and Assumptions 40:50 - Learning Sucks Fixed Vs Growth Mindset (https://www.developgoodhabits.com/fixed-mindset-vs-growth-mindset/) Reflections: John: Questions and what they reveal about the question-asker. Jacob: Hiring for a growth mindset could be difficult. Jamey: The people who have the most control over the situation are also the people who are going to have the least anxiety. Jennifer: Learning to ask better questions isn’t something that you can do easily in a vacuum. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jennifer Tu.
146: Self.conference with Amber Conville
00:50 - Amber’s Superpower: Adaptability 01:48 - Self.conference (https://selfconference.org/) -- Coming again next year in early June! * Background/Origin * Evolution of Diversity * Transparency of Metrics (https://selfconference.org/metrics) * Partnering with Organizations * Focusing on the Detroit Area 10:29 - The Detroit Tech Community * tech[inclusive] (https://www.meetup.com/Tech-Inclusive/) * Detroit Speaker Group (https://www.meetup.com/Detroit-Speakers-in-Tech/) 12:50 - The Future of Self. * Self.learn * Self.work * Conf Conf 14:35 - title of conf (https://selfconference.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=e629a43dedc6cbed53830761c&id=c4bf6bba5c) - An Upcoming Musical Conference! * Aisha Blake (https://twitter.com/aishablake) 15:48 - Navigating the Conference Organization World * Advice * Cost 19:41 - Attending the Conference * Sponsor Support 23:13 - Human Potential + Emerging Technology + The Future of Work + Radical Inclusion * The Darkest Horse (https://www.thedarkesthorse.com/the-darkest-horse-podcast) (Chanté’s Podcast) 26:56 - Conference Highlights * ahmed jalloh (https://twitter.com/AhmedJalloh614): Coding out the Clink * The Sense of Community This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Amber Conville.
145: Balancing Hierarchies and Equity in Organizations with Brandy Foster
01:17 - Brandy’s Superpower: Adaptability 02:22 - Codes of Ethics Facial Recognition Technology Fear Detection Software / Emotion Recognition AI "emotion recognition" can't be trusted. (https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/25/8929793/emotion-recognition-analysis-ai-machine-learning-facial-expression-review) Royal Oak police stop Black man for 'looking suspiciously' at white woman (https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2019/08/14/royal-oak-police-stop-black-man-for-looking-suspiciously-at-white-woman?fbclid=IwAR37U926wxDEFSTCqkngkIyLVAThpCI0oX_OY5hnMoUHaW8wHXdpRwoB38g) The Fear Response to African Americans: A Summary of an fMRI Study on Amygdala Activation and Race (https://nccc.georgetown.edu/bias/docs/FINAL%20PHELPS%20ET%20AL.,%20STUDY%20SUMMARY%2011.1.12.pdf) 11:09 - The Role of Diversity and Inclusion in Solving These Problems Unintended Consequences The diversity and inclusion revolution: Eight powerful truths (https://www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/deloitte-review/issue-22/diversity-and-inclusion-at-work-eight-powerful-truths.html) The Truth About Diverse Teams (https://www.inc.com/greg-satell/science-says-diversity-can-make-your-team-more-productive-but-not-without-effort.html) 24:18 - Balancing Hierarchies and Equity in Organizations The Spoken Value System Vs The Lived Value System Doing Meaningful Work / Showing Appreciation Founder and Executive Support Ethical HR Owning Up To Mistakes Treating Trauma of the System 50:27 - Racism and Unlearning How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525509283/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0525509283&linkId=cf704b0b3583a5f32409b4a389abf769) Reflections: Jamey: If you know there’s spots on your team with missing demographics, seek out those people. John: The culture of a company comes from the top. Rein: Helping teams work better together. Brandy: Improving manager boards to ensure that there is accountability when moving people up in hierarchical organizations. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Brandy Foster.
144: Being Greater Than Code with Jamison Dance
01:53 - Jamison’s Superpower: Moving swiftly between layers. 03:59 - Being An Engineering Manager * Context Switching * lftm (https://github.com/CoralineAda/lftm) * Career Advancement as an Engineer * Title Inflation * Providing Team Members with Growth Opportunities * Psychological Safety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_safety) * Challenging People with Goals * Comradery via Video Conferencing * Latent Learning 23:44 - Starting the Soft Skills Engineering (https://softskills.audio/) Podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me Podcast (https://www.maximumfun.org/shows/my-brother-my-brother-and-me) Engaging with People of All Backgrounds All Over The World The Emphasis of Soft Skills 35:42 - The Evolution of Tech Culture and Bootcamp Practices 39:54 - Conference Organization Balancing Technical and Interpersonal Talks Making Connections and Friendships Encouraging Speaker Choice Reflections: Jamison: Zone of Proximal Development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development). This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jamison Dance.
143: Indigenous Data Sovereignty with Keoni Mahelona
01:20 - Keoni’s Background and Superpower: Building things quickly. 03:57 - Respect for Indiginous Cultures + Community + People 08:55 - Ownership of Data 14:52 - Learning Māori 18:59 - Indigenous Data Sovereignty Data as a Strategic Resource: Self-determination, Governance, and the Data Challenge for Indigenous Nations in the United States (https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol8/iss2/1/?referer=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F) Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward an agenda (Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR)) (Volume 38) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1760460303/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1760460303&linkId=9cd9195683e4d4bc43a30e4b0c1bf156) 31:16 - History: The U.S. Occupation of The Kingdom of Hawaii 36:58 - Creating a License to Protect Data Sovereignty 41:45 - Sharing Data Responsibly 47:37 - Building and Having A Sense of Community 54:38 - Mauna Kea Protests (https://www.civilbeat.org/tag/mauna-kea/?gclid=CjwKCAjw1rnqBRAAEiwAr29II8k8G97yzuG50Sod4wuOAw_8xR0kpN8GmkurMpMFhGG8riW7_-vzkhoCLPgQAvD_BwE); Cultural Fit Reflections: Rein: If we want to organize successfully in our communities, shared culture and deep connection of people enables solidarity. Amy: Look back through history for examples of groups of people sharing skills and industry knowledge. Keoni: Go to and experience Mauna Kea if you have the chance. Also, connecting to community. What enables to do the right thing? What is the right thing? Do the right thing. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Amy Newell and Keoni Mahelona.
142: Modeling Constraints in Human Systems with Will Larson
00:48 - Will’s Superpower: 1) The ability to take something complicated and to find simple ways to think about it that work most of the time. 2) A rigorous love of structure. Thinking in Systems: A Primer (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1603580557/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1603580557&linkId=2f955f8b81a88700bdf8f1cd379e0c70) 02:30 - Systems Thinking/Theory Stella (https://www.iseesystems.com/store/products/stella-architect.aspx) 08:48 - How do you know when to stop modeling? 10:12 - How do you figure out what your team’s rate of change is? Organizational Changes Process Changes Changes to the Software Systems You’re Managing Virginia Satir’s Change Model (https://expertprogrammanagement.com/2018/10/satir-change-model/) 19:30 - Focusing Attention Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061339202/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0061339202&linkId=e9faa7b9d66edbae1e2c610f55ebde4c) 20:31 - Impacting Systems 24:47 - Patterns of Dysfunction The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1422188612/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1422188612&linkId=70478b6c58e8a4a81afa96d2fa80fe1e) 32:13 - Sharing Ideas and Contributing with Systems Thinking The Portal Podcast (https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-portal/) 38:59 - Having Adaptive Capacity 44:30 - Taking Bets (Risks): Cheap vs Expensive 48:10 - Systems Having Properties and Behaviors and Building Useful Missing Tools Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307886239/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0307886239&linkId=6e73e7f9b9bd877daeb787de395da471) Reflections: Jessica: The difference in reasoning about properties vs reasoning about behavior. Will: It’s easy to look at yourself sometimes as the lone practitioner trying to pull the industry forward. But, it’s exciting to have conversations like these to know there are other people out there trying to do the same thing. Arty: Systems thinking as a way to think about how to optimize the quality of decisions. Rein: A problem is a reduction of the system. One of the most important skills for a systems thinker and a problem solver is the ability for form a problem with a complete understanding of the complete mess that we’re choosing to not think about right now. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Will Larson.
141: Navigating Blame
02:37 - Interpersonal Neurobiology (https://insightcenter.org/somatics/interpersonal-neurobiology/) and Emotionally Meaningful Experiences + Feelings Working on Software Code Smells (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell) 05:42 - Postmortems and Incident Reviews 09:05 - Blaming People / Blamelessness From Safety-I to Safety-II: A White Paper (https://www.england.nhs.uk/signuptosafety/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2015/10/safety-1-safety-2-whte-papr.pdf) 15:25 - Systems Are Benign: Equalizing Humans and What They Can Do to What Our Systems and Machines Can Do 22:47 - Survival Rules 27:37 - Perspectives on Blame The Agile Prime Directive 35:44 - Survival Rules (Cont’d) Personal Iceberg Metaphor of the Satir Model (http://www.healingplace.info/resources/virginia_satir/208.pdf) 37:48 - Gaining EQ and Inward Exploration Reflections: John: Handling blame in a healthy way and not blaming people for blaming people. Chanté: Read The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1878424319/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1878424319&linkId=cca2a854e8ef0a97eae346428eab999d). Jessica: Software teams are sometimes able to push back against the system because it can point to something tangibly not working. Also, as an individual, it is not your job to change your whole company. Astrid: The importance of having these conversations with your team. Rein: Dealing with a manager who blames through solidarity with coworkers. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
140: Bounded Perfection with Amitai Schleier
01:29 - Running a Mail Server qmail (https://cr.yp.to/qmail.html) Sendmail (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail) Postfix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfix_(software)) Daemon-tools (https://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html) Istio.io (https://istio.io/) 08:49 - Amitai’s Superpower: Squirrel Power! and Orienting Himself in a New Problem Space (And Helping Others to Orient Them in Their Own Problem Spaces) 15:03 - Refactoring 23:15 - Managing Developer Time Global Day of Coderetreat (https://www.coderetreat.org/) Brooklyn November 2018: Global Day of Coderetreat (https://schmonz.com/2018/11/18/brooklyn-november-2018-global-day-of-coderetreat/) Conway’s Game of Life (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) 28:57 - Feedback and Systems 33:38 - Email Servers 35:46 - Predictability WeCamp (http://we-camp.us) 40:39 - Quality and Collaboration 45:47 - Orienting and Problem Space Reflections: Jessica: Having useful questions. John: The bounded perfectionism concept and the tests as questions. Rein: What are the minimum possible criteria for progress? Amitai: “Make hidden things visible. Make abstract things concrete. Make implicit things explicit.” ~ Virginia Satir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Satir) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Amitai Schleier.
139: Conferencing
02:43 - First Conference Experiences 08:31 - The Importance of Networking + Stickers!! 14:56 - Conference Fashion 16:51 - Approaching Speakers After Talks and Tricks to Remembering Names + Faces 18:49 - Speaking At Conferences Handling Anxiety Lightning Talks Toastmasters (https://www.toastmasters.org/) Practice at Company Lunch and Learns and Meetups 31:38 - Conveying Information in a Talk 34:59 - Crafting Proposals, What Selection Committees Look For, and Writing Talks The Purpose of Outlines OmniOutliner (https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner) Narrative Structure Bad/Cliche Talk Titles Shitposting 52:03 - Gathering Conference Talk Topic Inspiration Reflections: Coraline: Join our Greater Than Code Slack Community for friendly talk feedback! Sam: Being a conference speaker is an awesome introvert hack. It gives people a reason to come talk to you! Rein: You shouldn’t feel like you have to attend conferences or give talks at conference to have a career in the industry. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
138: Job Satisfaction
02:13 - What is Job Satisfaction? 03:25 - Predictors of Job Satisfaction Mission Alignment Psychological Safety 14:02 - Evaluating Job Satisfaction: Questions to Ask During Interviews What should I know that I didn’t ask? In six months, how will you know if hiring me was the right choice? 18:02 - Maintaining Positive Company Culture Hire to Forge Signals Meeting Potential Co-Workers 25:14 - Managers: What should you do if you know your team is unhappy? 27:42 - Positive Interactions with Coworkers + Feeling Needed / Relevant + Making Progress Everything Is Broken, and It's OK - John Sawers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5TjSyXR0jw) The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/142219857X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=142219857X&linkId=6760c478abf206e354d6f1c1ea7419fd) Rock Stars, Builders, and Janitors: You're Doing it Wrong (https://dockercon.docker.com/watch/ams9ztREHRBU8bHpvZ6fr6) 34:55 - When Jobs Respect Your Life 👍🏻 42:17 - “Passion” and Playing to People’s Strengths 54:34 - Values Interviews and Attitudes Towards Failure Superfluous Job Satisfaction Reflections: John: Microvalidations. Jamey: Slack Airhorn Auto Response + Farm Meme Fridays Laurie: Something associated with the start of her day that makes her smile before she even leaves for the office: a backpack. Rein: Asking “Hey, how can I help you with that?” Also: idiosyncratic emoji usage. Jacob: Offering to help new people set up their development environments. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Jacob Stoebel and Laurie Barth.
137: Pairing & Sharing with Llewellyn Falco and Clare Macrae
01:32 - Clare’s Superpower: Collecting and Sharing Useful Information 04:31 - Llewellyn’s Superpower: The Ability to Collaborate with Others 08:01 - Pairing Together: C++ Version of ApprovalTests (https://github.com/approvals/ApprovalTests.cpp) 12:15 - Pairing Retrospectives: What emotions did you feel? MindMup (https://www.mindmup.com/) 16:21 - Kinship Formed Through Working Together 18:55 - Working Asynchronously vs Live Pairing 20:15 - Writing Documentation for Pairing Sessions and Working to Improve the C++ Community Culture #include (https://www.includecpp.org/) 30:44 - Safeguarding: Harnessing Pain For Good Safeguarding: A step-by-step guide (http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.com/2018/12/safeguarding-step-by-step-guide.html) MarkdownSnippets (https://github.com/simonCropp/MarkdownSnippets) 35:04 - Documentation Cont’d Turning “Error Messages” Into “Help Messages” Healthy Abstractions Testing Communication 45:08 - Asking “Why” Questions vs “What” Questions: Observability Reflections: John: The idea of using a retrospective in such a small scale. Also, the difference in the level of community while pairing: building kinship. Clare: Read more about the paradigm framing effect. Llewellyn: Being appreciative of the people you pair with. Arty: Taking the time to think about what you’re doing from the perspective of sharing affects what you do. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Clare Macrae and Llewellyn Falco.
136: Addressing Technical Friction
The Twitter thread: All I can say here is that I try to lead by example. If there’s a clear path to “make the change easy, then make the easy change,” make sure the commit history shows that explicitly, then ask for a code review even if your process doesn’t require it. 1/ https://t.co/VDxDbEQUf3— Sam Livingston-Gray (@geeksam) June 9, 2019 Sam Livingston-Gray - F̶l̶u̶e̶n̶t̶ Refactoring (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3vflogQCLc) Talk: Sam talks about refactoring a gnarly Rails controller method. This is a lightly edited version of a talk Sam gave in 2013. Resources: github.com/geeksam/fluent-refactoring (https://github.com/geeksam/fluent-refactoring) Introduction to the Technical Debt Concept (https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IntroductiontotheTechnicalDebtConcept-V-02.pdf) Status Quo Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias) The Well Traveled Road Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_travelled_road_effect) 21:47 - Refactoring Resistance: Who are you trying to convince? * Product Owner (Goal Donor) * Funder (Gold Owner) * Crusty Teammate * Newbie Teammate github.com/danmayer/coverband (https://github.com/danmayer/coverband) 28:57 - The Risks of Refactoring Rice’s Theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem) Idealized Design: * Technically Viable * Organizationally Viable * A System Capable of Improvement Over Time 3 Different Kinds of Technical Debt: * Intentional Debt * Evolutionary Debt * Bit Rot Churn Tool (https://github.com/danmayer/churn) 35:08 - Documentation and Decision Records 36:59 - Code Value Judgement 42:00 - Convincing Coworkers Re: Refactoring a Codebase Adaptive Capacity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_capacity) Reflections: Coraline: Adaptive Capacity. Rein: Viability. Sam: It’s about dealing with people and effectively working with and for them. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
135: Intentional Learning with Saron Yitbarek
01:24 - Saron’s Superpower: Being able to figure out what people need + read people. 02:26 - Codeland Conference (http://codelandconf.com/) July 22nd, 2019 in New York City! Episode 026: Codeland, Capitalism, and Creating Inclusive Spaces with Saron Yitbarek (https://www.greaterthancode.com/codeland-capitalism-and-creating-inclusive-spaces) 03:23 - Offering Free Onsite Childcare at Conferences 07:02 - CodeNewbie (https://www.codenewbie.org/) Base.cs Podcast (https://www.codenewbie.org/basecs) The CodeNewbie Podcast (https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast) 08:18 - Expertise in Newbie-ism 14:55 - Learning and Teaching Conversation Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_theory) Virtual Reality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality) Oculus (https://www.oculus.com/?locale=en_US) 22:27 - Encouraging Asking, Psychological Safety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_safety), and Being Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable 29:48 - Building a Supportive Community and Advice for Code Newbies Dev.to (https://dev.to/) 34:12 - Dealing with Bad Actors Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng (Congressive/Ingressive Behavior Conversation) (https://www.greaterthancode.com/category-theory-for-normal-humans) 42:35 - Coding as a Reflection of People 49:23 - Lexicon and Creating a Shared Language Mitigated Speech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitigated_speech) Reflections: Chanté: Everyone is a Newbie, and the living room metaphor. Rein: How much ego investment in our work is appropriate? Arty: Growing the magical living room. Saron: Thinking about mitigation speech. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316017930/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0316017930&linkId=7d8a44b649d1a6249361310db4c2a8ac) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Saron Yitbarek.
134: Building Profiles with Halleemah Nash
01:43 - Halleemah’s Superpower: Cultural Fluency: Operating authentically and being who you are in any space you are in. Code-switching (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching) 07:37 - Existing in Other Spaces; Active Listening 10:31 - Building Bridges to Change the Complexion of the Workforce Generation Z (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z) 15:01 - Identifying Potential Talent, Engaging Underrepresented Populations, and Doing Intentional Work to Diversify Relationships 21:17 - Change, Evolution, and Reinvention 33:25 - Resilience and Acknowledging Privilege 40:10 - Shortening the Distance for Young People; “Urban Authenticity” Reflections: Sam: A door metaphor: Things that you can do with something that you originally think of as just being just a static part of the landscape around you that you can interact with and that you can change. Rein: Maximizing the potential to shine within each person and maximizing their ability to shine throughout the world. Arty: The concept of “Cultural Fluency”. Halleemah: Radical professionalism. Rein: Bonus Reflection: Light bulbs have the ability to shine but only with their connections with others. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Halleemah Nash.
133: Dark Horses with Chanté Thurmond
01:56 - Chanté’s Superpower: Spotting Talent (Dark Horses) 05:33 - Perceiving Talent/Potential Essentialism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism) 09:15 - Confronting Biases and Societal Categorization/Division/Labeling 18:54 - Identity as a Feedback Loop 25:04 - Health and Wellness and Human Potential 27:00 - Privilege vs Potential Actuality, Capability, Potentiality (https://www.iridiumconsulting.co.uk/2011/10/actuality-capability-potentiality/) Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047194839X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=047194839X&linkId=b2d73f4e73d7e73161087f83fbe7dd9d) Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity) 36:31 - Framing; Framing as Related to Coaching Matt Ringel: Whiteboarding 101 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkILuL-2Dz0) Functional Fixedness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness) RailsConf 2019 - Keynote: The Stories We Tell Our Children by Ariel Caplan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKqvtAxGQOs&list=PLE7tQUdRKcyaOq3HlRm9h_Q_WhWKqm5xc&index=3&t=0s) 49:39 - Working with Organizations to Improve Diversity and Inclusion (Using Metrics) Campbell’s Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law) Reflections: John: When you pay attention to the margins, the marginalized, etc., and optimize for those getting better, you also optimize for the happiness of the rest of the people inside those margins. Jessica: Letting go of your goal allows emergence of outcomes you didn’t expect. Rein: Having values that we can use to determine whether we are moving in the direction we want to move in, and to continue to move in the direction that is towards our values. Chanté: It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality conversation. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Chanté Thurmond.
132: Distilling the Hailstorm with Claire Lew
02:06 - Claire’s Superpower: The Ability to Distill Things and Catching Pellets 05:21 - Janelle’s Superpower: Seeing the Gifts of Others and Bringing Them to Surface 08:19 - Sam’s Superpower: Being Able to Make Connections Between the Shapes of Things Even if They Don’t Look the Same on the Surface 09:13 - Bad Bosses Panelist Experiences, Symptoms of Poor Leadership and Management Are We Bad Bosses?! Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went from Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things by Courtenay Hameister (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316395706/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0316395706&linkId=2ea38ee8c980c0bc28c894b768c5b572) Command and Control Leadership (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_control) 26:18 - Talent vs Skill Questions to ask yourself if you’re an aspiring manager: How much do you enjoy being in Flow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology))? How much do you enjoy repeating yourself? Do you like to play detective about people? Me, Myself, and Us: The Science of Personality and the Art of Well-Being by Brian R Little (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1610396383/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1610396383&linkId=a4d39d490502f94089460a5a28cb97f1) Reflections: Sam: “Do we ever think about ourselves, that we me be someone else’s worst boss?” Arty: Claire asking the panelists questions was different! (In a lovely way!) Claire: The different forms and threads that real leadership can take. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Claire Lew.
131: Poo-Covered Rocks with Cat Swetel
01:40 - Cat’s Superpower: Knowing What Other People’s Superpowers Are (before they do!) 03:32 - Managing a Platform with Ancient Value 07:54 - Telling Stories Within Code: History Matters 10:11 - Cat’s Journey from Finance to Tech 13:47 - Exploring Systems 17:24 - Wardley Mapping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardley_map) 31:52 - The Penguin Story: Looking For Poo-Covered Rocks 37:53 - The Power of Observation and Reflection Reflections: John: Maintaining the history of an application. Jessica: So much of the world is what we can’t see. There is value in those poo-covered rocks! Avdi: When you see a bunch of people trying to get somewhere that you don’t understand, look for the poo-covered rock. Cat: What would it look like if we had a platform bard? Janelle: Scheduling specific time to stop, reflect, and observe as teams. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Cat Swetel.
130: Acceptance is the First Step with Britni Alexander
01:54 - Britni’s Superpower: Resilience; Also: Failure as an Opportunity, Wallowing, and Acceptance Is failure a “No, but…” or “Yes, and…” ? Acknowledging Emotions Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385249373/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0385249373&linkId=bdd64cd816f350b9da893433109e34c1) 10:55 - Building Support Networks and Spiritual Communities 13:16 - Facing Work Problems and Failures 16:11 - Lies Developers Tell Who is a programmer? What it’s like to be a programmer. What is or isn’t the right way to write code. Programming is easy/hard. Interpersonal skills aren’t important. Measuring success by output lines of code. Once you have x numbers of experience… You have to love the code. Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590593898/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1590593898&linkId=749568972050f1998654a90fadf7e699) Reflections: Sam: Resilience and not wallowing. Coraline: How we respond to failures and the impact it can have on other people. Britni: Naming acceptance as a step of resilience. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Britni Alexander.
129: Bringing The Fun with Lori Olson
Use the coupon code GREATER20OFF to get 20% off on any WNDX School course in May! 01:23 - Lori’s Superpower: Mapping 03:56 - “Positive Mania” and Getting Into Game Programming Dragon Ruby Game Toolkit (https://dragonruby.itch.io/) Galaga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaga) 07:42 - Fun, Learning New Stuff, and Abandoning Old Stuff The WNDX Group Inc (https://www.wndx.com/) 12:42 - Cultural Differences Between Programming Language Communities 23:18 - Thoughts on Platformification Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/) 27:44 - Maintenance; The Evolution of Home Automation X10 Home Automation (https://www.x10.com/x10-home-automation.html) 32:13 - Mentoring Novices and Beginners Canada Learning Code (https://www.canadalearningcode.ca/) “Suckin’ at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.” -- Jake the Dog (Adventure Time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Time)) 37:34 - Creating Tutorials for the WNDX School (https://wndx.school/) and Getting People Excited About Programming Via Game Programming A Dark Room (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dark_Room) Since this interview: A Dark Room pulled from Switch eShop for including code editor (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-29-a-dark-room-pulled-from-switch-eshop-for-including-code-editor) :’( Reflections: Jamey: “When I’m learning something new, I’m starting at the beginning, and it’s hard for me too.” Janelle: Bringing the fun back to the corporate world. Lori: We have to bring the fun to the job ourselves. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Lori Olson.
