Greater Than Code

01:30 – Federation and Your Internet Identity

Mastodon

Stayin’ Alive in Technology: Who Are You? Coraline Ada Ehmke and Identity on the Internet

05:59 – Flaws of Federated Identity

Usenet

10:18 – Onboarding

Eternal September

28:51 – All Technology is Political & Speech At All Costs

The Californian Ideology

Survivor Bias

15:45 – Mastodon Vs. Twitter and The Social Cost of Running an Instance

21:56 – When People React: Internet Backlash and Defensiveness

The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto

Poe’s Law

30:58 – Service Lock-in

37:48 – Losing Your Identity: The Failure of witches.town

39:32 – Creating Sub/Micro Federations/Communities

Metcalfe’s Law

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01:10 – Tim’s Superpower: Keeping Himself From Laughing / Improv

04:19 – Tim’s Journey as a Programmer

09:12 – The Collision of Values Within the Programming Industry and The Meaning and Measurement of “Intelligence”

22:39 – Using Programming to Satisfy Emotional Needs and Form Identity

37:30 – Merit and Identity as a Zero-Sum Game

40:49 – The Struggle of Giving Up / Embracing Labels

49:34 – Collectively Creating an Emotionally Healthy Atmosphere Within the Software Industry

Reflections:

Coraline: What are the countervalues that go against meritocracy?

The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto

Jessica: Read Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse.

John: The emotional need for people to belong to various groups and things we can do to help people get into healthier spaces.

Tim: Listen to Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen. Also, how to talk about the inner struggle people have to belong in a positive way.

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Special Guest: Tim Chevalier.

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01:44 – Contempt Culture: An Overview

Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture

12:40 – Calling Others Out For Things and Distributing That Labor

17:16 – Technical Superiority (Technology is political)

21:24 – The Cultural Impact of DevOps

28:51 – Introducing Organizational Changes in DevOps

32:11 – Outcome Focus Vs Procedural Focus

35:02 – Siloing and Process: “How does this help you?”

Jenny Bramble: Risk Based Testing: Creating a Language Around Risk

47:56 – Context

Reflections:

John: Smuggling ideas into spaces without bringing historical baggage along.

Coraline: Knowing that technolgy choices are political, paving the way for making the right technology choices.

Sam: Understanding your own context so you can explain it to others.

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02:14 – John’s Superpower: Talking About Feelings in Public

04:57 – Programmers and Feelings

Coraline Ada Ehmke: Emotions as State Machines

09:39 – Being Educated About Your Emotions

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16:12 – Feelings As Addictions, Comparing Your Experiences to Others’ Experiences, and Setting Boundaries

24:05 – Emotional API

28:53 – Cognitive Deficits of Not Handling Emotions and Cognitive Benefits of Developing Fluency with Emotions

Analysis Paralysis

34:02 – Doing Work to Understand Your Emotions

“Practice doesn’t make perfect; practice makes permanent.” ~ Katrina Owen

36:34 – Getting Paid/Getting Further for Having and Learning About Emotional Intelligence

41:18 – Negative Effects on Teams When Individuals Refuse to Acknowledge Emotions

43:59 – Influencing Emotions and Emotional Responses

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

TIP: Temperature Change, Intense Exercise, Progressive Relaxation

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02:05 – Knitting and Computing

Software Art Thou: Knit One, Compute One with Kris Howard

Ravelry

06:17 – The Knitting Community Vs The Software Community

09:38 – Moderation and Clear Communication of Expectations

12:50 – Welcoming New People

14:45 – Muscle Memory and Workflow; Teaching Others

19:09 – Information Exchange and Spreading Knowledge

knitml

freesewing.org

25:16 – User Focus Vs Creator Focus

27:07 – Kris’ Superpower: Being a Social Extrovert

35:39 – Hard Work Vs Reframing

40:51 – Gender Differences in “Crafting”

"Read a comment this morning stating that Maker culture is 80% male and had to laugh. Only if you discount the millions of women sewing, knitting, weaving, and more. But oh right, they're just "crafters." That artificial distinction enrages me. 😡" ~ Kris Howard

25:16 – The “Craftsman” Gender Controversy

Twitter Discussion

Reflections:

Kris: Thinking about your environment.

John: Onboarding community members and the importance of making that ramp as shallow as possible.

Jessica: Choosing a tribe based on inclusivity.

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02:05 – Schneems’ Superpower: Not being grossed out by baby poop! And, debugging.

06:03 – The Skill and The Art of Troubleshooting

18:12 – Interviewing and Evaluating People

32:07 – Working in Open Source

37:17 – The Tension Between Structure and Agency

40:32 – The Role of Empathy in Open Source

50:52 – Bringing Open Source Values Into Companies

57:33 – Putting Machines in the Middle of People

Reflections:

Jamey: Gut feelings vs objective data.

John: Dealing with unfriendly support cases and still having empathy.

Rein: Being able to stay centered when things pull you off balance.

Janelle: Respect as currency.

Richard: Leaving emotions behind in pull requests.

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Special Guest: Richard Schneeman.

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02:01 – Superpowers: Kenzi = Consensus Building; Laurie: Confuging Apache Quickly

Conversation Context

03:35 – Trans-Inclusive Policy at npm and Cloud City

Kaiser

TriNet

12:41 – Determining Whether Insurance is Trans-Friendly

“Transgender insurance benefits employer guide” Google Search

The Transgender Law Center

15:16 – Biases Exist in Healthcare

Broken Arm Syndrome

20:54 – The Problem with Primary Care Physicians and Care

26:44 – Feedback from Doctors

32:00 – Why This Topic is Becoming More Commonplace and Important in Society

37:39 – Trans-Inclusive Healthcare as a Business Advantage for Companies

42:22 – How To Be an Ally in the Fight for Trans-Inclusive Healthcare

46:37 – What can primary care doctors do to signal they care about these issues?

Reflections:

Laurie: Do the legwork for your trans employees.

John: Once you cover the edge cases, it makes the happy path even happier.

Coraline: The additional challenges of non binary people.

Kenzi: We have a responsibility as tech workers when we are building the system to be better about it.

Carina C. Zona: Schemas for the Real World

Jessica: You can’t come out as something you don’t know exists.

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Special Guests: Kenzi Connor and Laurie Voss.

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RubyConf 2017: Lending Privilege by Anjuan Simmons

01:18 – Anjuan’s Superpower: Flexibility

04:55 – Cultivating Variety on Teams

08:22 – What makes a great team?

13:46 – Empowering Others

19:21 – Culture Fit

21:24 – The Tension Between Structure and Agency

24:35 – Creating Space for People to Shine

33:46 – Responses to “Weirdness”

38:27 – Building Constructive and Authentic Relationships with People

41:12 – Having Visible Differences on Teams

43:53 – “Othering”

49:29 – Earning Trust by Listening to People

Reflections:

Sam: Safety can improve teams and lead to wonderful harmonies.

Rein: Building caring and genuine relationships with other people and valuing them for who they are.

Janelle: Getting to know people and giving them space to take off their masks to be their unique selves.

Anjuan: Safety is a foundational aspect of life.

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Special Guest: Anjuan Simmons.

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In this special episode of Greater Than Code, the panelists and guest panelists talk to an audience live from RailsConf 2018 about our relationship with our code, and the ways we have emotional ties with what we do, but also how there’s more to it than that.

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Special Guests: Dinah Shi, Nick Quaranto, and Vaidehi Joshi.

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This episode touches on the topics of privilege and having tough conversations when not feeling it’s your place to have those conversations.

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