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01:49 - Rein Talks About His Recent Career Transition From Being a Consultant to a Full-Time Employee

03:52 - Jamey Talks About the Decision to Leave Their Job

05:34 - Pros and Cons of Staying for Job Stability and Comfort

13:20 - Resilience and Regulatory Mechanisms

15:59 - Interviews

20:20 - Job Success and Effort

22:22 - Safety and Resilience

26:05 - Interview Anxiety

30:25 - Team Creating/Building

38:04 - Feeling Comfortable in Tech

47:20 - Visualize How You Will Feel Working Somewhere

50:08 - No One in Tech is an Expert in Human Performance - Interviewing

58:25 - Discovering How to Make Better Systems

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01:06 - Kortney’s Superpower: Being a visionary. Seeing things that aren’t necessarily there.

01:50 - How Appolition Came to Be

07:20 - Kortney’s Professional Background

13:10 - Appolition Specifics

19:45 - Partnering With Others To Provide Education

21:00 - Surprises/Ah-Ha Moments

25:10 - The Goal of Appolition

30:00 - Lessons From A Hackathon

35:19 - Changes Seen At Tech Events Since Trans*H4CK

43:08 - Plans After Leaving Tech

45:49 - Fatigue

50:00 - Future Endeavors

Reflections:

Jamey: Appolition being a webapp so that it is accessible to those who don’t have smartphones.

Chanté: Going back into self improvement and self reflection is being tucked into the back of my mind.

Jacob: What are conversations I can have that I have access to about diversity and inclusion before the professional gets called in.

Kortney: Moved by the idea of finding community in tech.

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Special Guest: Dr. Kortney Ziegler.

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01:20 - Ted’s Superpower: Translating things for people to understand better.

02:49 - Coding on a Live Stream

07:13 - Research is a Drug

10:45 - Connecting the Academic Idea of Expertise to Everyday Context

16:50 - Code Reviews

19:41 - Recording Yourself Coding/Learning Something New

21:56 - Live Streaming as an Introvert

29:41 - The Difference Between Training and Live Coding

35:35 - Applying Research to TDD Teaching Technique

48:27 - Human Learning

Reflections:

Jamey: ‘Predictions’ in TDD - Having more succinct language for things in your head strengthens understanding.

Artemis: The concept of strengthening and muscle. If we can work deliberately on strengthening these muscles then in the moments of our everyday work we can improve the quality of our day to day decisions.

Ted: An aspect of expertise is you start connecting more things. We have to find a place for the ‘why.’

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Special Guest: Ted M. Young.

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01:10 - Phil’s Superpower: Putting Himself in Others’ Shoes.

02:03/09:14 From Software Engineer to Management

03:34 - How Phil Came Into The Greater Than Code Community

05:54 - Commonalities Between Issues Between USA and NZ

07:05 - Life Science Software Experience

16:45 - To Get Into Management or Not

18:55 - The Parallels Of Management And Parenting

26:17 - Working From Home Or The Office

31:47 - Living In A College/University Town

32:54 - Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

35:58 - Empathy For Managers And Employees

51:11 - Phil’s Thoughts For The Future

Reflections:

Jacob: Happy being an individual contributor but contributing to the art of management by being a better employee and having empathy for managers.

Phil: Self-Awareness and empathy. Wanting to push his people in a certain direction but taking that step back and determining where that motivation is coming from.

Chanté: Impostor syndrome: at some point in time we’re all impostors. Doing reading about leadership can help whether you are taking that path or not.

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Special Guest: Phil Wheeler.

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Please enjoy this mini-episode of Greater Than Code featuring guest Penelope Phippen as we begin to pivot to our new podcast theme, the Fast & Furious. *

( * Just kidding, we are still a tech podcast.)

But we do hope you enjoy this set of outtakes where we grill Penelope on her Fast & Furious knowledge and speculate about the future of the franchise.)

This is the kind of content we normally release exclusively to our Patreon subscribers, but we didn't want to hoard such joy, so it's a gift to all of you. But if you want more content like this, an invite to our Slack group, AND an invite to the Fast & Furious party at Jamey's house, please support us on Patreon! *

( * That is also a joke, if you're a Patron, thank you for your support, but please don't show up to Jamey's house unannounced.)

Special Guest: Penelope Phippen.

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01:37 - Penelope’s Superpower: An extremely cursed knowledge of the Ruby programming language’s grammar.