128: Finding and Cultivating Community Leaders with Ben Pollard
00:48 - Ben’s Superpower: Making Arancini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arancini) and Reading A Lot of Books 02:00 - Starting Local Welcome (https://www.localwelcome.org/) and Helping Refugees Death of Alan Kurdi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alan_Kurdi) 09:37 - Humanization, Cognitive Biases, and Heuristics Contact Hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_hypothesis) Social Constructionism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism) Social Conformity - Brain Games (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8BkzvP19v4) In-group Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374533555/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0374533555&linkId=8d08e4ff6f8ed87bf7b29239465ef9da) Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679721134/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0679721134&linkId=fa86d3e8a610bb665e32c57e718190e1) 21:25 - Empathy and Compassion; Humans Thriving Together The Compassionate Mind Foundation (https://compassionatemind.co.uk/) The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525576703/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0525576703&linkId=64c8492e8856e0c450e2570ffe8b6353) Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1603587969/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1603587969&linkId=74466c30ad41ea179c4b86feb49665af) The 36 Questions That Lead to Love (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html) 31:26 - Measuring Success Conversion Financial Resilience Social Contact Hours Net Promoter Score (NPS) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Promoter) Language Ability 41:56 - Getting People to Connect with Refugees in a Personal Way Lump of Labour Fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy) “We come together through our sameness and we grow through our differences.” ~ Virginia Satir Reflections: Rein: The idea of communicative praxis. The Self after Postmodernity by Calvin O. Schrag (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300078765/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0300078765&linkId=5527025502716e825c8a9e183aeaf558) Sam: The commodification of trust. Also, The Tyranny of Structureless (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm): In any organization there are both explicit and implicit power structures. Changing the implicit ones. Ben: Having a safe space to reflect and have conversations. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Ben Pollard.
127: Hope and Suffering with Amy Newell
01:47 - Amy’s Superpower: Sustaining hope and faith in the face of what feels like no hope and no faith. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400078393/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1400078393&linkId=ff6561c5b085aff3ea8027c0a0ce9cf2) 07:40 - Amy’s talk on “Suffering in the Workplace”: Genesis and Overview 13:40 - Living a Valuable Life vs a Happy Life Examining Causes Feeling The Pain Relieving Suffering by Seeking a Mindset of Innovation 24:02 - Bringing Your “Whole Self” to the Workplace; Alleviating Suffering in the Workplace 41:15 - Changing Culture in Organizations Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375714499/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0375714499&linkId=284e05bc84d39f993cf460ee90108511) 54:40 - Bipolar Disorder Reflections: Jessica: A framework for dealing with suffering. A separation of concerns between observing feelings and deciding what to do about them. Janelle: By supporting people, we can end up with a better, healthier, and more productive organization. Avdi: Kindness in the workplace and power structures. Rein: How do you convince people to care about other people? Also, work implies suffering. The obligation to reduce suffering is shared -- but not equally. Amy: Disparities amongst different types of engineers and between engineering and other departments in tech companies. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Amy Newell.
126: Asking Powerful Questions with Suzan Bond
01:04 - Suzan’s Superpower: Asking Powerful Questions The Compassionate Coder (https://compassionatecoder.com/) 07:30 - Blending Technology and Coaching 10:32 - Blending Technology and Humans; Working Distributed/Remotely 15:32 - Creating Organizational Divides (Intentional and Unintentional) 20:24 - Company Cultures That Lend Themselves Well to Remote Work Theory X and Theory Y (Douglas McGregor) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y) 25:19 - Autocratic vs Autonomy 26:23 - Becoming a Coach and Learning Coaching Skills Emotional API (https://emotionalapi.com/) 30:46 - Listening to Yourself and Intuition “Good decisions get better; bad decisions get worse.” 33:28 - Management vs Leadership / Developing Leadership Skills: Deliberation and Introspection Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages (https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/) Reflections: Coraline: Powerful questions. Coaching by asking powerful questions. Suzan: The word “autonomy”. John: Asking questions to illicit insight, movement, and motivation. Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations That Matter by Will Wise (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1545322996/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1545322996&linkId=0e95cb5b59005b62e0cdd8b7e430b78f) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Suzan Bond.
125: Everything is Communication with Sam Aaron
01:42 - Sam’s Superpower: Staring at the same problem for days -- Patience and Delayed Gratification 03:42 - Effective Communication: What is fluid? 08:54 - Logging Honeycomb (https://www.honeycomb.io/) Open Sound Control (http://opensoundcontrol.org/) 12:55 - Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/) Raspberry Pi (https://www.raspberrypi.org/) Jeff Rose (@rosejn) (https://twitter.com/rosejn) overtone (https://github.com/rosejn/overtone) 22:41 - Fixed Tempo, Clocks, and Time 35:38 - Live Coding and Performance 40:58 - Teaching Kids and “Promoting Cheating” 49:21 - The Difference Between Music and Code 58:44 - Sam’s Latest Performance Experience Reflections: Jessica: Checking for understanding. Avdi: The remix culture piece of this conversation. Janelle: Everything is conversation. Sam: Thinking about programming rhythmically. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Sam Aaron.
124: Navigating Neurodiversity with Helen Needham
01:45 - Helen’s Superpower: Taking Abstract Information Seeing Things Others Don’t See 05:26 - Decoding People: Asking Contextual Questions and Listening For Motivation 11:52 - The Intersection of Empathy and Neurodiversity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity) 15:14 - Being Deliberate as a Survival/Coping Skill 16:41 - Being Different, Understanding Yourself, and Discovering Your Unique Capabilities 23:22 - Interfacing with the Neurodivergent Community and Actively and Openly Talking About Neurodiversity 30:55 - Paying Attention to EQ: Emotional Intelligence 37:01 - Becoming Self-Aware Helen Needham: My guide to working with me (an autistic adult) (https://www.medecoded.com/workingwithme/) 41:05 - MeDecoded: Personal stories from the Neurodivergent & allies, in the pursuit of decoding Neurodiversity (https://www.medecoded.com/) Reflections: Jamey: Possibly implementing how to work with guides at their workplace. Jessica: Making a deliberate process out of decoding people. Avdi: It’s not about changing who you are, it’s about working with the world while you still are who you are. Janelle: Owning your own special skills and talents and taking in the hurricane. Helen: The importance of support and understanding. The world needs more silent heroes. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Helen Needham.
123: BOOK CLUB! Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Persig (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060589469/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0060589469&linkId=0fccb8a5811c09d35f439ba3e559bc29) 05:21 - Persig’s Two Paradigms: Classical and Romantic 11:50 - What is beautiful? 15:49 - Quality 33:44 - Emotional Motivation 41:13 - Balancing Objective and Subjective Measures of Quality Reflections: Janelle: A shared definition of quality and creating bridges. Bryan: When you recognize you have two different categories of measures of quality, the team starts to need guardrails to push the group towards just a couple of agreed upon things. John: Taking the different value systems, and fusing them together in some degree that can help unify groups into single directions and sets of values. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Bryan Karlovitz.
122: Surfing with Michael "GeePaw" Hill
01:45 - Autopoiesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis), Smell, and Passing Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9027710163/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=9027710163&linkId=e65685ed3da6564ab707b3dc29f25f5f) Thud!: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062334980/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062334980&linkId=fa03481025e628340eef66222ce9b64f) 11:15 - The Channels in Your Head (Noise) 12:15 - GeePaw’s Superpower: Having an enormous capacity for doubt -- especially self-doubt; The Cost of Certainty 18:25 - Doubt vs Narrowing Déformation Professionnelle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9formation_professionnelle) 23:31 - Refactoring; Easiest, Nearest, Owie, First 25:53 - Defining “Better” and “Done” 30:55 - Thin vs Thick Culture 42:34 - FACT: Geeks Are Paid Extremely Well -- Why are we still not happy? 48:02 - Occupational Game Playing The System You Are Building The Game of Your Team The Game of Your Career The Game of Living Reflections: Jessica: When you act, you then see what happens. Sam: Any metric can be gamed and will be gamed. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Sidney Dekker (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1472439058/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1472439058&linkId=7bb5789c7a1859a2ceb1b9c9dd14f565) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) Special Guest: Michael "GeePaw" Hill.
121: Emergency Communication with Thai Wood
01:26 - Resilience Engineering and Closed-loop Communication 06:55 - Acknowledging Burnout in the Developer Community 09:31 - Professionalization and Formal Training Nancy Leveson (http://sunnyday.mit.edu/) 17:41 - Reliability vs Resilience 20:40 - Resilience in the EMT Context 22:21 - Scene Size-up in Software 25:20 - Thai’s Superpower: The ability to remain calm in emergencies;Tech => EMT => Tech + Missing Seeing People You’re Helping The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1472439058/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1472439058&linkId=17b50ab528afd657993551046c316883) 32:11 - Incident Response + Studying Incident Response; Normalization of Deviance SNAFUcatchers (https://www.snafucatchers.com/) 40:16 - Asking Questions Cognitive Interviewing Techniques (https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-interview.html) The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312430000/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0312430000&linkId=6ede6ebee21d370699f88962dfe8877f) Reflections: Jessica: Part of resilience is how do you know where to get help? When to ask for help and who to ask. John: Following up with the cognitive interview idea. Sam: Being explicit and deliberate about thinking about process and communication as a thing that you can get better at, that you can work on, and that you can talk about. Check out with the “Working With Other Humans” track (https://railsconf.com/program/sessions#track-working-with-other-humans) that Sam is running at RailsConf 2019 (https://railsconf.com/) from April 29 - May 1 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Thai: Cognitive interviewing Pokémon. Plus emotions as a state machine. John’s Hacking Your Emotional API Talk (https://emotionalapi.com/) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Thai Wood.
120: Expect The Unexpected with Andy Hunt
01:55 - Andy’s Superpower: Explaining blindingly obvious things to people that they don’t see. The Boiled Frog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog) 08:13 - Iterative Development and Continuous Learning: Becoming Comfortable with Uncertainty 14:23 - Doing Things Differently The Black Swan Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory) 20:41 - Writing and Timeboxing Conglommora (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075T7TNH8/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B075T7TNH8&linkId=0eac3b95e2373a4f54f3e1011f32ed1a) Conglommora Found (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GTDSBFJ/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07GTDSBFJ&linkId=c052c5c72ba109d2c8fd33a68d95febf) (Sequel) Feedback, Context, and Learning 27:39 - Why should continuous be the goal? 34:24 - Adaptability 39:28 - Making Groups More Effective 45:13 - Andy’s Software Development Journey Reflections: Janelle: Shifting from a place of complaining about the constraints of the world, to figuring out strategies for solving these problems and figuring out templates for alternatives: Setting up alternative markets and economic systems that can support alternative ways of working. Jessica: We can’t predict the future. We can’t know everything. We can’t give an accurate estimate of a number. But we can know something: we can know propensities to some degree, we can estimate in a range, and then we can choose whether to spend time researching to narrow that range. Avdi: The importance of slack time in teams and organizations. Andy: Experimentation. Learning. Context. Feedback. Rinse and repeat. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Andy Hunt.
119: Cultural Brokerage with Bianca Escalante
01:55 - Bianca’s Superpower: Being a Cultural Broker 06:36 - Code-Switching (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching) and Identity As An Asset Keynote: Who and What We're Leaving Behind by Bianca Escalante @ RubyConf 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2TdaLwTnKk) Open Source for ...Bad? by Bianca Escalante @ Codeland 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8H7zfQ_rA4) 12:55 - Normalizing Conversations, Speaking About Race Openly, and the Concept of Distance Travelled 21:17 - Reconciling Failure, Repressing Feelings, and The Importance of Human Connection 34:02 - D&I: Who is responsible? Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451493249/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0451493249&linkId=27e08e824b23564bf1cde73b7962fa81) Shine Theory (https://www.annfriedman.com/shine-theory) Reflections: Bianca: Talking openly about the loneliness. John: Having to develop superpowers as coping strategies. Jamey: When times are tough, you (sometimes) get to see the best of human connection. _This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Bianca Escalante.
118: A Piece of Luck with Jessica Kerr
01:50 - Jess’s Superpower: Being a Property of a Situation Karl Popper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper) 04:25 - The Interpretation of Luck and the Psychology of Scarcity 08:17 - Physics; Physics and Software 12:06 - Conference Speaking 15:53 - Undervaluing Code 22:13 - Defining ‘Done’ in Software Development We don’t want to define “done.” In an ongoing system, a symmathesy, there is no “done” except death.Instead, define “better.” Then you can know you accomplished something.— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) February 6, 2019 Email is like laundry. There is no such thing as "done."My job is not to do the laundry, it is to keep the laundry moving.Nor to answer all the email, but to keep some correspondence flowing.— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) February 11, 2019 25:51 - TDD, the notion that “Coding is easy!”, and Resilience to Failure Smart Kid Syndrome (https://www.theodysseyonline.com/smart-kid-syndrome) Pairing with Bunny (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrlq1XOiSijrMGWbBlKo2Eg) 42:04 - Learning While Teaching Others Programming Avdi and Jess stumble through modern web development (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8yWDfDip1o) JessiTRONica on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/jessitronica/videos) Aikido (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido) Reflections: Jamey: Things never being “the end”. Finite and Infinite Games (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476731713/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1476731713&linkId=44899b02c0c5d4e52df176aa684e6138) (print) Finite and Infinite Games (http://wtf.tw/ref/carse.pdf) (pdf) Sam: There might be an ending for you, specifically, but it’s not really an ending for anyone else. Jacob: Figuring out problems by vocalizing them. Jessica: Check out recent works from Karl Popper. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jacob Stoebel.
117: Wholeness and Separation
Virginia Satir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Satir) The Personal Iceberg Metaphor: Google Image Result for https://laveldanaylor.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/iceberg-ljn1.jpgnull Hierarchical Organization of Constructs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_therapy#Hierarchical_organization_of_constructs) Becoming More Fully Human with Virginia Satir (http://www.intuitionnetwork.org/txt/satir2.htm)
116: Healing Organizational Trauma with Matt Stratton
Matty’s Talk, Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma @ REdeploy 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_ITD-l8fuo) 02:59 – Matt’s Superpower: Taking metaphors and ideas around self-help and turning them into allegories and analogies of how we could be better at technology The Five Love Languages of DevOps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGCfwvjHKGI) The Four Agreements of Incident Response (https://noti.st/mattstratton/F827sZ) 03:58 – What does healing organizational trauma mean? 05:50 – Incident Response Communication 16:00 – Trust, Hyperarousal, and Hypoarousal; Stuck On or Stuck Off 23:32 – Leading By Example, Not Being in a Rush to Solve Problems, Seeking to Understand, and Encouraging Safety 29:23 – Handling Postmortems: How to do them well and how to do them effectively 39:17 – The Hero’s Story vs The Story of the People; Crafting Our Narratives John Allspaw: In the Center of the Cyclone: Finding Sources of Resilience (https://re-deploy.io/videos/11-allspaw.html) Reflections: Coraline: The metaphors of storytelling. Matty: Creating a forum of discussion around postmortems. Janelle: Thinking about Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226468011/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0226468011&linkId=73f5c4c2470b0803b490491e0c0355e2) and how, at the foundation of our mind is essentially a system of shapes that we see the world through, that we reason about through, that we feel emotions through, and that creates the sense of gut. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Matt Stratton.
115: Tension Between Opposites with Sam Joseph
01:30 – Sam’s Superpower: Persistence AgileVentures Blog (https://nonprofits.agileventures.org/blog/) 08:07 – Mindfulness and Relaxation; Nonviolent Communication Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Shambhala (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161180583X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=161180583X&linkId=e07f8a3564afa6fa389e061585e6fdda) 17:23 – Collaborative Communication and Learning 26:17 – The Tension Between Code/Architectural Beauty and Delivering Working Solutions That Meet End-Users Needs The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465050654/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465050654&linkId=dc5c167dfb19d97b69d75273e29d9b75) 38:49 – Being “Used to Things” and Getting Things Done via Incremental Changes Technology Strategy: Leaky Boats and Rocket Ships (https://podtail.com/podcast/cancer-research-uk-tech-team-podcast/technology-strategy-leaky-boats-and-rocket-ships/) Reflections: John: 1) Thinking about relaxation as something you do as opposed to things you don’t do. 2) Learning how communication works and communicate better with other people more authentically. Jamey: Reading people cues is hard and beating yourself up over missed communication is not productive. Sam: Sometimes it’s okay to not have emotional energy to make changes. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Sam Joseph.
114: Theory of Mind with Jean-Francois Cloutier
02:41 – JF’s Superpower: Systems Thinking 06:58 – Robots and Elixir (https://elixir-lang.org/) Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind (http://www.acad.bg/ebook/ml/Society%20of%20Mind.pdf) Inside Out (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/) Rodney Brooks -- Robots, AI, and other stuff (https://rodneybrooks.com/) The Brains Blog (http://philosophyofbrains.com/) 17:10 – Reapproaching Robotics, Predictive Processing, and Calibration of Attention 33:26 – Thinking and Talking About Object-Oriented Programming 43:51 – Intuition and Emergent Properties 54:02 – Unpacking Fractals “Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.” (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/) 59:08 – The Ineffability of Smalltalk Reflections: Avdi: Trying not to do work, but sometimes finding ways to be pulled into doing work. Sam: 1) Generating predictions and then correcting your model when those predictions turn out not to be confirmed by sensory data. 2) Object-Oriented Programming should be called Message-Oriented Programming. 3) Computer science as a field really wants to be math and the people who teach computer science want to be mathematicians. Jessica: Smalltalk feeling like a cathedral where you can get a sense of the architectural beauty. Eric Evans - Good Design is Imperfect Design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY54TmmEllY&feature=youtu.be) Jean-Francois: Aikido. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jean-Francois Cloutier.
113: Privilege as Legacy Code with Amr
Amr Abdelwahab - An empathy exercise: contextualising the question of privilege (EuRuKo 2018 Video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CqmGYvFwAQ) 01:53 – Amr’s Superpower: Seeing the bigger picture. 04:24 – It’s Not Just Code 11:18 – Privilege 17:37 – Strategies For People with Privilege Who Are Open to Learning 22:57 – Why Diversity Matters and Avoiding Burnout 27:24 – Biases, Allyship, and Calling Out Others Implicit Bias Test (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html) Reflections: John: The metaphor of sexism and racism and cultural baggage being legacy code. Christina: Listen and learn. Also, pushing organizations to contribute to bigger things, but making sure they understand why they are doing it, and not doing it blindly. Coraline: We are currently living in an “unnatural state”. Equality is the natural state and we need to return to that. Amr: The ability to have a politics-free life is a privilege of its own. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Amr.
112: Dancing About Vulnerability with Marcel Byrd
00:53 – Marcel’s Superpower: An Explosive Relationship with Laughter 01:45 – The Intersection of Public Health and Art 06:36 – Authenticity and Vulnerability; Bringing Your Whole Self While Remaining Professional 14:59 – Reading a Room and Determining Safety for Being Vulnerable & Making it Safe for People Around You While Being Vulnerable 19:41 – The Beauty of Dance 30:58 – Seeing and Being Outside The Box 38:57 – Gaining Confidence While Retaining Humility Reflections: Astrid: The feedback loop can’t be, “I’m only going to keep doing this if I’m positively affirmed.” Coraline: Vulnerability is scalable. Avdi: Being the person on the dance floor not necessarily nailing their moves perfectly, but that has a big smile on their face regardless. Jessica: Imagination is paramount to creating a better world. Marcel: Articulating the importance of art, creativity, and vulnerability. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Marcel Byrd.
111: Thermodynamics of Emotion with Thomas Perry
01:30 – Tom’s Superpower: Hot Toddies, Eccentricity, and Talking to Animals! 04:42 – Observing Animal vs Humans Behavior and Organizational Restructuring Participant Observation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participant_observation) 10:25 – Looking For Genuine Change, Empowering Workers, and the Conflation of the terms Boss and Manager The Toyota Way (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071392319/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0071392319&linkId=2e20f648aa9ed8ef7a4b700f9bdae9c9) Adrian Bejan: The Constructal Law (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871904/) Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves by Kevin Behan (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608680886/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1608680886&linkId=1c385c4888e53b0dd8d1ef15cee57ec8) Brandt Stickley (https://www.brandtstickley.com/bio/) 23:20 – Flow and How it Moves Through Systems Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations by Adrian Bejan (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307744345/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0307744345&linkId=51291ba0ed5aaad7adcc1aea46b9f5fb) 33:45 – Predictive and Explanatory Power The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226458121/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0226458121&linkId=f7ce4eb54025fb4887e2a4046f88f70d) 37:40 – Breaking Things Down 43:37 – Alignment in Appetite and Emotion Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060589469/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0060589469&linkId=a71bd57d26eb8fccfb369abad8b5c974) 52:08 – Defining Quality 01:02:21 – Emotional Metaphors and Sensory Inputs DevOpsDays Boston 2017- Your Emotional API by John Sawers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc5HJSsYB7A) Reflections: Jessica: When the language gets woo-ey, the ideas might be new-y. Rein: Quality is individual and personal. It is subjective and intersubjective. Thomas: The best ideas are often found in uncomfortable places. John: Systems of living things are living systems. Janelle: Don’t assume you understand anything immediately when you walk into a room. Let that understanding be emergent through the process of observation. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Thomas Perry.
110: Human Incident Response with Courtney Eckhardt
RubyConf 2018 - Retrospectives for Humans by Courtney Eckhardt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7R7V5wC0wA) 01:16 – Courtney’s Superpower: Explaining things. 06:50 – Incident Response: How we talk to people how are are affected by incidents Other Great Incident Response GTC Episodes! * 088: The Safety 2 Dance with Steven Shorrock (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2018/07/11/088-the-safety-2-dance-with-steven-shorrock/) * 096: Resilience Engineering with John Allspaw (http://www.greaterthancode.com/2018/09/05/096-resilience-engineering-with-john-allspaw/) 13:52 – Disabilities in the Workplace and Professional Spaces 20:25 – The Tension Between Accessibility and Security 23:20 – Developing Coping Skills in Response to a Troubled Childhood / Combatting the Feeling of Being Othered 29:16 – Incident Retrospectives and Defensiveness as a Natural Instinct to Feedback 35:29 – Showing Vulnerability "In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of." - George Armitage Miller 43:56 – Emotional Response Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465061710/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465061710&linkId=b3f61caa5c87c1f98f62945ec2d4a75c) Mental Health First Aid (https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/) Reflections: John: Trauma doesn’t stay in the past. Trauma has a continuous effect on our lives. Coraline: Thinking about therapy and frame it as a blameless retrospective. Sam: Referring to “post mortems” as “retrospectives” and buying the book Agile Retrospectives. (Future book club episode?!) Jamey: Even if you’re not changing things in a higher level, you can still help on a direct level. Courtney: Group therapy and handling retrospectives. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Courtney Eckhardt.
109: Tech Fashion Part 2 with Jaya Iyer of Svaha
01:11 – Jaya’s Superpower: Changing situations for the better. 02:54 – What does it take to change things? 99 Percent Invisible - Pockets: Articles of Interest #3 (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/pockets-articles-of-interest-3/) 06:37 – The Lack of Science and Technology-Themed Clothing (Especially for Children) 08:30 – How Personal of a Choice Clothing Is -- The Importance of Expressing Yourself and Shattering Stereotypes and Social Norms 25:07 – Breaking Existing Customer Feedback Systems in Order to Expand 30:06 – Starting a Business like Svaha Svaha Kickstarter Campaign (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/svaha/svaha-clothing-to-empower-children-0) 39:03 – Coming in 2019.... 41:34 – Business Challenges Reflections: John: How important it is to have clothing that can really express who you are and validate the parts of your identity that you want socially validated. Rein: All opportunities are unique to everyone. Jaya: The first time you fail does not mean you will fail every time. Never give up. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jaya Iyer.
108: Tech Fashion Part 1 with Kayte Malik of Dress Code
00:57 – Kayte’s Superpower: Taking Something That Doesn’t Exist & Making It Real 02:12 – Having Confidence 06:45 – Paying Closer Attention to Your Accomplishments lftm (https://github.com/CoralineAda/lftm) 08:30 – Dress Code at a Tactical Level 11:43 – The Intersection of Fashion and Coding 10 Cloverfield Lane (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179933/) 15:52 – Wearable Technology and Biotechnology 17:09 – Creation and Paving The Way For Women in Tech 23:17 – In-Home Coding Parties/Pop Up Shops 26:37 – Program and Course Feedback 29:57 – Debunking The Myth That Technology, Science, and STEM is For Boys 34:53 – Sign up to be find out about Holiday Promotions! 37:00 – The Gift of Innovation: Tech for Marginalized People and Communities 39:55 – Coming in 2019.... Reflections: John: Framing coding as an in-home, fun, party activity vs a classroom activity. Coraline: Focusing on your accomplishments and building confidence through positive self-talk. Kayte: Fashion tech and retail tech is exciting! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Kayte Malik.
Special Edition: Ruby Together – LIVE! from RubyConf 2018
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Adarsh Pandit, André Arko, Jonan Scheffler, and Valerie Woolard Srinivasan.
