For a long time, tech culture has focused too narrowly on technical skills; this has resulted in a tech community that too often puts companies and code over people. Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology. Greater Than Code is providing a vital platform for these conversations, and developing new ideas of what it means to be a technologist beyond just the code. Featuring an ongoing panel of racially and gender diverse tech panelists, the majority of podcast guests so far have been women in tech! We’ve covered topics including imposter syndrome, mental illness, sexuality, unconscious bias and social justice. We also have a major focus on skill sets that tech too often devalues, like team-building, hiring, community organizing, mentorship and empathy. Each episode also includes a transcript. We have an active Slack community that members can join by pledging as little as $1 per month via Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode)
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174: Resilience
01:38 - What Does Resilience Mean To The Panelists? * John - [It’s] Like A Flexible Tree That Can Bend With The Wind Or Environment - It Does Not Resist Or Break * Chanté - Tenacity And Grit And Being Able To Cope Or Withstand Something That You Didn’t Foresee - It Doesn’t Break You, It Makes You Stronger * Antifragile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile) * Rein - [It’s] About Unforeseen Surprises 03:36 - Thoughts On David Woods - Four Concepts for Resilience (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276139783_Four_concepts_for_resilience_and_the_implications_for_the_future_of_resilience_engineering) * Resilience As Rebound * Resilience As Robustness * Resilience As The Opposite Of Brittleness * Resilience As Sustained Adaptability 04:49 - Applying Resilience To Leadership * High Performance Organization - HPO (https://www.hpocenter.com) * People Make Up Companies 14:40 - The Difference Between Sustainability And Resilience 17:20 - Welcoming The Resilient Mindset 18:30 - Creating And Acknowledging Resilience 21:54 - Organization Resilience And Adaptive Capacity * Richard Cook’s REdeploy 2019 Talk On The Resilience Of Bone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LbePBiOvZ4&t=3s) * Convincing Employers To Become More Resilient To Reduce Harm To Employees 27:15 - Resilience Related To Diversity And Inclusion * Families And Communities 31:00 - Resilience Within Software Development * Software Being Made Robust, Not Resilient * Rejection Proof (https://www.amazon.com/Rejection-Proof-Became-Invincible-Through/dp/080414138X#ace-g8881249860) - A Parallel Between People And Software * Casey Rosenthal REdeploy2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSLBKoFi1jk) 36:27 - What Price Do We Pay For Not Prioritizing Resiliency * Existential Risk 39:00 - Rein’s Wrap-Up On Resilience This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
173: The Ethical Open Source Movement
02:22 - Coraline Talks About Her Work With The Open Source Movement * Seth Vargo: @sethvargo (https://twitter.com/sethvargo) * The Open Source License - The Hippocratic License (https://github.com/EthicalSource/hippocratic-license) * Bruce Perens (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Perens) 08:14 - Who Wrote The Open Source License * The Libertarian Platform * Balancing Our Individual Freedoms With Societal Good 10:26 - The Open Source Initiative (https://opensource.org/) 11:25 - Licensing And The Evolution Of Open Source * Realizing The Impact Of Open Source On Human Society * The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Thomas-Kuhn/dp/0226458083) - Thomas Kuhn * Procrastination * Assimilation * Revolution 18:43 - Litigation Thoughts * Promoting Arbitration Over Litigation * Advantages Of Adopting The License * Putting The Power In The Hands Of The Creators 23:31 - Creators’ Rights * Corporations Are Benefiting From The Free Labor Of The Community 26:00 - Tying The Hippocratic License To Open Source * The Declaration of Human Rights (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights) * Matt Boehm: @bigolewannabe (https://twitter.com/bigolewannabe) * Accepting Critique * The Ethical Source Working Group (https://ethicalsource.dev/) 28:48 - Other Prongs Of Approach Other Than The License * Scholarship 30:50 - Coraline’s Candidacy For The OSI Board * Tobie Langel: @tobie (https://twitter.com/tobie) 34:00 - What Open Source Means To The Panelists 38:50 - The Concept Of Community * How Maintainers Have Changed Their Relationships With Communities * Writing Values And Aspirations In Codes Of Conduct ethicalsource.dev (https://ethicalsource.dev/) firstdonoharm.dev (https://firstdonoharm.dev/) This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
