Greater Than Code

188: Going Off the Rails with Damien Burke

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01:10 - Damien’s Superpower: The ability to hold conflicting beliefs at the same time.

  • Blind Men and an Elephant
  • Law of Excluded Middle

    • 04:09 - Life is Hard. How do we make things easy?

    • Simon’s Ant
    • Emergent Behavior
    • Conway’s Game of Life
    • Embodied Cognition
    • Cognitive Systems Engineering
    • Joint Cognitive Systems

      • 12:03 - Treating Expertise as Transferable to Different Fields

      • Technical Privilege
      • Cognitive Bias – List of Cognitive Biases
      • Heuristic Shortcuts
      • Specifications not Test – Damien’s “Don’t Call it Test-Driven Development Essay
      • Fundamental Attribution Error

        • 17:54 - Loving Yourself Unconditionally and Seeing Flaws

        “You are whole, perfect, and complete.” – Damien Burke

        • Virginia Satir: The basis of human interaction is acknowledging the inherent value in ourselves and another person.
        • Giving Feedback – The key is authenticity.
        • Treating People The Way They Want to be Treated vs How YOU Want to be Treated
          • The Platinum Rule
          • Mister Rogers: What do you do with the mad that you feel?

            • “The problem is never the problem; how we cope is the problem.” – Virginia Satir

            27:03 - Shakespeare was Garbage

            • Playing Shakespeare
            • Highbrow Language
            • Looking For Richard

              • 30:08 - Sponsorship Message

              31:20 - EarlyWords / Morning Pages

              • The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

                • 36:08 - Damien’s Background in Theater and Applying it to Tech

                “I play the piano, but my instrument is the orchestra.” – Attribution Unknown

                “The conductor is the only person in the orchestra that doesn’t make a sound.” – Benjamin Zander

                Being a Leader/Conductor/Manager is an Act of Service

                41:42 - Ontological Coaching

                • Epistemic – What even is knowledge?
                  • The Scientific Method

                    • Reflections:

                    John: Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice

                    Rein: It is hard to translate theory into practice.

                    Damien: Life is hard. Make everything you can easy!

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