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Greater Than Code episodes

August 26, 2020197: Tips For New Developers with Dan Moore
02:13 - Dan’s Superpower: Ability to Keep Calm
“We need to solve this problem.”
Dealing with Frustration
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
07:11 - Maximizing Your Potential as a New Developer and Making a Good Impression
Overindex
Asking Questions
054: Code Hospitality with Nadia Odunayo
Try New Things, but Enjoy Your Work
17:55 - What Makes a Senior Engineer?
When is a senior engineer not a senior engineer?
Impact
Making Mistakes
Pragmaticism vs Perfectionism
The Efficiency Throne as Tradeoff
Recognition Prime Decision-Making
42:51 - Solving Big Problems vs Small Problems
Getting People to Care
Group Accountability & Presenting Deliverables
50:39 - Creating an Organization Where People Can Thrive and Grow
Fostering a Culture of Help
53:17 - Letters To A New Developer
57:52 - Community and How They Help Developer Growth
Reflections:
Dan: Build your mental muscle around tradeoffs.
Jacob: Thinking about talking to junior developers.
Rein: The context we’re in when we’re thinking changes how we think.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Dan Moore.
Sponsored By:
Virtual Genius: Collaboration between different disciplines in your organization can be difficult, and finding clarity and alignment on both the right problem to solve and the right solution design is even more so. We each approach improvement from our own (limited) perspective, without taking into account the whole story. How is that effective?
Paul Rayner's EventStorming Facilitation Virtual Workshop is a multi-day online event that promotes collaboration between different disciplines in order to solve business problems in the most effective way.
This virtual workshop with Paul consists of 4 sessions on Sep 28-Oct 1 from 9am-Noon (CDT) each day. To register and get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC.
In this highly hands-on and interactive virtual workshop you'll learn advanced EventStorming facilitation skills spanning from large scale business discovery to collaborative solution design at the team level.
Once again to get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC. Promo Code: VGGTC
strongDM: Today's show is sponsored by strongDM.
Managing your remote team as they work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs?
Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are.
With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams.
Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It's full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it's a single unified query log across all database management systems.
strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It's more control and less hassle.
strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure.
Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT
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1 hr 7 min
August 19, 2020196: Documentation as Performance with Aisha Blake
02:26 - Aisha’s Superpower: Proofreading
04:05 - Documentation
“The Code Documents Itself”
Context / Entry Points
Documentation as a Narrative
The Value of Documentation
07:54 - Forms of Documentation Worth Investing In
Onboarding
Commit Messages
Pull Requests
10:34 - Architecture and Stories
Commit Messages
References
User Stories
17:17 - Telling Stories Through Documentation
Documentation as Performance
< title of conf >
Tail Call Optimization: The Musical!! by Anjana Vakil & Natalia Margolis
23:37 - Defining Documentation
26:17 - Making Documentation Accessible & Approachable
Requires Empathy
Collaboration
Constructing Shared Common Ground
33:33 - Giving Constructive Feedback
Feedback Requires Consent
Interviewing for Interpersonal Skills That Are Required to Give Good Feedback
“Tell me a story…” / Roleplaying
Give Feedback Fearlessly – Aisha Blake
44:37 - self.conference: Focusing on Human Aspects in Technology
48:49 - Technology is NOT Neutral
Moral Responsibility
The Things We Build Have Impact
Inclusion and Exclusion
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Aisha Blake.
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger: Let's face it, your code is going to have errors, even code written by a kick-ass developer such as yourself. When bad things happen, it's nice to know that Honeybadger has your back.
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring, and chron monitoring into a single, easy to use the platform, all for way less than you're probably paying now.
Honeybadger monitors and sends error alerts in real-time with all the context needed to see what's causing the error and where it's hiding in your code so you can quickly fix it and get on with your day.
The included uptime and chron monitoring also let you know when your external services are having issues or your background jobs go AWOL or silently fail.
Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Why is this important? Self-funding means they only answer to you, the developer, rather than a venture capital overlord.
Greater Than Code listeners get 30% off for 6 months. Simply mention Greater Than Code when signing up and they'll apply the discount to your account; no credit card required.
strongDM: Today's show is sponsored by strongDM.
Managing your remote team as they work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs?
Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are.
With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams.
Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It's full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it's a single unified query log across all database management systems.
strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It's more control and less hassle.
strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure.
Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT
Virtual Genius: Collaboration between different disciplines in your organization can be difficult, and finding clarity and alignment on both the right problem to solve and the right solution design is even more so. We each approach improvement from our own (limited) perspective, without taking into account the whole story. How is that effective?
Paul Rayner's EventStorming Facilitation Virtual Workshop is a multi-day online event that promotes collaboration between different disciplines in order to solve business problems in the most effective way.
This virtual workshop with Paul consists of 4 sessions on Sep 28-Oct 1 from 9am-Noon (CDT) each day. To register and get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC.
In this highly hands-on and interactive virtual workshop you'll learn advanced EventStorming facilitation skills spanning from large scale business discovery to collaborative solution design at the team level.
Once again to get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC. Promo Code: VGGTC
Support Greater Than Code
56 min
August 12, 2020195: Pivoting to PPE with Christina Perla
02:33 - Christina’s Superpower: Resourcefulness, Industrial Design
Pratt Institute
Building Physical Mockups of Items
Learning on The Go
07:30 - Starting Makelab; Inspiration for 3D Printing
Enabling Creatives
Mitigating Risk
Clientele
15:15 - Pivoting to PPE in Lieu of COVID-19
Making Faceshields
Handling Orders
22:04 - Advice for Other Women Who Want to Start a Business
Focus on What You Don’t Know
Stay Close to Customers
23:42 - Women in 3D Printing
Organizing a Community
Networking
Community Outreach & Support
Responsibilities as a Founder
35:15 - Liking What You Do
Recognizing Emotional Patterns
Hacking Your Emotional API – John K. Sawers
42:30 - Tackling Burnout and Getting Creative Juices Flowing Again
Going Back to Your “Why”
Feeling Changes and Self-Reflection
45:46 - Developing and Allocating Revenue to Respond to Current Events
3D Printing for Emergency Situations
Prototyping and Always Iterating
55:30 - Manufacturing Jigs – Building the Tools to Build the Tools
Tool Making: A Practical Treatise On the Art of Making Tools, Jigs, and Fixtures, with Helpful Suggestions On Heat Treatment of Carbon and High-Speed Steels for Tools, Punches, and Dies
59:23 - Adaptive Capacity
Embracing Discomfort
Going First
Reflections:
John: Being in touch with your feelings as a business skill.
Christina M.: Stop, drop, and remember my why.
Rein: Maintaining capacity for maneuver.
Christina P.: Emotions as APIs.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Christina Perla.
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger: Let's face it, your code is going to have errors, even code written by a kick-ass developer such as yourself. When bad things happen, it's nice to know that Honeybadger has your back.
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring, and chron monitoring into a single, easy to use the platform, all for way less than you're probably paying now.
Honeybadger monitors and sends error alerts in real-time with all the context needed to see what's causing the error and where it's hiding in your code so you can quickly fix it and get on with your day.
The included uptime and chron monitoring also let you know when your external services are having issues or your background jobs go AWOL or silently fail.
Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Why is this important? Self-funding means they only answer to you, the developer, rather than a venture capital overlord.
Greater Than Code listeners get 30% off for 6 months. Simply mention Greater Than Code when signing up and they'll apply the discount to your account; no credit card required.
Diversify Tech: Diversify Tech is for people like me who are underrepresented in tech. It's a central place where we can find scholarships, events, speaking opportunities, and jobs. It is also for all of us in the tech industry who want to make it a welcoming and inclusive place. Companies can learn about diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as connect with candidates looking for jobs. Allies can support and advocate for underrepresented people in tech. Make sure to join their newsletter at diversifytech.co!
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1 hr 13 min
August 05, 2020194: I Don’t Need You To Like Me, I Need You To Hate Racism with Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn
02:28 - Courtney’s Superpower: Speaking on the Topic of Racism
“You can’t prioritize your discomfort over living your own values.” – Courtney
White Liberals Are Dangerous: the “I’m liberal...I’m not that bad” narrative
Action & Engaging in Antiracist Practices Over Lipservice
Antiracism is a Lifelong Learning Process
Not Seeing Race is Problematic – Disproportive Representation
13:16 - Adopting Attitudes Towards Antiracism
Understanding White Supremacy
If It’s Not Antiracist, It’s Racist
16:24 - 1000 Cut Journey
"1000 Cut Journey" Launches at Tribeca Film Festival
Culture, Narratives, and Stories are Powerful Tools
Feedback & Reactions
25:59 - Empathy is Insufficient
Are you aware of how white you are?