172: Limitations of Human Knowledge with Miko Matsumura
02:12 - Miko’s Superpower: Not Knowing Things. 03:30 - Coming To Your Senses * Breaking Out Of Thinking * Detecting - Venture Capitalism * Pattern Making And Pattern Matching 06:45 - Understand The Limits Of What You Can Know And What You Do Know * Knowing People * Knowing Industries * Most Humans Don’t Know A Lot Of Things * Impermanence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence) 11:45 - Human Decision Making Is An Embodied Process * The Gut Feeling * Enteric Nervous System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system) * Sympathetic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_nervous_system) And Parasympathetic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasympathetic_nervous_system) Nervous Systems * Central Nervous System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_nervous_system) * The Heart Feelings * Feelings Are Emotions 18:30 - Interviews As Coachable And Teachable Moments * The Gig Economy (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gig-economy.asp) * Prioritizing The Development Of Relationships * Exhibited Behaviors That Match Patterns Are Coachable And Teachable 25:33 - Problems With The Interview Framework 29:23 - Human Action Is Connected To Emotion * The Human Brain 34:30 - Not Knowing As A Superpower * Action Potential (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_potential) 39:56 - Small Mind, Big Mind * Losing Your Mind And Coming To Your Senses 45:50 - Being Over Reliant On The Posture Of Knowing * Andrew Yang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yang) * Peter Thiel - Zero to One (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_to_One) * Human Advantage Over Machines 50:16 - The Notion Of Marriage * Dr. John Gottman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottman) * The Idea Of Magic Reflections: Jessica: Favorite part is the idea that if we think we know something, that leads to despair sometimes. The release of admitting we don’t know everything is a source of hope. Jacob: Feeling like I’m known personally and professionally is important to me, but being known in a deterministic way resonated with me. Artemis: The Bob Marley principle that was mentioned. Thinking about that philosophy connects with the ideas we talked about. When you realize all the intelligence that is out there, thinking of how small you are. If we can lose our mind and come back to our senses and see that we are part of this fabric, we’re not really all that different. Miko: “You can’t fool all the people all the time.” It is a way of connecting with the world of limitation. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Miko Matsumura.
171: Web Accessibility with Chris DeMars
01:14 - Chris’s Superpower: His Ability to Sleep. 01:50 - Why Chris Wants To Talk About Web Accessibility * Top 3 Priorities When Building on the Web * Accessibility * Performance * Security 02:45 - Whose Responsibility Is It To Build An Accessible Web? * Anyone Building On The Web * Dominos’ Lawsuit (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-dominos-pizza/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-dominos-bid-to-avoid-disabilities-suit-idUSKBN1WM1P1) * WCAG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines) 07:38 - How To Inform And Get Colleagues On Board With Accessibility * Understanding The Clientele * Have Numbers To Back It Up 11:45 - Image Descriptions * Alt Attributes * Twitter Adds Alt Text For .gifs 16:34 - Companies Deal With Accessibility Lawsuits 19:07 - Where To Start Making Changes * Only Shipping One Experience That Works For Everybody * Make Sure You Are Using Semantic Markup * Color Contrast * Make Sure There Are Alt Attributes On Your Images 27:50 - What Can Developers Do Today To Make Changes * Start With An Audit * Compare To Competitors 31:06 - Work Collaboratively With The Designers 34:15 - How To Be Accessible For Various Disabilities * Hearing * Cognitive * Physical 37:10 - Accessibility Can Benefit Everyone Reflections: Chris: Accessibility is not a requirement, it is a must. From Marcy Sutton: Every little bit of accessibility you contribute is so necessary and so needed. Carina: The concrete useful examples such as audits are beneficial to business people. Jacob: Wants to get better at using a screen reader to gain empathy about what the right thing is to do. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Chris DeMars.
