Greater Than Code

01:45 - Autopoiesis, Smell, and Passing

Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living

Thud!: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett

11:15 - The Channels in Your Head (Noise)

12:15 - GeePaw’s Superpower: Having an enormous capacity for doubt -- especially self-doubt; The Cost of Certainty

18:25 - Doubt vs Narrowing

Déformation Professionnelle

23:31 - Refactoring; Easiest, Nearest, Owie, First

25:53 - Defining “Better” and “Done”

30:55 - Thin vs Thick Culture

42:34 - FACT: Geeks Are Paid Extremely Well -- Why are we still not happy?

48:02 - Occupational Game Playing

Reflections:

Jessica: When you act, you then see what happens.

Sam: Any metric can be gamed and will be gamed.

The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' by Sidney Dekker

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01:26 - Resilience Engineering and Closed-loop Communication

06:55 - Acknowledging Burnout in the Developer Community

09:31 - Professionalization and Formal Training

Nancy Leveson

17:41 - Reliability vs Resilience

20:40 - Resilience in the EMT Context

22:21 - Scene Size-up in Software

25:20 - Thai’s Superpower: The ability to remain calm in emergencies;Tech => EMT => Tech + Missing Seeing People You’re Helping

The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'

32:11 - Incident Response + Studying Incident Response; Normalization of Deviance

SNAFUcatchers

40:16 - Asking Questions

Cognitive Interviewing Techniques

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Reflections:

Jessica: Part of resilience is how do you know where to get help? When to ask for help and who to ask.

John: Following up with the cognitive interview idea.

Sam: Being explicit and deliberate about thinking about process and communication as a thing that you can get better at, that you can work on, and that you can talk about.

Check out with the “Working With Other Humans” track that Sam is running at RailsConf 2019 from April 29 - May 1 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Thai: Cognitive interviewing Pokémon. Plus emotions as a state machine.

John’s Hacking Your Emotional API Talk

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01:55 - Andy’s Superpower: Explaining blindingly obvious things to people that they don’t see.

The Boiled Frog

08:13 - Iterative Development and Continuous Learning: Becoming Comfortable with Uncertainty

14:23 - Doing Things Differently

The Black Swan Theory

20:41 - Writing and Timeboxing

Conglommora

Conglommora Found (Sequel)

Feedback, Context, and Learning

27:39 - Why should continuous be the goal?

34:24 - Adaptability

39:28 - Making Groups More Effective

45:13 - Andy’s Software Development Journey

Reflections:

Janelle: Shifting from a place of complaining about the constraints of the world, to figuring out strategies for solving these problems and figuring out templates for alternatives: Setting up alternative markets and economic systems that can support alternative ways of working.

Jessica: We can’t predict the future. We can’t know everything. We can’t give an accurate estimate of a number. But we can know something: we can know propensities to some degree, we can estimate in a range, and then we can choose whether to spend time researching to narrow that range.

Avdi: The importance of slack time in teams and organizations.

Andy: Experimentation. Learning. Context. Feedback. Rinse and repeat.

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Special Guest: Andy Hunt.

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01:55 - Bianca’s Superpower: Being a Cultural Broker

06:36 - Code-Switching and Identity As An Asset

Keynote: Who and What We're Leaving Behind by Bianca Escalante @ RubyConf 2018

Open Source for ...Bad? by Bianca Escalante @ Codeland 2018

12:55 - Normalizing Conversations, Speaking About Race Openly, and the Concept of Distance Travelled

21:17 - Reconciling Failure, Repressing Feelings, and The Importance of Human Connection

34:02 - D&I: Who is responsible?

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

Shine Theory

Reflections:

Bianca: Talking openly about the loneliness.

John: Having to develop superpowers as coping strategies.

Jamey: When times are tough, you (sometimes) get to see the best of human connection.

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01:50 - Jess’s Superpower: Being a Property of a Situation

Karl Popper

04:25 - The Interpretation of Luck and the Psychology of Scarcity

08:17 - Physics; Physics and Software

12:06 - Conference Speaking

15:53 - Undervaluing Code

22:13 - Defining ‘Done’ in Software Development

We don’t want to define “done.” In an ongoing system, a symmathesy, there is no “done” except death.
Instead, define “better.” Then you can know you accomplished something.

