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02:30 - Emily’s Superpower: Finding all the dogs to pet.

05:05 - Emily’s Data Science Journey

08:21 - The Idea of Passion

10:46 - Defining Data Science

13:48 - Emily’s Book: Build a Career in Data Science

16:11 - Dealing with Failure

18:30 - Sponsorship

20:08 - The Spread of Data Science Roles

27:09 - Sponsorship (Cont’d)

36:20 - Themes Learned From Writing Build a Career in Data Science

40:02 - Companies Should Train People to be Mentors

43:07 - Measuring Productivity

45:48 - External vs Internal Data Science

47:18 - Women and Diverse Representation in Data Science

Reflections:

Avdi: Mentorship does not have to be a huge commitment to be useful and sponsorship is often as important -- or more important than mentorship.

Chanté: What are the things that we’re willing to do for people who need an extra boost or push or support?

Jacob: Mentorship is possible without the mentors knowing they’re even doing it.

Rein: If you’re a mentor and your mentees aren’t coming to you with well-formed questions, it’s your job to coach them into that as a mentor.

Emily: There aren’t enough resources for senior engineers on the non-technical side of things.

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Special Guest: Emily Robinson.

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Content warnings for discussion of pandemic and sickness, American politics, and mental health issues.

In this special episode of Greater Than Code, several of our panelists have a candid conversation about the current COVID-19 situation, how it has been affecting them personally, and how they believe it will affect the tech industry as a whole. Discussion topics include how it feels both to be working and unemployed during the pandemic, productivity while quarantined, the effect on WFH and conference culture, the current political climate, and human resiliency in the face of the unknown.

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Additional show notes:

Jamey wanted to report that after recording was finished, they called their favorite restaurant back and was able to successfully order takeout after all.

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00:56 - Chris’ Superpower: Not Knowing In Public

02:53 - Source Documents and Their Relation To People

06:44 - Encouraging Others To Write Code For People

12:39 - Naming Things in Code / Narratives in Software and Business

18:53 - Asking the Right Questions

22:38 - Interviewing for the Benefit of the Interviewee

33:44 - Treating People as People; Making Things More Humane

38:23 - Code Stores Emotion

45:19 - Deciding: “Will this be helpful for someone else?”

Reflections:

Jessica: The idea that code can convey emotions. Even code can be Greater Than Code.

John: Structuring interviews with goals around comfort and familiarity so people can perform at their best.

Jamey: Imbuing things with the feeling when you wrote it.

Chris: If you’re feeling frustrated, kind is great. Also, everything is a systemic whole.

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01:44 - Ruben’s Superpower: Believing in people more than they believe in themselves and helping people to meet their potential.

03:00 - How Ruben Developed His Superpower

06:35 - Benefits Of Being Underestimated

11:15 - Career Karma Success Story

13:50 - Fires Lit Inside

15:03 - Origin Of Career Karma

18:10 - How Career Karma Secured Funding

23:38 - What Makes The Success Of Career Karma Different

25:25 - What It Feels Like To Know You Are Doing What You Are Meant To Be Doing

31:21 - Impact of Coronavirus

36:15 - Who Will Benefit From Remote Work

38:00 - The Career Karma Team

42:30 - If You Want To Be A Master In Life, You Have To Submit To A Master

44:30 - What’s On The Horizon For Career Karma

48:20 - The Biggest Lesson Ruben Has Learned Thus Far

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Special Guest: Ruben Harris.

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00:57 - Eric’s Superpower: The Ability To Explain Things In A Way That Makes Sense To Most People

02:37 - Legacy Capability Of The Web

11:30 - Creating Long Term Within Frameworks

15:50 - Ethical Dimensions

20:50 - Longevity Of The Web

23:11 - Edge Cases - Stress Cases

25:44 - Make Everything Accessible To The Most People

44:00 - Design For Real Life

Reflections:

John: The designated dissenter idea. Doing a pre-mortem on a project - planning ahead.

Carina: A whole other conversation could come of the philosophy of agile and move fast and break things.

Jacob: How the dissenter could be a challenging position to be in.

Eric: The dissenter is stress testing, not criticizing.

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01:38 - What Does Resilience Mean To The Panelists?

03:36 - Thoughts On David Woods - Four Concepts for Resilience

04:49 - Applying Resilience To Leadership

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

27:15 - Resilience Related To Diversity And Inclusion

31:00 - Resilience Within Software Development

36:27 - What Price Do We Pay For Not Prioritizing Resiliency

39:00 - Rein’s Wrap-Up On Resilience

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02:22 - Coraline Talks About Her Work With The Open Source Movement

08:14 - Who Wrote The Open Source License

10:26 - The Open Source Initiative

11:25 - Licensing And The Evolution Of Open Source

18:43 - Litigation Thoughts

23:31 - Creators’ Rights

26:00 - Tying The Hippocratic License To Open Source

28:48 - Other Prongs Of Approach Other Than The License

30:50 - Coraline’s Candidacy For The OSI Board

34:00 - What Open Source Means To The Panelists

38:50 - The Concept Of Community

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02:12 - Miko’s Superpower: Not Knowing Things.

03:30 - Coming To Your Senses

06:45 - Understand The Limits Of What You Can Know And What You Do Know

11:45 - Human Decision Making Is An Embodied Process

18:30 - Interviews As Coachable And Teachable Moments

25:33 - Problems With The Interview Framework

29:23 - Human Action Is Connected To Emotion

34:30 - Not Knowing As A Superpower

39:56 - Small Mind, Big Mind

45:50 - Being Over Reliant On The Posture Of Knowing

50:16 - The Notion Of Marriage

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.

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Special Guest: Miko Matsumura.

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01:14 - Chris’s Superpower: His Ability to Sleep.

01:50 - Why Chris Wants To Talk About Web Accessibility

02:45 - Whose Responsibility Is It To Build An Accessible Web?

07:38 - How To Inform And Get Colleagues On Board With Accessibility

11:45 - Image Descriptions

16:34 - Companies Deal With Accessibility Lawsuits

19:07 - Where To Start Making Changes

27:50 - What Can Developers Do Today To Make Changes

31:06 - Work Collaboratively With The Designers

34:15 - How To Be Accessible For Various Disabilities

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.

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Special Guest: Chris DeMars.

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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

05:50 - The Problem With The Way We Do Things Today

08:30 - Modern Web Development

11:42 - A Better Approach To Web Development

17:15 - CSS and JavaScript

25:05 - The Notion of Development At Scale

27:45 - Silos Of Technology

31:10 - Complexity And/Or Simplicity

37:20 - Advocating For Vanilla JavaScript

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

58:05 - Summation Of Positives Of Vanilla JavaScript

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, 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.

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Special Guest: Chris Ferdinandi.

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