34:34 - The Tendency to Avoid Racism and Talking About Race
39:30 - Systemic Racism and Technology
Diversity is Not About Aesthetics
Centering Race
Training & Onboarding
Hiring From Non-Traditional Backgrounds
Understanding “Social Work”
Shifting Orientation:
Being Antiracist
Being Transdisciplinary
Understanding that avoiding harm is not the same thing as achieving justice
Reflections:
Rein: “Intention without strategy is chaos.” – Dr. Kim Crayton
Arty: Taking an antiracist approach to product development.
Jacob: Thinking more about the phrase “transdisciplinary” and the difference between it and “interdisciplinary.”
Courtney: 1. Talking about difficult things in a way that can be anchored in learning. 2. It’s not about what you believe; it’s what you do. 3. There is no neutral in marginalization and oppression.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn.
Sponsored By:
Honeybadger: Let's face it, your code is going to have errors, even code written by a kick-ass developer such as yourself. When bad things happen, it's nice to know that Honeybadger has your back.
Honeybadger makes you a DevOps hero by combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring, and chron monitoring into a single, easy to use the platform, all for way less than you're probably paying now.
Honeybadger monitors and sends error alerts in real-time with all the context needed to see what's causing the error and where it's hiding in your code so you can quickly fix it and get on with your day.
The included uptime and chron monitoring also let you know when your external services are having issues or your background jobs go AWOL or silently fail.
Go to Honeybadger.io and discover how Starr, Josh, and Ben created a 100% bootstrapped monitoring solution. Why is this important? Self-funding means they only answer to you, the developer, rather than a venture capital overlord.
Greater Than Code listeners get 30% off for 6 months. Simply mention Greater Than Code when signing up and they'll apply the discount to your account; no credit card required.
Support Greater Than Code
1 hr 14 min
July 29, 2020193: Optimizing For Happiness with Tudor Gîrba
02:09 - Tudor’s Superpower: Storytelling
Getting Beyond Your Self-Critic
Writing Code is Storytelling
There’s No Semantics Without Syntax
13:04 - Reading Stories (and Code)
Reading Code Takes Place in an Editor
Code is Not Text. Code is Data.
17:56 - Optimizing For Happiness
Automation Creates More Jobs
Choosing Tools is Important
“The tools that we create end up influencing how we see the world.” – Marshall McLuhan
27:48 - Moldable Development
Making Metaphors and Building Abstractions
Glamorous Toolkit
32:50 - Editing Code as a Joint Activity
rust-analyzer
Simultaneous Perspectives Increase Communication Bandwidth
38:40 - Encouraging and Supporting the Presentation of New Ideas and Out-of-the-Box Thinking
58:41 - Culture is Formed by Storytelling; Identity is the Story We Tell About Ourselves
Alasdair MacIntyre
Reflections:
Rein: Reading and writing code can be different, but it can also be the same. See: the functional programming concept of lens.
Jessica: At the end of the presentation, if there’s no question that makes you think, then maybe you haven’t moved anything. Look for surprises.
Arty: Optimizing for happiness as a first principle. How do we do that more?
Tudor: With software, we are forcing people to listen to our ideas and then act according to our thoughts. That is a big responsibility, a privilege, and we have to train that skill.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Tudor Gîrba.
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An Event Apart: This podcast is brought to you by An Event Apart. For over 15 years, An Event Apart conferences have been the best way to level up your skills, get inspiration from world-class experts, and learn what’s next in web design.
Now, An Event Apart is proud to introduce Online Together: Front-End Focus, a single-day online conference on Monday, August 17th with a focus on developing for the front end.
You’ll hear insights from Ire Aderinokun, Aaron Gustafson, Henri Helvetica, Jeremy Keith, Una Kravets, and Dave Rupert discussing the latest in CSS advances, best practices in design principles, surviving audits, improving performance, and more.
In addition to live message boards during the sessions, each session features a live moderated moderated Q&A with the speaker. You’ll come away not only inspired, but ready to put new techniques and ideas immediately into practice.
Greater Than Code listeners can save $50 off registration with promo code AEAGTC. Once again, that promo code is AEAGTC.
