Greater Than Code

Amr Abdelwahab - An empathy exercise: contextualising the question of privilege (EuRuKo 2018 Video)

01:53 – Amr’s Superpower: Seeing the bigger picture.

04:24 – It’s Not Just Code

11:18 – Privilege

17:37 – Strategies For People with Privilege Who Are Open to Learning

22:57 – Why Diversity Matters and Avoiding Burnout

27:24 – Biases, Allyship, and Calling Out Others

Implicit Bias Test

Reflections:

John: The metaphor of sexism and racism and cultural baggage being legacy code.

Christina: Listen and learn. Also, pushing organizations to contribute to bigger things, but making sure they understand why they are doing it, and not doing it blindly.

Coraline: We are currently living in an “unnatural state”. Equality is the natural state and we need to return to that.

Amr: The ability to have a politics-free life is a privilege of its own.

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00:53 – Marcel’s Superpower: An Explosive Relationship with Laughter

01:45 – The Intersection of Public Health and Art

06:36 – Authenticity and Vulnerability; Bringing Your Whole Self While Remaining Professional

14:59 – Reading a Room and Determining Safety for Being Vulnerable & Making it Safe for People Around You While Being Vulnerable

19:41 – The Beauty of Dance

30:58 – Seeing and Being Outside The Box

38:57 – Gaining Confidence While Retaining Humility

Reflections:

Astrid: The feedback loop can’t be, “I’m only going to keep doing this if I’m positively affirmed.”

Coraline: Vulnerability is scalable.

Avdi: Being the person on the dance floor not necessarily nailing their moves perfectly, but that has a big smile on their face regardless.

Jessica: Imagination is paramount to creating a better world.

Marcel: Articulating the importance of art, creativity, and vulnerability.

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Special Guest: Marcel Byrd.

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01:30 – Tom’s Superpower: Hot Toddies, Eccentricity, and Talking to Animals!

04:42 – Observing Animal vs Humans Behavior and Organizational Restructuring

Participant Observation

10:25 – Looking For Genuine Change, Empowering Workers, and the Conflation of the terms Boss and Manager

The Toyota Way

Adrian Bejan: The Constructal Law

Your Dog Is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves by Kevin Behan  

Brandt Stickley

23:20 – Flow and How it Moves Through Systems

Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations by Adrian Bejan

33:45 – Predictive and Explanatory Power

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

37:40 – Breaking Things Down

43:37 – Alignment in Appetite and Emotion

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

52:08 – Defining Quality

01:02:21 – Emotional Metaphors and Sensory Inputs

DevOpsDays Boston 2017- Your Emotional API by John Sawers

Reflections:

Jessica: When the language gets woo-ey, the ideas might be new-y.

Rein: Quality is individual and personal. It is subjective and intersubjective.

Thomas: The best ideas are often found in uncomfortable places.

John: Systems of living things are living systems.

Janelle: Don’t assume you understand anything immediately when you walk into a room. Let that understanding be emergent through the process of observation.

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Special Guest: Thomas Perry.

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RubyConf 2018 - Retrospectives for Humans by Courtney Eckhardt

01:16 – Courtney’s Superpower: Explaining things.

06:50 – Incident Response: How we talk to people how are are affected by incidents

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13:52 – Disabilities in the Workplace and Professional Spaces

20:25 – The Tension Between Accessibility and Security

23:20 – Developing Coping Skills in Response to a Troubled Childhood / Combatting the Feeling of Being Othered

29:16 – Incident Retrospectives and Defensiveness as a Natural Instinct to Feedback

35:29 – Showing Vulnerability

"In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of." - George Armitage Miller

43:56 – Emotional Response

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Mental Health First Aid

Reflections:

John: Trauma doesn’t stay in the past. Trauma has a continuous effect on our lives.

Coraline: Thinking about therapy and frame it as a blameless retrospective.

Sam: Referring to “post mortems” as “retrospectives” and buying the book Agile Retrospectives. (Future book club episode?!)

Jamey: Even if you’re not changing things in a higher level, you can still help on a direct level.

Courtney: Group therapy and handling retrospectives.

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Special Guest: Courtney Eckhardt.

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01:11 – Jaya’s Superpower: Changing situations for the better.

02:54 – What does it take to change things?

99 Percent Invisible - Pockets: Articles of Interest #3

06:37 – The Lack of Science and Technology-Themed Clothing (Especially for Children)

08:30 – How Personal of a Choice Clothing Is -- The Importance of Expressing Yourself and Shattering Stereotypes and Social Norms

25:07 – Breaking Existing Customer Feedback Systems in Order to Expand

30:06 – Starting a Business like Svaha

Svaha Kickstarter Campaign

39:03 – Coming in 2019....