107: The Ruby Central Opportunity Scholarship Program
The Ruby Central Opportunity Scholarship/Guide Program (https://rubyconf.org/scholarships) 02:13 – Superpowers: Flying, Changing Diapers, and Empathy! 03:21 – Scholars’ Favorite Parts of the Conference 06:58 – Conferencing as an Introvert: Having Conference Buddies! 08:06 – Meeting New People 10:15 – Challenges of Conferencing 11:55 – Navigating Conference Parties and the General Hubbub 17:35 – Overcoming Pressure 21:09 – Lightning Talks 26:31 – Live Mob Programming Event 30:07 – Advice For Future Scholars 34:50 – Coming to Tech From Different Backgrounds and All Walks of Life This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Christine Seeman, Jennifer Tran, and Jeremy Schuurmans.
106: Taking Up Space with Laurie Barth
01:20 – Laurie’s Superpower: Being a Timesuck Impostor Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome) 08:44 – Interviewing and Hiring Developers Effectively 12:24 – Creating False Negatives: Turning Down Candidates Prematurely 18:11 – Interviewing: Working With Existing Codebases and Asking Questions About Values RailsConf 2018: The Code-Free Developer Interview by Pete Holiday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3XRE0HvzJ8) 22:59 – How ^^ Advice Pertains to Different Sized Companies 25:54 – Getting the Entire Team Involved in Hiring Processes: People First, Technology Second 29:05 – YOU CAN USE GOOGLE!!! (It’s Not Cheating!) 33:55 – Coding: Smartness vs Patience; Coming From Non-Coding Backgrounds (and why it’s a good thing!) Set Design: Putting the "Art" in "Architecture" by Betsy Haibel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6TDVWSE9L8) 45:14 – Learning: Skill or Mindset? / Overcoming Demoralization and Overwhelm Everything Is Broken, and It's OK - John Sawers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5TjSyXR0jw) 49:43 – Keeping a Developer Journal and Dealing with Past Development Baggage Reflections: Laurie: Check out the talks we’ve linked to! Also, working together to make our industry not just accessible, but livable, enjoyable, and exciting. Jamey: Refining the interviewing and hiring process and thinking about how we evaluate the people we talk to. John: Take up space and demand the attention that you need. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
105: Code Switching with Maurice Cherry
01:49 – Maurice’s Superpower: Extreme Empathy Function Podcast w/ Anil Dash (https://glitch.com/culture/function/) 04:06 – Code Switching 13:21 – Creating and Fostering Safe Conference Environments 19:34 – Overcoming Feelings of Discomfort 22:16 – Human Decisions in Software: Why We Should Care 31:57 – Trust: How We’ve Lost It and How Should We Re-establish It? A Developer Relations Bill of Rights (https://medium.com/glitch/a-developer-relations-bill-of-rights-21381920e273) AngelList (https://angel.co/) 41:24 – Establishing Trust in a Company From the Ground Up: Glitch 47:03 – Diversity in Design and Shifting Your Mindset From a Creator to a Chronicler Kim Goulbourne (https://medium.com/@kimgoulbourne) Ekpemi Anni (https://revisionpath.com/ekpemi-anni/) Senongo Akpem (https://revisionpath.com/senongo-akpem/) Reflections: John: It’s useful to think about code switching in context of my own behavior and using it as a practice for increasing empathy by trying to determine if other people are code switching in a certain situation. Janelle: Putting myself in an outsider situation. Jess: Storytelling and experience creating. Astrid: Parents encouraging young creators. Maurice: We all have more work to do and we all have privileges we are blind to. Are you Greater Than Code? This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Maurice Cherry.
104: Jellyfish Signaling with Sam Livingston-Gray
01:33 – Is Sam a Jellyfish? 03:14 – Sam’s Superpower: Making Connections Between Weird Things 05:17 – Driving Evolution 08:19 – “Fitness Landscape” and “Fitness Function” aiweirdness.com (http://aiweirdness.com/) 21:17 – How Humans Make Decisions Sam Livingston-Gray: Cognitive Shortcuts: Models, Visualizations, Metaphors, and Other Lies (http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2014-cognitive-shortcuts-models-visualizations-metaphors-and-other-lies) Saccade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade) Blindsight by Peter Watts (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765319640/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0765319640&linkId=a345cf876b10a133836d41a040601f54) 33:43 – Completion Bias 40:52 – The Importance of Clarity of Communication in Code 45:49 – Mimicry and The Theory of Mind 52:18 – Scaling, Optimizing, and Thriving as Individuals and Communities 57:38 – Rhetoric and Interacting with People Everything's an Argument (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/131908575X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=131908575X&linkId=c155c10bde6a1ad960239abaccffee75) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
103: The Org You Were Born Into with Marcus Blankenship
01:12 – Marcus’ Superpower: Helping Engineers Become Good Bosses 02:30 – Bosses Who Don’t Wanna Boss: Ending Up in Management The Peter Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle) 10:37 – Are there people who just aren’t cut out for management or leadership? 14:20 – Applying Rationality to Organizations 20:23 – Alignment Not Agreement 24:52 – Is there a safe way to try and fail at management? Trying on Hats Ruby For Good (https://rubyforgood.org/) 31:16 – What does “BOSS” mean? Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316017930/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0316017930&linkId=0e148f2c493dbfd36e294137d6ba6651) 36:03 – The Up/Down of the Hierarchy Metaphors We Live By (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226468011/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0226468011&linkId=fe51e9159155a6387c1d742001413d5f) Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by Edgar H. Schein (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1609949811/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1609949811&linkId=35044b8aa35b0f47b24a48915323ceca) 36:03 – What are the skills that good managers have? How do you know if you’re doing a good job? Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Michael Lopp (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1484221575/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1484221575&linkId=ea061ab737b69a99cce64192a3f874b0) Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams by Mickey W. Mantle and Ron Lichty (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032182203X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=032182203X&linkId=0257878e2a490afedc2e7518787a93a1) 53:26 – Giving and Receiving Feedback and Support, Reinforcing Behavior, and Focusing Attention Reflections: Jamey: Management vs. leadership. Sam: “I need this from you,” vs. “Why didn’t you do this?” Jess: When we react to something, it’s rarely about the thing we think we’re reacting to. Career narratives by Will Larson (https://lethain.com/career-narratives/) Additionally, management is like being on stage and you can be uncomfortable in your own role. Marcus: Listening to others is critical and impactful. Also, letting people taste and see what it’s like to be in management and leadership without the commitment. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Marcus Blankenship.
102: Sticky in the Flow with Katrina Owen
Greater Than Code Episode Episode 008: 99 Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2016/11/21/008-sandi-metz-and-katrina-owen/) 01:29 – Katrina’s Superpower: Organizing and Systematizing 09:44 – Motivation by Success The 5 Second Rule | Mel Robbins (https://melrobbins.com/blog/5-second-rule-everyday-courage/) Procrastination | Mel Robbins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFOUrb-Jyq0) 18:04 – Trust and Code Review 27:04 – Systematizing and Refactoring 30:54 – Training for Circus and its Parallels with Software Development and Mentorship and Working with Others Sarah Mei: How We Make Software: A new theory of teams (https://vimeo.com/178469403) 43:12 – Deliberate Practice and the Appearance of Expertise Reflections: John: Short iterations and early feedback as a way of creating and maintaining motivation. Coraline: How to create a sense of psychological safety in code reviews, in particular. Sam: The five-second window in which you can change your behavior and increase motivation. Janelle: Feedback loops as spirals that are reinforcing towards the positive or negative. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Katrina Owen.
101: A Difficult Conversation with Sonia Gupta
02:02 – Sonia’s Superpower: Talking about white supremacy and dealing with the fallout. 05:27 – Feeling Rightness and Motivation to Stand Up for Your Beliefs 10:15 – Seeing Your Advocacy and Efforts Make a Difference 12:17 – When People Disagree 16:26 – Ingroup vs Outgroup Empathy 21:17 – Intersectionality White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807047414/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0807047414&linkId=11669bcc107fb90c70c479ff4caf4b9c) 26:07 – Navigating Situations with Empathy 28:25 – Staying In Your Own Lane While Advocating For and Amplifying Others 35:39 – Educating Yourself About Race So You Want to Talk About Race (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580056776/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1580056776&linkId=df799d6b81c91ab00af441644f2ed2ff) Other Resources from Sonia: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1408870584/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1408870584&linkId=c3274db99d9126b3cf376131a17fa6ea) The History of White People (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393339742/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0393339742&linkId=ec71e76ba6fc58ae008c0d5155fd3335) Damon Jones on racism (https://twitter.com/nomadj1s/status/1026145187356188673?s=19) Adrian Jackson on "not all white people" (https://twitter.com/AdrianCJax/status/900182099675811844?s=19) 38:39 – Doing The Work Reflections: Jessica: The place for these conversations is not Twitter! Coraline: Personalizing advocacy. Jamey: Our advocacy is powerful because it comes from a place of passion. John: The fixed vs growth mindset in regards to racism. Sonia: We can all be advocates and we can all be actors. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Sonia Gupta.
100: The Business of Documentation with Jaime Slutzky
01:12 – Jaime’s Superpower: Taking complex ideas and figuring out the fastest way from here to there. (i.e.: logistics!) Zapier (https://zapier.com/app/home) 05:41 – Tech as a Roadblock 19:44 – Handing Off Responsibilities to Business Owners Process Street (https://www.process.st/) The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312430000/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0312430000&linkId=6e597d9265972959598d021084c9e77f) Bullet Journals (https://bulletjournal.com/) 18:09 – Identifying Ideal Clients and Attitudes Towards Technology 24:40 – Documentation 36:53 – What do clients need to know about technology? Reflections: John: Documentation is important. Jamey: Getting tech recommendations from people you trust, pick one, and do it. Don’t be paralyzed by indecision. Jaime: Document in isolation. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jaime Slutzky.
099: The Knowledge You Possess with Stephanie Morillo
02:40 – Stephanie’s Superpower: Intellectual Curiosity 13:06 – On Being a Content PM, Technical Writer, and Ruby Together Core Team Member @azureadvocates (https://twitter.com/azureadvocates) Ruby Together (https://rubytogether.org/) 19:44 – Validating Open Source Software Contribution Write the Docs Slack Community (https://www.writethedocs.org/slack/) 24:27 – Filtering Feedback 28:14 – The Importance of Content Strategy Greater Than Code Episode 088: The Safety 2 Dance with Steven Shorrock (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2018/07/11/088-the-safety-2-dance-with-steven-shorrock/) 43:24 – Don’t Minimize Yourself! (Psst: You’re awesome!) One of the best (and worst) things about working in tech is how easy it is to get excited by something and wanting to learn it—right up until your brain tells you you're not doing enough, work harder, leading you to get overwhelmed with just how much there is to learn. 🙃 — Stephanie Morillo (@radiomorillo) September 24, 2018 Coraline's low-friction task management system (lftm) (https://github.com/CoralineAda/lftm) Reflections: John: Understanding the teams you’re working with better. Coraline: The power of dreams. Jamey: The value of being able to know when people in your life are interacting with you in good faith. Stephanie: Figuring out the “why”. RubyMe This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Stephanie Morillo.
098: Designing For Inclusion with Jenny Shen
01:51 – Jenny’s Superpower: Not Giving a F*ck and Sticking Up For Others The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062457713/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062457713&linkId=238a6a46e541fc5fec0ac8cbf0c402ce) 05:00 – Living a Remote Lifestyle and Cross-Cultural Communication 08:34 – Design and UX For International Users / Research for Local Users 18:08 – Designing to Include All People: Is it possible? 27:07 – Paid Mentorship Sunk Cost Fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost) 34:32 – Offering Mentorship Scholarships 37:15 – Privilege and Open Source Ruby Together (https://rubytogether.org/) 40:22 – Advice for People Looking to Freelance and Work Remotely Reflections: Jamey: Weaponizing the sunk cost fallacy for themself. Sam: The importance of humans in tech and tech culture. Jessica: The difference between internationalization and localization. Jenny: Scholarships as a way to signal and inform other people what she values and what she wants to promote. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jenny Shen.
097: The Job of a Manager with Brandon Hays
00:43 – Brandon’s Superpower: Helping Other People Discover Their Own Superpower 02:04 – Maintaining Relationships When People Change Jobs So Frequently 04:31 – Climbing The Corporate Tech Ladder and Strategizing Career Growth 10:25 – Mentorship and Power Disparity 19:00 – Management and Leadership Skills The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1491973897/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1491973897&linkId=67d3f69e2e9cfebeeddc7fdcd471fe21) 10 Traits of a Great Manager, According to Google's Internal Research (Project Oxygen) (https://www.themuse.com/advice/10-behaviors-make-great-google-manager) 23:22 – Solving Problems Regardless of Job Title 27:50 – Preservation of Context 31:01 – Becoming a Manager…and Being Bad at it! 32:58 – The New Manager’s Toolkit Radical Candor (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250103509/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250103509&linkId=0e1d172687c583463ef71f373f8701e1) 35:08 – Techniques for Managing From Below to Influence Your Manager 38:19 – Engineers and Business-level Input Reflections: John: The deeply ingrained thread in “nerd” and “geek” culture how terrible managers are. Astrid: The power dynamics that exist that are untapped in engineering. Coraline: What kind of technical contribution do I want to leave as my legacy? Brandon: Translating skills from previous careers to new careers. Not Applicable: What Your Job Post is Really Saying This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Brandon Hays.
096: Resilience Engineering with John Allspaw
John Allspaw: Etsy’s Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems (https://codeascraft.com/2016/11/17/debriefing-facilitation-guide/) 01:32 – John’s Superpower: Seeing connections across domains. 05:45 – All Technical Communities Run Small, the Intersection of People, Technology, and Work, and the Resilience Engineering Community 09:07 – Variety and Complexity Requisite Variety (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)) The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071392319/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0071392319&linkId=7ce8452504e8dd06d876719e2898eb3f) The Great Courses (https://www.thegreatcourses.com/learning) Understanding Complexity (https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/understanding-complexity.html) 17:51 – Understanding Cognitive Work 25:34 – Heuristics and Biases 31:01 – Strategies for Generating Context-Specific Questions Debriefing Facilitation Guide (Morgan Evans) (https://extfiles.etsy.com/DebriefingFacilitationGuide.pdf) 35:01 – Asking “Why?” Over “What?” Questions The PreAccident Podcast (https://preaccidentpodcast.podbean.com/) Todd Conklin: People screw up – and it happens all the time (https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/devops-web-performance-ny-2015/public/schedule/detail/44275) Ten challenges for making automation a “team player” in joint human-agent activity (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1363742/?reload=true) 49:33 – Analyzing and Aggregating Rational Choice Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory) Reflections: Rein: How do we deal with the objective/subjective dialectic? Janelle: The thing we focus on and pay attention to is a clear signal of what matters. Jessica: Looking up the Knowledge Elicitation Methods. Rein: It takes variety to match variety. John A.: Guiding dialogue data. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: John Allspaw.
095: Cleaning House with Heidi Waterhouse
01:20 – Heidi’s Superpower: Being Able to Remember Where Other People Set Things Down 03:53 – Where will software be in three years? Greater Than Code Episode 084: Federation Is Bad with Aurynn Shaw (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2018/06/13/084-federation-is-bad-with-aurynn-shaw/) 08:28 – Resilience in People and Software Bob Marshall / @flowchainsensei (https://twitter.com/flowchainsensei) 12:00 – Developer Relations Heidi’s Lady Conference Speaker Blog Posts (http://www.heidiwaterhouse.com/category/lady-conference-speaker/) 19:24 – Measuring Success in Developer Relations 23:43 – Fostering Relationships 29:13 – Life Hacks for ADD and Claiming Personal Space 41:37 – Housekeeping and Code Review; Clean Fights The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080241270X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=080241270X&linkId=f2f4f5d266d29e3b7514a344967b23e2) Reflections: Astrid: The things you say can be heard by someone else a different way. John: If you think about what you need out of your household or codebase as being your preference, it allows you to work with people who have other preferences more easily. Jamey: There’s always somebody that is going to care about something. Jessica: Spreading enthusiasm without judging people who aren’t enthusiastic about the same things as you are. Heidi: Being able to discuss the emotional needs of having your own needs and space while having to compromise both in code and life. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Heidi Waterhouse.
094: Humans All The Way Down with April Wensel
01:07 – April’s Superpower: Synthesizing Seemingly Unrelated Concepts to Create Something New 02:30 – Tension Between Code and Compassion 05:47 – Living According to Your Values 11:33 – Team Values and Feedback Loops 17:23 – Changing Social Makeups of Teams 22:22 – Conscious Business 32:51 – Self-Compassion and Forgiveness 40:34 – Alleviating Pain and Suffering 43:51 – Being Kind vs Being Nice 47:16 – Having Hard Conversations 51:15 – “Clever” Code Reflections: Sam: Capturing how zero-sum thinking works and holding compassion for yourself and other people. John: Putting values evaluations into regular retrospectives. April: You don’t just apply compassion in isolation. True compassion is unconditional. Janelle: Helping to relieve quiet suffering. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: April Wensel.
093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (Print Version) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262525968/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0262525968&linkId=e09a1ed21dc65f0235d273fa6e30db5b) 01:57 – Eden’s Superpower: Being a Patient Learner 06:51 – Determining Your Ability/Eligibility to Speak as an Expert 08:55 – Electrical Engineering => Law => PhD Work 12:47 – The History of Cybernetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics) 15:51 – American vs British Cybernetics The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226667901/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0226667901&linkId=442c315bcdda3e32db2428df1dfab243) Grey Walter’s Tortoises (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLULRlmXkKo) 17:37 – The Many Definitions of Cybernetics The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) by Ronald R. Kline (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/142142424X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=142142424X&linkId=446c68cf5c6674b14e216d1099f09f05) 25:03 – Project Cybersyn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn) 45:56 – Sociotechnical Engineering 53:24 – Creating Ethically Sound Tools Reflections: Astrid: The power dynamics that are already baked into our tools and the history of computing is global. Jessica: Looking into second-order cybernetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_cybernetics). Rein: The importance of learning about history, culture, and how people work as being necessary for a technical career. Eden: Making connections throughout the show. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Eden Medina.
092: A11y Ally with Rob DeLuca
01:09 – Rob’s Superpower: Ambition 05:00 – Designing and Testing for Accessibility Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview (https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Standards (https://www.w3.org/standards/) Your Emotional API (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc5HJSsYB7A) 16:36 – Hard Problems and “Squishy Problems” 19:49 – Rob’s Getting Involved with and Caring About Accessibility Story 31:03 – The Accessibility World on the Web has an Accessible Problem 38:04 – Moving From a Developer Role to a Business-y Role Within a Company Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott (Book) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250103509/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250103509&linkId=c16b028f19c15b6e55d044f558d23f99) Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss (Talk) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yODalLQ2lM) “We are investing in Rob the person, not Rob the developer.” ~ Brandon Hays (https://twitter.com/tehviking) Reflections: John: Thinking about people problems as engineering problems. Jessica: The Frontside as a human company that cares about the people in it. Rob: The Human API. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Rob DeLuca.
091: Solving Puzzles and Productive Failure with Kim Vanderspek
02:03 – Kim’s Superpower: Being able to solve puzzles and problems and teaching others to do the same. 05:39 – Speaking and Teaching Math 11:44 – Using Technology to Visualize Math: Quilting, Sewing, Playdough, Boxes 13:53 – Incorporating Programming Into Math Classes Processing (https://processing.org/) 16:01 – Specialization and Efficiency 23:38 – The Cinderella Dress in Action (https://twitter.com/kvdspek/status/929783888527937538) 27:06 – Talking About Process, Mistakes, and Failures 34:56 –Teaching Problem Solving and Failure 39:08 – Perseverance Over Content Reflections: Coraline: Show your work. lftm (https://github.com/CoralineAda/lftm) Sam: The value of perspective. Jessica: To be perfect, it has to be repeatable for particular people in a particular context. John: Obstacles parallelisms. Fail first, learn from the failure, get better. But planning for that is integral. Kim: Productive failure, trial and error, and doing beautiful things. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Kim Vanderspek.
090: The Journey with Chelsea Troy
02:03 – Chelsea’s Superpower: Pushing through and enduring discomfort to accomplish things 06:24 – The Act of Writing and Reflection: Journaling as a Tool for Learning; Commit Tracing Coxswain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxswain) 14:27 – Getting and Dealing with Feedback 17:44 – Measuring Participation in Meetings Why are there always technical problems in remote meetings? (https://chelseatroy.com/2018/03/22/why-are-there-always-technical-problems-in-remote-meetings/) Why do remote meetings suck so much? (caucus checklist) (https://chelseatroy.com/2018/03/29/why-do-remote-meetings-suck-so-much/) How do we make remote meetings not suck? (follow-up post) (https://chelseatroy.com/2018/04/05/how-do-we-make-remote-meetings-not-suck/) 23:51 – Implementing Structure in Meetings Valerie Aurora: Meeting Skills (https://frameshiftconsulting.com/meeting-skills/) 31:58 – Cultivating Questions Kindly Without Assumption or Judgement No Feigning Surprise: The Recurse Center User’s Manual (https://www.recurse.com/manual) xkcd: Ten Thousand (https://www.xkcd.com/1053/) SOAP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP) 39:03 – The Problem with Claiming “Self-Taught” “The common industry accepted term to describe how I learned programming is “self-taught” but I’ve always found that so strange, considering all of the resources and communities that have helped me along the way.” – Jacob Stoebel Reflections: Jamey: Extending empathy to other people. Chelsea: The story of where things come from and the people they come from can make them both much more interesting and much more accessible. Coraline: The value of history. Sam: One of the best ways to understand a tool is to understand the context that existed before the tool existed. The nature of a caucus penalizes people for listening. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Chelsea Troy.
089: Something Something Agile with Noel Rappin
Greater Than Code Episode 001: Taking Payments on the Web with Noel Rappin (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2016/09/28/episode-001-noel-rappin-2/) 02:58 – Noel’s Superpower: Extrapolating and Explaining Consequences of Tech Decisions to Others 06:24 – Cultural Patterns of How Organizations Develop Software; Should this process be standardized? 16:07 – Agile Adoption: Pros and Cons The Leprechauns of Software Engineering: How folklore turns into fact and what to do about it by Laurent Bossavit (https://leanpub.com/leprechauns) The Journal of Irreproducible Results (http://www.jir.com/) 26:40 – Making Decisions Without No Scientific Evidence 32:05 – Metaphors for Software Engineering and Legitimizing the Profession 38:33 – Trust-Driven Development 44:12 – Decision Making Among Teams Reflections: Rein: We are working with systems that we can’t fully define and the idea that we’re acting on systems that we’re a part of. Therefore, it changes the observer effect. Jessica: Getting the ships to all go in the same direction. Coraline: The understanding of our place in a given context. Noel: Aligning process, values, culture, and goals, and doing that to make teams work better. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Noel Rappin.
088: The Safety 2 Dance with Steven Shorrock
01:46 – Steven’s Superpower: Being a Super-Recognizer and Empathy Steven Shorrock on the myth of human error (Courtney Nash & O’Reilly Radar) (https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/steven-shorrock-on-the-myth-of-human-error) 04:21 – Steven’s Occupational History, Background, and Mission: System Performance and Human Wellbeing 08:19 – Critical Incident Stress Management 10:40 – Social Capital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capital), Bonds Within Groups, and Connectors Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset-based_community_development) Appreciative Inquiry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appreciative_inquiry) ABCD: Gifts, Skills, Passions 29:37 – Cognitive Empathy vs Emotional Empathy, and Creating Serendipity 36:33 – Safety-I and Safety-II 55:11 – Work-As-Imagined & Work-As-Done (https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/publication/files/hindsight-25.pdf); Work-As-Prescribed, Work-As-Disclosed Reflections: John: ABCD and thinking about ways to incorporate into everyday life. Jamey: People who are connectors vs networkers vs gappers; differences are subtle but there. Jessica: When you start at a small company, you know everyone in the organization; so then as the company grows, you continue to know someone in every part of the organization. In people’s assets there are gifts, skills, and passion, and we tend to hire only for skills, which is also the only one of these things that is easy to change. Steven: What do the people closest to you say your gifts are? This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Steven Shorrock.
087: The Jazz of Empathy with Chad Fowler
02:17 – Chad’s Superpower: Empathy! 07:47 – Using Introspection For a Means to Recover from and Deal with Bipolar Disorder 10:51 – Modeling Yourself 16:35 – The Importance of Self-Care 19:22 – Practicing Empathy and Compassion The Compassionate Coder (https://compassionatecoder.com/) Your most important skill: Empathy (http://chadfowler.com/2014/01/19/empathy.html) 36:25 – Expressing Your Unique Voice 40:34 – Merit-based Rewards Systems The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto (https://postmeritocracy.org/) OKR: Objectives and Key Results (https://weekdone.com/resources/objectives-key-results) 55:11 – Management and Leadership Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591846404/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1591846404&linkId=d5e83b9d78528f89464e16cd79edacc0) Goodhart’s Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) Reflections: Coraline: Freeing yourself from “supposed to”. John: Focusing on self as a gateway to understanding other people. Jessica: Our duty in the world in order to help other people emotionally is to take care of ourselves. Rein: Cybernetics of Human Learning and Performance by Gordon Pask (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0844808210/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0844808210&linkId=ffdc522918ebafc6aff68e0e41126733) Chad: Running internal dialogues that you have with yourself constantly through a bunch of other people who are thinking about the same things. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Chad Fowler.
