Greater Than Code

01:22 – Rehema’s Superpower: Empathy 02:53 – Rehema’s “Untypical” Origin Story 07:20 – Enjoying Coding Because of the Complexity Behind It 11:21 – Creating a “Culture of Saving” 14:52 – “Diversity of Thought” and Seeing the World Through Others’ Eyes 22:20 – Being Creators and Makers Indie Hackers (https://www.indiehackers.com/) 30:28 – How Technology Empowers People 38:27 – The Distribution of Brilliance and Opportunity 47:01 – Freedom of Creative Expression Reflections: Astrid: Having to unlearn the need of being perfect. Jessica: We want to speak to more guests on a global level! Please reach out! Sam: Fixed vs growth mindset. Rein: Diversity is not just good for ethical reasons, it also makes your organization more competent. Janelle: Celebrating beautiful. Rehema: A fundamental right to freedom. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greater

01:22 – Jamey’s Superpower: “The Fharlanghn Sense” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fharlanghn) 02:40 – Working in Agriculture 04:03 – Theories on Automation 05:56 – Pivoting Into Computer Science and Software Development 10:35 – Feeling Like You Need to Know Everything Stella Report from the SNAFUcatchers Workshop on Coping With Complexity (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kFkt5WxLeDTml5cTFsWXFCb1U/view) 15:47 – ‘Zines and Being a ‘Zine Librarian 27:50 – The Beauty of Art and Technology and Forming Emotional Connections to Things Floppy Music DUO – Imperial March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE) 35:26 – The Death Star => Ethics in Technology and Taking Responsibility/Being Accountable for your Code Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsite (https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell) @greaterthancode: (https://twitter.com/greaterthancode/status/950415458385186816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E950415458385186816&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%

00:53 – Safia’s Superpower: Sight 03:04 – Learning Languages — Both Human and Programming The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis (http://www.blutner.de/color/Sapir-Whorf.pdf) 07:56 – Being Empathetic in an International Perspective and Building Universal and Approachable Tech 11:19 – What does success look like for minorities in the Silicon Valley monoculture?; Being Tokenized Admiral Grace Hopper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper) 21:59 – Accepting Speaking Engagements Because of Who You Are (i.e. as a woman, minority, etc.) 24:07 – Writing Things Down to Balance Prioritizing Decisions 30:46 – Defining “Happy” and Always Feeling the Need to Do More 37:02 – Destruction-Focused Development @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/943551570591002624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E943551570591002624&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2018%2F01%2F03%2F061-destruction-focused-development-with-safia-abdalla%2F) Destruction-Focused Development: write it, delete it, repeat. "

01:19 – Kent’s Superpower: Putting Things Together That Don’t Necessarily Go Together Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018475/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465018475&linkId=6b695b9a8370a14771836fb3671d11e5) 04:01 – Metaphors in Software Development 07:32 – Writing Tests and Keeping a Journal @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/938122417548881920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E938122417548881920&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2017%2F12%2F27%2F060-coping-with-complexity-with-kent-beck%2F) The unit/integration distinction confuses me. I test at the level of, “Here’s a thought I need to capture.” @KentBeck on @greaterthancode 10:58 – Complexity Partitioning One Bite At A Time: Partitioning Complexity (https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/one-bite-at-a-time-partitioning-comp

01:13 – Pamela Podcasting, Since…well, FOREVER! Astronomy Cast (http://www.astronomycast.com/) 365 Days of Astronomy (https://cosmoquest.org/x/365daysofastronomy/) Adam Curry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curry) 02:19 – Pamela’s Superpower: Solving Random Problems with Software 05:19 – Becoming a “Reluctant Coder” i.e. Coding Out of Necessity 10:58 – Battlestar Galactica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica) => Greek Mythology => Space => Astrophysics 14:52 – Doing What You Have To Do vs Doing What You Love To Do 20:27 – The Goal of Podcasting and Target Audience 23:57 – Understanding and Knowing Everything: Good? Bad? 26:03 – Outsourcing Work as a Personal Loss and The Internet’s Graveyard of Abandoned Projects 32:06 – Open Sourcing Work Yourself for the Benefit of Others 36:58 – Writing Software to Engage People CosmoQuest Citizen Science (https://cosmoquest.org/x/) 44:22 – Crowdsourcing Requires Trust but Garners Better Results 48:02 – The Motivation of Citizen Scientists @cosmoquest

