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Greater Than Code episodes

June 17, 2020187: Seeing The World with Bryan Liles
01:50 - Bryan’s Superpower: The ability to see the world as it is
06:52 - Conference Circuits / Virtual Conferencing
KubeCon
Keynote: CNCF Project Updates - Bryan Liles, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 Co-Chair
Beyond Kubernetes - Interview with Bryan Liles (KubeCon 2019, Barcelona)
Re-imagining Continuous {Integration | Delivery | Deployment | Whatever} - Bryan Liles (DeliveryConf Seattle Talk)
Engagement: In-Person vs Virtual
Conferences Aren’t Inclusive (as they stand)
17:44 - Working Remotely During Quarantine
Productivity
Depression
Find a Piece of Life That Makes You Happy
23:48 - The Premise of Being Greater Than Code
We Are Not Our Code
26:24 - Fighting/Overcoming Meritocracy
Be the Smartest Person in the Room
Sharing Ideas
Building a Supportive Community Around Yourself
“I'm not underrepresented anymore. Y'all are over-represented. Not going to use a negative to describe my existence. I'm Bryan, and I'm supposed to be here.” – Bryan Liles via Twitter
If you believe in meritocracy, you believe in white supremacy.
34:50 - How People Work and View the World
Writing Things Down
Be Ready to Perform
Cockiness vs Confidence: Celebrating Success
Humans are Inconsistent: People Are NOT Perfect
42:41 - Finding Power in Something Else
Have Mantras; Center Your Life
Meek Mill - Dreams And Nightmares
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Special Guest: Bryan Liles.
Sponsored By:
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strongDM: Today's show is sponsored by strongDM.
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With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams.
Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It's full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it's a single unified query log across all database management systems.
strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It's more control and less hassle.
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48 min
June 10, 2020186: The Universe Makes it Happen with Emily Gorcenski
Emily has been on GTC before! Check out her previous episode: 037: Failure Mode
01:08 - Emily’s Superpower: Hunting Nazis and Data Science
Emily’s Motivation to Do This Work – Fighting Back
What is the question behind the question?
Data Science + SCIENCE
14:55 - Being Willing to Be Wrong / Failure and Learning
Methods for Determining You’re Going to be Tracking Wrong Things
Simpson’s Paradox
Means Are a Lie
Detecting Nonlinearities
34:49 - Cybernetics
093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina
38:43 - The COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis and The Need For Systematic Restructuring
The Problem with Testing
Conditional Probability
Bayes Rule
Ventilator Production
47:16 - Nuance, Power, and Authority
High-Reliability Organizations
Devolution
The Safety Anarchist
The Difference Between:
Innovation
A Work-Around
A Shortcut
A Non-Compliant
Deciphering Good Actors & Bad Actors
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
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Special Guest: Emily Gorcenski.
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1 hr 6 min
June 04, 2020 Special Edition: #BlackLivesMatter
There are no show notes nessecary for this episode. Your job is to listen and learn from these 3 strong women.
Special Guests: Isa Herico-Velasco , Kim Crayton, and Shireen Mitchell.
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1 hr 32 min
June 03, 2020185: Adaptive Capacity and Mutual Aid with Michelle Glauser
02:27 - Michelle’s Superpower: Resilience
Graceful Extensibility
04:59 - Techtonica
The Board
Breaking Barriers Into Tech
Income Sharing Agreements
Job Placement Success
Setting Cohorts Up For Success
Becoming an Educator
Socioeconomic Factors
Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
25:35 - Adaptive Capacity and Mutual Aid
Saying vs Showing You/They Care / Investment / Helping Others
Sponsorship
Hiring
Unemployment
Survival Mode
46:51 - Techtonica Success Stories
Reflections:
Rein: What’s going to happen after the pandemic? How will things be different?
Michelle: The world has an opportunity to change.
Jamey: The things Techtonica provides to its’ cohorts to break down barriers to entry in tech is awesome.
Arty: Asking what can I do to make a difference?
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit 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. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Michelle Glauser.
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59 min
May 27, 2020184: The Python Software Foundation and the Future of Conferencing with Naomi Ceder & Ewa Jodlawska
01:39 - Ewa’s Superpower: Organization
PyCon
02:01 - Naomi’s Superpower: Empathy for the Marginalized
02:51 - The Python Software Foundation (PSF)
PyCon Online
PyPI
05:26 - Regional and Local Meetings: Building a Healthy Community
06:52 - “Everybody Pays” and the PSF Budget
Financial Aid
11:16 - How the Pandemic is Effecting the PSF
Financially
Moving to Virtual Conferencing
EuroPython 2020 Online
13:20 - Intellectual Property
Holding in Trust for Community
Preserving Goodness
PyLadies
Brand Integrity
16:36 - The Development of a Code of Conduct
Enforcement
Ratio of Enforcers to Attendees
23:08 - Naomi: Classics, Language, and Computer Science
Similarities and Differences
Jamshid Gharajedaghi
29:15: Ewa: Ending Up in Governance
31:03 - Ewa and Naomi’s Roles in PSF
The PSF Board
The PSF Staff
35:49 - Creating Emergency Funds
40:18 - Grants & Sponsorships
Humble Bundle
PPP Grant
42:33 - Contractual Agreements
46:22 - Engaging in a Virtual Setting Over In-Person Events
Python Pizza
51:15 - Approaching Issues Marginalized People Experience
Reflections:
Rein: If you want to understand how an accident happened, you need to understand why what a person was doing made sense to them at the time. “What would this mean if this made sense?”