So grab your spot and join us online Monday, August 17th. Visit AnEventApart.com to see the full agenda and register now. Promo Code: AEAGTC
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1 hr 14 min
July 22, 2020192: Bringing Our Whole Selves with Siobhán Cronin
02:36 - Siobhán’s Superpower: Catalyzing Personal and Community Change
04:19 - Managing Change During COVID-19
Experiencing Joy While Grieving
Bringing Your Whole Self to Work (a boundary being stretched like never before)
Working From Home: Ranges of Experiences and Comfort-Levels
13:51 - Pros and Cons of Bringing Your Whole/Full Self to Work
Building Affinity & Care
Interfacing with Capitalism
Painpoints as Learning Opportunities
Having Boundaries
Building Inclusive Communities and Workspaces
Extending Grace and Care
34:08 - People Have to Do Work on Themselves
“You’re not categorically a good person.” – Siobhán
Check Yourself: Look at Yourself Honestly
Psychological Safety
Reflections:
John: How can we inculcate more caring into corporate environments?
Jerome: Being more fearless; acknowledging consequences but not letting them stop us.
Jacob: Being more visible.
Siobhán: Building on each other’s ideas during the call and showing care while showing up.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Siobhán Cronin.
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51 min
July 15, 2020191: Sitting Down Together with Amy Tobey
02:14 - Amy’s Superpower: Looking at a mess and seeing the potential for what it could be.
03:40 - Generalists vs Specialists
071: Brein Power with Rein Henrichs
T-Shaped Skills
“The job description should describe the capabilities that the team needs, not that the individual needs.”
15:28 - Finding a “Beautiful” Mess in Technical Systems
“The biggest impediment to change is your users.” – Jessica
Richard Dawkins Demonstrates Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe
22:40 - Artisanal and Industrial Modes of Production
Systems are indelibly stamped by the experience of the people who built them
28:25 - Design, Use, and Reliability
32:30 - Convincing Executives to Care About a Thing
Now vs Later
Where do we spend our attention to maximize value?
Viable System Model
Context Over Control / Communication Without Authority
41:08 - Whistleblowing is Good Because Misuse of Authority is Bad
51:33 - SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)
“The goal of SRE is to change the way your organization relates to the systems it runs.” – Rein
Reflections:
Jessica: Bonus question: Amy, why do you hate the word, “mature”?
Rein: “A problem is an abstraction extracted from a mess via analysis.” – Russel Ackoff
Amy: Models: We keep trying the same patterns and complaining about the same outcomes.
Thinking by Machine: A Study of Cybernetics
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
Greater Than Code Episode 093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina
Brain of the Firm
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Amy Tobey.
Sponsored By:
An Event Apart: Attention UX and Front End Experts! For years, An Event Apart conferences have been the best way to level up your skills, get inspiration from world-class experts, and learn what's next in web design.
Now, An Event Apart is proud to introduce Online Together, a single-day online conference focused on Human-Centered Design. And it's all coming to a device near you, Monday, July 20th.
Featuring insights from Margot Bloomstein, Ron Bronson, Scott Jehl, Farai Madzima, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, and Aarron Walter, you'll learn how to handle unexpected design scenarios and unusual situations as our users face unprecedented challenges and stress.
You'll come away not only inspired but ready to put new techniques and ideas immediately into practice.
Greater Than Code listeners can save 50 dollars off registration with promo code A E A G T C
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strongDM: Today's show is sponsored by strongDM.
Managing your remote team as they work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs?
Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are.
With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams.
Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It's full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it's a single unified query log across all database management systems.
strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It's more control and less hassle.
strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure.
Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT
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1 hr 9 min
July 08, 2020190: Social Media, Privacy, and Security with Joe LeBlanc
01:32 - Joe’s Superpower: Hospitality
Greater Than Code 054: Code Hospitality with Nadia Odunayo
06:20 - Social Media: It's time for us to stop acting like we are getting access to social media for free.
When you add up your household's cable/Internet/phone bills, you're paying bare minimum $100/mo.
This money isn't going to Facebook and Twitter, but it is the entry fee for bringing these platforms into your home, where they subsequently track everything you do, everyone you know, build a facial recognition database with the photos you post, and determine your sexual orientation before you even disclose it.
Nobody reads the privacy policies.
UBDI – Universal Basic Data Income
15:36 - Owing Your Identity & Data
Email Plus: An Idea
Slack, Microsoft Teams
A Key / Distributed Data Idea
25:25 - Protecting Children’s’ Privacy & Data
32:00 - Leading The Movement; Rolling Out a Solution: Taking back control of our data
People who are willing to be hobbyists
Experimentation & Activism
Reflections:
Christina: The value and the power of open source and thinking beyond giving your data out willy-nilly.