00:16 – Welcome to Episode 111010 of the Greater Than Code Podcast! 02:09 – Tara’s Superpower and Origin Story: Patience 04:56 – Conflating Patience with Kindness 07:39 – Is writing code making us less thoughtful? AKA Patience in the Workplace The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time (The Doherty Threshold) (https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/the-economic-value-of-rapid-response.html) 16:22 – Warning Signs that a Company’s Culture is Not a Good One; Also, is it the company or is it individuals within a company? 22:59 – Looking for and Interviewing for a Job at a Less Toxic Environment 33:20 – What does it mean to be a developer? 36:33 – Interviewing and Privilege 39:35 – Advice for Early Career Developers 44:10 – Remote Work Culture Reflections: Coraline: Being patient and kind. Astrid: Software development is always something you can continue to improve at. Tara: People don’t have to be exactly like us to be a person that we want to work with. Being different can be an asset. Sam: Interviewing somebody shou

01:08 – Christina’s Background and Superpower: Multitasking and Automation See Also: GTC 056: Systematize Your Hustle with Kronda Adair 04:42 – Automation Processes: Discovery and Reconnaissance, and When Human Judgement and Input is Necessary 10:03 – Multitasking Timescales and Context Switching 16:39 – Decision-making Functions 23:28 – Being Kind to Your Busy Self and Choosing What NOT To Do We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062693980/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062693980&linkId=36d5c466dd58a3659f9dc2c31e7c8554) 32:03 – Making Accomplishments Visible to Yourself and Having a Culture of Acknowledgement For more discussion on congressive/ingressive behavior, see also: GTC Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng Operant Conditioning Chamber (Skinner Box) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_cham

01:26 – SYSTEMS! Implementing Repeatable Processes Via Automation Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less by Sam Carpenter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/160832253X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=160832253X&linkId=f57a3d32a89bacda9cd41b76756a0de2) 09:28 – Strategies for Implementation 12:18 – Reclaiming Your Time and Cheap is Always Expensive Work the System (Online) (https://www.workthesystem.com/) Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936661837/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1936661837&linkId=9ff8a84f2eba0bc21a1d6739ee254949) Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) (https://www.eosworldwide.com/) Google Image Result for http://www.pyragraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/GOOD-FAST-CHEAP.jpgnull @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/928323310416486400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etwee

00:16 – Welcome to “Metamours United For Frequent Dialogue” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:47 – Keith’s Background and Superpower 10:03 – Conflict Resolution Open Spaces session on Conflict Resolution this summer at DevOpsDays D.C. (and the precursor to this conversation) (https://www.dropbox.com/s/jug4qxduj15u84i/Conflict%20Resolution%20Open%20Space%20Session%20from%20DevOpsDays%20DC%202017.mp3?dl=0) Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143118447/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0143118447&linkId=693c6377e3aba2669f78354de86f0543) 12:01 – Opinions on Mediators/Mediation 14:21 – Approaching Conflict News Story Re: Portland Murders (https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/05/police_responding_to_ne_portla.html) 17:31 – Radical Helpfulness/Kindness Keith Bennett: Kaizen and Radical Helpfulness (https://medium.com/@keithrbennett/kaizen-and-radical-helpfulness-a207077cd7e7) T

01:19 – Nadia’s Superpower 02:01 – Code Hospitality and Being a Good Host Nadia Odunayo: The Guest: A Guide To Code Hospitality @ GORUCO 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUuAp6c1ylM) Daniel Dennett’s “Intuition Pump” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_pump) 10:22 – People and Habits and Having Expertise in a Particular Realm 17:00 – Asking Questions/Waiting for Explanation Rather Than Passing Judgement 22:16 – Codebases Are Constantly Changing: Use the README to Give Context Code Hospitality Guide App (https://gist.github.com/nodunayo/c919477906aab6c1af6065ff8e868d3e) 27:27 – Making Diagrams Whilst Coding/Pairing Rapoport’s Rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapoport%27s_rule) 32:27 – Thinking About the “Why” 36:44 – Giving and Receiving Feedback in a Nonviolent Way 39:09 – Host Responsibilities for Hospitality Reflections: Jamey: Breaking down the power dynamic of learning. Jacob: Unspoken rules and normalized behavior based on location and telling stories to make people feel more at home. Rein:

01:33 – Superpowers and Acquisition 02:50 – Reflective Listening 05:27 – The Responsible Communication Style Guide (https://rcstyleguide.com/) 11:54 – Asking Content-Related Questions 15:10 – Who is the target audience for this book? 17:45 – The Evolution of Writing the Book 19:39 – People-first Language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-first_language) Kronda Adair: Five Stages of Unlearning Racism (https://kronda.com/five-stages-of-unlearning-racism/) 23:40 – What if you get it wrong? @kronda (https://twitter.com/kronda/status/546727506850496512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E546727506850496512&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2017%2F11%2F01%2F053-book-club-the-responsible-communication-style-guide%2F) 1. Try to do good. 2. Fuck it up. 3. Apologize 4. Try not to make the same mistake again. That’s the job. Google Image Result for https://ecdn.teacherspayteachers.com/thumbitem/Character-Building-Four-Part-Apology-1397830518/original-1018935-1.jpgnull 29:40 – Fearin

01:06 – Emily’s Background and Superpower 02:49 – Having a Master’s Degree: Was it worth it? 08:08 – Struggles After Retaining a Master’s 10:31 – Role Model: Emily’s Mom and Her Story 12:11 – “The Double Bind” 14:47 – Experiences Working at a Gaming Company Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise by David Foster Wallace (https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf) 18:33 – Transitioning to Upside and Building a Healthy Culture 21:50 – Engineering Vs Management 29:09 – Data Science 32:50 – Self-Selecting for Privilege 36:38 – Data Science and Security/Privacy Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553418831/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553418831&linkId=c1f1ddfeccb618a067410f6a11670af3) 46:55 – Having a Background in Actual Science; Conquering Biases 51:35 – The Importance of

00:16 – Welcome to “The Venn Diagram Podcast. It’s a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but it’s definitely not that other thing.” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:09 – Soo’s Background at NASA and Superpower 06:01 – Wanting Attending Conferences and Speaking and then When Speaking at Conferences Goes Wrong Soo Choi: Changing Diversity Constructs: My Journey as a Woman in DevOps @ DevOpsDays D.C. 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRDZIMKJwUg&t=7s) 16:10 – Creating Safe Spaces: From Conferences to Workspaces 21:29 – Allies and Advocacy; Talking Salary 24:12 – Safe Spaces vs Safer Spaces 28:16 – Forgiving People Without Labeling Them (i.e. Sexist, Racist, etc.) 38:28 – Having “Fierce Conversations” and Collecting Better Tools Aja Hammerly: We Don’t Do That Here (http://www.thagomizer.com/blog/2017/09/29/we-don-t-do-that-here.html) Reflections: Soo: Sharing experiences in open and safer spaces. Sam: Listening to each other’s experiences. Sit with cognitive dissonance, be okay with it, and see what

00:16 – Welcome to “Greater Than Crabmeat” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:02 – Steve’s Background, Origin Story, and Superpowers! Skrillex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skrillex) 06:00 – Contributing to Open Source why the lucky stiff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff) Hackety Hack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackety_Hack) Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (https://poignant.guide/) 11:07 – Succession Planning The Meme Hustler (https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler) 20:12 – Organizing Groups of People in a Non-Authoritarian Way Mikhail Bakunin: What is Authority? (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/various/authrty.htm) The RFC Process in Rust (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs) Syndicalism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicalism) 36:23 – Avoiding Using Language with Political Connotation Want to help keep us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Sponsors Needed: Please download our Sponsorship P

Guest Starring: Reyn Aubrey: @ReynAubrey | PocketChange | reyn@pocketchange.social 00:16 – Welcome to “For Good or For Awesome?” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:18 – Reyn Aubrey’s Background, Origin Story, and Superpower! 06:04 – Culture of a Company and Tolerance Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591842336/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1591842336&linkId=d86ed2c7e657e11ade2384e415053c25) 08:12 – Becoming an Entrepreneur at 19-years-old and PocketChange 10:40 – Charity Evaluation Criteria; “Wicked Problems” pocketchange.social/charities (http://pocketchange.social/charities/) 14:33 – Habitizing Donation 16:22 – Analyzing and Collecting Charity Data GuideStar Charity Navigator (https://www.guidestar.org/Home.aspx) CharityWatch (https://www.charitywatch.org/home) 19:02 – How PocketChange is Structured 20:34 – The Ideation of “Technology For the Greater Good” 24:28 – Reyn’s Path Into Business

00:16 – Welcome to “Greater Than Code: Like Uber, But For Not Being Shitty” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:04 – Background and Superpower 03:03 – Being Outspoken and Dealing with Pushback on Twitter 04:41 – “Staying in Your Lane” 11:12 – To Engage, or Not to Engage? 16:10 – Mixing Social Justice and a Tech Career 20:49 – