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Greater Than Code

288 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings

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 Slack community that members can join by pledging as little as $1 per month via Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode)

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Episodes

178: Data Science and Sponsorship with Emily Robinson

April 15, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutes - 76.1 MB

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Special Edition: COVID-19

April 09, 2020 19:00 - 53 minutes - 60.7 MB

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 c...

177: Source Docs and People with Chris Stead

April 08, 2020 09:00 - 55 minutes - 43.3 MB

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) * Creati...

176: Career Karma with Ruben Harris

April 01, 2020 09:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB

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.co...

175: Developing for the Long Term with Eric A. Meyer

March 25, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MB

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 He...

174: Resilience

March 18, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MB

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....

173: The Ethical Open Source Movement

March 11, 2020 09:00 - 46 minutes - 45 MB

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 An...

172: Limitations of Human Knowledge with Miko Matsumura

March 04, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MB

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...

171: Web Accessibility with Chris DeMars

February 26, 2020 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB

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_Ac...

170: The Case for Vanilla JavaScript with Chris Ferdinandi

February 19, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 64 MB

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 Mo...

169: Career Elbows

February 12, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB

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...

168: Appolition with Dr. Kortney Ziegler

February 05, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

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 * ...

167: Clarity of Thought with Ted M. Young

January 29, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB

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 Li...

166: From Software Engineer to Management with Phil Wheeler

January 22, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 57 MB

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 S...

Fast & Furious with Penelope Phippen

January 15, 2020 17:00 - 10 minutes - 5.94 MB

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 exclusivel...

165: Rubyfmt with Penelope Phippen

January 15, 2020 10:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MB

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 - Hierar...

164: Psychological Balance with Dr. Mireille Reece

January 08, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 77.5 MB

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...

163: Cause A Scene with Kim Crayton

January 01, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MB

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/wik...

162: Glue Work with Denise Yu

December 25, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB

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 Termi...

161: Making Space with Bärí A. Williams

December 18, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 76.8 MB

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 Ligh...

160: Thermodynamics of the Twitterverse

December 11, 2019 10:00 - 42 minutes - 41.2 MB

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 * Re...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

December 10, 2019 10:00 - 12 minutes - 13.9 MB

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

December 04, 2019 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MB

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....

159: Bias in AI with Lauren Maffeo

December 04, 2019 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MB

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....

159: Bias in AI with Lauren Maffeo

December 04, 2019 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MB

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....

159: Bias in AI with Lauren Maffeo

December 04, 2019 10:00 - 59 minutes - 51.5 MB

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....

158: Exploring Company Values with Ariel Caplan

November 27, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MB

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...

157: Reinventing Education with Willem Larsen

November 20, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 69.9 MB

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 - Listeni...

156: Authenticity in Interviewing with James Edward Gray II

November 13, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB

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 S...

155: Ethical Open Source with Don Goodman-Wilson

November 06, 2019 10:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MB

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://open...

154: Filtering Your Brain with Ambreen Hasan

October 30, 2019 09:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MB

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 Somethi...

153: Your Favorite Philosopher Is You with Mannah Kallon

October 23, 2019 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB

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/wi...

152: Embracing Mathematics with Philip Wadler

October 16, 2019 09:00 - 49 minutes - 52.1 MB

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 Assista...

Special Edition: Becoming an Elder & the "Stage Two" of Life

October 15, 2019 18:00 - 4 minutes - 3.54 MB

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 falli...

151: Off Meta with Amir Rajan

October 09, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

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/wa...

150: Cultural Transformation with Brian Lonsdorf

October 02, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 52 MB

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....

149: Creating Effective Culture with Jesse James

September 25, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB

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...

148: Floober and Cognitive Outsourcing with Jacob Stoebel

September 18, 2019 09:00 - 58 minutes - 56.7 MB

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 Suc...

147: Organizing Organizations with Jennifer Tu

September 11, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes - 51.4 MB

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/1...

146: Self.conference with Amber Conville

September 04, 2019 09:00 - 37 minutes - 32.9 MB

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...

145: Balancing Hierarchies and Equity in Organizations with Brandy Foster

August 28, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB

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-w...

144: Being Greater Than Code with Jamison Dance

August 21, 2019 09:00 - 50 minutes - 42.6 MB

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 (ht...

143: Indigenous Data Sovereignty with Keoni Mahelona

August 14, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MB

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 Aborig...

142: Modeling Constraints in Human Systems with Will Larson

August 07, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB

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.asp...

141: Navigating Blame

July 31, 2019 09:00 - 48 minutes - 38.4 MB

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...

140: Bounded Perfection with Amitai Schleier

July 24, 2019 09:00 - 58 minutes - 44.1 MB

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://ww...

139: Conferencing

July 18, 2019 09:00 - 59 minutes - 58.9 MB

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 Outlin...

138: Job Satisfaction

July 10, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 52 MB

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 Cowo...

137: Pairing & Sharing with Llewellyn Falco and Clare Macrae

July 03, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MB

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 Workin...

136: Addressing Technical Friction

June 26, 2019 09:00 - 55 minutes - 46.8 MB

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 controlle...

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