03:09 - Writing Ruby Programming

05:50 - Why Penelope is Doing This the Way She Is

07:32 - Inability to Extract Parse.y Out

12:02 - What Problem Penelope is Trying to Solve With This Program

18:30 - Hierarchy of Nitpicking

20:35 - Opportunities for Collaboration

22:44 - Major Challenges Faced

25:58 - What Others Will Do With Rubyfmt

28:08 - Finding Time and Motivation to Work on Rubyfmt

30:00 - Why Penelope Hasn’t Got Pushback

34:25 - Heretically Creating An Ergonomic Way To Work With ASTs

37:00 - The Fate of Regional Ruby Conferences

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Special Guest: Penelope Phippen.

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01:14 - Mireille’s Superpower: Being just herself. The sense of respect around the individuality of every person.

02:30 - Being Different From Others is a Good Thing

05:59 - Our Brains and Empathy

11:15 - The Brain vs. The Mind

19:22 - Three Brains in One

21:51 - HPA Axis

23:06 - Overcoming Unconscious Impulses

26:56 - Affective Prosody

33:26 - Balancing Transparency at Work

48:41 - Effort Over Outcome

56:15 - Using the Word “While”

59:25 - Decoding Your Anger

01:05:28 - “Plays” or Neural Routes

01:09:20 - Correlation vs. Causation

Reflections:

Rein: Bringing our whole self to work without thinking about punishment or reprisal. Finding psychological safety.

Jacob: How he thinks one of the biggest problems in the tech industry is that there is this brick wall around feelings and how feelings and work don’t mix. Rather than a brick wall, what kind of filter can we put in front of our emotional lives that is appropriate for the professional world?

Mireille: It really is around being able to see other people as people and when we do that most of the time people are not trying to make our lives more difficult.

Check out Mireille’s podcast Brain Science here.

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Special Guest: Dr. Mireille Reece.

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01:24 - Kim’s Superpower: Being a Black Woman in Tech with a Strategy and a Platform.

02:21 - Continuously Validating Your Space as a Black Woman

08:10 - The System was Built to Harm and Oppress Black Women

15:42 - The Only Power Black People Have is the Power Whiteness Has Given Them

21:24 - White Feminism is Bullsh*t

25:50 - Being a Strategist

33:15 - #causeascene

35:41 - Price Asymmetry

36:48 - Kim’s Six-Step Process

40:15 - Stop Looking for Simple Solutions to Complex Problems

44:29 - Future of Jobs Report from World Economic Forum

45:55 - Strategies for Developing Your Other Technical Skills

48:15 - Bounded Rationality

52:10 - Can We Have Antiracist Capitalism?

01:00:59 - Defining Racism

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Special Guest: Kim Crayton.

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00:58 - Denise’s Superpower: She is a classically trained musician and is good at transcribing music in her head.

03:30 - Glue Work

13:07 - What Denise Has Done to Improve the Glue Work Situation

17:31 - How to Address Changing the Structure of Glue Work

31:40 - Offboarding Yourself

37:10 - Release Engineering

39:45 - Being a Product Manager

46:39 - Being Back in the Development Role

Reflections:

John: The distinction between glue work that is just work that you are doing and glue work that you are enjoying and getting satisfaction out of. See what he can do to add glue work tasks into evaluations and part of everyone’s job.

Rein: Burnout isn’t just working long hours. Burnout becomes a real danger when those things combine with acute alienation.

Jacob: If product managers tried to be more transparent with their day to day tasks, and trying to listen more himself to what the PMs are saying.

Denise: Thinking globally but solving locally. Always be offboarding yourself.

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Special Guest: Denise Yu.

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01:48 - Bärí’s Superpower: Being a Black Woman

05:20/22:50 - Admitting and Knowing What You Don’t Know

10:00 - Born and Raised in Oakland

19:30 - Unintended Consequences

33:15 - Where is the Light (In the Technology)

42:34 - Getting Organizations to Buy Into the Open Space Concept

48:50 - Who’s Job is it to Educate the Children About Bias

58:47 - Diversity or Inclusion

01:03:59 - Taking Space and Making Space

Reflections:

Arty: Multigenerational roots, becoming your own being, being raised to be proud of yourself and say what you think. Be the roots for the people around you. There has been a loss of grounding.

Chanté: Bärí is the real deal. It takes only a few to change history. Being real is valuable.

Jacob: Wants his son to know that he won’t have to worry when being pulled over, and he should be troubled by that fact.

Bärí: What do you connect to, who do you connect to? What and who are you thankful for? Think about that.

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Special Guest: Bärí A. Williams.

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