086: Culture Is A Community Growing Together with Jesse Oliver Sanford
01:18 – Oliver’s Superpower: The Ability to Read 01:54 – Cognitive Science (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science) and Emotional Cognition George Lakehoff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff) Restylane Injections (https://www.restylaneusa.com/) The effects of BOTOX injections on emotional experience. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20515231) 11:24 – How People Think When They Code and the Intersection Between Mind and Body fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging) Brodmann Area (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area) 15:38 – The Importance of Cultural Capital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_capital) 14:42 – Flow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: All About Flow & Positive Psychology (https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-father-of-flow/) Flow Genome Project (https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/) The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1477800832/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1477800832&linkId=7aeefc6fa631ba4bc8664ac3703eb20b) Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062429663/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062429663&linkId=a87586ac3f9f3402d058767e7d5d6398) How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594204225/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1594204225&linkId=d426bb0e62f7b08c8eef59c7ea1dd1f6) 21:33 – Ritual in Developer and Engineer Culture 29:24 – Achieving Flow During Pair Programming / Hedonic Balance Dr. John Gottman: Bids for Connection (https://www.improveyoursocialskills.com/gottman-bids-for-connection) 42:29 – Emotional Intelligence and Progress Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy by Bruno Latour (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674013476/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0674013476&linkId=02ed1da7ed21e221c052ba8a0ec2637d) 57:00 – Culture. What is Culture? *More from Oliver: * Debunking Three Myths About How We Think When We Code Reflections: Sam: One’s ability to solve problems as a technical person depends as much on one’s social network and social skills as it does on technical knowledge. Jamey: You can affect things about yourself by being mindful of facts about your body. John: Teams and effectiveness: People you work with are important. Rein: In the future, we’ll realize that the code we wrote was a very small and unimportant artifact of what we’re doing as communities and cultures. Oliver: Engaging with others who think about these things and who realize how high the stakes are. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jesse Oliver Sanford.
085: BOOK CLUB! Technically Wrong with Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Buy the book! Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393634639/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0393634639&linkId=50c978567df28c98caf843e36cce54c1) 01:02 – Sara’s Superpower: Communication and Connecting the Dots 03:43 – The Process of Writing, Editing, and Communicating the Book 06:17 – A Summary of Technically Wrong 11:13 – The Harms and Risk of Data Sharing on Social Media 14:42 – Bias and Algorithms Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1479837245/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1479837245&linkId=893aaee0ae5d1c2134528f60421b2b66) 23:50 – Machine Learning and Image Recognition 28:48 – Ethics Training and Responsibility RubyConf 2017: Finding Responsibility by Caleb Thompson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBdBoWAtLNI) 35:45 – Paternalizm (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternalizm) / Parochialism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parochialism) Reflections: Astrid: How we can get people to start making changes based off what we basically know. John: Stress cases: Thinking about the ideal user and what are the qualities of other users that may be affected by the way something is presented? Jamey: The importance of having cultures in tech and workplaces that are not homogenized. Sara: We don’t get better at anything if we don’t talk about it and practice it. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Sara Wachter-Boettcher.
084: Federation Is Bad with Aurynn Shaw
01:30 – Federation and Your Internet Identity Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/) Stayin’ Alive in Technology: Who Are You? Coraline Ada Ehmke and Identity on the Internet (https://player.fm/series/stayin-alive-in-technology/who-are-you-coraline-ada-ehmke-and-identity-on-the-internet) 05:59 – Flaws of Federated Identity Usenet (https://www.usenet.org/en) 10:18 – Onboarding Eternal September (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September) 28:51 – All Technology is Political & Speech At All Costs The Californian Ideology (http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/) Survivor Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias) 15:45 – Mastodon Vs. Twitter and The Social Cost of Running an Instance 21:56 – When People React: Internet Backlash and Defensiveness The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto (https://postmeritocracy.org/) Poe’s Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law) 30:58 – Service Lock-in 37:48 – Losing Your Identity: The Failure of witches.town 39:32 – Creating Sub/Micro Federations/Communities Metcalfe’s Law This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Aurynn Shaw.
083: Programming As An Identity with Tim Chevalier
01:10 – Tim’s Superpower: Keeping Himself From Laughing / Improv 04:19 – Tim’s Journey as a Programmer 09:12 – The Collision of Values Within the Programming Industry and The Meaning and Measurement of “Intelligence” 22:39 – Using Programming to Satisfy Emotional Needs and Form Identity 37:30 – Merit and Identity as a Zero-Sum Game 40:49 – The Struggle of Giving Up / Embracing Labels 49:34 – Collectively Creating an Emotionally Healthy Atmosphere Within the Software Industry Reflections: Coraline: What are the countervalues that go against meritocracy? The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto (https://postmeritocracy.org/) Jessica: Read Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse. John: The emotional need for people to belong to various groups and things we can do to help people get into healthier spaces. Tim: Listen to Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen. Also, how to talk about the inner struggle people have to belong in a positive way. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Tim Chevalier.
082: Effective Change in Communities and Cultures with Aurynn Shaw
01:44 – Contempt Culture: An Overview Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture (https://blog.aurynn.com/tagged/contempt-culture) 12:40 – Calling Others Out For Things and Distributing That Labor 17:16 – Technical Superiority (Technology is political) 21:24 – The Cultural Impact of DevOps 28:51 – Introducing Organizational Changes in DevOps 32:11 – Outcome Focus Vs Procedural Focus 35:02 – Siloing and Process: “How does this help you?” Jenny Bramble: Risk Based Testing: Creating a Language Around Risk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfs1JT_Hcaw&feature=youtu.be) 47:56 – Context Reflections: John: Smuggling ideas into spaces without bringing historical baggage along. Coraline: Knowing that technolgy choices are political, paving the way for making the right technology choices. Sam: Understanding your own context so you can explain it to others. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Aurynn Shaw.
081: Your Emotional API with John K. Sawers
02:14 – John’s Superpower: Talking About Feelings in Public 04:57 – Programmers and Feelings Coraline Ada Ehmke: Emotions as State Machines (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2017/07/12/emotions-as-state-machines/) 09:39 – Being Educated About Your Emotions https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcSyorTUwAA5UOx.jpg image via https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcSyorTUwAA5UOx.jpg 16:12 – Feelings As Addictions, Comparing Your Experiences to Others’ Experiences, and Setting Boundaries 24:05 – Emotional API 28:53 – Cognitive Deficits of Not Handling Emotions and Cognitive Benefits of Developing Fluency with Emotions Analysis Paralysis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis) 34:02 – Doing Work to Understand Your Emotions “Practice doesn’t make perfect; practice makes permanent.” ~ Katrina Owen 36:34 – Getting Paid/Getting Further for Having and Learning About Emotional Intelligence 41:18 – Negative Effects on Teams When Individuals Refuse to Acknowledge Emotions 43:59 – Influencing Emotions and Emotional Responses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_behavior_therapy) TIP: Temperature Change, Intense Exercise, Progressive Relaxation (https://peerguideddbtlessons.weebly.com/tip-skills.html) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
080: Crafting A Community with Kris Howard
02:05 – Knitting and Computing Software Art Thou: Knit One, Compute One with Kris Howard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEn4Izv0DW8) Ravelry (https://www.ravelry.com/account/login) 06:17 – The Knitting Community Vs The Software Community 09:38 – Moderation and Clear Communication of Expectations 12:50 – Welcoming New People 14:45 – Muscle Memory and Workflow; Teaching Others 19:09 – Information Exchange and Spreading Knowledge knitml (https://github.com/fiddlerpianist/knitml) freesewing.org (https://freesewing.org/) 25:16 – User Focus Vs Creator Focus 27:07 – Kris’ Superpower: Being a Social Extrovert 35:39 – Hard Work Vs Reframing 40:51 – Gender Differences in “Crafting” "Read a comment this morning stating that Maker culture is 80% male and had to laugh. Only if you discount the millions of women sewing, knitting, weaving, and more. But oh right, they're just "crafters." That artificial distinction enrages me. 😡" ~ Kris Howard 25:16 – The “Craftsman” Gender Controversy Twitter Discussion (https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/990268357269061632) Reflections: Kris: Thinking about your environment. John: Onboarding community members and the importance of making that ramp as shallow as possible. Jessica: Choosing a tribe based on inclusivity. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Kris Howard.
079: Respect As Currency with Richard Schneeman
02:05 – Schneems’ Superpower: Not being grossed out by baby poop! And, debugging. 06:03 – The Skill and The Art of Troubleshooting 18:12 – Interviewing and Evaluating People 32:07 – Working in Open Source 37:17 – The Tension Between Structure and Agency 40:32 – The Role of Empathy in Open Source 50:52 – Bringing Open Source Values Into Companies 57:33 – Putting Machines in the Middle of People Reflections: Jamey: Gut feelings vs objective data. John: Dealing with unfriendly support cases and still having empathy. Rein: Being able to stay centered when things pull you off balance. Janelle: Respect as currency. Richard: Leaving emotions behind in pull requests. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Richard Schneeman.
078: Caring About Healthcare with Kenzi Connor and Laurie Voss
02:01 – Superpowers: Kenzi = Consensus Building; Laurie: Confuging Apache Quickly Conversation Context (https://twitter.com/seldo/status/937772610997313536) 03:35 – Trans-Inclusive Policy at npm and Cloud City Kaiser (https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/) TriNet (https://www.trinet.com/) 12:41 – Determining Whether Insurance is Trans-Friendly “Transgender insurance benefits employer guide” Google Search (https://www.google.com/search?q=transgender+insurance+employer&oq=transgender+insurance+employer&aqs=chrome..69i57.12196j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) The Transgender Law Center (https://transgenderlawcenter.org/) 15:16 – Biases Exist in Healthcare Broken Arm Syndrome (https://www.dailydot.com/irl/trans-broken-arm-syndrome-healthcare/) 20:54 – The Problem with Primary Care Physicians and Care 26:44 – Feedback from Doctors 32:00 – Why This Topic is Becoming More Commonplace and Important in Society 37:39 – Trans-Inclusive Healthcare as a Business Advantage for Companies 42:22 – How To Be an Ally in the Fight for Trans-Inclusive Healthcare 46:37 – What can primary care doctors do to signal they care about these issues? Reflections: Laurie: Do the legwork for your trans employees. John: Once you cover the edge cases, it makes the happy path even happier. Coraline: The additional challenges of non binary people. Kenzi: We have a responsibility as tech workers when we are building the system to be better about it. Carina C. Zona: Schemas for the Real World Jessica: You can’t come out as something you don’t know exists. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Kenzi Connor and Laurie Voss.
077: Creating Space to Shine with Anjuan Simmons
RubyConf 2017: Lending Privilege by Anjuan Simmons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd4PsSk_0iQ) 01:18 – Anjuan’s Superpower: Flexibility 04:55 – Cultivating Variety on Teams 08:22 – What makes a great team? 13:46 – Empowering Others 19:21 – Culture Fit 21:24 – The Tension Between Structure and Agency 24:35 – Creating Space for People to Shine 33:46 – Responses to “Weirdness” 38:27 – Building Constructive and Authentic Relationships with People 41:12 – Having Visible Differences on Teams 43:53 – “Othering” 49:29 – Earning Trust by Listening to People Reflections: Sam: Safety can improve teams and lead to wonderful harmonies. Rein: Building caring and genuine relationships with other people and valuing them for who they are. Janelle: Getting to know people and giving them space to take off their masks to be their unique selves. Anjuan: Safety is a foundational aspect of life. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Anjuan Simmons.
Special Edition: Code Is Social! LIVE from RailsConf 2018
In this special episode of Greater Than Code, the panelists and guest panelists talk to an audience live from RailsConf 2018 about our relationship with our code, and the ways we have emotional ties with what we do, but also how there’s more to it than that. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Dinah Shi, Nick Quaranto, and Vaidehi Joshi.
076: Changing Lanes
This episode touches on the topics of privilege and having tough conversations when not feeling it’s your place to have those conversations. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
075: Code and Witchcraft with Coraline Ada Ehmke
02:40 – Coraline’s Superpower: Boundless Energy 06:16 – Practicing Self-Care and Outsourcing 12:20 – Being a “Code Witch” and Perceiving the Construct of Reality 17:25 – Evocation (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/evocation) and Invocation (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/invocation) 20:52 – Being Deliberate: Refactoring Your Code and Refactoring Your Life 32:13 – Documentation and Naming Things 38:48 – Writing Magic and Writing Code; Thoughtforms Drood by Dan Simmons (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031600703X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=031600703X&linkId=d0f51d85194e87b83637277f5c6dccbb) 43:20 – Impressions and Personas; Sympathy and Empathy Brené Brown on Empathy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw) 51:58 – Acquiring Boundless Energy and Badassery This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
074: Be Your Own Hero with Astrid Countee
01:41 – Astrid’s Superpower: Being Analytical and Logical 04:33 – Social Scientists and Technology 12:47 – Professionalization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professionalization) The Code of Ethics Project: Data For Democracy (https://www.datafordemocracy.org/projects/ethics.html) 20:00 – A Day in the Life of a Social Scientist 25:39 – Social Science and Design 32:13 – Working in Numbers-based Environments Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143120557/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0143120557&linkId=cbbebebf974e18281676e2fe51693b88) 46:41 – Influence and Control 55:05 – Social Media 58:59 – Work/Life Balance and Prioritization This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
073: Driven By Need, Guided By Example with Dan North
01:41 – Dan’s Superpower: Optimization 03:26 – Are “Improve” and “Optimize” the same thing? Kaizen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen) Kaikaku (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaikaku) Cost Accounting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_accounting) 17:20 – How is cost accounting affected by demographics and privilege? 33:34 – Team Alignment, Collectiveness, and Camaraderie 37:42 – Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-driven_development) vs Test-Driven Development (TDD) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development) Write the executable specifications to guide development. Then, delete most of them to optimize for documentation. Don’t pretend that the code is tested; that’s quite different. from @tastapod (https://twitter.com/tastapod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) on @greaterthancode (https://twitter.com/greaterthancode?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) — Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) March 14, 2018 (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/973987032094728192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) 58:00 – Customer Empathy Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321503627/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0321503627&linkId=4a035427b40d7639d3ce1d4431eb7c49) Reflections: Jessica: Meeting a customer need = congressive. Dan: Collaboration is how you get work done. Jamey: Replacing “responsibility” with “duty of care”. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Dan North.
072: Story Time with Kerri Miller
01:53 – Kerri’s Superpower: Looking ahead to the future. 08:33 – Community Gatekeeping and Contempt Culture Liz Baillie: The Illustrated Adventure Survival Guide for New Rustaceans @ RustConf 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce6ppwgF4SA) Slides ^^ (https://www.slideshare.net/LizBaillie/rustconf-2016-illustrated-adventure-guide-65894363) Sam Livingston-Gray: Cognitive Shortcuts: Models, Visualizations, Metaphors, and Other Lies @ RailsConf2014 (http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2014-cognitive-shortcuts-models-visualizations-metaphors-and-other-lies) Slides ^^ (https://www.slideshare.net/geeksam/cognitive-shortcuts-models-visualizations-metaphors-and-other-lies) 16:03 – The Contextual Framing of Storytelling Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262510871/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0262510871&linkId=9568bc985aaaabdcf2e7be1e9d99bd85) Ada Developers Academy (https://www.adadevelopersacademy.org/) Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1512212938/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1512212938&linkId=a64e456d870048a8cbec54caf4a2d794) 31:50 – Retaining Information and Explaining Things to Others 44:05 – Technical Jargon: Tactical and Strategic 47:39 – Storytelling is Everywhere Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250061539/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1250061539&linkId=c44d2647a340ce0a4ca596ae7056cd7e) 52:50 – Telling Stories Over and Over and Over and Over and Over … 55:53 – Crafting the Elements of a Story Avdi Grimm: Confident Code at Cascadia Ruby 2011 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfXEwvmCWvc) 01:01:39 – What the heck is a Lackwit Gadabout? Reflections: Sam: The distinction between behavior and identity. Christina: Storytelling is super important. Jamey: It’s helpful to care about something before you learn it. Kerri: Next time you do a Git commit, don’t do -m. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Kerri Miller.
071: Brein Power with Rein Henrichs
02:41 – Rein’s Superpower: Perceiving and Being Aware of Connections Between Things and People 03:49 – Power Dynamics in Companies 05:41 – Inherent Value and Self-Esteem; Recovering From Failure Virginia Satir: Communication and Congruence (http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2vsatir.html) 11:35 – Modeling Behavior and Controlling Outcomes as a Person in a Position of Power The Virginia Satir Model of Family Therapy (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0831400781/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0831400781&linkId=418b629f47a7ce552315ec0680cf7a5a) 17:58 – Hierarchical Organization vs Growth-Oriented Organization Kanban (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban) The Toyota System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System) 24:33 – The Problem with Labeling Teams as “Family” 32:04 – Making Choices That Are Right for Yourself; Experimentation Anomie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie) Ikigai (Ikigai) 39:01 – Haskell and Strategies for Learning and Reading Papers 44:51 – Being Present and Truly Seeing Others; Being OK with Not Being OK The Satir Interaction Model (http://stevenmsmith.com/AONW/Satir%20Interaction%20Model.pdf) What Do You Do With the Mad You Feel? Mr. Rogers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=xTs73qO5ehk) 48:20 – Intentions Matter 50:31 – Advice for Perceiving and Being Aware of Connections Between Things and People Cognitive Dissonance “You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.” ~ Maya Angelou This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
070: Trusting The Universe with Kale Kaposhilin
02:10 – Kale’s Origin Story 05:10 – Connecting Through Story and Voice The Law of Raspberry Jam (http://jimhighsmith.com/the-law-of-raspberry-jam-reflecting-on-agile-progress/) 08:17 – Communicating Through Text vs Communicating Through Speech Daniel Quinn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Quinn) Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553375407/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553375407&linkId=fa6024b1c5c310297ac46931087ccfba) 12:43 – Kale’s Superpower: Facilitating the Voices of Other People Hudson Valley Tech Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/hvtech/) Catskills Conf (https://catskillsconf.com/) 17:28 – Running Unconventional Events and Conferences; Trust and Taking Risks 25:10 – Creating Opportunities and Accepting Offerings 27:49 – Encouraging Diverse Attendance and Making People Feel Welcome Virtue Signalling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling) 38:45 – Interpreting Intentions, Actions, and Reactions; Centering Yourself and Being Vulnerable Reflections: Kale: People matter. Jamey: Helping people be heard both physically and metaphorically. Astrid: Trust fall into the universe. Rein: Building the stage so that other people can speak from it makes a great ally. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Kale Kaposhilin.
069: Identity Is An Arrow with Avdi Grimm
Greater Than Code Episode 002: Neutralizing Impostor Syndrome with Avdi Grimm 01:52 – Avdi’s Superpower: The Power of Inspiration, RubyConf India (https://www.rubyconfindia.org/), and International Conferences vs Domestic 04:28 – The Pursuit of a Fixed Life: Achieving or Avoiding Stasis Blog Post: I was trying to end my life (http://journal.avdi.org/2017/12/31/i-was-trying-to-end-my-life/) 08:40 – Living in the Future and Having Goals 16:36 – Hitting Career Stasis vs Identity Stasis 25:23 – Becoming a Visible Person in Tech 31:27 – Encouraging and Inspiring People to Find Their Potential and Value 44:23 – Being Authentic and Transparent to the World Reflections: Coraline: Identity matters. Rein: How identity and society interact: Symbolic Interactionism. Also, having therapeutic relationships. Jessica: Two energies, internally, of being ‘grounded’ and ‘inspired’ and those feeding into ‘connection’, together. Also, we have identity in the now and in the future. The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Janelle: Being present and listening, connecting, and internalizing to form new thoughts you wouldn’t have had otherwise. Avdi: Identity in the now and identity in the future forms an arrow. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
068: Skills of Resilience with Gerry Valentine
01:28 – Gerry’s Superpower: Building Resilience 02:51 – What is Resilience? 08:59 – Creating an Atmosphere of Psychological Safety 11:04 – Having Tough Conversations: Resilience on the Societal Level 18:41 – Moving Other People Forward and Leading Others as a Senior Dev 27:07 – Code Chitakwas 33:10 – Devaluing the Notion of Intellect Reflections: Gerry: What is “smart”, really and how are we smart enough to make the room of smart people bigger? Coraline: Thinking of myself as a leader in my company and think about it can use the influence that I have to make sure that we’re creating and fostering a culture where we do face down the big problems. Jamey: Being right, being new, and making process. Also, valuing intellect and having uncomfortable conversations. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Gerry Valentine.
067: Tech in Transition with Ashanti-Mutinta
01:09 – Ashanti’s Superpower: People say they’re funny on Twitter! 02:37 – Having Dialogue and Engaging with Others on Twitter 07:42 – Finding Safe Online Community Networks via Social Media Platforms 16:13 – Making Platforms Safer 18:06 – Perspectives on Blocking https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/listentoyourself.png 25:05 – Perspectives on Real Name Policies 29:59 – Gender Identity Education 36:57 – Transitioning in While Working in Tech Reflections: Rein: Listening and learning about trans experiences. Coraline: Taking care of how we are presenting ourselves to the world. Jamey: The act of sharing and receiving information as a give and take. Ashanti: Conversation flows much more freely when people are in safe spaces. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Ashanti-Mutinta.
066: Growing a Culture with Allison Kopf
01:15 – Allison’s Superpower: Making Unplanned and Hectic Situations Work Out The Stockdale Paradox (https://www.ndoherty.com/stockdale-paradox/) 06:43 – Getting Into Agriculture 08:54 – Building a Company Culture 13:19 – Transmitting Culture and Core Values When Hiring New People 20:02 – Disagreeing Respectfully and Maintaining Strong Opinions 25:19 – Clear Boundaries Between Work and Home Life 32:34 – What Tech Look Looks Like in the Context of a Working Farm 40:27 – Writing Code for Non-Technical People Reflections: Coraline: Practicing empathy for the user when writing software. Jamey: Consciously make space for people who don’t speak as loudly as other people. Sam: Learn something new every day. Allison: How different people want to work remotely and how we can create an open way to actually do that. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Allison Kopf.
065: Radical Design with Marian Petre and André van der Hoek
Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think (The MIT Press) by Marian Petre and André van der Hoek (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262035189/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0262035189&linkId=df177ad25f96058d8857b79d30b6cf2e) 01:39 – Marian’s Superpower: Picking Brains Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018475/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465018475&linkId=b4167a63b9987f095980f513ab736f3f) 03:28 – André’s Superpower: Identifying Patterns 04:23 – Design Thinking Within Companies and The Error by Proxy Phenomenon 09:19 – The Notion that Design Has Gone Away 12:18 – Radical vs Normal Design: What drives the need for radical design? When does normal design stop being effective? 19:55 – The Democratization of Software Development 24:45 – Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think 27:45 – The Disconnect Between Academic Research and Actual Practice 29:25 – Why “Decoded”? 32:59 – How People Deal with Systems That Are Too Big 39:19 – Problem Solving and Problem Solving in the Context of Complex Software Systems 44:29 – The Notion of the Toolbox and Breaking Down Big Problems Into Smaller Problems Reflections: Coraline: There are two types of gurus. Rein: The democratization of software development and steering organizations. Jessica: Studying the bug rather than squashing the bug and experts are in the room twice. Jamey: Designers saying that, “My job IS hard!” and being kind to themselves. André and Marian: Having these conversations and interacting with people in this industry. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: André van der Hoek and Marian Petre .
064: Stories, Bias and AI with Aditya Mukerjee
00:58 – Aditya’s Superpower: Parking Karma 03:18 – Algorithmic Decision Making in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 09:06 – Recognizing the Effects of Bias The Bias Blind Spot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot) The Babadook (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2321549/) 18:07 – Health and Technology: How can technology have a meaningful impact on care delivery? 23:54 – Why are people frightened of automation? 33:33 – Storytelling in Software and Engineering Reflections: Sam: Be a little bit more aware of how stories are told. Aditya: Thinking of yourself as an editor for the story. Jamey: The difference between can we build this and should we build this? This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Aditya Mukerjee.
063: The Distribution of Brilliance and Opportunity with Rehema Wachira
01:22 – Rehema’s Superpower: Empathy 02:53 – Rehema’s “Untypical” Origin Story 07:20 – Enjoying Coding Because of the Complexity Behind It 11:21 – Creating a “Culture of Saving” 14:52 – “Diversity of Thought” and Seeing the World Through Others’ Eyes 22:20 – Being Creators and Makers Indie Hackers (https://www.indiehackers.com/) 30:28 – How Technology Empowers People 38:27 – The Distribution of Brilliance and Opportunity 47:01 – Freedom of Creative Expression Reflections: Astrid: Having to unlearn the need of being perfect. Jessica: We want to speak to more guests on a global level! Please reach out! Sam: Fixed vs growth mindset. Rein: Diversity is not just good for ethical reasons, it also makes your organization more competent. Janelle: Celebrating beautiful. Rehema: A fundamental right to freedom. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Rehema Wachira.
