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?
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Special Guest: 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: 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

41:42 - Using Data to Measure Well-Being and/or Engagement

Process Tracing
Why use ambient data?

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

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Special Guest: Ravs Kaur.

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