Jacob: Teaching our children to be thoughtful technologists.
Jerome: Keeping our kids safe is a job on top of a job, and the goalpost keeps moving!
Joe: A reminder that other people are thinking about this. We are all concerned about privacy.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Joe LeBlanc.
Sponsored By:
strongDM: Today's show is sponsored by strongDM.
Managing your remote team as they work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs?
Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are.
With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams.
Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It's full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it's a single unified query log across all database management systems.
strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It's more control and less hassle.
strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure.
Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT
Support Greater Than Code
42 min
July 01, 2020189: Succeeding in Science with Deborah Berebichez
01:13 - Debbie’s Superpower: Having an excellent memory and a detailed-oriented brain
03:23 - Teaching Science in Fun Ways
Sourcebooks Baby University Books, Assorted Science Titles, Set of 4
Thermodynamics for Babies and Toddlers
thesciencebabe (Debbie’s YouTube Channel)
Ruth Spiro Books
05:49 - Understanding Data & Data Literacy
First Steps to Understanding: See Examples; Do Experiments
Demystifying Data Science
Why Correlation does not Imply Causation in Statistics
Divorce And Margarine
Metis Data Literacy Course
15:16 - Negative Results Are Important (Failure)
Education Between Boys vs Girls
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
Growth vs Fixed Mindset
Battling Discouragement, Lack of Confidence, and Perseverance
29:20 - Human Performance is Contextual – Science can be exclusionary
34:27 - Debbie’s Inspiration to Become a Scientist
Your Story Is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice
41:17 - Debbie’s TV Career
The Physics of High Heels
Dr. Debbie Berebichez Talks About Science
Debbie’s National Geographic Reel
Humanly Impossible
Debbie’s IMDb Page
Co-Hosting Discovery Channel’s Outrageous Acts of Science
50:29 - Finding Ways to Solve Complex Concepts
Go Back to the Basics
Using Code is For Solving Problems; Critical Thinking
Taking a Holistic View
Reflections:
Rein: Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory
Arty: Teaching the how and teaching the why.
Astrid: Perseverance and authenticity: Being yourself and allowing yourself to evolve.
Debbie: This podcast was much different from being a guest on other podcasts.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Deborah Berebichez.
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1 hr 11 min
June 24, 2020188: Going Off the Rails with Damien Burke
01:10 - Damien’s Superpower: The ability to hold conflicting beliefs at the same time.
Blind Men and an Elephant
Law of Excluded Middle
04:09 - Life is Hard. How do we make things easy?
Simon’s Ant
Emergent Behavior
Conway’s Game of Life
Embodied Cognition
Cognitive Systems Engineering
Joint Cognitive Systems
12:03 - Treating Expertise as Transferable to Different Fields
Technical Privilege
Cognitive Bias – List of Cognitive Biases
Heuristic Shortcuts
Specifications not Test – Damien’s “Don’t Call it Test-Driven Development Essay
Fundamental Attribution Error
17:54 - Loving Yourself Unconditionally and Seeing Flaws
“You are whole, perfect, and complete.” – Damien Burke
Virginia Satir: The basis of human interaction is acknowledging the inherent value in ourselves and another person.
Giving Feedback – The key is authenticity.
Treating People The Way They Want to be Treated vs How YOU Want to be Treated
The Platinum Rule
Mister Rogers: What do you do with the mad that you feel?
“The problem is never the problem; how we cope is the problem.” – Virginia Satir
27:03 - Shakespeare was Garbage
Playing Shakespeare
Highbrow Language
Looking For Richard
30:08 - Sponsorship Message
31:20 - EarlyWords / Morning Pages
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
36:08 - Damien’s Background in Theater and Applying it to Tech
“I play the piano, but my instrument is the orchestra.” – Attribution Unknown
“The conductor is the only person in the orchestra that doesn’t make a sound.” – Benjamin Zander
Being a Leader/Conductor/Manager is an Act of Service
41:42 - Ontological Coaching
Epistemic – What even is knowledge?
The Scientific Method
Reflections:
John: Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice
Rein: It is hard to translate theory into practice.
Damien: Life is hard. Make everything you can easy!
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Special Guest: Damien Burke.
Sponsored By:
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For a long time, tech culture has focused too narrowly on technical skills; this has resulted in a tech community that too often puts companies and code over people. Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology. Greater Than Code is providing a vital platform for these conversations, and developing new ideas of what it means to be a technologist beyond just the code.

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