170: The Case for Vanilla JavaScript with Chris Ferdinandi
00:53 - Chris’s Superpower: Derailing conversations and having a knack for taking complex tasks and breaking them down into smaller, simpler parts that people find easy to understand. 01:44 - The Pitch for Vanilla JavaScript 03:06 - Peoples’ Biggest Challenge as a Developer * Having Trouble Keeping Up * Adding Processes and Tools Make it More Difficult to Get Started * “The Right Way To Do It” 05:50 - The Problem With The Way We Do Things Today * Front-End Development * Back-End Developers Move to Front-End 08:30 - Modern Web Development * The Use of Frameworks * Package Managers * “The Cascade is Bad” - Using More JavaScript 11:42 - A Better Approach To Web Development * Sometimes Old Is Better * Don’t Ditch The Old Just Because Something New Came Out * Embrace The Platform * Think Smaller And More Modular * Remember That The Web Is For Everyone 17:15 - CSS and JavaScript * Web Bloat That Affects The End User * Accessibility - Being Able To Work On Improvement * Accessibility Audit On Gutenberg (https://wpcampus.org/2019/05/gutenberg-audit-results/) * Being Too Heavily Focused On One Programming Language 25:05 - The Notion of Development At Scale * The Google Hiring Process And Frameworks 27:45 - Silos Of Technology 31:10 - Complexity And/Or Simplicity * Focusing On Quality Over Volume * Factoring For Growth 37:20 - Advocating For Vanilla JavaScript * Documentation * Unexpected Incidentals 44:10 - Gradual Movement Of The Code Base 45:30 - Using The Word “Just” 49:30 - The Concept Of State 52:45 - Use Of Static HTML 53:40 - Do Companies Actually Build For The Web Like This * Netflix Page Loads With Vanilla JS * Happy Middle Ground 58:05 - Summation Of Positives Of Vanilla JavaScript * Ease Of Beginner Developer Onboarding * Allowing Non-JavaScript Developers To Participate More Meaningfully In Your Process * Overall Resilience And Performance For The End User Reflections: Rein: Pick the thing that reduces your suffering the most. Jacob: If you are just starting to learn JavaScript, it is ok to not learn a framework immediately. It is also ok to dive into something else and come back to learn vanilla JS. Also, Noel Rappin - Modern Front-End Development for Rails (https://pragprog.com/book/nrclient/modern-front-end-development-for-rails), takes a great approach to using differing technologies and what they can bring to your project. Chris: Thinking about the instances where it does make sense to use some of these tools as opposed to reasons why you shouldn’t use them. Liked the talk about minimizing your pain. If you feel like there are too many moving parts to JavaScript, you are not alone, it’s not you, and you’ve totally got this. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Chris Ferdinandi.
169: Career Elbows
01:49 - Rein Talks About His Recent Career Transition From Being a Consultant to a Full-Time Employee 03:52 - Jamey Talks About the Decision to Leave Their Job * Making The Decision To Leave Your Comfort Zone 05:34 - Pros and Cons of Staying for Job Stability and Comfort * Learned Helplessness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness) * Being a Part of a System * Don’t Be The Smartest Person in The Room * Shared Space (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space) 13:20 - Resilience and Regulatory Mechanisms * Dr. Richard Cook - REdeploy 2019 Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LbePBiOvZ4) 15:59 - Interviews * Watching Interviewers’ Reactions to Challenging Their Questions * Gerald Weinberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg) - Secrets of Consulting (https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Successfully/dp/0932633013) * Most of the Things We Do Have No Effect Whatsoever in the Larger System 20:20 - Job Success and Effort 22:22 - Safety and Resilience * Aviation and Tech * Kubernetes * David Woods - Resilience is a Verb (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329035477_Resilience_is_a_Verb) 26:05 - Interview Anxiety * Who You Know * Group Bias 30:25 - Team Creating/Building * Assuming Competence * Consideration of New Team Members * Dealing With Change After Being Comfortable * Sidney Dekker - Understanding Human Error (https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error/dp/0754648257) 38:04 - Feeling Comfortable in Tech * Privileges of Being in the Field * Switching Career Paths 47:20 - Visualize How You Will Feel Working Somewhere * Analytical vs. Emotional Decision Making 50:08 - No One in Tech is an Expert in Human Performance - Interviewing * Ask Questions of the Interviewer * Being the One That Gets to Make the Decision * Avdi on the Interview Process - We Should be Able to Speak Up 58:25 - Discovering How to Make Better Systems * Tell More Stories This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
