Greater Than Code

02:40 – Coraline’s Superpower: Boundless Energy

06:16 – Practicing Self-Care and Outsourcing

12:20 – Being a “Code Witch” and Perceiving the Construct of Reality

17:25 – Evocation and Invocation

20:52 – Being Deliberate: Refactoring Your Code and Refactoring Your Life

32:13 – Documentation and Naming Things

38:48 – Writing Magic and Writing Code; Thoughtforms

Drood by Dan Simmons

43:20 – Impressions and Personas; Sympathy and Empathy

Brené Brown on Empathy

51:58 – Acquiring Boundless Energy and Badassery

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01:41 – Astrid’s Superpower: Being Analytical and Logical

04:33 – Social Scientists and Technology

12:47 – Professionalization

The Code of Ethics Project: Data For Democracy

20:00 – A Day in the Life of a Social Scientist

25:39 – Social Science and Design

32:13 – Working in Numbers-based Environments

Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly

46:41 – Influence and Control

55:05 – Social Media

58:59 – Work/Life Balance and Prioritization

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01:41 – Dan’s Superpower: Optimization

03:26 – Are “Improve” and “Optimize” the same thing?

Kaizen

Kaikaku

Cost Accounting

17:20 – How is cost accounting affected by demographics and privilege?

33:34 – Team Alignment, Collectiveness, and Camaraderie

37:42 – Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) vs Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Write the executable specifications to guide development.

from @tastapod on @greaterthancode

— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) March 14, 2018

58:00 – Customer Empathy

Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests

Reflections:

Jessica: Meeting a customer need = congressive.

Dan: Collaboration is how you get work done.

Jamey: Replacing “responsibility” with “duty of care”.

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Special Guest: Dan North.

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01:53 – Kerri’s Superpower: Looking ahead to the future.

08:33 – Community Gatekeeping and Contempt Culture

Liz Baillie: The Illustrated Adventure Survival Guide for New Rustaceans @ RustConf 2016

Slides ^

Sam Livingston-Gray: Cognitive Shortcuts: Models, Visualizations, Metaphors, and Other Lies @ RailsConf2014

Slides ^

16:03 – The Contextual Framing of Storytelling

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Ada Developers Academy

Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby

31:50 – Retaining Information and Explaining Things to Others

44:05 – Technical Jargon: Tactical and Strategic

47:39 – Storytelling is Everywhere

Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds

52:50 – Telling Stories Over and Over and Over and Over and Over …

55:53 – Crafting the Elements of a Story

Avdi Grimm: Confident Code at Cascadia Ruby 2011

01:01:39 – What the heck is a Lackwit Gadabout?

Reflections:

Sam: The distinction between behavior and identity.

Christina: Storytelling is super important.

Jamey: It’s helpful to care about something before you learn it.

Kerri: Next time you do a Git commit, don’t do -m.

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Special Guest: Kerri Miller.

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02:41 – Rein’s Superpower: Perceiving and Being Aware of Connections Between Things and People

03:49 – Power Dynamics in Companies

05:41 – Inherent Value and Self-Esteem; Recovering From Failure

Virginia Satir: Communication and Congruence

11:35 – Modeling Behavior and Controlling Outcomes as a Person in a Position of Power

The Virginia Satir Model of Family Therapy

17:58 – Hierarchical Organization vs Growth-Oriented Organization

Kanban

The Toyota System

24:33 – The Problem with Labeling Teams as “Family”

32:04 – Making Choices That Are Right for Yourself; Experimentation

Anomie

[Ikigai](Ikigai)

39:01 – Haskell and Strategies for Learning and Reading Papers

44:51 – Being Present and Truly Seeing Others; Being OK with Not Being OK

The Satir Interaction Model

What Do You Do With the Mad You Feel? Mr. Rogers

48:20 – Intentions Matter

50:31 – Advice for Perceiving and Being Aware of Connections Between Things and People

Cognitive Dissonance

“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.” ~ Maya Angelou

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02:10 – Kale’s Origin Story

05:10 – Connecting Through Story and Voice

The Law of Raspberry Jam

08:17 – Communicating Through Text vs Communicating Through Speech

Daniel Quinn

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

12:43 – Kale’s Superpower: Facilitating the Voices of Other People

Hudson Valley Tech Meetup

Catskills Conf

17:28 – Running Unconventional Events and Conferences; Trust and Taking Risks

25:10 – Creating Opportunities and Accepting Offerings

27:49 – Encouraging Diverse Attendance and Making People Feel Welcome

Virtue Signalling

38:45 – Interpreting Intentions, Actions, and Reactions; Centering Yourself and Being Vulnerable

Reflections:

Kale: People matter.

Jamey: Helping people be heard both physically and metaphorically.

Astrid: Trust fall into the universe.

Rein: Building the stage so that other people can speak from it makes a great ally.

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Special Guest: Kale Kaposhilin.

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Greater Than Code Episode 002: Neutralizing Impostor Syndrome with Avdi Grimm

01:52 – Avdi’s Superpower: The Power of Inspiration, RubyConf India, and International Conferences vs Domestic

04:28 – The Pursuit of a Fixed Life: Achieving or Avoiding Stasis

Blog Post: I was trying to end my life

08:40 – Living in the Future and Having Goals

16:36 – Hitting Career Stasis vs Identity Stasis

25:23 – Becoming a Visible Person in Tech

31:27 – Encouraging and Inspiring People to Find Their Potential and Value

44:23 – Being Authentic and Transparent to the World

Reflections:

Coraline: Identity matters.

Rein: How identity and society interact: Symbolic Interactionism. Also, having therapeutic relationships.

Jessica: Two energies, internally, of being ‘grounded’ and ‘inspired’ and those feeding into ‘connection’, together. Also, we have identity in the now and in the future.

The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Janelle: Being present and listening, connecting, and internalizing to form new thoughts you wouldn’t have had otherwise.

Avdi: Identity in the now and identity in the future forms an arrow.

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01:28 – Gerry’s Superpower: Building Resilience

02:51 – What is Resilience?

08:59 – Creating an Atmosphere of Psychological Safety

11:04 – Having Tough Conversations: Resilience on the Societal Level

18:41 – Moving Other People Forward and Leading Others as a Senior Dev

27:07 – Code Chitakwas

33:10 – Devaluing the Notion of Intellect

Reflections:

Gerry: What is “smart”, really and how are we smart enough to make the room of smart people bigger?

Coraline: Thinking of myself as a leader in my company and think about it can use the influence that I have to make sure that we’re creating and fostering a culture where we do face down the big problems.

Jamey: Being right, being new, and making process. Also, valuing intellect and having uncomfortable conversations.

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Special Guest: Gerry Valentine.

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01:09 – Ashanti’s Superpower: People say they’re funny on Twitter!

02:37 – Having Dialogue and Engaging with Others on Twitter

07:42 – Finding Safe Online Community Networks via Social Media Platforms

16:13 – Making Platforms Safer

18:06 – Perspectives on Blocking

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/listen_to_yourself.png

25:05 – Perspectives on Real Name Policies

29:59 – Gender Identity Education

36:57 – Transitioning in While Working in Tech

Reflections:

Rein: Listening and learning about trans experiences.

Coraline: Taking care of how we are presenting ourselves to the world.

Jamey: The act of sharing and receiving information as a give and take.

Ashanti: Conversation flows much more freely when people are in safe spaces.

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Special Guest: Ashanti-Mutinta.

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