028: Primary Caregiving

Parent Driven Development
Episode 028: Primary Caregiving
00:17 Introducing Guest, Nick Gauthier! Becoming a Full-time Parent
Nick is currently the CTO and Co-founder at Nomics (https://nomics.com/). Before co-founding Nomics, Nick created MeetSpace (https://www.meetspaceapp.com/), a video conferencing application for distributed teams. Before that, Nick worked at Codeship (http://codeship.com/) on the Codeship Pro Continuous Delivery platform, as well as various other web application consulting projects in Ruby on Rails, Go, and JavaScript.
03:55 Being a Full-Time Parent as a Man
"Aww, you're babysitting!" 🙄
Experiences with "Mommy and Me" groups and Meetups.
Feeling instrusive in Mom spaces.
Breaking into a "Mommy Group".
08:17 Partner Dynamics and Making Decisions
Getting the scoop and being thankful to not have other parents' problems.
Liking vs not liking the baby phase.
11:07 Changes as Baby Grows
Transitioning to a nanny but still working from home.
When going to work is a "vacation" or an "escape".
Fielding distractions.
17:11 How Having a Child Has Changed the Way Nick Works
Working with other parents.
Context switching and protecting time.
Asynchronous communication.
24:16 Communication Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Any communication, the normal expected turnaround time is 24 hours; unless in text is says urgent.
Cell phone calls are last resort, but must be answered.
Everything is "Do Not Disturb".
Keep communcation very close to or 100% on topic.
29:06 Team Relationship Building + Watercooler Talk
Optional "huddles" with no agenda. Explicit watercooler time.
Company retreats.
31:21 Genius / Fail Moments
Nick's daughter announced "Oh yeah! Get some beer!" in the middle of the store. (#Fail) But, she is mastering potty training with M&Ms as rewards! (#Genius)
Chris: M&M inflation. (#Fail) "Scream Parade" on the other hand... (#Genius)
Allison: Flow picture charts for the morning on what her son needs to do to leave the house 👍🏻. (#Genius)
Follow & Support
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Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com (https://parentdrivendevelopment.com).
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Panel
Josh Puetz (https://twitter.com/joshpuetz)
Chris Sexton (https://twitter.com/crsexton)
Allison McMillan (https://twitter.com/allie_p) Special Guest: Nick Gauthier.

Parent Driven Development

Episode 028: Primary Caregiving

00:17 Introducing Guest, Nick Gauthier! Becoming a Full-time Parent

Nick is currently the CTO and Co-founder at Nomics. Before co-founding Nomics, Nick created MeetSpace, a video conferencing application for distributed teams. Before that, Nick worked at Codeship on the Codeship Pro Continuous Delivery platform, as well as various other web application consulting projects in Ruby on Rails, Go, and JavaScript.

03:55 Being a Full-Time Parent as a Man

"Aww, you're babysitting!" 🙄
Experiences with "Mommy and Me" groups and Meetups.
Feeling instrusive in Mom spaces.
Breaking into a "Mommy Group".

08:17 Partner Dynamics and Making Decisions

Getting the scoop and being thankful to not have other parents' problems.
Liking vs not liking the baby phase.

11:07 Changes as Baby Grows

Transitioning to a nanny but still working from home.
When going to work is a "vacation" or an "escape".
Fielding distractions.

17:11 How Having a Child Has Changed the Way Nick Works

Working with other parents.
Context switching and protecting time.
Asynchronous communication.

24:16 Communication Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Any communication, the normal expected turnaround time is 24 hours; unless in text is says urgent.
Cell phone calls are last resort, but must be answered.
Everything is "Do Not Disturb".
Keep communcation very close to or 100% on topic.

29:06 Team Relationship Building + Watercooler Talk

Optional "huddles" with no agenda. Explicit watercooler time.
Company retreats.

31:21 Genius / Fail Moments

Nick's daughter announced "Oh yeah! Get some beer!" in the middle of the store. (#Fail) But, she is mastering potty training with M&Ms as rewards! (#Genius)
Chris: M&M inflation. (#Fail) "Scream Parade" on the other hand... (#Genius)
Allison: Flow picture charts for the morning on what her son needs to do to leave the house 👍🏻. (#Genius)

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

Josh Puetz

Chris Sexton

Allison McMillan

Special Guest: Nick Gauthier.