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!
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01:10 - Damien’s Superpower: The ability to hold conflicting beliefs at the same time.

Blind Men and an Elephant
Law of Excluded Middle

04:09 - Life is Hard. How do we make things easy?

Simon’s Ant
Emergent Behavior
Conway’s Game of Life
Embodied Cognition
Cognitive Systems Engineering
Joint Cognitive Systems

12:03 - Treating Expertise as Transferable to Different Fields

Technical Privilege
Cognitive Bias – List of Cognitive Biases
Heuristic Shortcuts
Specifications not Test – Damien’s “Don’t Call it Test-Driven Development Essay
Fundamental Attribution Error

17:54 - Loving Yourself Unconditionally and Seeing Flaws

“You are whole, perfect, and complete.” – Damien Burke

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

Mister Rogers: What do you do with the mad that you feel?

“The problem is never the problem; how we cope is the problem.” – Virginia Satir

27:03 - Shakespeare was Garbage

Playing Shakespeare
Highbrow Language
Looking For Richard

30:08 - Sponsorship Message

31:20 - EarlyWords / Morning Pages

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

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

Being a Leader/Conductor/Manager is an Act of Service

41:42 - Ontological Coaching

Epistemic – What even is knowledge?

The Scientific Method

Reflections:

John: Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice

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 of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode

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Special Guest: Damien Burke.

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