168: Appolition with Dr. Kortney Ziegler
01:06 - Kortney’s Superpower: Being a visionary. Seeing things that aren’t necessarily there. 01:50 - How Appolition (https://appolition.us/) Came to Be * Grassroots Company Crowdfunding Money for Incarcerated Black Mothers * Tweeted About Using the Change Round Up Model * Educating Those in Tech About What Bail Is * Gaining Trust 07:20 - Kortney’s Professional Background * Building Things in Technological Space * PhD in 2011 - difficulty finding substantial employment * Filmmaker, Scholar * Encountered a lot of discrimination in professional career * Became Entrepreneur in 2012/2013 * Attended Filmmakers Hackathon * Launched Trans*H4CK (http://www.transhack.org/) * Appolition (https://appolition.us/) 13:10 - Appolition Specifics * Bail is Predatory * Educate Yourself About Bail * Partnered With Outside Team * 2000 Users, Waitlist of 8000 * Then Brought In House * Unlimited Users * Web App - No Download Required 19:45 - Partnering With Others To Provide Education 21:00 - Surprises/Ah-Ha Moments * The Expenses * Humbling to Recognize the Work That Goes Into It * Naming of the App Traveling in Media Convos 25:10 - The Goal of Appolition * How We Can Leverage Technology That Exists 30:00 - Lessons From A Hackathon * Went As Award Winning Filmmaker * Engineers Not Willing to Hear Ideas of Creators * Led to Creating Trans*H4CK (http://www.transhack.org/) * Refuge Restroom 35:19 - Changes Seen At Tech Events Since Trans*H4CK * Great Conversations and Events Happened * Startups Can Shift Rules, They Haven’t been As Inclusive As the Discourse Surrounding Them Was Encouraging Them To Be * Some Things Were Good, Some Things Were Bad, Some Things Need Improvement 43:08 - Plans After Leaving Tech * Getting Back to Creative Side * Filmmaking * Self-Improvement 45:49 - Fatigue 50:00 - Future Endeavors Follow @Appolition (https://twitter.com/Appolition) #AppolitionBookList Reflections: Jamey: Appolition being a webapp so that it is accessible to those who don’t have smartphones. Chanté: Going back into self improvement and self reflection is being tucked into the back of my mind. Jacob: What are conversations I can have that I have access to about diversity and inclusion before the professional gets called in. Kortney: Moved by the idea of finding community in tech. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Dr. Kortney Ziegler.
167: Clarity of Thought with Ted M. Young
01:20 - Ted’s Superpower: Translating things for people to understand better. 02:49 - Coding on a Live Stream * Curiosity is Useful and Dangerous * Comparing Coding to Puzzles 07:13 - Research is a Drug * Finding Answers is Gratifying * Current Reading Infects Daily Thought * Anders Ericsson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Anders_Ericsson) 10:45 - Connecting the Academic Idea of Expertise to Everyday Context * Worked Examples (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worked-example_effect) * Memory Limits * Gaining a Solid Foundation for Training Purposes * The Path of Decision-making 16:50 - Code Reviews * Learning About Decisions Made Along the Way * Pair Programming and Mob Programming * Externalizing Your Thinking * Curse of Knowledge 19:41 - Recording Yourself Coding/Learning Something New * Gaining Empathy * Improving Documentation and Communication 21:56 - Live Streaming as an Introvert * What Other People Get Out of It * Seeing People Struggle and Being Able to Help * We All Get Lost * Building Community * Being Comfortable Showing Frustration 29:41 - The Difference Between Training and Live Coding * Suz Hinton (https://medium.com/@suzhinton) * Accountability in Live Coding * Privilege 35:35 - Applying Research to TDD Teaching Technique * James Shore (https://twitter.com/jamesshore?lang=en) * The Thinking Part and the Predictive Aspect * It’s Not About the Test Failing, It’s About Validating Your Mental Model * Retrieval Practice * Formative and Summative Assessments (https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/basics/formative-summative.html) * Spaced Repetition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition) * AnkiApp (https://www.ankiapp.com) * The Purpose of Patterns 48:27 - Human Learning * Stop Teaching People What They Know and Find Out What They Don’t Know Reflections: Jamey: ‘Predictions’ in TDD - Having more succinct language for things in your head strengthens understanding. Artemis: The concept of strengthening and muscle. If we can work deliberately on strengthening these muscles then in the moments of our everyday work we can improve the quality of our day to day decisions. Ted: An aspect of expertise is you start connecting more things. We have to find a place for the ‘why.’ This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Ted M. Young.
166: From Software Engineer to Management with Phil Wheeler
01:10 - Phil’s Superpower: Putting Himself in Others’ Shoes. 02:03/09:14 From Software Engineer to Management * Empathy Through The Career Shift * The Learning Curve * Making a Conscious Choice To Switch * Gaining Leadership Skills * Making Your Own Opportunities 03:34 - How Phil Came Into The Greater Than Code Community * Found Through Twitter * Codemania (https://codemania.io/) 05:54 - Commonalities Between Issues Between USA and NZ * Inclusion, Equality in Technology 07:05 - Life Science Software Experience * Cloud Based, LT * Awareness of Accessibility 16:45 - To Get Into Management or Not * It’s Not For Everyone * Impostor Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome) 18:55 - The Parallels Of Management And Parenting 26:17 - Working From Home Or The Office * Setting The Right Examples For The Team * Encouraging People To Take Leave, Learning And Development Opportunities, Health Reasons Without Repercussions 31:47 - Living In A College/University Town 32:54 - Overcoming Impostor Syndrome * Exists In The Technology Sector * Exists In Other Disciplines * Turn The Ship Around! (https://www.davidmarquet.com/turn-the-ship-around-a-true-story-of-turning-followers-into-leaders-by-david-marquet/) * The Manager’s Path (https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897) 35:58 - Empathy For Managers And Employees * Leadership Development * Self-Reflection/Self-Awareness * Journaling/Note Taking * Becoming A Technical Leader (https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Technical-Leader-Problem-Solving-Approach/dp/0932633021) 51:11 - Phil’s Thoughts For The Future * Citizens Before Consumers * What Can We Do Better? * The Global Digital Citizen Foundation (https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/) Reflections: Jacob: Happy being an individual contributor but contributing to the art of management by being a better employee and having empathy for managers. Phil: Self-Awareness and empathy. Wanting to push his people in a certain direction but taking that step back and determining where that motivation is coming from. Chanté: Impostor syndrome: at some point in time we’re all impostors. Doing reading about leadership can help whether you are taking that path or not. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Phil Wheeler.
Fast & Furious with Penelope Phippen
Please enjoy this mini-episode of Greater Than Code featuring guest Penelope Phippen (https://twitter.com/penelope_zone) as we begin to pivot to our new podcast theme, the Fast & Furious (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_%26_Furious). * ( * Just kidding, we are still a tech podcast.) But we do hope you enjoy this set of outtakes where we grill Penelope on her Fast & Furious knowledge and speculate about the future of the franchise.) This is the kind of content we normally release exclusively to our Patreon subscribers, but we didn't want to hoard such joy, so it's a gift to all of you. But if you want more content like this, an invite to our Slack group, AND an invite to the Fast & Furious party at Jamey's house, please support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) * ( * That is also a joke, if you're a Patron, thank you for your support, but please don't show up to Jamey's house unannounced.) Special Guest: Penelope Phippen.