Email is like laundry. There is no such thing as "done."
My job is not to do the laundry, it is to keep the laundry moving.
Nor to answer all the email, but to keep some correspondence flowing.

25:51 - TDD, the notion that “Coding is easy!”, and Resilience to Failure

Smart Kid Syndrome

Pairing with Bunny

42:04 - Learning While Teaching Others Programming

Avdi and Jess stumble through modern web development

JessiTRONica on Twitch

Aikido

Reflections:

Jamey: Things never being “the end”.

Finite and Infinite Games (print)

Finite and Infinite Games (pdf)

Sam: There might be an ending for you, specifically, but it’s not really an ending for anyone else.

Jacob: Figuring out problems by vocalizing them.

Jessica: Check out recent works from Karl Popper.

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Special Guest: Jacob Stoebel.

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Virginia Satir

The Personal Iceberg Metaphor:

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Hierarchical Organization of Constructs

Becoming More Fully Human with Virginia Satir

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Matty’s Talk, Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma @ REdeploy 2018

02:59 – Matt’s Superpower: Taking metaphors and ideas around self-help and turning them into allegories and analogies of how we could be better at technology

The Five Love Languages of DevOps

The Four Agreements of Incident Response

03:58 – What does healing organizational trauma mean?

05:50 – Incident Response Communication

16:00 – Trust, Hyperarousal, and Hypoarousal; Stuck On or Stuck Off

23:32 – Leading By Example, Not Being in a Rush to Solve Problems, Seeking to Understand, and Encouraging Safety

29:23 – Handling Postmortems: How to do them well and how to do them effectively

39:17 – The Hero’s Story vs The Story of the People; Crafting Our Narratives

John Allspaw: In the Center of the Cyclone: Finding Sources of Resilience

Reflections:

Coraline: The metaphors of storytelling.

Matty: Creating a forum of discussion around postmortems.

Janelle: Thinking about Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and how, at the foundation of our mind is essentially a system of shapes that we see the world through, that we reason about through, that we feel emotions through, and that creates the sense of gut.

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Special Guest: Matt Stratton.

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01:30 – Sam’s Superpower: Persistence

AgileVentures Blog

08:07 – Mindfulness and Relaxation; Nonviolent Communication

Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Shambhala

17:23 – Collaborative Communication and Learning

26:17 – The Tension Between Code/Architectural Beauty and Delivering Working Solutions That Meet End-Users Needs

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

38:49 – Being “Used to Things” and Getting Things Done via Incremental Changes

Technology Strategy: Leaky Boats and Rocket Ships

Reflections:

John: 1) Thinking about relaxation as something you do as opposed to things you don’t do.

2) Learning how communication works and communicate better with other people more authentically.

Jamey: Reading people cues is hard and beating yourself up over missed communication is not productive.

Sam: Sometimes it’s okay to not have emotional energy to make changes.

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Special Guest: Sam Joseph.

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02:41 – JF’s Superpower: Systems Thinking

06:58 – Robots and Elixir

Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind

Inside Out

Rodney Brooks -- Robots, AI, and other stuff

The Brains Blog

17:10 – Reapproaching Robotics, Predictive Processing, and Calibration of Attention

33:26 – Thinking and Talking About Object-Oriented Programming

43:51 – Intuition and Emergent Properties

54:02 – Unpacking Fractals

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59:08 – The Ineffability of Smalltalk

Reflections:

Avdi: Trying not to do work, but sometimes finding ways to be pulled into doing work.

Sam: 1) Generating predictions and then correcting your model when those predictions turn out not to be confirmed by sensory data.

2) Object-Oriented Programming should be called Message-Oriented Programming.

3) Computer science as a field really wants to be math and the people who teach computer science want to be mathematicians.

Jessica: Smalltalk feeling like a cathedral where you can get a sense of the architectural beauty.

Eric Evans - Good Design is Imperfect Design

Jean-Francois: Aikido.

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Special Guest: Jean-Francois Cloutier.

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