41:34 – Business Challenges

Reflections:

John: How important it is to have clothing that can really express who you are and validate the parts of your identity that you want socially validated.

Rein: All opportunities are unique to everyone.

Jaya: The first time you fail does not mean you will fail every time. Never give up.

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Special Guest: Jaya Iyer.

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00:57 – Kayte’s Superpower: Taking Something That Doesn’t Exist & Making It Real

02:12 – Having Confidence

06:45 – Paying Closer Attention to Your Accomplishments

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08:30 – Dress Code at a Tactical Level

11:43 – The Intersection of Fashion and Coding

10 Cloverfield Lane

15:52 – Wearable Technology and Biotechnology

17:09 – Creation and Paving The Way For Women in Tech

23:17 – In-Home Coding Parties/Pop Up Shops

26:37 – Program and Course Feedback

29:57 – Debunking The Myth That Technology, Science, and STEM is For Boys

34:53 – Sign up to be find out about Holiday Promotions!

37:00 – The Gift of Innovation: Tech for Marginalized People and Communities

39:55 – Coming in 2019....

Reflections:

John: Framing coding as an in-home, fun, party activity vs a classroom activity.

Coraline: Focusing on your accomplishments and building confidence through positive self-talk.

Kayte: Fashion tech and retail tech is exciting!

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Special Guest: Kayte Malik.

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Special Guests: Adarsh Pandit, André Arko, Jonan Scheffler, and Valerie Woolard Srinivasan.

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The Ruby Central Opportunity Scholarship/Guide Program

02:13 – Superpowers: Flying, Changing Diapers, and Empathy!

03:21 – Scholars’ Favorite Parts of the Conference

06:58 – Conferencing as an Introvert: Having Conference Buddies!

08:06 – Meeting New People

10:15 – Challenges of Conferencing

11:55 – Navigating Conference Parties and the General Hubbub

17:35 – Overcoming Pressure

21:09 – Lightning Talks

26:31 – Live Mob Programming Event

30:07 – Advice For Future Scholars

34:50 – Coming to Tech From Different Backgrounds and All Walks of Life

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Special Guests: Christine Seeman, Jennifer Tran, and Jeremy Schuurmans.

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01:20 – Laurie’s Superpower: Being a Timesuck

Impostor Syndrome

08:44 – Interviewing and Hiring Developers Effectively

12:24 – Creating False Negatives: Turning Down Candidates Prematurely

18:11 – Interviewing: Working With Existing Codebases and Asking Questions About Values

RailsConf 2018: The Code-Free Developer Interview by Pete Holiday

22:59 – How ^ Advice Pertains to Different Sized Companies

25:54 – Getting the Entire Team Involved in Hiring Processes: People First, Technology Second

29:05 – YOU CAN USE GOOGLE!!! (It’s Not Cheating!)

33:55 – Coding: Smartness vs Patience; Coming From Non-Coding Backgrounds (and why it’s a good thing!)

Set Design: Putting the "Art" in "Architecture" by Betsy Haibel

45:14 – Learning: Skill or Mindset? / Overcoming Demoralization and Overwhelm

Everything Is Broken, and It's OK - John Sawers

49:43 – Keeping a Developer Journal and Dealing with Past Development Baggage

Reflections:

Laurie: Check out the talks we’ve linked to! Also, working together to make our industry not just accessible, but livable, enjoyable, and exciting.

Jamey: Refining the interviewing and hiring process and thinking about how we evaluate the people we talk to.

John: Take up space and demand the attention that you need.

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01:49 – Maurice’s Superpower: Extreme Empathy

Function Podcast w/ Anil Dash

04:06 – Code Switching

13:21 – Creating and Fostering Safe Conference Environments

19:34 – Overcoming Feelings of Discomfort

22:16 – Human Decisions in Software: Why We Should Care

31:57 – Trust: How We’ve Lost It and How Should We Re-establish It?

A Developer Relations Bill of Rights

AngelList

41:24 – Establishing Trust in a Company From the Ground Up: Glitch

47:03 – Diversity in Design and Shifting Your Mindset From a Creator to a Chronicler

Kim Goulbourne

Ekpemi Anni

Senongo Akpem   

Reflections:

John: It’s useful to think about code switching in context of my own behavior and using it as a practice for increasing empathy by trying to determine if other people are code switching in a certain situation.

Janelle: Putting myself in an outsider situation.

Jess: Storytelling and experience creating.

Astrid: Parents encouraging young creators.

Maurice: We all have more work to do and we all have privileges we are blind to.

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Special Guest: Maurice Cherry.

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