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Welcome to season 5 of the award-winning .NET Core Podcast! Check that link for proof.

Hello everyone and welcome to THE .NET Core Podcast. An award-winning podcast where we reach into the core of the .NET technology stack and, with the help of the .NET community, present you with the information that you need in order to grok the many moving parts of one of the biggest cross-platform, multi-application frameworks on the planet.

In this episode you’ll gain insight into the development of software from a humanitarian perspective. Hear from Jamie, who shares his experiences and skills to ensure his software works for his users. Learn how to design platforms with empathy, sympathy, and compassion in mind to make the world a better place and improve user experience. With resources such as case studies and interviews with people in the tech industry, there’s always something new and exciting to learn. Tune into The .NET Core Podcast today and become a part of the revolution!

The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at https://dotnetcore.show/episode-118-empathy-sympathy-and-compassion-for-our-users/

Useful Links from the episode:

• Programming Ethics on Wikipedia
• IEEE Code of ethics
• Ethics in the Software Development process on Springer
• The countercultural revolution
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• TMRC
• Geek chic
• Yamaoka Tesshu
• Sengoku Jidai
• My CPD logs
• Empathy vs Sympathy: Which one are you?
• Sword of Damocles
• The scientific method
• Zawinski's Law
• Episode 48 - Rockstar with Dylan Beattie
• The Rockstar programming language
• the Law Society
• Colourblind Awareness
• Key information and statistics on sight loss in the UK from the Royal National Institute of Blind People
• How blind people see the world
• Accessibility laws and policies
• Retail Leadership with Steve Worthy
  • The Law of Intuition
• Overton Window
• Charles Limb - To be Creative Don’t Think So Hard
• Pych2Go on Empathy vs Sympathy
• Simon Sinek on Understanding Sympathy
• Nasty, Brutish, and Short by Scott Hershovitz
• How to be Perfect - Michael Schur
• any book by Dr. Brené Brown
• Think Again by Adam Grant
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy
• The Friendly Orange Glow - Brian Dear

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