Greater Than Code

00:16 – Welcome to “I Rolled a Natural 20 For My Agility Check” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:31 – Background and Superpower; Empathy

09:08 – Cross-Cultural Communication Dynamics

Women in Agile

15:48 – Biases, Understanding Dynamics, and Facilitating as an Ally

@jessitron

@dwhelan @greaterthancode

21:02 – Being Authentic

25:31 – Is Agile something that you are or something that you do?

35:37 – Adopting Practices Across Teams

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

@jessitron

@dwhelan@greaterthancode

41:57 – Technical Debt and Technical Health: How do we amplify what we want?

Code Climate

Reflections:

Jessica: Strive for common outcomes; not common practices.

Coraline: Some situations should be taken as a promise for a conversation.

Janelle: Ask for permission.

Sam: Identifying and clarifying outcomes that we want.

Declan: Figure out how you can have effective conversations with your teams.

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00:16 – Welcome to “The World is Upside Down. Can DevOps save us?” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:07 – Background and Superpowers

09:22 – Diagnostic Troubleshooting: “Expert Intuition Effect”

14:23 – Understanding Entire Systems vs Specializing in One Area

17:15 – Isolation Leading to Contempt

28:42 – The DevOps Movement and Culture Change

34:45 – Contempt Towards Processes

Janelle Klein: A Programmer’s Guide to Humans @ SeleniumConf UK

Reflections:

Astrid: Having a holistic approach towards Software Development.

Coraline: Why specialization leads to contemptuous behavior between teams and how to solve it for early career developers.

Janelle: Inside of us, we all have a soul.

Aria: Start telling new stories about the people who build fantastic products and tools.

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Content/Trigger Warning: This episode discusses sexual assault.

00:16 – Welcome to “Fullstack Activism” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:22 – Lynn’s Background Story and Superpowers

FIRST LEGO League

11:34 – Project Callisto: Reporting Sexual Assault and Dealing with The System

17:57 – Institutional Betrayal and Keeping Information Private

20:49 – The Chain of Command: How Project Callisto Works

22:17 – Reticence When it Comes to Talking About Sexual Assault

26:04 – “Staying in Your Lane”

27:56 – Matching Reports

29:33 – The Technology Behind the App

34:14 – Evaluating Features

38:16 – Contributing to Project Callisto

Fund Club

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41:54 – Open Sourcing the Project

44:00 – Code Sharing

Reflections:

Coraline: Empathy and developers putting the psychological safety of their users first.

Brené Brown on Empathy

Astrid: Building technology for the greater good.

Jamey: If you don’t like what someone else is doing, you can do your own thing and make it happen.

Sam: Believe survivors.

Ashe Dryden: The Risk In Speaking Up

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Special Guest: Lynn Cyrin.

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Shanise Barona: @shanisebarona | shanisebarona.com

00:16 – Welcome to “Plant Parenthood!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

02:19 – Shanise’s Background Story and Superpower

Girl Develop It

03:08 – “Lazy Perfectionism”, “The Explosion of Dissonance”, and “The Moment of Click”

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero

12:49 – Improving Self-Directed Learning

100 Days of Code

15:35 – Having Tunnel Vision Past the Point of Where You Should and Moving Beyond a Comfort Zone

“I understood lazy perfectionism differently, more as the tendency to refactor, polish, and improve the various “-ilities” of your code long past the point when you should have moved on to something else. It’s like . . . tunnel vision on things that are important but not all-important. Finding the right balance there is super hard for me.” – Nathaniel Knight

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21:50 – “Performative Diversity” and Community Building

Ela Conf

28:33 – Words and Actions: Influencing Diversity and Inclusion (D&I)

34:25 – Being Angry on Social Media But Feeling the Need to be Perceived as Positive (All the Time)

Reflections:

Sam: Lazy perfection is a thing with a label and something to pay attention to.

Janelle: How shallow efforts can be to create change (i.e. conference diversity).

Mandy: Stop giving lip service! Step up and prove that you care about diversity and inclusion by supporting groups and missions like Greater Than Code.

Jamey: Having connections with people to prove to yourself you’re not alone.

Jessica: If you want to have diverse attendees, get a diverse leadership team.

Shanise: 1. Seeking a balance between wanting and not wanting explosions of dissonance.

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00:16 – Welcome to “Paneldome!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:58 – Backgrounds and Superpowers

Hilary Stohs-Krause: We’ve Always Been Here: Women Changemakers in Tech @ RailsConf 2017

04:44 – Examples of Accessibility Challenges in Board Games

07:00 – Games and Challenges

Escape: The Curse of the Temple (Purchase)

Millennium Blades (Purchase)

11:49 – The Power of House Rules

RoboRally (Purchase)

Small World (Purchase)

14:41 – German-style/Eurogames vs American Games

Ticket to Ride (Purchase)

Puerto Rico (Purchase)

Settlers of Catan (Purchase

Great Western Trail (Purchase)

16:45 – Video Games; Real-time vs Turn Based Games

Master of Orion (Purchase)

Don’t Starve Together (Purchase)

Rogue

19:35 – Tabletop Role-Playing Games (RPGs)

Dungeons and Dragons (D&D)

22:45 – Cooperative Games vs Competitive Games

Space Cadets (Purchase)

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Purchase)

22:45 – Bluffing Games, The Autism Spectrum, and Player Elimination

Mascarade (Purchase)

Sheriff of Nottingham (Purchase)

Werewolf (Purchase)

One Night Werewolf (Purchase)

Resistance (Purchase)

Sentinels of the Universe (Purchase)

Goblin Quest (Purchase)

Shut Up & Sit Down: Sean Bean Quest

35:14 – The Cost of Board Games: Time and Money

How to Build an Amazing Board Game Collection for $10!