165: Rubyfmt with Penelope Phippen
01:37 - Penelope’s Superpower: An extremely cursed knowledge of the Ruby programming language’s grammar. 03:09 - Writing Ruby Programming 05:50 - Why Penelope is Doing This the Way She Is * Were Any Bugs Found in the Ruby Grammar * There is No Spec * There is No Written Standard for How Ruby is Supposed to Work 07:32 - Inability to Extract Parse.y Out * Penelope’s Ideas 12:02 - What Problem Penelope is Trying to Solve With This Program * Rubocop Doesn’t Well Solve This Problem 18:30 - Hierarchy of Nitpicking 20:35 - Opportunities for Collaboration 22:44 - Major Challenges Faced * Finding Time * No Major Challenges * Community Overwhelmingly Welcoming * This is Not a Gem 25:58 - What Others Will Do With Rubyfmt (https://github.com/penelopezone/rubyfmt) 28:08 - Finding Time and Motivation to Work on Rubyfmt (https://github.com/penelopezone/rubyfmt) 30:00 - Why Penelope Hasn’t Got Pushback * There Isn’t Another Tool in This Class for Ruby 34:25 - Heretically Creating An Ergonomic Way To Work With ASTs 37:00 - The Fate of Regional Ruby Conferences * Regional Conferences Are Valuable For Other People * Speakers Can Get Their Start * Local Conferences Can Benefit Local Speakers * Struggling to Get Speakers * Organizers Burnout and No One Takes Over * $$ - Hard to Break Even This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Penelope Phippen.
164: Psychological Balance with Dr. Mireille Reece
01:14 - Mireille’s Superpower: Being just herself. The sense of respect around the individuality of every person. 02:30 - Being Different From Others is a Good Thing * Nature vs. Nurture * Epigenetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics) 05:59 - Our Brains and Empathy * Mirror Neurons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron) * Dr. Dan Siegel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Siegel) * The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon/Frequency Illusion 11:15 - The Brain vs. The Mind * Extended Cognition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_cognition) * Sensation and Perception * Survival Rules - Virginia Satir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Satir) 19:22 - Three Brains in One (https://psycheducation.org/brain-tours/3-brains-in-one-brain/) 21:51 - HPA Axis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothalamic%E2%80%93pituitary%E2%80%93adrenal_axis) * Dr. John Briere (http://s1097954.instanturl.net/) 23:06 - Overcoming Unconscious Impulses * Fight or Flight * Collateral Data * Brené Brown (https://brenebrown.com/) * Grounding 26:56 - Affective Prosody (https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Psycholinguistics/Prosody) * Gavin de Becker - The Gift of Fear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_Fear) * Incongruence 33:26 - Balancing Transparency at Work * Humanity in Tech * Codeswitching * Arianna Huffington (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianna_Huffington) * Relationships at Work * Psychological Safety * Shame * Learned Helplessness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness) 48:41 - Effort Over Outcome 56:15 - Using the Word “While” 59:25 - Decoding Your Anger * Using Energy 01:05:28 - “Plays” or Neural Routes 01:09:20 - Correlation vs. Causation Reflections: Rein: Bringing our whole self to work without thinking about punishment or reprisal. Finding psychological safety. Jacob: How he thinks one of the biggest problems in the tech industry is that there is this brick wall around feelings and how feelings and work don’t mix. Rather than a brick wall, what kind of filter can we put in front of our emotional lives that is appropriate for the professional world? Mireille: It really is around being able to see other people as people and when we do that most of the time people are not trying to make our lives more difficult. Check out Mireille’s podcast Brain Science here (https://changelog.com/brainscience). This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Dr. Mireille Reece.
