017: Work and Family Boundaries
Parent Driven Development
English - November 28, 2018 10:00 - 36 minutes - 29.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTechnology Kids & Family Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Parent Driven Development
Episode 017: Work and Family Boundaries
00:16 Welcome, Chris Arcand (https://twitter.com/chrisarcand)!
Chris is a Software Engineer at HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/) where he works on Terraform Enterprise (https://www.hashicorp.com/products/terraform), a product that adds collaboration and governance features to the popular open source infrastructure tool, Terraform (https://www.terraform.io/). As an advocate of distributed teams and open source, he’s spent the majority of his career at other distributed, open source companies such as Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/). He calls the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota his home where he organizes the local Ruby users group, RubyMN (https://www.meetup.com/ruby-mn/?_cookie-check=tTPtT3O5bUmbVkoy), as well as moderates the ‘MSP Tech’ community Slack (http://msptech.herokuapp.com/). Outside of software, Chris is an avid backpacker and amateur ice hockey player, as well as the father of a rambunctious little 19-month-old.
01:32 Balancing Working From Home with a 19-Month-Old
The Aspect of Literal Time: Utilizing time when kids are napping/otherwise busy
"Shift Work" vs Having Flexible Hours
Hashicorp's "Flexible Time Off" Policy vs "Paid Time Off"
Approaching Work and Dividing Up Your Day
06:46 Making Family Plans
09:29 Commuting Vs Working From Home
Location is Vital
Having an At-Home Nanny
13:28 Choosing a Nanny Over Daycare
18:19 Maintaining Balance and Avoiding Excessive Interruptions
Noise. Cancelling. Headphones.
Shutting The Door
21:14 Improving Mental Presence When Not Working
Give Yourself Time to Decompress Before Family Time
Mindfulness/Meditation
25:23 Exposing Kids to "I'm working, and this is how I'm working."
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43:42 Genius / Fail Moments
JC: Has successfully kept his kid alive for 18 years! (#Genius) Also, his sophomore is starting in varsity football! (#Genius) Also, also, he is the team photographer which is a great hobby to have. (#Genius)
Josh: Andrew Bredow's Chore Chart (https://github.com/andrewbredow/kid-chores)
Chris A: His hockey room! His son is showing interest! (#Genius) ...But, having a new roof put on his house during naptime was probably not the best plan. (#Fail)
Chris S: Let his kids help him paint a room! (#Genius) ...But, it turns out they weren't very good at it. (#Fail)
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Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com (https://parentdrivendevelopment.com).
Support us via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev) and get access to our our Slack Community.
Panel
Chris Sexton (https://twitter.com/crsexton)
JC Avena (https://twitter.com/jcavena)
Josh Puetz (https://twitter.com/joshpuetz) Special Guest: Chris Arcand.
Parent Driven Development
Episode 017: Work and Family Boundaries
00:16 Welcome, Chris Arcand!
Chris is a Software Engineer at HashiCorp where he works on Terraform Enterprise, a product that adds collaboration and governance features to the popular open source infrastructure tool, Terraform. As an advocate of distributed teams and open source, he’s spent the majority of his career at other distributed, open source companies such as Red Hat. He calls the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota his home where he organizes the local Ruby users group, RubyMN, as well as moderates the ‘MSP Tech’ community Slack. Outside of software, Chris is an avid backpacker and amateur ice hockey player, as well as the father of a rambunctious little 19-month-old.
01:32 Balancing Working From Home with a 19-Month-Old
The Aspect of Literal Time: Utilizing time when kids are napping/otherwise busy
"Shift Work" vs Having Flexible Hours
Hashicorp's "Flexible Time Off" Policy vs "Paid Time Off"
Approaching Work and Dividing Up Your Day
06:46 Making Family Plans
09:29 Commuting Vs Working From Home
Location is Vital
Having an At-Home Nanny
13:28 Choosing a Nanny Over Daycare
18:19 Maintaining Balance and Avoiding Excessive Interruptions
Noise. Cancelling. Headphones.
Shutting The Door
21:14 Improving Mental Presence When Not Working
Give Yourself Time to Decompress Before Family Time
Mindfulness/Meditation
25:23 Exposing Kids to "I'm working, and this is how I'm working."
43:42 Genius / Fail Moments
JC: Has successfully kept his kid alive for 18 years! (#Genius) Also, his sophomore is starting in varsity football! (#Genius) Also, also, he is the team photographer which is a great hobby to have. (#Genius)
Josh: Andrew Bredow's Chore Chart
Chris A: His hockey room! His son is showing interest! (#Genius) ...But, having a new roof put on his house during naptime was probably not the best plan. (#Fail)
Chris S: Let his kids help him paint a room! (#Genius) ...But, it turns out they weren't very good at it. (#Fail)
Follow & Support
Please follow us @parentdrivendev on Twitter or email us at [email protected].
Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com.
Support us via Patreon and get access to our our Slack Community.
Panel
Chris Sexton
JC Avena
Josh Puetz
Special Guest: Chris Arcand.