Episode #56: Evan Light

In this episode, Evan Light, a freelance software developer and mentor, talks about working with an apprentice, remote mentoring, and the power of reflection and education through suffering. Show Notes:...

In this episode, Evan Light, a freelance software developer and mentor, talks about working with an apprentice, remote mentoring, and the power of reflection and education through suffering.

Show Notes:

Evan Light (twitter / blog / Ruby DCamp / Triple Dog Dare)

 00:52 – Evan Light Introduction

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Freelance Software Developer
Developer Mentor

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01:03 – History with remote work

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Wife’s health
Frustration Driven Development: Evan’s WindyCityRails Talk 2012
Former government contractor

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02:36 – Adjusting to working from home

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Allowed him to focus more
Easy at first, but harder the longer he has been doing it

Needy cats

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06:28 – Day to day work process

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Maintain 2 clients at a time
Remote pairing

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07:32 – Pairing with clients
08:20 – Working with an apprentice

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Working in person
Pairing locally

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10:07 – Remote mentoring

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Startups whose code is a mess
People who want to learn techniques or learn from a problem

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12:40 – Pomodoroing
13:54 – Working with larger distributed teams

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The people who perform well aren’t the people you expect to perform well and vice versa
Work ethic tends to be different in the office than for people who work at home

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17:09 – Regular Agile Retrospectives

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Defining iteration length
Describing what things went well and what made people happy and what didn’t work well and made people unhappy

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20:54 – Reflection

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Education through suffering
Frustration Driven Development
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective people by Stephen R. Covey

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28:00 – Do what you love and share it with other people and it pays you back

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The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler
Linchpin by Seth Godin
RubyFreelancers Podcast

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