062: The Beauty of Art and Technology with Jamey Hampton
01:22 – Jamey’s Superpower: “The Fharlanghn Sense” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fharlanghn) 02:40 – Working in Agriculture 04:03 – Theories on Automation 05:56 – Pivoting Into Computer Science and Software Development 10:35 – Feeling Like You Need to Know Everything Stella Report from the SNAFUcatchers Workshop on Coping With Complexity (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kFkt5WxLeDTml5cTFsWXFCb1U/view) 15:47 – ‘Zines and Being a ‘Zine Librarian 27:50 – The Beauty of Art and Technology and Forming Emotional Connections to Things Floppy Music DUO – Imperial March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE) 35:26 – The Death Star => Ethics in Technology and Taking Responsibility/Being Accountable for your Code Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsite (https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell) @greaterthancode: (https://twitter.com/greaterthancode/status/950415458385186816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E950415458385186816&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2018%2F01%2F10%2F062-the-beauty-of-art-and-technology-with-jamey-hampton%2F) “I think the more powerful a tool is, the more respect you have to have for it.” ~ @jameybash on Greater Than Code 49:42 – Brilliance and Learning From Others Without Consent 54:49 – Advice for Channeling Your Own Inner Fharlanghn Sense This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
061: Destruction-Focused Development with Safia Abdalla
00:53 – Safia’s Superpower: Sight 03:04 – Learning Languages — Both Human and Programming The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis (http://www.blutner.de/color/Sapir-Whorf.pdf) 07:56 – Being Empathetic in an International Perspective and Building Universal and Approachable Tech 11:19 – What does success look like for minorities in the Silicon Valley monoculture?; Being Tokenized Admiral Grace Hopper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper) 21:59 – Accepting Speaking Engagements Because of Who You Are (i.e. as a woman, minority, etc.) 24:07 – Writing Things Down to Balance Prioritizing Decisions 30:46 – Defining “Happy” and Always Feeling the Need to Do More 37:02 – Destruction-Focused Development @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/943551570591002624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E943551570591002624&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2018%2F01%2F03%2F061-destruction-focused-development-with-safia-abdalla%2F) Destruction-Focused Development: write it, delete it, repeat. "I don't become obsessed with the code. I think it's more important to be obsessed with the problem." @captainsafia on @greaterthancode. 43:58 – Safia’s Early Coding “Shenanigans” Reflections: Coraline: Being thoughtful about planning finite energy and labor. Also being content vs being happy. @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/943551732671500289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E943551732671500289&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2018%2F01%2F03%2F061-destruction-focused-development-with-safia-abdalla%2F) "I often feel like I don't do enough and I haven't defined what 'enough' is." @CoralineAda on @greaterthancode Jasmine: Exploring feelings about being represented at events. Jessica: Broadening perspectives that most of us were born into. Safia: Talking about the Silicon Valley monoculture, being content vs happy, and tokenism. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Safia Abdalla.
060: Coping with Complexity with Kent Beck
01:19 – Kent’s Superpower: Putting Things Together That Don’t Necessarily Go Together Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018475/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465018475&linkId=6b695b9a8370a14771836fb3671d11e5) 04:01 – Metaphors in Software Development 07:32 – Writing Tests and Keeping a Journal @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/938122417548881920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E938122417548881920&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2017%2F12%2F27%2F060-coping-with-complexity-with-kent-beck%2F) The unit/integration distinction confuses me. I test at the level of, “Here’s a thought I need to capture.” @KentBeck on @greaterthancode 10:58 – Complexity Partitioning One Bite At A Time: Partitioning Complexity (https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/one-bite-at-a-time-partitioning-complexity/1716882961677894/) Kent’s musings on the topic of unit versus integration testing after the show. (https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/unit-tests/1726369154062608/) 21:59 – The Way Systems Change Over Time as an Important Part of How We Design Software 27:20 – Changing Culture Vs Code and Storytelling and Succession Reflections: Jamey: Thinking about the reasons why we do things. Rein: How computer systems are beginning to take on the complexity of biological systems. Coraline: The concept of lumpers vs splitters. Sam: How strategies for dealing with complexity don’t just have to be about the problem itself, they can be about the emotional response of the programmer who has to get some work done. Jessica: The for-allers vs the for-eachers; universalist vs existentialist. Kent: Not being bothered by culture change and helping people feel the same. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Kent Beck.
059: Science All The Things! with Pamela Gay
01:13 – Pamela Podcasting, Since…well, FOREVER! Astronomy Cast (http://www.astronomycast.com/) 365 Days of Astronomy (https://cosmoquest.org/x/365daysofastronomy/) Adam Curry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curry) 02:19 – Pamela’s Superpower: Solving Random Problems with Software 05:19 – Becoming a “Reluctant Coder” i.e. Coding Out of Necessity 10:58 – Battlestar Galactica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica) => Greek Mythology => Space => Astrophysics 14:52 – Doing What You Have To Do vs Doing What You Love To Do 20:27 – The Goal of Podcasting and Target Audience 23:57 – Understanding and Knowing Everything: Good? Bad? 26:03 – Outsourcing Work as a Personal Loss and The Internet’s Graveyard of Abandoned Projects 32:06 – Open Sourcing Work Yourself for the Benefit of Others 36:58 – Writing Software to Engage People CosmoQuest Citizen Science (https://cosmoquest.org/x/) 44:22 – Crowdsourcing Requires Trust but Garners Better Results 48:02 – The Motivation of Citizen Scientists @cosmoquestx (https://twitter.com/cosmoquestx) Reflections: Jessica: The layers of people in software and people in software and how we’re all learning. It gets hard to separate the people from the technology. Also, having goals you DON’T want to achieve. Coraline: Seeing crowdsourcing being successful. Jamey: Curiosity isn’t necessarily about finding out the answer. It’s the pursuit of the magic. The tenuous path we all take in life, and what decisions cause us to be on the right path to the right here, right now. Pamela: If we collaborate with the technology, maybe we won’t get silenced. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Pamela Gay.
058: Kindness and Patience with Tara Scherner de la Fuente
00:16 – Welcome to Episode 111010 of the Greater Than Code Podcast! 02:09 – Tara’s Superpower and Origin Story: Patience 04:56 – Conflating Patience with Kindness 07:39 – Is writing code making us less thoughtful? AKA Patience in the Workplace The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time (The Doherty Threshold) (https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/the-economic-value-of-rapid-response.html) 16:22 – Warning Signs that a Company’s Culture is Not a Good One; Also, is it the company or is it individuals within a company? 22:59 – Looking for and Interviewing for a Job at a Less Toxic Environment 33:20 – What does it mean to be a developer? 36:33 – Interviewing and Privilege 39:35 – Advice for Early Career Developers 44:10 – Remote Work Culture Reflections: Coraline: Being patient and kind. Astrid: Software development is always something you can continue to improve at. Tara: People don’t have to be exactly like us to be a person that we want to work with. Being different can be an asset. Sam: Interviewing somebody should be able finding out how they think and not about what they necessary know at the moment. Special Guest: Tara Scherner de la Fuente.
057: Everything is UI with Christina Morillo
01:08 – Christina’s Background and Superpower: Multitasking and Automation See Also: GTC 056: Systematize Your Hustle with Kronda Adair 04:42 – Automation Processes: Discovery and Reconnaissance, and When Human Judgement and Input is Necessary 10:03 – Multitasking Timescales and Context Switching 16:39 – Decision-making Functions 23:28 – Being Kind to Your Busy Self and Choosing What NOT To Do We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062693980/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062693980&linkId=36d5c466dd58a3659f9dc2c31e7c8554) 32:03 – Making Accomplishments Visible to Yourself and Having a Culture of Acknowledgement For more discussion on congressive/ingressive behavior, see also: GTC Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng Operant Conditioning Chamber (Skinner Box) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber) Reflections: Rein: Being self-aware of how much is on your plate, how you’re feeling about it, and then being able to say no, which is really saying yes to what YOU want to do, what YOU want to spend time on, and how YOU want to live YOUR life. Janelle: Taking the time to remember and that remembering takes time. Jessica: Choosing the group that you’re being generative with. Christina: UX is everything and everywhere. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
056: Systematize Your Hustle with Kronda Adair
01:26 – SYSTEMS! Implementing Repeatable Processes Via Automation Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less by Sam Carpenter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160832253X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=160832253X&linkId=f57a3d32a89bacda9cd41b76756a0de2) 09:28 – Strategies for Implementation 12:18 – Reclaiming Your Time and Cheap is Always Expensive Work the System (Online) (https://www.workthesystem.com/) Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936661837/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1936661837&linkId=9ff8a84f2eba0bc21a1d6739ee254949) Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) (https://www.eosworldwide.com/) Google Image Result for http://www.pyragraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/GOOD-FAST-CHEAP.jpgnull @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/928323310416486400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E928323310416486400&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2017%2F11%2F22%2F056-systematize-your-hustle-with-kronda-adair%2F) Solopreneurship: "It's never just you. There's present-you and future-you" @kronda on @greaterthancode 23:20 – Choosing Successful Customers and Avoiding Perfection Paralysis @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/928327947030851584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E928327947030851584&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2017%2F11%2F22%2F056-systematize-your-hustle-with-kronda-adair%2F) If you don't have a system, your system is, think really hard about it every time. @geeksam on @greaterthancode with @kronda me: or worse, don't 28:44 – Successful Use Cases Active Campaign (https://www.activecampaign.com/) systemHUB (https://www.systemhub.com/) 35:33 – Iterating and Changing Processes 42:31 – Kronda’s Superpowers Reflections: Jessica: As developers, and as we’re writing automation for other people, we can also think at a meta level, and automate the parts of our jobs so then we can spend more thinking time thinking about the interesting part of code, like how to achieve the results that we want. Kronda: Things that are easy vs things that are effective. Sam: Executive Dysfunction and the idea of making decision rules. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Kronda Adair.
055: Change Ourselves a Little, Many Times with Keith Bennett
00:16 – Welcome to “Metamours United For Frequent Dialogue” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:47 – Keith’s Background and Superpower 10:03 – Conflict Resolution Open Spaces session on Conflict Resolution this summer at DevOpsDays D.C. (and the precursor to this conversation) (https://www.dropbox.com/s/jug4qxduj15u84i/Conflict%20Resolution%20Open%20Space%20Session%20from%20DevOpsDays%20DC%202017.mp3?dl=0) Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143118447/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0143118447&linkId=693c6377e3aba2669f78354de86f0543) 12:01 – Opinions on Mediators/Mediation 14:21 – Approaching Conflict News Story Re: Portland Murders (https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/05/police_responding_to_ne_portla.html) 17:31 – Radical Helpfulness/Kindness Keith Bennett: Kaizen and Radical Helpfulness (https://medium.com/@keithrbennett/kaizen-and-radical-helpfulness-a207077cd7e7) The Smoke Filled Room (https://www.dowellwebtools.com/tools/lp/Bo/psyched/16/Smoke-Filled-Room) 20:49 – Being Okay with Being Different and Speaking Up Triumph Over Fear: A Book of Help and Hope for People with Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Phobias (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553374443/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553374443&linkId=93d748861b4e04886f5d4d56bab0bebc) Congressive/Ingressive Chat with Dr. Eugenia Cheng (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2017/07/05/episode-038-category-theory-for-normal-humans-with-eugenia-cheng/) 31:17 – Fire Alarms and Radical Helpfulness (Cont’d) 35:50 – Knowing When to Step Back or to Step Forward Reflections: Astrid: The way to change ourselves a lot is to change ourselves a little, many times. Sam: Decide that you’re okay with being different and training yourself to be bold. Jasmine: Be mindful of yourself and your actions. Jessica: There’s a lot of conscious thought and choice in both being helpful and resolving conflict. Keith: Working together to create a safer and happier world. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Keith Bennett.
054: Code Hospitality with Nadia Odunayo
01:19 – Nadia’s Superpower 02:01 – Code Hospitality and Being a Good Host Nadia Odunayo: The Guest: A Guide To Code Hospitality @ GORUCO 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUuAp6c1ylM) Daniel Dennett’s “Intuition Pump” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump) 10:22 – People and Habits and Having Expertise in a Particular Realm 17:00 – Asking Questions/Waiting for Explanation Rather Than Passing Judgement 22:16 – Codebases Are Constantly Changing: Use the README to Give Context Code Hospitality Guide App (https://gist.github.com/nodunayo/c919477906aab6c1af6065ff8e868d3e) 27:27 – Making Diagrams Whilst Coding/Pairing Rapoport’s Rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapoport%27s_rule) 32:27 – Thinking About the “Why” 36:44 – Giving and Receiving Feedback in a Nonviolent Way 39:09 – Host Responsibilities for Hospitality Reflections: Jamey: Breaking down the power dynamic of learning. Jacob: Unspoken rules and normalized behavior based on location and telling stories to make people feel more at home. Rein: Recognizing emotional labor. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Jacob Stoebel and Nadia Odunayo.
053: BOOK CLUB! The Responsible Communication Style Guide
01:33 – Superpowers and Acquisition 02:50 – Reflective Listening 05:27 – The Responsible Communication Style Guide (https://rcstyleguide.com/) 11:54 – Asking Content-Related Questions 15:10 – Who is the target audience for this book? 17:45 – The Evolution of Writing the Book 19:39 – People-first Language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-first_language) Kronda Adair: Five Stages of Unlearning Racism (https://kronda.com/five-stages-of-unlearning-racism/) 23:40 – What if you get it wrong? @kronda (https://twitter.com/kronda/status/546727506850496512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E546727506850496512&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2017%2F11%2F01%2F053-book-club-the-responsible-communication-style-guide%2F) 1. Try to do good. 2. Fuck it up. 3. Apologize 4. Try not to make the same mistake again. That’s the job. Google Image Result for https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/thumbitem/Character-Building-Four-Part-Apology-1397830518/original-1018935-1.jpgnull 29:40 – Fearing Shame 34:22 – Political Correctness and Language Evolution 44:11 – “Use with Caution” Words Reflections: Astrid: The less that something is happening the way I want it to, probably the less that I know. Sam: Learning something from a joke! Jamey: People who don’t want to learn new things are boring. Also, not being self-reflective. Audrey: It’s amazing to pay people for their work. Thursday: Pride for the contributors of this project. The Recompiler: Year 3 Kickstarter This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Audrey Eschright and Thursday Bram.
052: Master’s Degrees, Double Binds, and Data Science with Emily Dresner
01:06 – Emily’s Background and Superpower 02:49 – Having a Master’s Degree: Was it worth it? 08:08 – Struggles After Retaining a Master’s 10:31 – Role Model: Emily’s Mom and Her Story 12:11 – “The Double Bind” 14:47 – Experiences Working at a Gaming Company Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise by David Foster Wallace (https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf) 18:33 – Transitioning to Upside and Building a Healthy Culture 21:50 – Engineering Vs Management 29:09 – Data Science 32:50 – Self-Selecting for Privilege 36:38 – Data Science and Security/Privacy Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553418831/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553418831&linkId=c1f1ddfeccb618a067410f6a11670af3) 46:55 – Having a Background in Actual Science; Conquering Biases 51:35 – The Importance of Mentorship and Internships from the Beginning Reflections: Coraline: Having a biases towards hiring people like yourself and other hiring biases. Sam: Research cognitive biases. Jamey: Computers aren’t people. Emily: I really do enjoy teaching. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Emily Dresner.
051: Creating Safer Spaces with Soo Choi
00:16 – Welcome to “The Venn Diagram Podcast. It’s a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but it’s definitely not that other thing.” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:09 – Soo’s Background at NASA and Superpower 06:01 – Wanting Attending Conferences and Speaking and then When Speaking at Conferences Goes Wrong Soo Choi: Changing Diversity Constructs: My Journey as a Woman in DevOps @ DevOpsDays D.C. 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRDZIMKJwUg&t=7s) 16:10 – Creating Safe Spaces: From Conferences to Workspaces 21:29 – Allies and Advocacy; Talking Salary 24:12 – Safe Spaces vs Safer Spaces 28:16 – Forgiving People Without Labeling Them (i.e. Sexist, Racist, etc.) 38:28 – Having “Fierce Conversations” and Collecting Better Tools Aja Hammerly: We Don’t Do That Here (http://www.thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html) Reflections: Soo: Sharing experiences in open and safer spaces. Sam: Listening to each other’s experiences. Sit with cognitive dissonance, be okay with it, and see what it has to teach us. Jessica: Learning from other’s experiences. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Soo Choi.
050: Open Source Anarchism with Steve Klabnik
00:16 – Welcome to “Greater Than Crabmeat” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:02 – Steve’s Background, Origin Story, and Superpowers! Skrillex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrillex) 06:00 – Contributing to Open Source why the lucky stiff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff) Hackety Hack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackety_Hack) Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (https://poignant.guide/) 11:07 – Succession Planning The Meme Hustler (https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler) 20:12 – Organizing Groups of People in a Non-Authoritarian Way Mikhail Bakunin: What is Authority? (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/various/authrty.htm) The RFC Process in Rust (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs) Syndicalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism) 36:23 – Avoiding Using Language with Political Connotation Want to help keep us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Sponsors Needed: Please download our Sponsorship Prospectus and share it with your employers! 39:46 – Is anarchy equally accessible to everyone or is it only accessible/available to a privileged class? 43:11 – Problems with One-upmanship and “Shittalking” in Communities Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture (https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture) 50:39 – Seeking Out Different Environments and Building Environments People Want Reflections: Jamey: Leadership and how important it is to not put too much power in the hands of a few people. Rein: How do you build systems of governance that don’t depend for their success on the goodness of the rulers? Lorena: How do we learn to speak with others in ways that are inviting and create a safe space for us all? Coraline: The notion of intentionality. Steve: Jargon and exclusion. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Steve Klabnik.
049: Technology For the Greater Good with Reyn Aubrey
Guest Starring: Reyn Aubrey: @ReynAubrey | PocketChange | reyn@pocketchange.social 00:16 – Welcome to “For Good or For Awesome?” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:18 – Reyn Aubrey’s Background, Origin Story, and Superpower! 06:04 – Culture of a Company and Tolerance Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591842336/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1591842336&linkId=d86ed2c7e657e11ade2384e415053c25) 08:12 – Becoming an Entrepreneur at 19-years-old and PocketChange 10:40 – Charity Evaluation Criteria; “Wicked Problems” pocketchange.social/charities (http://pocketchange.social/charities/) 14:33 – Habitizing Donation 16:22 – Analyzing and Collecting Charity Data GuideStar Charity Navigator (https://www.guidestar.org/Home.aspx) CharityWatch (https://www.charitywatch.org/home) 19:02 – How PocketChange is Structured 20:34 – The Ideation of “Technology For the Greater Good” 24:28 – Reyn’s Path Into Business and Entrepreneurship Start It Up: The Complete Teen Business Guide to Turning Your Passions into Pay by Kenrya Rankin (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014ICFYNS/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B014ICFYNS&linkId=dcbce35af1882a89f041061b386407b0) 28:33 – Good Business Beliefs, Virtues, and Values 34:00 – Bringing Anarchist Organizing Principles Into Business Colin Ward: Anarchism as a Theory of Organization (https://www.panarchy.org/ward/organization.1966.html) The ‘Two Pizza Rule’ Is Jeff Bezos’ Secret To Productive Meetings (https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-two-pizza-rule-for-productive-meetings-2013-10) 37:23 – Advice For Others Interested in Social Entrepreneurship 42:00 – Launching PocketChange and Reserve Your Launch Day Invite (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pocketchange/kdildeljmcpiaaedbmlcloikhlfeodom) 44:51 – Gathering and Raising Venture Capital 47:35 – Advice For Others Interested in Social Entrepreneurship (Cont’d) Reflections: Rein: Check out Stafford Beer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer). Coraline: A culture being defined by the least of something you’ll tolerate and entrepreneurs should solve for “Wicked Problems” — not pain points. Jamey: All charities are not created equal. Reyn: A value that isn’t acted on is at best an inspiration and at worst a pretense. Also, non-dominance based work relationships. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Reyn Aubrey.
048: Finding Our Lane with Marco Rogers
00:16 – Welcome to “Greater Than Code: Like Uber, But For Not Being Shitty” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:04 – Background and Superpower 03:03 – Being Outspoken and Dealing with Pushback on Twitter 04:41 – “Staying in Your Lane” 11:12 – To Engage, or Not to Engage? 16:10 – Mixing Social Justice and a Tech Career 20:49 – Having Conversations Re: Diversity and Inclusion 23:16 – Making Workplaces Inclusive and Changing the Culture 35:56 – Educating Others — But Not on Demand 38:28 – What is the right way to be an ally? Reading Spaces 43:59 – Starting/Organizing Working Groups 45:34 – Advocating for D&I as Leaders Reflections: Jessica: Diversity and inclusion is hard because it’s more than just one thing. Sam: Don’t have conversations or be in them to not just be wrong. Janelle: Training, teaching, and educating, versus putting together a working group to get things done. Jamey: It’s okay to be wrong and sincerely apologizing. Astrid: It’s hard to be who you want to be in a world where people are constantly picking sides. Marco: How dynamics pay out for people who aren’t fully engaged in the D&I conversation yet. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Marco Rogers.
047: Communicating Across Boundaries with Declan Whelan
00:16 – Welcome to “I Rolled a Natural 20 For My Agility Check” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:31 – Background and Superpower; Empathy 09:08 – Cross-Cultural Communication Dynamics Women in Agile (https://www.agilealliance.org/events/women-in-agile-2018/) 15:48 – Biases, Understanding Dynamics, and Facilitating as an Ally @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/902935755533807616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E902935755533807616&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2017%2F09%2F20%2F047-communicating-across-boundaries-with-declan-whelan%2F) "To have biases is to be human. It's not a bad thing." @dwhelan @greaterthancode 21:02 – Being Authentic 25:31 – Is Agile something that you are or something that you do? 35:37 – Adopting Practices Across Teams “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/902949956889313280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E902949956889313280&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2017%2F09%2F20%2F047-communicating-across-boundaries-with-declan-whelan%2F) People love consistency. Ask, what are the benefits? then strive for common outcomes, not common practices. @dwhelan@greaterthancode 41:57 – Technical Debt and Technical Health: How do we amplify what we want? Code Climate (https://codeclimate.com/) Reflections: Jessica: Strive for common outcomes; not common practices. Coraline: Some situations should be taken as a promise for a conversation. Janelle: Ask for permission. Sam: Identifying and clarifying outcomes that we want. Declan: Figure out how you can have effective conversations with your teams. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Declan Whelan.
046: Specialization vs Collaboration with Aria Stewart
00:16 – Welcome to “The World is Upside Down. Can DevOps save us?” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:07 – Background and Superpowers 09:22 – Diagnostic Troubleshooting: “Expert Intuition Effect” 14:23 – Understanding Entire Systems vs Specializing in One Area 17:15 – Isolation Leading to Contempt 28:42 – The DevOps Movement and Culture Change 34:45 – Contempt Towards Processes Janelle Klein: A Programmer’s Guide to Humans @ SeleniumConf UK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a5gUS649t0) Reflections: Astrid: Having a holistic approach towards Software Development. Coraline: Why specialization leads to contemptuous behavior between teams and how to solve it for early career developers. Janelle: Inside of us, we all have a soul. Aria: Start telling new stories about the people who build fantastic products and tools. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Aria Stewart.
Special Edition: Innovation Amidst a Disaster with Jeff Reichman
This episode stars, Jeff Reichman, who talks about how the Houston tech community came together to help people through Hurricane Harvey and the aftermath, the technology opportunities in disaster response, the harvey-api that they developed, and how tech devs need to be side-by-side with relief efforts, while responding to tech needs right away. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jeff Reichman.
045: Sexual Assault and Project Callisto with Lynn Cyrin
Content/Trigger Warning: This episode discusses sexual assault. 00:16 – Welcome to “Fullstack Activism” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:22 – Lynn’s Background Story and Superpowers FIRST LEGO League (http://www.firstlegoleague.org/) 11:34 – Project Callisto (https://www.projectcallisto.org/): Reporting Sexual Assault and Dealing with The System 17:57 – Institutional Betrayal and Keeping Information Private 20:49 – The Chain of Command: How Project Callisto Works 22:17 – Reticence When it Comes to Talking About Sexual Assault 26:04 – “Staying in Your Lane” 27:56 – Matching Reports 29:33 – The Technology Behind the App 34:14 – Evaluating Features 38:16 – Contributing to Project Callisto Fund Club (http://joinfundclub.com/) Donate to Project Callisto (https://www.projectcallisto.org/donate.html) 41:54 – Open Sourcing the Project 44:00 – Code Sharing Reflections: Coraline: Empathy and developers putting the psychological safety of their users first. Brené Brown on Empathy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw) Astrid: Building technology for the greater good. Jamey: If you don’t like what someone else is doing, you can do your own thing and make it happen. Sam: Believe survivors. Ashe Dryden: The Risk In Speaking Up (https://www.ashedryden.com/the-risk-in-speaking-up) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Lynn Cyrin.