163: Cause A Scene with Kim Crayton
01:24 - Kim’s Superpower: Being a Black Woman in Tech with a Strategy and a Platform. 02:21 - Continuously Validating Your Space as a Black Woman * Technical vs. Technology * Kamala Harris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris) Suspending Her Campaign * Inclusion, Diversity, and Business Strategy 08:10 - The System was Built to Harm and Oppress Black Women * Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_Every_Voice_and_Sing) * Stacey Abrams (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Abrams) * F*ck Civility * White People are on a Spectrum of Racist * Ibram Kendi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibram_X._Kendi): How To Be an Antiracist * Black People Cannot be Racist 15:42 - The Only Power Black People Have is the Power Whiteness Has Given Them * Capitalism, Communism, Marxism, Socialism are Theories Rooted in White Supremacy 21:24 - White Feminism is Bullsh*t * White Women are Now the Default Diversity in Tech 25:50 - Being a Strategist * Influencing Small to Medium Sized Business * Making Meaningful Impactful Change in Tech 33:15 - #causeascene (https://hashtagcauseascene.com/) 35:41 - Price Asymmetry 36:48 - Kim’s Six-Step Process 40:15 - Stop Looking for Simple Solutions to Complex Problems * Defining Racism Beyond the Dictionary Definition 44:29 - Future of Jobs Report from World Economic Forum (https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2018) 45:55 - Strategies for Developing Your Other Technical Skills 48:15 - Bounded Rationality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality) * Facts Change, Truth Remains the Same * Collaboration Over Competition 52:10 - Can We Have Antiracist Capitalism? 01:00:59 - Defining Racism This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Kim Crayton.
162: Glue Work with Denise Yu
00:58 - Denise’s Superpower: She is a classically trained musician and is good at transcribing music in her head. 03:30 - Glue Work (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19846720) * Tanya Reilly (https://twitter.com/whereistanya) * Doing Tasks That Are Adjacent to Coding * Scheduling * Making Sure Meetings Have Agendas * Who Tends to do Glue Work * Emotional Labor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_labor) 13:07 - What Denise Has Done to Improve the Glue Work Situation * Having the Terminology Helps A Lot 17:31 - How to Address Changing the Structure of Glue Work * Thinking Globally and Acting Locally * Burnout * Writing More Feedback Than Managers Expect * Writing Feedback About Glue Work * Virginia Satir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_labor) 31:40 - Offboarding Yourself 37:10 - Release Engineering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_engineering) 39:45 - Being a Product Manager 46:39 - Being Back in the Development Role * Working With Teams Reflections: John: The distinction between glue work that is just work that you are doing and glue work that you are enjoying and getting satisfaction out of. See what he can do to add glue work tasks into evaluations and part of everyone’s job. Rein: Burnout isn’t just working long hours. Burnout becomes a real danger when those things combine with acute alienation. Jacob: If product managers tried to be more transparent with their day to day tasks, and trying to listen more himself to what the PMs are saying. Denise: Thinking globally but solving locally. Always be offboarding yourself. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Denise Yu.
161: Making Space with Bärí A. Williams
01:48 - Bärí’s Superpower: Being a Black Woman 05:20/22:50 - Admitting and Knowing What You Don’t Know * Intersectionality and Culture 10:00 - Born and Raised in Oakland * Gentrification * What is the Deficit of the City * Being Connected to Your Roots 19:30 - Unintended Consequences * Building Algorithms That Fact Check * You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know * Facts Are Not Facts Anymore * Tutorial to Boy Scouts About Getting Stopped by Police * Keeping the Kids Alive 33:15 - Where is the Light (In the Technology) * Technology is the Mirror of the People Creating It * Creating an Open Space * Prioritizing Important Events 42:34 - Getting Organizations to Buy Into the Open Space Concept 48:50 - Who’s Job is it to Educate the Children About Bias * Allyship * Seeing White Podcast (https://www.sceneonradio.org/) 58:47 - Diversity or Inclusion * Lagging Metric or Leading Metric * Draw People In With Inclusion 01:03:59 - Taking Space and Making Space Reflections: Arty: Multigenerational roots, becoming your own being, being raised to be proud of yourself and say what you think. Be the roots for the people around you. There has been a loss of grounding. Chanté: Bärí is the real deal. It takes only a few to change history. Being real is valuable. Jacob: Wants his son to know that he won’t have to worry when being pulled over, and he should be troubled by that fact. Bärí: What do you connect to, who do you connect to? What and who are you thankful for? Think about that. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode) To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Bärí A. Williams.