Jacob: Looking forward to new conference formats.
Carina: What solutions are people pitching for moving to virtual gatherings?
Naomi: Only in our space do we think it’s "weird" to talk about whether or not we need emergency reserves. Also, online Hallway Tracks? Yes or no? What do now?
Ewa: Moving to online events is emotional.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit 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. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guests: Ewa Jodlawska and Naomi Ceder.
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1 hr 2 min
May 20, 2020183: How We Learn with Vaidehi Joshi
01:47 - Vaidehi’s Superpower: Learning new things and teaching them to other people
Teaching Things Helps YOU Learn
Deciding on Things to Learn
05:01 - Approaching Learning
Reading
Relating Things to Things Already Known
Ask Yourself, “Why do I need to know this?”
Tricks for Reading Papers
Read the Abstract & Conclusion
Pick Fights with the Paper
Using Tutorials
Accountability & Motivation
Learning with Others
Unraveled
Hermeneutic Circle
20:15 - Having Aha! Moments & Epiphanies: Brain Percolation
Russell Ackoff
Absolution
Resolution
Solution
Dissolution
Paradoxes
32:02 - Technologists Are Good Storytellers
39:03 - Improving Over Time and Doing Your Best
Hindsight Bias
Blameless Retrospectives: Accountability
47:55 - Creating Spaces for People to Succeed
Manager Training
“Managing Up”: The Phrase – meh
52:58 - Effective Mentorship
Mentorship vs Sponsorship
Trust
Lara Hogan
Reflections:
Jamey: Incremental learning and progress – biting off small chunks and not beating ourselves up while learning. It’s not a waste of time to just do a little at a time.
Rein: Soft skills are technical skills.
Vaidehi: It’s hard to measure and quantify these things.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit 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. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Vaidehi Joshi.
Sponsored By:
BrightonRuby: Alt::BrightonRuby: A slightly odd, quasi-conference for strange times by Andy Croll.
There's no in-person BrightonRuby this year, but Andy is still trying to bring Ruby-ists and other software folk together.
It will be recorded talks, a physical book, and a podcast. Delivered throughout June/July 2020.
Plus a donation to Shelter's Coronavirus appeal.
On sale now. 29Euros + tax (which works out to a very affordable about $36.50 + tax in U.S. dollars!)
https://alt.brightonruby.com
P.S.: A trusted source tells us that the book is a beautifully typeset copy of Why's Poignant Guide.
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1 hr 13 min
May 13, 2020182: Labor Organizing with Ellen Wondra
00:41 - Ellen’s Superpower: Knowing what her pets are thinking. (Observation and Paying Attention to Non-Verbal Cues.)
Virginia Satir, Congruence and Incongruence
Lie to Me
Detecting Microexpressions
10:33 - Shareholder and Stakeholder Economies
Game Theory
Out of the Crisis
Mitbestimmung
Codetermination and Alienation
Complexity Theory
18:30 - Termination of Employment Contracts
Emergent and Deliberate Strategy
27:44 - Collective Action – Why aren’t tech workers organizing more?
Amazon Reinstates Fired Warehouse Worker After Employees Strike
The Potential Usefulness and Benefits of Unions
Project Maven
37:47 - Moving in the Direction of Stakeholder Value – What do we do next?
Anjuan Simmons – Lending Privilege
Talk to Your Coworkers: Build Connections; Network Architecture
Explore Worker Power
Manager Boards
Reflections:
John: A reminder of the value of collective action.
Rein: Tech workers are workers and workers have more in common with other workers than they do with bosses.
Aaron: The practical ways of implementing collective action in tech.
Episode 80: Crafting a Community with Kris Howard
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Special Guest: Ellen Wondra.
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51 min
May 06, 2020181: Normalcy Theater with Aaron Aldrich
02:04 - Aaron’s Superpower: Relating to people on any level because he has so many hobbies!
Useful in DevRel
Ending Up in Unexpected Places
Trying New Things and Nerding Out
06:42 - Everything Has a Technical Aspect
Music vs Computer Programming
Computer Systems as Sociotechnical Systems
10:37 - Connecting High-Performing Resilient Teams
Common Ground Within Teams
Recovering From Failure
Failover Conf by Gremlin
14:14 - Implementing Purposeful/Intentional Communication
Team vs Individual Work
Ken Mugrage - Keynote Speaker | Everything I need to know about DevOps I learned in The Marines
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet
17:55 - Highlights from Failover Conf - (Videos not available)
Heidi Waterhouse
Honeycomb
19:45 - How did an actual virtual conference go since COVID-19?