044: Lazy Perfectionism and Performative Diversity and Inclusion with Shanise Barona
Come to Catskills Conf (https://catskillsconf.com/) and meet Mandy & Jamey! Stay for the experience. Shanise Barona: @shanisebarona | shanisebarona.com 00:16 – Welcome to “Plant Parenthood!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:19 – Shanise’s Background Story and Superpower Girl Develop It (https://www.girldevelopit.com/) 03:08 – “Lazy Perfectionism”, “The Explosion of Dissonance”, and “The Moment of Click” The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062457713/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062457713&linkId=4bc21e549783a89e20985c17591cc368) You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0762447699/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0762447699&linkId=39b7be7a61c4d68c133d091413272aee) 12:49 – Improving Self-Directed Learning 100 Days of Code (https://github.com/Kallaway/100-days-of-code) 15:35 – Having Tunnel Vision Past the Point of Where You Should and Moving Beyond a Comfort Zone “I understood lazy perfectionism differently, more as the tendency to refactor, polish, and improve the various “-ilities” of your code long past the point when you should have moved on to something else. It’s like . . . tunnel vision on things that are important but not all-important. Finding the right balance there is super hard for me.” – Nathaniel Knight Thank you to our latest $50 Patron, Josh Schmelzle! 21:50 – “Performative Diversity” and Community Building Ela Conf (http://elaconf.com/) 28:33 – Words and Actions: Influencing Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) 34:25 – Being Angry on Social Media But Feeling the Need to be Perceived as Positive (All the Time) Reflections: Sam: Lazy perfection is a thing with a label and something to pay attention to. Janelle: How shallow efforts can be to create change (i.e. conference diversity). Mandy: Stop giving lip service! Step up and prove that you care about diversity and inclusion by supporting groups and missions like Greater Than Code. Jamey: Having connections with people to prove to yourself you’re not alone. Jessica: If you want to have diverse attendees, get a diverse leadership team. Shanise: 1. Seeking a balance between wanting and not wanting explosions of dissonance. Find opportunities to highlight people that wouldn’t normally get opportunities to be highlighted. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Shanise Barona.
043: The Accessibility of Board Games with Mischa Lewis-Norelle and James Edward Gray
James Edward Gray: @JEG2 "Purchase" links are affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! 00:16 – Welcome to “Paneldome!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:58 – Backgrounds and Superpowers Hilary Stohs-Krause: We’ve Always Been Here: Women Changemakers in Tech @ RailsConf 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ojRN4CT7I) 04:44 – Examples of Accessibility Challenges in Board Games 07:00 – Games and Challenges Escape: The Curse of the Temple (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/113294/escape-curse-temple) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00720I7TC/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00720I7TC&linkId=68e011bda94e857e4b22dad236dcf6ba)) Millennium Blades (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/113294/escape-curse-temple) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936920573/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1936920573&linkId=7d3b7e9a8d786ba1e4ae2d233bc51a36)) 11:49 – The Power of House Rules RoboRally (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18/roborally) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N8T7ACD/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B01N8T7ACD&linkId=e3267f057c2b4e90ce3b6fe38096d3b0)) Small World (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40692/small-world) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0024H7OF6/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B0024H7OF6&linkId=7c13ce13055a0d5cd2a795467cc185f6)) 14:41 – German-style/Eurogames vs American Games Ticket to Ride (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9209/ticket-ride) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0975277324/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0975277324&linkId=8195297768939e58262a884aaba03b90)) Puerto Rico (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3076/puerto-rico) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00008URUT/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00008URUT&linkId=fbc944006019689d603d89785f915dcb)) Settlers of Catan (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38821/settlers-catan-gallery-edition) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000W7JWUA/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B000W7JWUA&linkId=fd5a4dc6e87428c9c3efb1132d9d789a) Great Western Trail (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/193738/great-western-trail) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M8GAOBX/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B01M8GAOBX&linkId=17545f3f708d1a4cfca27aab29e70c42)) 16:45 – Video Games; Real-time vs Turn Based Games Master of Orion (http://masteroforion.com/intro) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N0SHEU3/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B01N0SHEU3&linkId=84e76a7e204600942df99206490ca851)) Don’t Starve Together (https://store.steampowered.com/app/322330/Dont_Starve_Together/) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D3TRMD8/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00D3TRMD8&linkId=2595cebb9bca2282504677c1d75d1441)) Rogue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)) 19:35 – Tabletop Role-Playing Games (RPGs) Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) (http://dnd.wizards.com/) 22:45 – Cooperative Games vs Competitive Games Space Cadets (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/123096/space-cadets) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009VIE3E6/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B009VIE3E6&linkId=91fa7f973a5837125291718f740ba1d4)) Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/156129/deception-murder-hong-kong) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019FPQZNG/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B019FPQZNG&linkId=6b0c7b9241ee4cec948c74793853cad8)) 22:45 – Bluffing Games, The Autism Spectrum, and Player Elimination Mascarade (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/139030/mascarade) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E97DWKA/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00E97DWKA&linkId=d5fa25f5d6a444599cd8ef556cb3faca)) Sheriff of Nottingham (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/157969/sheriff-nottingham) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007EZMABG/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B007EZMABG&linkId=67ddc7701a05369e6ef65f3b0cb7c96c)) Werewolf (https://www.playwerewolf.co/rules/) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MHWUJA0/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00MHWUJA0&linkId=86f185cccce97fc48926d0a77581b992)) One Night Werewolf (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/147949/one-night-ultimate-werewolf) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HS7GG5G/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00HS7GG5G&linkId=5708f5291d8637cdcea0d9d9069c1466)) Resistance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Resistance_(game)) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009SAAV0C/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B009SAAV0C&linkId=77cd68476148f901349421efd0bd8dec)) Sentinels of the Universe (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/102652/sentinels-multiverse) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0095ZFA5Q/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B0095ZFA5Q&linkId=f783a82b5aaac33f229138ef1e411563)) Goblin Quest (https://gshowitt.itch.io/goblin-quest) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0756404002/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0756404002&linkId=ce6d7cba713e5b717e89c85b36caa003)) Shut Up & Sit Down (https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/podcastle/sean-bean-quest/): Sean Bean Quest 35:14 – The Cost of Board Games: Time and Money How to Build an Amazing Board Game Collection for $10! (https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/how-to-build-an-amazing-board-game-collection-for-10/) Pandemic Legacy (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-season-1) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TQ5SEAI/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00TQ5SEAI&linkId=072e86e381a945e62671b23a3abf1cc6)) Gloomhaven (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/174430/gloomhaven) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LZXVN4P/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B01LZXVN4P&linkId=b903a62ff26894ca65711205ea271049)) Cheapass Games (https://cheapass.com/) Fiasco (http://bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1934859397/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1934859397&linkId=8b742e57329605d85e6322877108a841)) The Open Game License (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Game_License) Spyfall (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/166384/spyfall) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Y4TYRT8/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00Y4TYRT8&linkId=eb562229ff9644c2a26872461e2da05b)) Mafia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LGYO398/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00LGYO398&linkId=a7d1a7b6ffca1872f6d7a2cf7021e6d1)) 43:02 – The History of Monopoly; Leftist Board Games Suffragetto (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/127685/suffragetto) Class Struggle (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1510/class-struggle) 45:56 – Resources Meeple Like Us (http://meeplelikeus.co.uk/) 64 Ounce Games (http://www.64ouncegames.com/) MaxiAids (https://www.maxiaids.com/) The Dice Tower (https://www.dicetower.com/) BoardGameGeek (https://boardgamegeek.com/) TableTop (https://geekandsundry.com/shows/tabletop/) Favorite Games: Sam: Repello (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/88464/repello) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SOUM16/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B004SOUM16&linkId=827ef04f4cd2052d32c7b17f066cd254)) Coraline: Tales of the Arabian Nights (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34119/tales-arabian-nights) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HU4YXA/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B002HU4YXA&linkId=99b75c7b2b09894752f3d20e090a2874)) Rein: Dungeons and Dragons: Second Edition and Lords of Waterdeep (http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/board-games/lords-waterdeep) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786959916/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0786959916&linkId=69a3440a31f92fe03c5437e93fce1b2d)) James: Exalted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exalted) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1588466841/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1588466841&linkId=6b32cce890bdf974cbf7921c9bff53e4)) Jamey: Betrayal at House on the Hill (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10547/betrayal-house-hill) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003HC9734/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B003HC9734&linkId=4ddcdcaacf032fddf70b90f9eeda2036)) Mischa: Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2511/sherlock-holmes-consulting-detective-thames-murder) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2370990023/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=2370990023&linkId=46e9a78f75a758e1ae584eba3aa462e6)) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: James Edward Gray and Mischa Lewis-Norelle.
042: @CallbackWomen and Organizing Conferences for Diversity and Inclusion with Carina C. Zona
00:16 – Welcome to “Life, The Universe, and Podcasts!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:13 – Carina’s Background and Superpower 02:58 – @CallbackWomen and The Naming Struggle to Make Sure Marginalized and Non-Binary People Know They Are Included Ashe Dryden: Increasing Diversity at Your Conference (https://www.ashedryden.com/blog/increasing-diversity-at-your-conference) 12:13 – Sending Signals and/or Indicators That Encourage People to Apply to Speak At Your Conference I hate to say this, but conferences need to relocate out of the U.S. My country is making business travel to U.S. untenable for so many ppl. https://t.co/bMOfbe6VDP— Carina C. Zona (@cczona) June 3, 2017 23:10 – Conference Outreach 27:56 – Accessibility at Conferences 34:19 – Conferences “Competing” for Speakers Call For Proposals (CFP) 40:26 – Financial Aid, Travel Stipends, and Reimbursement This is now part of the US non-immigrant visa application. This is obnoxious, absurd and threatens freedom of speech. pic.twitter.com/lnpLmC5v4I— Nima Fatemi (@mrphs) July 22, 2017 49:05 – Making a Difference with @CallbackWomen and Codes of Conduct #cocpledge (https://twitter.com/cocpledge) Ashe Dryden: Codes of Conduct 101 + FAQ (https://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq) Fund Club (http://joinfundclub.com/) Donate to @CallbackWomen! (http://www.callbackwomen.com/donate) Pledge via Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/cczona) Google Image Result for http://quotespictures.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/never-doubt-that-a-small-group-of-thoughtful-committed-citizens-can-change-the-world-indeed-it-is-the-only-thing-that-ever-has-margaret-mead.pngnull Reflections: Jamey: Having travel and accommodation expenses covered is important for speakers. Sam: Flipping the paradigm. Coraline: Using influence to affect change. Carina: Having speaker mentors: both experienced and newbies. Rein: How conferences have evolved in a positive way around diversity and inclusion. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Carina C. Zona.
041: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mind Manipulation with Casey Watts!
caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation (https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTW1b3aErmPfUWmyj9_bARHW-Cl-7b6q7acmIdWOg5KhGhErYd5NDyZioXFqamTRMMdPlORCD4WOGu9/pub) A Neurobiologist’s Guide to Mind Manipulation [slides] (https://www.slideshare.net/CaseyWatts/neurobiologists-guide-to-mind-manipulation-010) 00:16 – Welcome to “CBT: Chunky Bacon Tacos and Psychological Safety” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:18 – Empathy Development 03:25 – Training for Customer Support Greater Than Code Episode 037: Failure Mode with Emily Gorcenski A Neurobiologist’s Guide to Mind Manipulation by Casey Watts @ EmberConf 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtefvXagutM) 06:53 – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Coraline Ada Ehmke: Emotions as State Machines (from the GTC blog!) 10:48 – Acknowledging Emotion; Rationality 14:23 – Inner vs Outer Brain via GIPHY Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374533555/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0374533555&linkId=84cece32e1ce829edf996c30821467bb) 16:22 – Empathetic vs Empathic; Empathy vs Sympathy Pavneet Singh Saund: Practical Empathy: Unlock the Super Power @ NDC Oslo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxeOo2jWoNM) 21:32 – The Earned Dogmatism Effect (https://www.coursera.org/lecture/intellectual-humility-science/the-earned-dogmatism-effect-MXL5p) [Video] 26:10 – Maladaptive Thought Patterns Google Image Result for http://connfitzgibboncounselling.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/CBT-Dundrum.jpgnull 31:34 – The “Woop” State and Psychological Safety Amy Edmondson: Psychological Safety (https://www.google.com/search?q=Amy+Edmondson:+Psychological+Safety&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizna3E1KfVAhUJVT4KHZc4AqwQvwUIJSgA&biw=780&bih=588&dpr=2) Coraline Ada Ehmke: Antisocial Coding: My Year At GitHub (https://where.coraline.codes/blog/my-year-at-github/) 38:09 – Leading with Vulnerability Reflections: Janelle: Choose your presence. Jessica: Feel feelings in the moment, and then act on them. Sam: Rationality is a facade and state machines can be edited. Coraline: Understanding empathy over only performing empathy. Casey: Making responding with empathy a habit. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Casey Watts!.
040: F*ck It And Be Nice
Extra super disclaimer: This episode contains a lot curse words. 00:16 – Welcome to “The Upcoming Release of the iPhone 4!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:36 – The Tweetstorm that Started it All (https://twitter.com/jennschiffer/status/859473189902135296) 04:29 – Our Communication Skills and Curbing the Snobbery “It’s just not good business to be a jerk.” - @jennschiffer— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) July 15, 2017 Greater Than Code Episode Episode 039: The B-Side of Software Development with Scott Hanselman 11:33 – Arguing on the Internet Want to help make us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to mandy@greaterthancode.com. 16:55 – Dealing with the Jerks psa: all of your code is ephemeral & will one day not even matter. it probably doesn't even matter now. how you treat your peers matters 💫— jenn schiffer (@jennschiffer) May 18, 2015 36:28 – Reacting with Meanness and Failed Attempts at Banter 29:08 – Teaching by Example 31:52 – Practicing Restraint 37:45 – Defense Mechanisms; Empathy for Offenders and the Offended Reflections: Jessica L.: You are way more evolved and valuable if you can work with humans and write code. Jenn: We have to actively be learning how to interact with people in the industry and people entering the industry. Jamey: When you’re mad, approach it offline. Jessica K.: Tell people they’re great publicly, not privately! Make it normal to tell each other we’re awesome. Mandy: Just be f*cking nice. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Jenn Schiffer and Jessica Lord.
Episode 039: The B-Side of Software Development with Scott Hanselman
00:16 – Welcome to “Hanselminutes! (https://hanselminutes.com/)” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:57 – Origin Story and Superpowers; Struggling and Prevailing “The struggle is part of the journey.” – Scott Hanselman 13:51 – Systems Thinking, Problem Solving, and Instilling Those Values on Kids 19:11 – There is Value in Suffering Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812979680/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0812979680&linkId=84982318e94004fe908eedbc62099b87) 21:39 – Being a Teacher Over a Programmer; Ideas of Mediocrity, 10x Engineering, and Comparison to Others We RISE Women in Tech Conference (https://werise.tech/) Jessica Kerr: Hyperproductive development (http://blog.jessitron.com/2017/06/the-most-productive-circumstances-for.html) Amanda Palmer: oh Lorde, deliver me from Fucking Joan. (https://medium.com/@amandapalmer/oh-lorde-deliver-me-from-fucking-joan-17ed0a1d83e8) 36:28 – Being Nice Online Scott’s “Nice” Twitter Exchange (1) (https://twitter.com/RoadmanAkhi/status/877658122957008896) Scott’s “Nice” Twitter Exchange (2) (https://twitter.com/RoadmanAkhi/status/877950677896617984) Scott’s “Nice” Twitter Exchange (3) (https://twitter.com/RoadmanAkhi/status/878244303021015040) Scott’s “Nice” Twitter Exchange (4) (https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/877950217550577664) 42:29 – Teaching (Cont’d) Scott Hanselman: The Social Developer @ NexTech Africa 2017 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/NexTech-Africa/2017/Brk21) Awesomely Luvvie (https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/) Reflections: Scott: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812979680/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0812979680&linkId=84982318e94004fe908eedbc62099b87) Jessica: This show’s Slack community! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Scott Hanselman.
Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng
00:16 – Welcome to “Shopping is Hard; Let’s Do Math!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”; Eugenia’s Introduction Books: How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465097677/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465097677&linkId=0d495c591e20d50802c3fa80ef30775d) Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465094813/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465094813&linkId=1c8d256e9484319b7631615ccc857fd1) YouTube Channels: TheCatsters (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCatsters/featured) TheMathsters Articles: Eugenia Cheng Makes Math a Piece of Cake (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/science/eugenia-cheng-math-how-to-bake-pi.html) Everyday Math (https://www.wsj.com/news/types/everyday-math) 01:54 – Getting Into Math: Is math useful? Is that the point? A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart (https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf) 20:17 – Category Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory) Textbooks: Categories for the Working Mathematician (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0387984038/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0387984038&linkId=fb86951beaddc97589ea491f060216ce) Category Theory (Oxford Logic Guides) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199237182/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0199237182&linkId=770e13783e791421d55ca1d5fa69038e) Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/052171916X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=052171916X&linkId=522bb5da8da065199edb56d83edb1f8a) 38:17 – Changing the Terminology Around Gender to Focus on Character Traits Instead: Congressive and Ingressive Behavior The Prisoner’s Dilemma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Dr. Eugenia Cheng.
Episode 037: Failure Mode with Emily Gorcenski
00:16 – Welcome to “Diamonds Are For Gender” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:56 – Origin Story, Superpowers, and Data Science 04:20 – Diversity and Career Paths in Data Science 10:51 – Ethical Debates Within the Data Science Field Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553418815/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553418815&linkId=0ed7c081ef2baa2e5a6f33a076e2929b) Therac-25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25) FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2017/06/21/episode-037-failure-mode-with-emily-gorcenski/) 17:21 – Software Development and Engineering; Failure Modes in Software 21:44 – Failure Modes in Democracy; Voting Machine Software 33:37 – Working for a Government Contractor 36:21 – Data Patterns and Tampering 39:00 – Open Data and Open Science 45:59 – Falsifying Data Reflections: Coraline: Considering all the ways something can fail. Sam: The world that I live in and the kind of software development practices that I take for granted are extraordinary niche. Emily: Tech conferences and their decadence vs academic/corporate conferences. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Emily Gorcenski.
Episode 036: Metaphors and Microservices with Matt Stine
00:16 – Welcome to “Chinchilla Chat: Where It’s All Chinchillas…All The Time…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 03:10 – Matt’s Origin Story in Software Development 09:04 – The Business of Consulting 16:24 – Empathy in Consulting 20:07 – Rigorous Communication and Shared Language; Microservices Ludwig Wittgenstein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) Metaphors We Live By (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226468011/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0226468011&linkId=eb1e64309e20b18e5700df50e48890ae) 39:05 – Ubiquitous Language (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226468011/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0226468011&linkId=eb1e64309e20b18e5700df50e48890ae) Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018475/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465018475&linkId=acbb83bfae39114efe5369b300142f68) Coraline Ada Ehmke: Metaphors Are Similes. Similes Are Like Metaphors. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvgHSYKkNU) Wittgenstein’s Ladder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittgenstein%27s_ladder) Performance of Genetic Algorithms For Data Classification by Matthew Stine (http://thesis.honors.olemiss.edu/230/1/mstine-senior-thesis.pdf) Reflections: Matt: Ludwig Wittgenstein and language games. Coraline: The shortcomings of pattern-matching. Astrid: Using evolution as a model. Rein: The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World Janelle: Language as a mechanism of control. Sam: Building a bridge of understanding with progressively less incorrect metaphors. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Matt Stine.
Episode 035: Behind the Scenes at npm with Laurie Voss
00:16 – Welcome to “Yes, SJWs Do Actually Code” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:22 – Superpower Origin Story 06:00 – “Real Programming” 08:45 – Being Gay in the Tech Industry; Micro Activism (http://www.microactivist.com/) 16:17 – Setting Workplace Culture 21:20 – Working in Open Source While Working in a Company like npm (https://www.npmjs.com/) 25:50 – Monetizing npm npm Enterprise (https://www.npm-enterprise.com/) 32:55 – npm@5 42:00 – The 10x Engineer 44:19 – Technical Hiring 49:53 – Why Whiteboarding and Code Exercises Don’t Work 51:51 – Organizing Engineers Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591846404/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1591846404&linkId=c494a8d5b6315f65af8e4f4a31c3f450) Reflections: Astrid: Not being concerned with how other people view you as a programmer. Coraline: Remembering good hiring practices to influence others. Sam: Making your interview process focus on having people talk to each other about software. Rein: Becoming a Change Artist by Gerald Weinberg (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SCRVIK/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B004SCRVIK&linkId=841afede1e410cba5f9277716d97f581) Laurie: Organizing large groups of people to get stuff done. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Laurie Voss.
Episode 034: Systems Thinking in the Real World
00:16 – Welcome to “Missives from the Future of Tech: Ladies’ Night Edition” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:20 – Where the Lines Cross; Social Responsibility of Engineers Tragedy of the Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons) 06:53 – Why We Do What We Do 09:03 – Surviving and Functioning For All Humans: Basic Social Support 16:20 – Preventing Infrastructure Decay and Advancing the Whole 19:54 – “The Cycle of Safety” The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553380966/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553380966&linkId=057eda599b58fdadf1e06c52a9256018) 25:21 – Scarcity 30:15 – Where are we focusing? 33:25 – Reframing The Tragedy of the Commons; Gatekeeping The Broken Promise of Open Source by Coraline Ada Ehmke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKpbejoneFs) 37:56 – Organizations as Business AND Schools The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385517254/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0385517254&linkId=7e9c7008b6f4237ac17119214b877a51) 40:25 – Abundance and Barter Systems Reflections: Coraline: Access to technology as a human right. Janelle: Where is all the knowledge in the world? Where does the knowledge flows? What are the gates that get in the way of knowledge flows? Astrid: What would you do if money wasn’t a factor? Jessica: Software has to hold the keys. It’s the closest thing to magic that we’ve ever had. The Open Mastery Community (http://www.openmastery.org/join-us/) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
Episode 033: Mental Illness with Greg Baugues
00:16 – Welcome to “What is your favorite color?” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” How to teach your dog to take selfies… and text them to you (https://mashable.com/2016/07/26/teach-dog-text-selfie/) 01:34 – Superpower Origin Story; Mental Illness in College Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GFII62/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B005GFII62&linkId=79bcb3acaec3579dbe20b56995fc6577) 10:13 – Disclaimer: We Are Not Doctors and a Message on Self-Diagnosis 13:03 – Panel Experiences with Mental Illness: Rock Bottom, Shame, Stigma, and Fear DBT Therapy (https://behavioraltech.org/resources/faqs/dialectical-behavior-therapy-dbt/) 25:54 – How Mental Illness Seems to Uniquely Affect the Tech Community 31:06 – Coping Mechanisms 34:17 – Creating an Environment That is Beneficial to People with Mental Health Issues; Work-Life Balance Open Sourcing Mental Illness (Open Sourcing Mental Illness) Mental Health First Aid (https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/) Why Fidget Spinners Might Be Helpful for the Brain (https://archive.attn.com/stories/17143/why-fidget-spinners-might-be-helpful-brain?utm_source=22words&utm_medium=fbpost&utm_campaign=syndication) Reflections: Rein: Allie Brosh: Adventures in Depression (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html) Sam: Depression can feel like nothing. Mandy: Reach out: mandy@greaterthancode.com (mandy@greaterthancode.com); or @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) Greg: gb@twilio.com (gb@twilio.com); or @greggyb (https://twitter.com/greggyb/). Sharing your story is powerful. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Greg Baugues.
Episode 032: Curation vs Algorithms: Who Is Writing Our History? with Amy Unger
Amy Unger: @cdwort | Heroku 00:16 – Welcome to “JIRA Card Catalogs and The People Who Love Them” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:05 – Superpower Origin Story, Growing Up with a Computer in the Family, and Being a Teenager Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher (https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-Press/dp/0262632691/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494455362&sr=8-1&keywords=Unlocking+The+Clubhouse+Women+in+Computer+Science) 08:30 – Humanities and History 10:39 – Access to and Preservation of Literacy (Who is writing our history?) 15:03 – Categorizing Information and Making it Accessible…But, Also Privacy? 17:21 – Reliance on Google as the “Defacto Archive”? 19:49 – Digital Records (Algorithms) vs Human Curation 24:10 – What can librarians and library science offer a company?: Information Architecture 27:32 – Algorithm Manipulation, Social Engineering, and Information Security 32:24 – Whose stories are we collecting, archiving, and making available to the public? Tragedy of the Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons) 41:09 – “Meme Hacking”, Getting Involved, and Owning Your Own Story Reflections: Rein: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Sam: How economics and politics rear their ugly heads unexpectedly. Coraline: Who is responsible for our history? Jessica: The vast amounts of data we have and what we choose to preserve. Amy: Consider the possibility of working in the public sector. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Amy Unger.
