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148: Floober and Cognitive Outsourcing with Jacob Stoebel
00:43 - Jacob’s Superpower: Being Obsessive Re: Specificity; Allergic to Ambiguity on Teams
02:09 - Talking About Neurodiversity in Workspaces
- Self-diagnosis
- “Masking”
- Jacob’s Background and Intro to Software Development
13:49 - Driving Desire to Learn About Things
22:04 - Automating Boring Work
- Personal Automation
- Cognitive Outsourcing
34:41 - “Floober Feature”
36:07 - Passing On Strategies and Data Organization
47:37 - Storycrafting and Succession Planning
Reflections:
Jessica: Consult a human when you don’t know, but often from the context of what directory you’re in and what branch you’re on the computer CAN figure it out.
Chanté: Sociotechnical systems and thinking about personal automation.
Jacob: What can I do to better organize to be a positive legacy?
Arty: What are the ingredients to light your spark and your fire about software?
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