Slack Implementation
Bots
#Hallway-track channel
Each Talk Had Its’ Own Q&A Channel
Challenges
People Interaction
Breaktime
Technical Difficulties
Zoom Chat After the Conference
Deserted Island DevOps
26:27 - The Impact of Having ADHD
Advanced Forms of Coping Mechanisms
Quality Time
Struggling with ADHD During COVID-19
Working From Home and Being Thrown Into Remote Work
Juggling Meetings
Maintaining Comradery
39:43 - Normalcy Theater: Maintaining a Sense That Everything is Fine (When It’s NOT.)
Grief and Loss is Happening on a Global Level
J. Paul Reed
Shed Load
Sacrificing Thoroughness: we are ALL overloaded
Recruiting Resources
Shifting Work and Time
Showing Others Grace and Empathy
Reflections:
John: The idea of a software team plays at software just like a music group plays at instruments. (Twitter thread)
Carina: Everything has technical and human skills aspects.
Aaron: It’s okay to not be getting things done right now and to be taking the time that we need to take care of ourselves.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit 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. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Aaron Aldrich.
Sponsored By:
strongDM: Today’s show is sponsored by strongDM.
Transitioning your team to work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs?
Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are.
With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams.
Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It’s full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it’s a single unified query log across all database management systems.
strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It’s more control and less hassle.
strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure”.
Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/GTC.
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57 min
April 29, 2020180: Open Source Freedom and Technical Purity with Tobie Langel
02:34 - Tobie’s Superpower: Bridging tribes.
Avoiding Labels
04:13 - Being a Co-Conspirator of Ethical Open Source
Contributing to the Greater Good
Finding Deeper Meaning in Open Source, Software, and Tech
Privilege, Moral Obligation, and Responsibility
Edmund Berkeley
The Priority of Constituencies
Technical Purity
12:41 - Open Source: Prioritizing Implementers Over End-Users
Richard Stallman, “Four Freedoms”
Everything is Software, Everywhere – Impact
17:19 - Developer Attachment to Technical Purity
Privacy & Security & Safety (Spying on your spouse on Facebook example)
Flavors of Safety (Zoom breaches and trust)
Physical Safety and Mental Safety
Freedom From Self-Censorship
Surveillance and Tracking
34:54 - Open Source Practitioners Misguided Thinking When Building Software
Software is Written by Privileged People
Lack of Empathy for the End-User
Comfort and Questioning
Internationalization Issues
47:03 - Talking About These Issues – What gives us hope?
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit 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. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Tobie Langel.
Sponsored By:
strongDM: Today’s show is sponsored by strongDM.
Transitioning your team to work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs?
Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are.
With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams.
Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It’s full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it’s a single unified query log across all database management systems.
strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It’s more control and less hassle.
strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure”.
Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/GTC.
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51 min
April 22, 2020179: Conference Magic with PJ Hagerty
02:43 - PJ’s Superpower: Convincing people that karaoke is a good idea.
PJ’s Karaoke History
Why Karaoke is Awesome
07:13 - The DevRel World (DevRel = Developer Relations)
Jim Weirich
13:42 - Online vs In-Person/Live Conferences
Body Language and Delivery
Hallway Track: Is not a literal 'track.' It's all the interactions, conversations, talk follow-up, etc. that happen at a conference outside of the formal schedule. Hallway tracks are when people interact socially about the issues being discussed at the event. For instance, between talks or over lunch. Most hallway track conversations are open and casual. Sometimes hallway track conversations inspire a future lightning talk, Ignite talk, panel discussion, or full talk.
Can you emulate an in-person conference online?
Luck and Visibility
25:54 - Making Conferences Diverse & Inclusive
Putting People on Stage That Don’t Look Like You
Passing on “Lucky” to Others
33:01 - Prompt and Talking About Mental Health
Ed Finkler on Open Sourcing Mental Illness at Distill (this was the talk that launched Prompt)
Greg Baugues: Devs and Depression
OSMI = Open Sourcing Mental Illness
CodeDaze 2016 - Paying Off Emotional Debt by Justine Arreche
Madalyn Rose Parker: Overcoming Mental Health Hurdles at Work
Mental Health Summit - php[tek] 2014
43:10 - Making Conferences Diverse & Inclusive (Cont’d)
Being Seen -- White Cis Men
The Colored Musicians Club
Aggressive Inclusion
Micro Opportunities
Lightning Talks
54:14 - Accessibility
Time and Monetary Expenses
Conferencing in the time of COVID-19
PJ's First Ever Full Talk at RubyMidwest: Act Locally - Think Globally
Reflections:
Carina: The exaggerated visual of putting a hand down and throwing people into the air to lift them up.
Jamey: Holding onto the feeling of being lucky while feeling awful.
Jessica: Getting pushes to make output.
PJ: Be a Jim Weirich. Have a “Hello World” attitude. Human connection is important.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit 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. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: PJ Hagerty.
Sponsored By:
strongDM: Today’s show is sponsored by strongDM.
Transitioning your team to work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs?
Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are.
With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams.
Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It’s full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it’s a single unified query log across all database management systems.
strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It’s more control and less hassle.
strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure”.
Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/GTC.
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1 hr 14 min

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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.

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