Pandemic Legacy (Purchase)

Gloomhaven (Purchase)

Cheapass Games

Fiasco (Purchase)

The Open Game License

Spyfall (Purchase)

Mafia (Purchase)

43:02 – The History of Monopoly; Leftist Board Games

Suffragetto

Class Struggle

45:56 – Resources

Meeple Like Us

64 Ounce Games

MaxiAids

The Dice Tower

BoardGameGeek

TableTop

Favorite Games:

Sam: Repello (Purchase)

Coraline: Tales of the Arabian Nights (Purchase)

Rein: Dungeons and Dragons: Second Edition and Lords of Waterdeep (Purchase)

James: Exalted (Purchase)

Jamey: Betrayal at House on the Hill (Purchase)

Mischa: Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (Purchase)

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00:16 – Welcome to “Life, The Universe, and Podcasts!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:13 – Carina’s Background and Superpower

02:58 – @CallbackWomen and The Naming Struggle to Make Sure Marginalized and Non-Binary People Know They Are Included

Ashe Dryden: Increasing Diversity at Your Conference

12:13 – Sending Signals and/or Indicators That Encourage People to Apply to Speak At Your Conference

I hate to say this, but conferences need to relocate out of the U.S. My country is making business travel to U.S. untenable for so many ppl. https://t.co/bMOfbe6VDP

23:10 – Conference Outreach

27:56 – Accessibility at Conferences

34:19 – Conferences “Competing” for Speakers

Call For Proposals (CFP)

40:26 – Financial Aid, Travel Stipends, and Reimbursement

This is now part of the US non-immigrant visa application. This is obnoxious, absurd and threatens freedom of speech. pic.twitter.com/lnpLmC5v4I

49:05 – Making a Difference with @CallbackWomen and Codes of Conduct

#cocpledge

Ashe Dryden: Codes of Conduct 101 + FAQ

Fund Club

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Reflections:

Jamey: Having travel and accommodation expenses covered is important for speakers.

Sam: Flipping the paradigm.

Coraline: Using influence to affect change.

Carina: Having speaker mentors: both experienced and newbies.

Rein: How conferences have evolved in a positive way around diversity and inclusion.

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caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation

A Neurobiologist’s Guide to Mind Manipulation [slides]

00:16 – Welcome to “CBT: Chunky Bacon Tacos and Psychological Safety” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:18 – Empathy Development

03:25 – Training for Customer Support

Greater Than Code Episode 037: Failure Mode with Emily Gorcenski

A Neurobiologist’s Guide to Mind Manipulation by Casey Watts @ EmberConf 2017

06:53 – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Coraline Ada Ehmke: Emotions as State Machines (from the GTC blog!)

10:48 – Acknowledging Emotion; Rationality

14:23 – Inner vs Outer Brain

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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

16:22 – Empathetic vs Empathic; Empathy vs Sympathy

Pavneet Singh Saund: Practical Empathy: Unlock the Super Power @ NDC Oslo

21:32 – The Earned Dogmatism Effect [Video]

26:10 – Maladaptive Thought Patterns

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31:34 – The “Woop” State and Psychological Safety

Amy Edmondson: Psychological Safety

Coraline Ada Ehmke: Antisocial Coding: My Year At GitHub

38:09 – Leading with Vulnerability

Reflections:

Janelle: Choose your presence.

Jessica: Feel feelings in the moment, and then act on them.

Sam: Rationality is a facade and state machines can be edited.

Coraline: Understanding empathy over only performing empathy.

Casey: Making responding with empathy a habit.

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Extra super disclaimer: This episode contains a lot curse words.

00:16 – Welcome to “The Upcoming Release of the iPhone 4!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:36 – The Tweetstorm that Started it All

04:29 – Our Communication Skills and Curbing the Snobbery

“It’s just not good business to be a jerk.” - @jennschiffer

Greater Than Code Episode Episode 039: The B-Side of Software Development with Scott Hanselman

11:33 – Arguing on the Internet

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16:55 – Dealing with the Jerks

psa: all of your code is ephemeral & will one day not even matter. it probably doesn't even matter now. how you treat your peers matters 💫

36:28 – Reacting with Meanness and Failed Attempts at Banter

29:08 – Teaching by Example

31:52 – Practicing Restraint

37:45 – Defense Mechanisms; Empathy for Offenders and the Offended

Reflections:

Jessica L.: You are way more evolved and valuable if you can work with humans and write code.

Jenn: We have to actively be learning how to interact with people in the industry and people entering the industry.

Jamey: When you’re mad, approach it offline.

Jessica K.: Tell people they’re great publicly, not privately! Make it normal to tell each other we’re awesome.

Mandy: Just be f*cking nice.

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00:16 – Welcome to “Hanselminutes!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

00:57 – Origin Story and Superpowers; Struggling and Prevailing

“The struggle is part of the journey.” – Scott Hanselman

13:51 – Systems Thinking, Problem Solving, and Instilling Those Values on Kids

19:11 – There is Value in Suffering

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

21:39 – Being a Teacher Over a Programmer; Ideas of Mediocrity, 10x Engineering, and Comparison to Others

We RISE Women in Tech Conference

Jessica Kerr: Hyperproductive development

Amanda Palmer: oh Lorde, deliver me from Fucking Joan.

36:28 – Being Nice Online

Scott’s “Nice” Twitter Exchange (1)

Scott’s “Nice” Twitter Exchange (2)

Scott’s “Nice” Twitter Exchange (3)

Scott’s “Nice” Twitter Exchange (4)

42:29 – Teaching (Cont’d)

Scott Hanselman: The Social Developer @ NexTech Africa 2017

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Reflections:

Scott: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Jessica: This show’s Slack community!

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