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218: Building Bridges with Isa Herico-Velasco

January 20, 2021 44:35 28.62 MB Downloads: 0

02:12 - Isa’s Superpower: Being a Bridge

08:56 - Community Learning

  • Asynchronous Communication
  • Cultivating a Leadership Pipeline
  • Transparency
  • “Many hands make light work.”

19:16 - Pivoting From Rock’n’Roll to Software Engineering: Software + Music

  • Gigwell: Talent Booking
  • Everything Relates to Tech Somehow

27:57 - Grappling with Impostor Syndrome

Reflections:

Damien: Community over architecture.

Casey: Community and mentorship.

Isa: Talking to other engineers re: non-code + community and sustainability.

Laurie: Finding new ways to collaborate in a remote/pandemic world.

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