Episode 031: Retrospectives and Agile Fluency with Diana Larsen
** This conversation stems from an earlier episode when Janelle joined the panel: Episode 028: Brains, Feedback Systems, Demons, and Goats. 02:03 – Retrospectives ** “Software work is learning work.” @DianaOfPortland— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) May 3, 2017 OODA Loop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop) 11:07 – Documenting Feelings and Emotions 17:40 – Following Through With and Solving Action Plans 20:08 – Focusing, Lists of Action, and “Best Practices” 30:27 – What is value in the context of software development? / Measuring Waste 33:39 – Taking Things in Small, Bite-sized Pieces: Refactoring Mob Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_programming) 55:58 – Agile Fluency ** Your Path through Agile Fluency on Martin Fowler’s Blog (https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/agileFluency.html) Reflections: Janelle: Thinking about the focusing step and how much effort goes into those things versus the benefits of focusing on things from the recent past. Taking human emotions into consideration. Diana: Managing learning and collecting data, and issues around value. Sam: Different forms and cycles of feedback. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Diana Larsen.
Episode 030: Essential Developer Skills with Tom Stuart
00:16 – Welcome to “Cycles in Philosophy of Software, Common Principles with Different Names & Reference” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:47 – Superhero Origin Story BBC BASIC (http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html) 04:45 – Nomenclature: “Junior” and “Senior” Developers; Differences Between “Early Career” Developers and “Experienced” Developers 13:56 – Solving the Skill Assessment Problem; Learning Methodically 20:55 – Software Development Now vs Then 29:51 – Do Programming Languages Create Certain Biases? 44:16 – Good Mentorship and Telling People What’s Next to Level Up 55:58 – Cohorting/Teaching Classes with Sandi Metz; Object-Oriented Design and Object-Oriented Programming Reflections: Janelle: Looking at things as multidimensional problems. Rein: An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg Sam: The importance of the skill of metacognition. Tom: How the work as changed as being a developer. Nonviolent Communication: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Tom Stuart.
Episode 029: p=eMPathy with Ariel Waldman, Ashe Dryden, and Brad Grzesiak
00:16 – Welcome to “The Tale of Space Cat Burritos” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:26 – Space Technology and the Cultural Portrayal of Science NASA Explorers Program (https://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov/) 08:24 – The Influence of Science Fiction on the Current Developments in Science NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC) (https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/index.html) The Comet Hitchhiker (https://www.nasa.gov/content/comet-hitchhiker-harvesting-kinetic-energy-from-small-bodies-to-enable-fast-and-low-cost) Supernatural Horror in Literature By H. P. Lovecraft 14:47 – What is sci-fi telling us about the world we live in now? The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032) The Expanse Series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)) 18:34 – “Hard” vs “Soft” Science Fiction; “Hard” Conference Talks vs “Soft” Talks Coraline Ada Ehmke: Metaphors Are Similes. Similes Are Like Metaphors @ Rubyfuza 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvgHSYKkNU) 24:43 – Understanding How People Work to Build Better Technology; Fighting for Accessibility in Science Henrietta Lacks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/) 33:11 – Machine Learning “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” – Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park 37:52 – Scarcity and Exploitation: Looking at Power Dynamics and Relationships Between Groups and People Conway’s Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law) 41:34 – Reasons We Prefer to Focus on Technology; Siloing and Specialization 50:16 – Control: Who is the manager? Treating People Equally 52:46 – Congruency and Being Congruent: It’s a People Problem! Gerald Weinberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg) [The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully by Gerald M. Weinberg]((https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Successfully/dp/0932633013) “Emotions are valid inputs to every thought process.” – Coraline Ada Ehmke The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black (https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/04/19/25082450/the-heart-of-whiteness-ijeoma-oluo-interviews-rachel-dolezal-the-white-woman-who-identifies-as-black) Ashe’s Tweets (https://twitter.com/ashedryden/status/854707674403012609) 01:01:44 – How do we know we are right? The Orange Juice Test (https://www.intercom.com/blog/the-orange-juice-test/) The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal by Seth Freeman (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Art-of-Negotiating-the-Best-Deal-Audiobook/B00JLJI8AK) Reflections: Rein: These issues go straight up to the top in terms of the philosophical ladder we’re trying to climb of what do we value? How do we get other people to share our values? It doesn’t get easier by ignoring that the problem is that difficult and pretending that it’s just technical. Coraline: It’s the responsibility of technologists to think about the social impact of the technical solutions they are making, whether that means by being better informed and striving to be generalists, or by making sure we are being inclusive and giving voice to people with different perspectives and levels of expertise on our teams to make sure we are addressing problems deeply and not just from one particular silo. Ashe: Understanding how we are looking at a problem ethically, how we’re looking at it technically, and how we’re looking at it from a human point of view? What are the potential effects? Brad: The laws of nature still exist in the absence of humans. Humans are the reason things are messy and complicated. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Ariel Waldman, Ashe Dryden, and Brad Grzesiak.
Episode 028: Brains, Feedback Systems, Demons, and Goats with Janelle Klein
00:16 – Welcome to “Goats On Podcasts” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:19 – Origin Story 04:36 – The Development of Development 06:58 – Automated Tests and Mistake Detection 09:21 – Designing Releases and Best Practices 20:13 – “The Code is Better” There is no "the code is better."There is only "our experience is better." (users and developers)@greaterthancode with @janellekz— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) April 12, 2017 15:08 – Measuring Effort, #CollaborativePain, and The Error Handling Process abstraction: great when it works.when something breaks it's like an egg cracking and all its guts spill out.@janellekz @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) April 12, 2017 Why Software Gets In Trouble by Gerald M. Weinberg (https://leanpub.com/whysoftwaregetsintrouble) 33:24 – Discovery and Documentation 37:44 – Agile Fluency Agile Fluency Project: Chart Your Agile Pathway (https://www.agilefluency.org/) Quality Management Maturity Grid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_Management_Maturity_Grid) 40:42 – Building a Conceptual Model of our Brains with Code Hindsight Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias) 51:56 – Identifying Project Pain: Slicing and Dicing 57:23 – Change Sizing Reflections: Rein: Gerald M. Weinberg’s Quality Software Management Series Janelle: The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge (https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-Learning-Organization/dp/0385517254) Sam: The pain that we experience in software development is really cognitive dissonance. Jessica: Programming is like summoning a demon. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
Episode 027: Hackathons and Flirting with Failure with Rachel Katz
00:16 – Welcome to “Plotting the Rebellion” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:39 – Origin Story and Superpowers 03:05 – Getting Hooked on Hackathons 04:42 – Corporate Hackathons; Making Hackathons Accessible and Inclusive Greater Than Code Episode 015: Zuri Hunter as Queen of Hackathons DataHack4FI (http://datahack4fi.org/) 09:38 – Organizing Hackathons 12:21 – Non-programmers and Hackathons; Bringing in Diverse Perspectives “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.” ~Jamie Zawinski Code: Debugging the Gender Gap (https://www.codedoc.co/) 22:46 – Building Things for Others, Leadership Roles, Group Dynamics, and Men vs Women Ctrl Alt Delete Hate Hackathon (https://www.hackathon.com/event/ctrl-alt-delete-hate-hackathon-32802882304) Lady Problems Hackathon (http://ladyproblemshackathon.com/) 35:28 – Overnight Hackathons vs Non-Overnight Hackathons 36:38 – The Value of Celebrating Glorious Failure and Responding to Stress and Pressure Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music (https://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion) [TED Talk] Reflections: Astrid: Talking about hackathons is talking about all kinds of other issues. Sam: Make room and seek out non-developers. Rein: Benjamen Zander: Leadership on Display (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJNw91QyyM) Rachel: Show up, contribute, and listen. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Rachel Katz.
Episode 026: Codeland, Capitalism, and Creating Inclusive Spaces with Saron Yitbarek
00:16 – Welcome to “Unrepentant Cyborgs” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:28 – Codeland Conference (http://codelandconf.com/) 02:02 – Making Conferences Accessible, Affordable, and Unintimidating for People 13:00 – Ticket Prices and Structure 15:01 – Creating an Immersive Experience and Community With and For People You Care About 25:11 – Leading by Example and Maintaining a Positive Persona 29:49 – The Importance of Money and Financial Freedom Tech Done Right Episode 002: Career Development with Brandon Hays and Pete Brooks (https://www.techdoneright.io/002-career-development-with-brandon-hays) 39:52 – Ethics as Automatic Technology Scales and Capitalism Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam M. Grant (https://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Helping-Others-Success/dp/0143124986) 49:45 – In summary: Codeland Conference Reflections: Sam: Thank you for the book recommendation for Give and Take. Astrid: People first. Rein: Support worker-owned cooperative organizations. Leadership is doing things, not being given a title. Saron: The principles and values that led to what people will experience as a really great conference. CodeNewbie References: @CodeNewbies (https://twitter.com/codenewbies) Twitter Chat (https://www.codenewbie.org/chat) Slack Community (https://codenewbie.typeform.com/to/uwsWlZ) Podcast (https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast) Episode 118: Truck Driver with George Moore (https://www.codenewbie.org/podcast/truck-driver) Codeland (http://codelandconf.com/) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Saron Yitbarek.
Episode 025: MotherCoders with Tina Lee
00:16 – Welcome to “Not Your Mother’s Podcast!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:55 – Origin Story and Getting Involved in Coding 03:17 – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children 08:19 – Work/Life Balance 11:32 – Changing Culture Around Gender Roles and Caregiving “Culture is like water in that it flows from the top down.” Nev Schulman Wants to Erase Gender Stereotypes for Parents (http://www.mtv.com/news/2976598/nev-schulman-gender-stereotypes-parenting-catfish-laura-perlongo-cleo/) 18:18 – The MotherCoders Organization (http://www.mothercoders.org/) What to expect when you’re done expecting (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/what-to-expect-when-youre-done-expecting-25fb0c00393?gi=ac6aa83c6d74) 24:27 – Teaching Frontend Development and The Stereotype that Women are Better at Frontend than Backend Work We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs) 30:00 – Silicon Valley Elitism, Sexism, and Defining Cultural Norms; “The Ideal Worker” The Motherhood Penalty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ASw9OpvMg) 35:38 – Why do we not have many of women CEOs? 37:42 – Tactical Help for Cultural Changes Reflections: Mandy: Donate to MotherCoders and/or support them via AmazonSmile (https://smile.amazon.com/). Rein: The empowerment of women and the challenges they face are a global problem. @manwhohasitall (https://twitter.com/manwhohasitall) Coraline: Fostering entrepreneurship and empowering women worldwide. Also, thinking about role models and how to amplify voices. Tina: Including moms as a kind of marginalized group as well. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Tina Lee.
Episode 024: Seeing Programming Where Other People Don’t with Felienne Hermans
00:16 – Welcome to “The Netherlands Invented Gay Marriage, So We Should Be Scared of Them Now!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:28 – Origin Story 03:17 – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children 06:12 – Teaching Programming as a Language; Aha! Moments Scratch Programming (https://scratch.mit.edu/) GoldieBlox (https://www.goldieblox.com/) 12:26 – Identity and why do we so often use the phrase “not real programming”? What do we define as software? Tooling Microsoft Excel (https://products.office.com/en-us/excel) Expector (http://www.felienne.com/Expector) 20:13 – Should everyone know programming? Why? What should they know/be able to do? (Digital Literacy) 28:27 – What is the programming equivalent of a library/librarian? 33:06 – Does STEM education make other forms of education obsolete? Why not? 35:15 – Things to Get Better at Programming Other Than Programming CodeKata (http://codekata.com/) 48:58 – Fighting Against “Real” Programming and Being Hesitant to Let in Newcomers 50:40 – What can we do to help spread the knowledge? Reflections: Felienne: If people say they are programming, they are. Limit belittling and surprise. Do not contaminate others with what your own idea of programming is. Jessica: Value on reading through code and forming a model of it. Astrid: Thinking about programming as in thinking about writing. Rein: Some programming does involved math, but it is not (for the most part) the math you hated in high school. A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by Paul Lockhart Sam: You can be fluent at a very low level of proficiency and still be fluent. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Felienne Hermans.
Episode 023: Politics and Software with Lorena Mesa
00:16 – Welcome to “Hey! I Made a Bong Out of This Podcast!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:26 – Origin Story Obama For America Campaign (http://www.p2012.org/candidates/obamaorg.html) 05:46 – Politics and Software; Data Collection Danah Boyd: Be Careful What You Code For (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWBZNxPzoUY&feature=youtu.be) 16:43 – Working in Python for Data Collection Django Girls (https://djangogirls.org/) 19:46 – The Python Software Foundation (PSF) 23:55 – Communication and Organization Within Communities MINSWAN: Matz is Nice So We Are Nice (http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-08-19-matz-is-nice-so-we-are-nice) Social Encounter Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Encounter_Party) 33:49 – Power Structures and Forming Relationships 36:39 – PSF Funding Reflections: Jessica: Each of our languages has a metalanguage that people use to talk about the language. Sam: Needs more sleep Astrid: Code can and should touch everything: What is it not doing that it should be doing? Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy Coraline: Software is not neutral. Rein: Software is inherently political. It is made for people by people. There’s no way it can’t be political. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
Episode 022: You Are An Asset
00:16 – Welcome to “Mob Programming” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:39 – Origin Stories From All! Tim Ferriss and The 4-Hour Workweek (https://fourhourworkweek.com/) 12:37 – Work/Life Balance and Ideal Work Environments Stockholm Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome) 16:50 – Technical Interviews 20:41 – Computer Science Degrees: Are they worth it? 27:42 – Compulsions to Know: Contempt Culture Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture (https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture) The Zens of Python and Ruby (http://automation-excellence.com/blog/zens-python-and-ruby) 34:12 – Gatekeeping in Tech 37:11 – Technical Interviews (Cont’d) Pair Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Jacob Stoebel and Ryder Timberlake.
Episode 021: Social Justice Warrioring and Codes of Conduct with Phil Sturgeon
00:28 – Welcome to Greater Than Code: The SJW Takeover 00:53 – Origin Story, Superpowers, and Bike Messengering Build APIs You Won’t Hate (https://leanpub.com/build-apis-you-wont-hate) Instacart (https://www.instacart.com/) Had pesto chicken pasta for dinner, in honor of @philsturgeon’s interview on @greaterthancode today. 😋— Sam Livingston-Gray (@geeksam) February 23, 2017 07:59 – Long-form Blogging (aka Rants) 08:50 – Codes of Conduct: Adoption, Enforcing, Conspiracy Theories The Contributor Covenant (https://www.contributor-covenant.org/) “Codes of Conducts are so full of slippery slope arguments, they could open a waterslide park.” @philsturgeon— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) February 23, 2017 17:40 – What it means to be a “Social Justice Warrior”, Tolerance, and “Being Nice” Tolerance is not a moral precept (https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376#.ty01vckbo) Coraline Ada Ehmke: On Opalgate (https://where.coraline.codes/blog/on-opalgate/) 27:46 – False Reports vs Genuine Issues; Dogmatic Logic vs Empathy Susan J. Fowler: Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber (https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber) Phil Sturgeon: Talking About Diversity: Marginalization (https://philsturgeon.uk/2016/07/23/talking-about-diversity-marginalization/) 39:40 – Transitioning From a Men’s Rights Activist and Being a Good Ally I Was a Men’s Rights Activist: One man’s journey from misogyny to feminism (https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/i-was-a-mens-rights-activist#.fi15jf9tn) Sarah Sharp Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/833599571242545152) “Being an ally isn’t a badge that you earn. Being an ally is a process and you’re going to fuck it up.” @CoralineAda— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) February 23, 2017 47:56 – PHP vs Ruby Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture (https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture) Greater Than Code Episode 002: Avdi Grimm Reflections: Jessica: Turning confusion into something that assuages everyone else’s. Also, failing upwards: When something doesn’t work out, something better will. “Being an ally isn’t a badge that you earn. Being an ally is a process and you’re going to fuck it up.” @CoralineAda— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) February 23, 2017 Sam: In tech we have tools for doing root cause analysis, and we’re really used to using those to figure out technical issues, but those very same tools can work for social issues as well. Try The 5 Whys on something that isn’t technical. Coraline: Thinking about how to get past people’s visceral reactions against social justice issues and think about how to create better allies. Phil: Start bookmarking things that are helpful. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Phil Sturgeon.
Episode 020: Sexuality in Tech with Jenn Schiffer
00:16 – Welcome to “Neon Abstract Podcast Erotica!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:15 – Origin Story Bocoup (https://bocoup.com/) 03:05 – Art (http://jennmoney.biz/art/) 06:37 – Viewing Source and Learning How to Code 11:02 – Getting a Computer Science Degree 13:56 – Pixel Art, Sexuality in Tech, and Online Presence @aphyr (https://twitter.com/aphyr) (Kyle Kingsbury) Ashley Madison Data Breach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach) 26:54 – How do potential employers react to your satire? 28:41 – CSS Perverts (https://medium.com/cool-code-pal) 36:03 – Vetting Potential Employers and Company Culture; Dealing with Toxic People Takeaways: Jessica: Everyone has something that they keep quiet about because they aren’t sure of the consequences. Coraline: Being privileged enough to have the responsibility to be public and show people that it’s okay that they are who they are. Astrid: You don’t have to separate your passions. Jenn: We all need a space to feel uninhibited. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jenn Schiffer.
Episode 019: It’s Made of People!
01:11 – What it means to be a Senior Engineer When You Don’t Want to Go Into Management 05:07 – Generativity: The difference between your team’s output with you on it and your team’s output without you. Gregor Hohpe: 37 Things One Architect Knows About IT Transformation (https://leanpub.com/37things) 13:46 – The Job of An Architect 22:09 – What are the managers doing? “It is too much to ask for your manager to be your career mentor?” Sam Gerstenzang: The Happy Demise of the 10X Engineer (https://a16z.com/2014/07/30/the-happy-demise-of-the-10x-engineer/) Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford, et al. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/131908575X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=131908575X&linkCode=as2&tag=therubyrep-20&linkId=d08b37c3206978c7992ae8c263c1f1dd) Reflections: Astrid: From Jessica’s perspective, what a software architect actually is supposed to be doing. Sam: Everything's an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford, et al. (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/131908575X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=131908575X&linkCode=as2&tag=therubyrep-20&linkId=d08b37c3206978c7992ae8c263c1f1dd) Coraline: I’m going to read ^ book. Jessica: More surprise episodes! Darin: Think less about me and more about the team around me. And I’m looking for a mentor! Cheryl: Greater Than Code > Mission Taco This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!_T Special Guests: Cheryl Shaefer and Darin Wilson.
Episode 018: Growing Your Team and Mentorship with Cheryl Schaefer
Posted another patrons-only outtake from today's precall with @CherylGSchaefer! https://t.co/g4GZA9LWle— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) February 1, 2017 00:16 – Welcome to “Let’s Get this Ship on the Road!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:06 – Origin Story and Mentorship Cheryl Gore Schaefer: Grow Your Team In 90 Days @ RubyConf 2016 (https://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2016-grow-your-team-in-90-days) Empowerment Through Mentorship (https://www.launchcode.org/blog/empowerment-through-mentorship/) 11:38 – Avoiding Burnout: “How can I show up better as a Mentee? How can you keep yourself from giving up and washing out? When you find your skills have atrophied, how do you find the resolve to try again?” ~ Ariel Spear Spot2Fish (http://www.spot2fish.com/) 23:41 – The Future of Tech Education Sarah Mei Computer Science Education Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/824831465745637376) Sarah Mei People Who Apply for Opportunity Scholarships Tweetstorm (https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/819575574129676288) Reflections: Cheryl: It’s valuable to have different viewpoints represented. Also, exposing people to fundamentals of tech is valuable as well. Astrid: The RubyConf/RailsConf Opportunity Scholarships exist! Also, advice for mentees and mentors is the same. Sam: Making a distinction between being a TA and being a mentor and giving the mentee ownership of their learning plan. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Cheryl Shaefer.
Episode 017: Ruby Together with André Arko and Carina C. Zona
00:16 – Welcome to “Cyberpunk Dystopia” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:45 – Origin Stories Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective (https://qntm.org/gay) André Arko: Falsehoods programmers believe (https://andre.arko.net/2013/03/24/falsehoods-programmers-believe/) 11:38 – Ruby Together; Membership and Benefits 501(C)(6) (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopick03.pdf) 22:06 – Ensuring the Future of Ruby 27:39 – Fair Pay and Getting Developers/Companies to Pay for Stuff RethinkDB: why we failed (https://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html) 39:46 – How Does Bundler Work, Anyway? [blog post] Andre Arko: How does Bundler work, anyway? @ RubyConf 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DqzaqeeMgY) 44:16 – Sharing and Reusing Code 52:26 – gemstash vs geminabox OpenSSL (https://www.openssl.org/) Heartbleed (http://heartbleed.com/) Reflections: Sam: Be a member-friend of Ruby Together! Jessica: Ruby Together is an advancement in the software industry as a whole to form a trade organization that is a business related to supporting all businesses and people and making our software infrastructure maintainable. Carina: OpenSSL is back to being insufficiently funded. Support other projects like Ruby Together too. See: Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure. André: Hope that devs and companies that listen to this show with join Ruby Together. Jay: It’s smart business for businesses to support organizations like Ruby Together. Software companies have large profit margins. Monies that would be spent on taxes can be put back into our community to support key infrastructure & tooling. My call to action is that our listeners support Ruby Together and get their companies to support Ruby Together and similar organizations. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: André Arko and Carina C. Zona.
Episode 016: Blogging is Shipping with Julia Evans
Intro music by Rod Johnson (https://twitter.com/springrod): Prelude in C# minor, commonly known as The Bells of Moscow. 01:07 – Welcome to “Anarcho-Suyndicalist Tech!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:03 – Writing Blog Posts: “Blogging is shipping.” The Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) Adam Perry: Baby Steps: Slowly Porting musl to Rust (https://blog.anp.lol/rust/2016/06/11/baby-steps-porting-musl-to-rust/) 07:17 – How to Ask Good Questions Eric Steven Raymond: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) The Google Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_effect) 20:26 – Operations (Ops); Testing in Ops "There's this exciting thing that happens when you run software, which is that stuff goes wrong in unexpected ways!" @b0rk @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) January 18, 2017 Ryan Kennedy: Fear Driven Development @ OSB 2015 Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale by Jennifer Davis and Katherine Daniels (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920039846.do) Continuous Integration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration) 38:42 – Zines & Drawings (http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/11/14/why-cute-drawings/) Reflections: Sam: Having concrete strategies for asking question more effectively. Julia: If something is painful, then do it more often. Jessica: If asking questions is scary, put some work into the question and then you can ask it with confidence and know you’re not wasting someone’s time. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Julia Evans.
Episode 015: Zuri Hunter as Queen of Hackathons
00:16 – Welcome to “Snowpocalypse!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:50 – Zuri’s Background and Origin Story 04:19 – Hackathons Meet Zuri. The Queen of Hackathons. (http://blog.codewithveni.com/meet-zuri-queen-hackathons/) Color Coded (https://www.voxmedia.com/a/go-deeper) 16:37 – Overcoming Shyness 20:47 – Navigating the Channels of Your Career Graphical User Interface (GUI) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface) 27:07 – Developing Skills and Keeping up with New Technologies AWS Certified Solutions Architect (https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/) 33:31 – Hiring Practices; Culture Fit Research: How Subtle Class Cues Can Backfire on Your Resume (https://hbr.org/2016/12/research-how-subtle-class-cues-can-backfire-on-your-resume) (“No Silver Bullet” for D&I) Facebook’s Hiring Process Hinders Its Effort to Create a Diverse Workforce (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-09/facebook-s-hiring-process-hinders-its-effort-to-create-a-diverse-workforce) An Imbalance; Casting a Wider Net to Attract Computing Women (https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/22/technology/an-imbalance-casting-a-wider-net-to-attract-computing-women.html) (“Dave-to-Girl Ratio”) 50:23 – Leading While Learning Reflections: Jessica: Helping others in small ways. #Micromentoring! #micromentoring https://t.co/D51s0HoA8m— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) January 11, 2017 Coraline: Senior developers need to create opportunities for micromentorship. Zuri: Periodically check in with new developers. Astrid: Use hackathons as a way to try new things and to meet others who are already good at them. Sam: Hang out at hackathons and the power of post-its! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Zuri Hunter.
Episode 014: Cancel All Negativity with Ra’Shaun Stovall (Snuggs)
00:16 – Welcome to “DevPunks!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:42 – Snuggs’ Background and Origin Story NYC.rb (https://www.meetup.com/NYC-rb/) Ruby on Rails Link Slack Community (https://www.rubyonrails.link/) Ra’Shaun Stovall: Why Is Open Source So Closed? @ RubyConf 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ad52AogJ8) 04:41 – Getting Involved in Meetups and Building the Ruby Community 09:08 – Teaching/Mentoring New Developers OH: In order to make Rails jobs be a thing in the future, you develop Rails people.— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) January 4, 2017 12:13 – Hurdling the Massive Casm that is Between “Junior” and “Senior” Developers Google Image Result for https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53c6bc90e4b050924635d114/t/59d7def4f5e231512a015838/1507319545508/marketoonist-content.pngnull In-person Mentorship Teaching from Jr. Dev Mistakes Incentivize Hiring Jr. Devs Pair Programming Nights and on Open Source Pull Request Review — Closely Closer Connections Between Junior and Senior Developers 33:09 – Teaching How to be a Developer: Are “seniors” really the “juniors”? Id, Ego and Super-ego (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego) Occam’s Razor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor) 38:11 – The Best Ways for Juniors and Seniors to Work Together C.A.N.: Cancel All Negativity 43:13 – What can hiring managers do? 48:34 – What can senior developers do? Reflections: Astrid: Being accountable is paying homage to those who helped you get where you are. Jessica: Your students can make you a good teacher by showing you the solutions you never would have thought of. Snuggs: Check out Ruby Together and grab yourself some Bitcoins! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Ra’Shaun Stovall.
