MAS 037: Kim Crayton interview from ngATL

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Kim Crayton

This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Kim Crayton. Kim Crayton did a talk at NG Atlanta entitled “I Don’t Do Non-Technical Talks”. They talk about her passion behind this topic, as well as the importance of the human aspects of the job, failing in order to learn from your mistakes and the fact that programmers need to think about the long-term effects of their code. They also touch on core values and meeting people where they are. 

In particular, We dive pretty deep on: 

I Don’t Do Non-Technical Talks
Critical thinking skills
Need to be able to work with people
The “human” skills are what matter in the job
The human aspects in your job are what make or break your career
#CauseAScene
Has a Master’s degree in Training Development
The importance of feedback from failure
Change is the only thing that’s constant
A lot of times, we look for the easy way to solve it
Need to think of long-term effects of pushing code
A business is a system
“Soft” skills
Understand the terms we are defining
Agile development
Need to look at the whole system
Democratize business school education
Teaching people how to build the business
Look at core values
Style guides
Living documentation
Meeting people where they are 
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable 
And much, much more!

Links: 

I Don’t Do Non-Technical Talks
Kim’s GitHub
@KimCrayton1
KimCrayton.com
Kim’s Medium