Greater Than Code
288 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsFor 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
135: Intentional Learning with Saron Yitbarek
June 19, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB01:24 - 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)...
134: Building Profiles with Halleemah Nash
June 12, 2019 09:00 - 54 minutes - 47.4 MB01:43 - 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 -...
133: Dark Horses with Chanté Thurmond
June 05, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB01:56 - 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 (htt...
132: Distilling the Hailstorm with Claire Lew
May 29, 2019 09:00 - 43 minutes - 42.4 MB02:06 - 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 ...
131: Poo-Covered Rocks with Cat Swetel
May 22, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes - 50.5 MB01:40 - 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. Jessi...
130: Acceptance is the First Step with Britni Alexander
May 15, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes - 42.7 MB01:54 - 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 ...
129: Bringing The Fun with Lori Olson
May 08, 2019 09:00 - 57 minutes - 44.5 MBUse 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 ...
128: Finding and Cultivating Community Leaders with Ben Pollard
May 01, 2019 09:00 - 58 minutes - 58 MB00:48 - 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 - Brai...
127: Hope and Suffering with Amy Newell
April 24, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MB01:47 - 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 Ex...
126: Asking Powerful Questions with Suzan Bond
April 17, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes - 52.6 MB01:04 - 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 - Bec...
125: Everything is Communication with Sam Aaron
April 10, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MB01:42 - 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 ...
124: Navigating Neurodiversity with Helen Needham
April 03, 2019 09:00 - 52 minutes - 40.1 MB01:45 - 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 Talki...
123: BOOK CLUB! Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
March 27, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBZen 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...
122: Surfing with Michael "GeePaw" Hill
March 20, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 52 MB01:45 - 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=a...
121: Emergency Communication with Thai Wood
March 13, 2019 09:00 - 54 minutes - 53.2 MB01:26 - 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:...
120: Expect The Unexpected with Andy Hunt
March 06, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB01:55 - 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&cre...
119: Cultural Brokerage with Bianca Escalante
February 27, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB01:55 - 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 - Reconcil...
118: A Piece of Luck with Jessica Kerr
February 20, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 65.5 MB01:50 - 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. —...
117: Wholeness and Separation
February 13, 2019 05:00 - 42 minutes - 42.3 MBVirginia 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.jpg null 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
February 07, 2019 18:00 - 42 minutes - 42.3 MBMatty’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 tr...
115: Tension Between Opposites with Sam Joseph
January 30, 2019 05:00 - 59 minutes - 56 MB01:30 – 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 Tensio...
114: Theory of Mind with Jean-Francois Cloutier
January 23, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MB02:41 – 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 Programm...
113: Privilege as Legacy Code with Amr
January 16, 2019 05:00 - 46 minutes - 45.6 MBAmr 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) Reflectio...
112: Dancing About Vulnerability with Marcel Byrd
January 09, 2019 05:00 - 48 minutes - 39.2 MB00:53 – 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 ...
111: Thermodynamics of Emotion with Thomas Perry
January 02, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MB01:30 – 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=0071392...
110: Human Incident Response with Courtney Eckhardt
December 19, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBRubyConf 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.greaterthancod...
109: Tech Fashion Part 2 with Jaya Iyer of Svaha
December 12, 2018 05:00 - 53 minutes - 43.9 MB01:11 – 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 S...
108: Tech Fashion Part 1 with Kayte Malik of Dress Code
December 05, 2018 05:00 - 45 minutes - 43.7 MB00:57 – 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 ...
Special Edition: Ruby Together – LIVE! from RubyConf 2018
December 03, 2018 05:00 - 40 minutes - 40.4 MBThis 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 w...
107: The Ruby Central Opportunity Scholarship Program
November 28, 2018 05:00 - 42 minutes - 40.5 MBThe 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 ...
106: Taking Up Space with Laurie Barth
November 21, 2018 05:00 - 58 minutes - 51.5 MB01:20 – 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 Compan...
105: Code Switching with Maurice Cherry
November 14, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 58 MB01:49 – 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:/...
104: Jellyfish Signaling with Sam Livingston-Gray
November 07, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 64 MB01:33 – 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)...
103: The Org You Were Born Into with Marcus Blankenship
October 31, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MB01:12 – 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? ...
102: Sticky in the Flow with Katrina Owen
October 24, 2018 05:00 - 55 minutes - 52.5 MBGreater 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 3...
101: A Difficult Conversation with Sonia Gupta
October 17, 2018 05:00 - 53 minutes - 47.9 MB02:02 – 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&linkCod...
100: The Business of Documentation with Jaime Slutzky
October 10, 2018 05:00 - 43 minutes - 41 MB01:12 – 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=6e597d92659...
099: The Knowledge You Possess with Stephanie Morillo
October 03, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MB02:40 – 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 ...
098: Designing For Inclusion with Jenny Shen
September 20, 2018 05:00 - 51 minutes - 42.5 MB01:51 – 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 – De...
097: The Job of a Manager with Brandon Hays
September 12, 2018 05:00 - 47 minutes - 42.3 MB00:43 – 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&linkCo...
096: Resilience Engineering with John Allspaw
September 05, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBJohn 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 W...
095: Cleaning House with Heidi Waterhouse
August 29, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MB01:20 – 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.co...
094: Humans All The Way Down with April Wensel
August 22, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB01:07 – 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 thi...
093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina
August 15, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBCybernetic 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.wikiped...
092: A11y Ally with Rob DeLuca
August 08, 2018 05:00 - 50 minutes - 51.3 MB01:09 – 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 Ac...
091: Solving Puzzles and Productive Failure with Kim Vanderspek
August 01, 2018 05:00 - 47 minutes - 47 MB02:03 – 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...
090: The Journey with Chelsea Troy
July 25, 2018 08:00 - 58 minutes - 59 MB02:03 – 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 meetin...
089: Something Something Agile with Noel Rappin
July 18, 2018 05:00 - 57 minutes - 58.9 MBGreater 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...
088: The Safety 2 Dance with Steven Shorrock
July 11, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 29.2 MB01:46 – 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 Deve...
087: The Jazz of Empathy with Chad Fowler
July 03, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MB02:17 – 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....