Greater Than Code

140: Bounded Perfection with Amitai Schleier


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01:29 - Running a Mail Server

  • qmail
  • Sendmail
  • Postfix
  • Daemon-tools
  • Istio.io
  • 08:49 - Amitai’s Superpower: Squirrel Power! and Orienting Himself in a New Problem Space (And Helping Others to Orient Them in Their Own Problem Spaces)

    15:03 - Refactoring

    23:15 - Managing Developer Time

    Global Day of Coderetreat

    Brooklyn November 2018: Global Day of Coderetreat

    Conway’s Game of Life

    28:57 - Feedback and Systems

    33:38 - Email Servers

    35:46 - Predictability

    WeCamp

    40:39 - Quality and Collaboration

    45:47 - Orienting and Problem Space

    Reflections:

    Jessica: Having useful questions.

    John: The bounded perfectionism concept and the tests as questions.

    Rein: What are the minimum possible criteria for progress?

    Amitai: “Make hidden things visible. Make abstract things concrete. Make implicit things explicit.” ~ Virginia Satir

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