Episode 013: Religion in Tech with Audrey Eschright of The Recompiler Mag
00:16 – Welcome to “Lucky Episode 13!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:10 – Audrey’s Background and Origin Story Stumptown Syndicate (http://stumptownsyndicate.org/) Citizen Code of Conduct (http://citizencodeofconduct.org/) Free Geek (https://www.freegeek.org/) 10:37 – The Recompiler The Responsible Communication Style Guide (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/961164339/the-responsible-communication-style-guide) 16:24 – Community Organization; Tech Community Biases Calagator (http://calagator.org/) The Agile Manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/) The Overton Window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window) 25:55 – Accessibility in Community Spaces Open Source Bridge (http://opensourcebridge.org/) 28:49 – Religion and Social Justice in Tech Unitarianism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism) 34:37 – Labor Organization #talkpay (https://twitter.com/hashtag/talkpay?lang=en) by Lauren Voswinkel (https://twitter.com/laurenvoswinkel) Distributed Denial of Women (http://distributed-denial-of-women.org/) National General Strike (https://www.facebook.com/events/1122791464440715/) Fight for $15 (https://fightfor15.org/) Reflections: Astrid: Making space for others. Coraline: Tech workers face the same challenges that workers in other industries have. Sam: Importance of spiritual awareness in communities. Audrey: Go talk to a coworker. Ask a question about work environment and how things get done at your company. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Audrey Eschright.
Episode 012: Vets Who Code with Jerome Hardaway
00:16 – Welcome to “It’s Made of People!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:17 – Jerome’s Background and Origin Story General Assembly (https://generalassemb.ly/) 09:30 – Vets Who Code (https://vetswhocode.io/): Funding, Technology Stack, Curriculum, and Students 18:19 – Vets Who Code Student Experience 20:00 – Obstacles Veterans Face Getting Into Tech Location Network “Your goal is to only get 1% better every day and the funny thing about 1% is that your 1% changes every day.” @JeromeHardaway— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) December 21, 2016 Jacob Oakley: Learning Code with Kids (https://medium.com/vets-who-code/learning-code-with-kids-4ed8178f88c) 29:04 – Making the Tech Community More Welcoming to Veterans 33:37 – What should people in the tech community NOT do? Don’t Assume Recognize Women Veterans 36:55 – Getting Involved with Vets Who Code 38:09 – Evaluating Opportunities Reflections: Astrid: Addressing emotional intelligence and increasing 1% each day. Jessica: Using Ruby on Rails is a valuable resource for teaching people how to code. Coraline: Time is life and life is also time. Don’t be married to the tool, be married to the problem. Jerome: Be “Greater Than Code” and ask questions about people. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jerome Hardaway.
Episode 011: Introducing Art Into STEM Education with Amy Wibowo
00:16 – Welcome to “Trapped in a BinarySort!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:21 – “STEAM” Education (http://stemtosteam.org/) 02:36 – Getting Involved in Technology and Being a Maker 05:33 – Making a Zine and Making it (and other things) Inclusive Books With Pictures (https://bookswithpictures.com/) [Kickstarter] BubbleSort Zines 2.0: moar computer science zines! (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sailorhg/bubblesort-zines-20-moar-computer-science-zines) 14:03 – Passion for Sailor Moon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Moon) and How it Relates to Teams and Friendship 18:21 – Introducing Art Into STEM Amy Wibowo: Sweaters as a Service – Adventures in Machine Knitting @ Madison+ Ruby (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6071MRIzCA&spfreload=5) This Long-Lost Nintendo Knitting Machine Would Have Let You Make Sweaters With Your NES (https://kotaku.com/this-long-lost-nintendo-knitting-machine-would-have-let-5939210) 25:36 – Making Websites as a Full-time Career 28:22 – Human-computer Interaction (HCI) Research Reflections: Astrid: Pay more attention to the hobbies that you have. You might be able to build a career out of it! Sam: Seeking inspiration in other forms of art. Coraline: Art gives us empathy for other people’s experiences. Jessica: Art is not an alternative to technology. It is an integral part to doing technology well. Amy: Art as admitting you don’t know everything and wanting to create a little bit of alternate reality that other people can look into and understand. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Amy Wibowo.
Episode 010: Citizen Cybersecurity with Jesse Pollak
00:16 – Welcome to “Who’s Line of Code is it Anywhere?…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:37 – Getting Started with Computer-ing & Security PGP = Pretty Good Privacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy) Filippo Valsorda: I’m giving up on PGP (https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/) 09:28 – Clef (https://rublon.com/) and Two-factor Authentication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication) (2FA) 12:33 – Citizen Cybersecurity Due to the Rise of Mass Surveillance (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3#.w4mg6gqku) Quincy Larson: How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3#.w4mg6gqku) Signal by Whisper Systems (https://signal.org/) 17:27 – Evaluating Service Providers Tor (https://www.torproject.org/download/download) As devs, we have the opportunity to make software and tools more secure and more private or less secure and less private.” - @jessepollak— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) December 8, 2016 22:29 – Password Managers and Encrypting Data at Rest (Security by Default) 1Password (https://1password.com/) LastPass (https://www.lastpass.com/business-password-manager) Noah Zoschke: Encryption at Rest (Convox Article) (https://convox.com/blog/encryption-at-rest/) 25:30 – Tools and Resources NaCl: Networking and Cryptography library (“Salt”) (https://nacl.cr.yp.to/) Bouncy Castle (https://www.bouncycastle.org/) Amazon Web Services (AWS) (https://aws.amazon.com/) 28:20 – Two-factor Authentication, Yubico (https://www.yubico.com/setup/) 32:58 – Putting Trust in Security and the Organizations That Provide It; Centralization 38:06 – Developer Unions 42:58 – “Citizens are buying a lot of IoT devices that are being used for DDoS attacks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack). As citizens, are we responsible to some extent for them occurring regardless of our technical ability at the time of purchase?” – Yiorgos (George) Adamopoulos; What about retailers? 47:56 – “What are your thoughts on “benevolent” malware that looks for vulnerable devices and patches them without asking for permission from the device’s owner?” – Wesley Ellis (https://twitter.com/tahnok) Reflections: Jesse: We as a society have a responsibility to look after the people on the edges, and look after the people who don’t have the tools or don’t have the resources to do security themselves. Mandy: Learning about security is important, even for a newbie. Jay: We can’t just build the thing, we have to make sure that it’s usable and we have to make sure that beyond the fact that it works, that it’s going to be adopted by people and that it’s meaningful and helpful. Sam: “Stop calling me a consumer. I am neither a gaping a mouth nor an open wallet. I am a citizen interacting in a community.” – Jeme Brelin This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jesse Pollak.
Episode 009: Living with Disability with Travis B. Hartwell
00:16 – Welcome to “Software Eats Human…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:25 – Travis’ Superhero Origin Story Retinitis Pigmentosa (https://www.blindness.org/retinitis-pigmentosa) Achondroplasia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achondroplasia) 09:00 – Explaining a Disability and Limitations to Others The Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino (https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/) 14:25 – Supporting Someone with a Disability 19:56 – “Are you noticing your disabilities misrepresenting you in some ways?” – James Edward Gray II (https://twitter.com/jeg2) / Accessibility re: Accessibility “We need to have diverse people working for us so we can bring up, ‘Hey! This thing is an issue!’” @travisbhartwell— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) November 30, 2016 Do they all look like me? Do they all think like me? If they do, you’re probably not getting the perspective that you need @travisbhartwell— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) November 30, 2016 30:29 – “I have a Buddhist friend with Marfan syndrome who has told me that the knowledge he could die at any time has been tremendously beneficial to his practice, and I sometimes wonder if I wouldn’t be a shallow asshole if I didn’t have my own stuff I’m dealing with. On that note, I’d be curious if you have any thoughts on how your disability and health challenges have positively impacted your life?” – Ryder Timberlake (https://twitter.com/rydertimberlake) 32:10 – Coping Mechanisms and Defining Yourself By Your Work (Question from Craig Buchek (https://twitter.com/CraigBuchek)) 34:20 – “What’s a non-programming hobby you’re into?” – Ben Hamill (https://twitter.com/benhamill) 36:10 – “What’s one thing you wish unknown strangers you encounter in public knew about you?” – James Edward Gray II (https://twitter.com/jeg2) Stella Young: I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much (https://www.ted.com/talks/stella_young_i_m_not_your_inspiration_thank_you_very_much) Reflections: Astrid: Being cognizant if there’s a way to make your own code and applications more accessible to others. Coraline: Thinking about The Spoon Theory and how it’s been appropriated by the activist community. Mandy: Have empathy for both yourself and others, find your community, and disability is different for everyone. Travis: Gaining empathy for other people to help other people gain empathy for other people. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Travis B. Hartwell.
Episode 008: 99 Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen
00:16 – Welcome to “99 Bottles of Podcasts!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2016/11/21/008-sandi-metz-and-katrina-owen/) 01:31 – Collaboration on the Book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz (https://www.poodr.com/https://www.poodr.com/) People who like me call me disciplined & meticulousPeople who don't call me anal & pedanticIt's the same thing. @kytrinyx @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) November 21, 2016 14:56 – Audience: Who is this book for? 99 Bottles of Beer Exercise (https://www.sandimetz.com/99bottles/sample#appendix-exercise) 21:06 – The DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself); Duplication and Replication DRYing too hard: "people encapsulate the pieces that are identical, though they don't represent a complete idea." @kytrinyx @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) November 21, 2016 29:21 – Code Review and Naming Things 30:40 – “In what ways is it 99 Bottles a richer kata than fizz buzz (http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest)?” – Benjamin Fleischer (https://twitter.com/hazula) 32:53 – “The 99 Bottles book seems to document all the trade-offs we’ve been implicitly making. Could this possibly be a first step in automating those decisions? i.e.: Might we take those now-explicit rules and partially automate the process of programming?” – Craig Buchek (https://twitter.com/CraigBuchek) 34:47 – Llewellyn Falco: “Sparrow Decks” (http://llewellynfalco.blogspot.com/p/sparrow-decks.html) Kathy Sierra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra) Philip Kellman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kellman) 39:57 – “what non-Ruby technologies are you interested in right now?” – Darin Wilson (https://twitter.com/darinwilson) The more people involved in a projectthe less important the code becomesand more important the interactions.@kytrinyx @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) November 21, 2016 “Code is easy; people are hard. If you want to get things done, you have to get good at people.” - @sandimetz— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) November 21, 2016 45:00 – Sandi’s Unique Approach to Teaching 47:53 – Speaking at Conferences Listening is not how people learn.We learn by doing.To help someone learn-by-doing, ask them questions.@sandimetz @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) November 21, 2016 Reflections: Coraline: Inspiration to return to work on her book about empathy. Also, exploring whether that visual interpretation of code is the shape of code in the abstract or the shape of the code that’s written on-screen. Sandi: Controversy around the notion that duplication is better than the wrong abstraction. Katrina: We are humans and we have ideas and sharing those ideas makes us visible to other humans. It is also incredibly important and impactful to speak. Jessica: Development of relationships and partnerships with someone who will push you. Sam: Helping people realize things on their own is greater than telling them the answer. Also, practicing better self-control in coding and mentoring. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guests: Katrina Owen and Sandi Metz.
Episode 007: Overcoming Adversity and Battling Unconscious Bias with Neem Serra
00:16 – Welcome to Greater Than Code 02:02 – Neem Serra Introduction Neem Serra: “From Babies to Software Development” (http://neemserra.com/from-babies-to-software-development/) 03:23 – 2016 Election Thoughts, Fears, and Aspirations; Importance of Ally Support Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The Other America” (http://www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/mlk-gp-speech.pdf) 14:51 – Overcoming Adversity and Getting Into Science Genomics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomics) 26:27 – Switching from Science to Programming and Getting a Job Software Carpentry (https://software-carpentry.org/) National Society of Black Engineers (https://www.nsbe.org/home.aspx) HandsUp United (http://www.handsupunited.org/) Project Euler (https://projecteuler.net/) 33:53 – Volunteering and Being Empathetic and Inclusive "I feel like most of my job some days is helping people try to be empathetic. Nobody gives me a raise for that."@TeamNeem @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) November 9, 2016 47:36 – Battling Unconscious Bias 55:17 – Programming in Swift Swift Playgrounds Demo with a Twist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no12EfZUSQo) Reflections: Astrid: Push through. Jessica: Programming gives you power. Also, we love you, David Brady. Coraline: Individual actions matter. Be allies to people who are facing discrimination or oppression. Neem: Small acts of kindness matter. The Techies Project (https://techiesproject.com/) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Neem Serra.
Episode 006: Getting Technology Into the Hands of Children with David Bock
00:17 – Welcome to “PC Principal Shit!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:35 – David Bock Introduction and “Smoked Pork” Discussion 04:56 – Teaching Kids Computer Science Concepts Watch D.O.G.S. (https://dadsofgreatstudents.com//) Code.org (https://code.org/) Hour of Code (https://code.org/learn) Blockly (https://developers.google.com/blockly/) Karel the Robot (http://karel.sourceforge.net/) TEALS: Computer Science in Every High School (https://www.tealsk12.org/) 12:50 – Being Scientifically Literate Neil deGrasse Tyson YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFLYe_YAQYQ) 14:13 – Gender and Peer Pressure Dynamics On @greaterthancode with @bokmann. He had a student who realized "Oh! Computers aren't smart! They're just dumb, really really fast!" :D— Sam Livingston-Gray (@geeksam) November 2, 2016 22:13 – Curriculum and Good Teaching Languages C.A.M.S: Coding at Middle School (https://www.lcps.org/domain/17131) Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/) 23:16 – Games as an Entry Point for Programming Minecraft (https://minecraft.net/en-us/) 34:00 – “K-12 is pretty broad age range. How do you tailor the curriculum for different ages? Do you find that there are things you can teach to older kids that definitely don’t work with younger kids?” — Darin Wilson (https://twitter.com/darinwilson) 36:17 – Understanding Abstract Thought What’s Going on in There? by Lise Eliot (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553378252/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553378252&linkId=37388e60dbce1c4e681fe7fc19566b0a) 37:19 – “How do you handle multiple skill levels? Specifically, what can you do to set a culture where kids who know a little more won’t intimidate those who are completely new?” — Jacob Stoebel (https://twitter.com/jstoebel) Project Euler (https://projecteuler.net/) CodingBat (https://codingbat.com/java) 40:51 – Getting Equipment and Resources Into the Hands of Students; “How do you deal with equipment? Not every kid rolls up with Arch Linux installed on their Macbook Air, presumably.” — Ben Hamill (https://twitter.com/benhamill) Code Virginia (https://www.codevirginia.org/) 45:12 – Tablets vs Computer Learning and Resources; Computer Science vs Computational Thinking Robozzle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/robozzle/id350729261?mt=8) ROBLOX (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/roblox/id431946152?mt=8) Move The Turtle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/move-turtle.-programming-for/id509013878?mt=8) DragonBox (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragonbox-algebra-5+/id522069155?mt=8) 35:56 – Getting Involved with Teaching Kids Technology … but Taking Care to Avoid Burnout Reflections: Mandy: Sharing today’s resources with kids who are interested. If you’re in South Central Pennsylvania, please reach out! Sam: Resources for where to go and where to get started. Coraline: Reflecting on privilege and thinking about how to get equipment into underprivileged kids’ hands. Dave: One of the best ways to learn is to teach. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Dave Bock.
Episode 005: Learning New Languages with James Edward Gray II
00:16 – Welcome to “PodcasTRON...” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:00 – James Edward Gray II’s Introduction 02:03 – #CastleGraySkull (https://twitter.com/hashtag/CastleGraySkull?src=hash) “It’s hard to find a castle in a good school district.” ~ David Brady 07:59 – Interviewing James Edward Gray II: Implementing the LHC on a Whiteboard @ RailsConf 2016 (https://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2016-implementing-the-lhc-on-a-whiteboard) (Slides) ^^ (https://speakerdeck.com/jeg2/implementing-the-lhc-on-a-whiteboard) Engineering Interviews: Grading Rubric (https://medium.engineering/engineering-interviews-grading-rubric-8b409bec021f?gi=bf8cc3917f0#.k3hy8btl4) 15:14 – Transparency; Giving Honest Feedback Joe Mastey: Hiring Developers, with Science! @ RailsConf 2016 (http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2016-hiring-developers-with-science) 20:08 – Working with Elixir (https://elixir-lang.org/) James Edward Gray II: The Most Object-Oriented Language (https://blog.noredink.com/post/142689001488/the-most-object-oriented-language) 28:13 – Functional Programming vs Object-Oriented Programming 32:47 – Learning New Languages The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/020161622X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=020161622X&linkId=3b2cf57a2ede1d3259ee3654c980e7ce) 37:33 – “What is the best way to approach learning a new language?” ~ Nate Vick (https://twitter.com/natron99) exercism.io (https://exercism.io/) 41:39 – “What's going on with Codalyzed? Are any new videos on the way? Related: the first video discussed "less code"; has your focus on it changed as you've moved into new languages and their ecosystems?” ~ Trevor Bramble (https://twitter.com/TrevorBramble) Greg Young: The Art of Destroying Software (https://vimeo.com/108441214) Reflections: David: Read the core documentation. (Module: Enumerable) (https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/Enumerable.html#method-i-minmax_by) Jay: Next steps for beginners: Barry Swartz: The Paradox of Choice TED Talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice?language=en); Get social. Sam: It’s time to expand my brain again and learn a new language(s)! Coraline: Inspiration to go learn a new language as well. ^^ James: I am privileged to have the best friends on the Internet and have these discussions. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: James Edward Gray.
Episode 004: DevOps and Creativity with Charity Majors
00:16 – Welcome to “The Hot Mess Podcast...” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:54 – Charity Majors’ Introduction / Listener Question: “What is your superhero origin story?” ~Donald Plummer (https://twitter.com/dplummer) 02:54 – Operations and Creativity 06:37 – Hiring People for Operations Commandos, Infantry, and Police (https://blog.codinghorror.com/commandos-infantry-and-police/) 07:35 – Looking Back on Chaos 10:00 – “Problems of Success” Jessica Kerr: Growing Your Tech Stack: When to Say No (Spectrum of Risk Article) (https://blog.codeship.com/growing-tech-stack-say-no/) 11:32 – Bootcamp Graduates and Startup Culture 15:44 – “Cult-y Companies” Dunbar's Number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number) 19:19 – Microservices Conway’s Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law) 26:41 – “Serverless" 29:55 – What should software engineers should be doing to learn more about operations? “Put yourself in rotation...Expose yourself to the consequences!” ~ Charity Majors 39:01 – Misogyny in Tech Reflections: Astrid: It’s really important to understand operations. Sam: Actually understanding your dependencies still applies in a serverless architecture. Coraline: We are all trying to work to make tech better in our own ways. Dave: The system is the source of the power that we have to use to break the system because the system is broken. Charity: The intersection of tech and human issues. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Charity Majors.
Episode 003: Hiring People For Diversity with LaToya Allen of SheNomads
00:16 – Welcome to “Well, Technically...” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:34 – LaToya Allen’s Introduction 03:18 – Dear Tech Companies: Focus on Diversity, Not Foosball (https://www.wired.com/2016/09/dear-tech-companies-focus-diversity-not-foosball/) 08:14 – How does “the team photo” reflect on you and your company? 10:33 – Article Backlash; Interviewing/Hiring People for Diversity Mental health Bechdel test for women in male-dominated fields: Have *I* talked to another woman today about something related to my work?— amy nguyen (@amyngyn) October 10, 2016 15:11 – The Talking-Over-People Culture Ruby DCamp (http://rubydcamp.org/) 17:37 – Improving Job Postings; How do you find a company to work for that’s good? “Save your ninja moves for the alley!” ~ Jessica Kerr 23:16 – What is something that your company or coworkers or someone at work did that made you feel included? 26:18 – “Signaling” 30:54 – The SheNomads Job Board and the Vetting Process Commitment to diversity inclusion Provide meaningful work Offer reasonable pay 33:33 – #talkpay (https://twitter.com/hashtag/talkpay) Salary Negotiation with Ashley Powell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQUSLEapSfY) Use Google / Indeed.com Talk to recruiters Talk to your peers 35:56 – SheNomads and Remote Work Reflections: Dave: Thinking more about signaling. Astrid: I’m not the only person turned off by ninja-stuff. Coraline: Bringing marketing personas into the recruiting process. Sam: Recognizing the impulse to interrupt and taking a step back. LaToya: Thank you for Greater Than Code! Jessica: Gratitude for remote work and diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Listener Call to Action: If you are not a remote worker, talk to management and see if you can work from home one day per week to introduce the idea of remote work and prove that you are effective and efficient even if you are not present in the office. If you are in a management position, go work from home yourself at least one day per week, so you can build some empathy for what it’s like to be on the other side of those tools and that divide, so you can more effectively incorporate your more distributed teammates. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: LaToya Allen.
Episode 002: Neutralizing Imposter Syndrome with Avdi Grimm
00:16 – Welcome to “The Meta Four!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:30 – Chef Avdi Grimm’s Introduction 02:19 – RubyTapas (https://www.rubytapas.com/); Production, Typing, and Editing 10:52 – Real World Programming: Episode #346 (https://www.rubytapas.com/2015/10/01/episode-346-user-model/): User; LiveCoding.tv (https://www.education-ecosystem.com/) 12:24 – Neutralizing Impostor Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome) 13:32 – Break time and getting to know our new panelist, Astrid Countee! "I've never met a junior who wasn't extremely senior in some area of life I know nothing about" @dbrady @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) October 5, 2016 24:15 – Neutralizing Imposter Syndrome (Cont’d) 25:42 – Live Coding 28:29 – What non-Ruby technologies have you been exploring lately? ~ Darin Wilson (https://twitter.com/darinwilson) 29:05 – PHP (https://secure.php.net/) 35:56 – Should a screencast series like RubyTapas also go beyond code? Talk about topics like dealing with frustration when programming, for example? ~Lucas Dohman (https://twitter.com/moonbeamlabs) “Programming can be an incredibly judgmental culture and environments can be really poisonous.” ~ Avdi Grimm Bias in Computer Systems (https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/) Carina C. Zona: Schemas for the Real World @ SCNA 2013 (https://vimeo.com/80375707) Carina C. Zona: Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm @ JSConf EU 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znwWYR1mzzw) Reflections: Sam: You can use your ego and your attachment to the code, but make it not about yourself. Instead, try to focus on what your code is bringing to other people and maybe that can help you try to figure out how to make it better without getting stuck. Coraline: We got to see a glimpse into the whole person behind a persona. Even heroes are people with vulnerability, human flaws, anxieties, and weaknesses. Astrid: Bring your whole self to everything. Jessica: What we show matters. Jay: Don’t be too quick to compare yourself to others. David: Put your ideas out there and get them in front of other people. That is how you manufacture authority. Avdi: Hidden Figures This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
Episode 001: Taking Payments on the Web with Noel Rappin
00:18 - Welcome to "Dread Coder Roberts!" ...we mean, "Greater Than Code!" 01:30 - Noel Rappin's Introduction (Spoiler alert! He's got a Ph.D.!) 04:31 - Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web (https://pragprog.com/book/nrwebpay/take-my-money) 08:30 - Code Paths and Tracking Failures 10:59 - What is the quickest path to accepting payments online? Are there drawbacks to getting something up fast? (~ David Bock) 13:17 - Testing Payment Issues 14:29 - Design Patterns and Missing Layers Between Controllers and Models 17:49 - Business Logic and Database Constraints (aka, "Why did he write the book?!") 20:14 - I Was A Developer Running HR For A Year: AMA by Noel Rappin at Madison+ Ruby: Epilogue 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOy1rWdL-HE) 24:02 - Practices, Problems, and Potential Solutions for Human Resources 29:34 - Team Diversity and Inclusion *Listener Call to Action: * Team retrospectives and demonstrating that it is safe to fail. Noel: The impact of our applications and how they work in real-world context. David: How can we help introverts feel comfortable? Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0307352153) Coraline: Inspiration to look at teams, meetings, and discussions and see if they are leaving room for everyone to participate equally. Jessica: We started out talking about accepting payments on the web and we found something greater than code. Jay: If we want to try to work with the hard stuff, the hardest problems to solve are the things that are greater than code. Sam: Being, as Jay said, "not just allies, but accomplices." This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Noel Rappin.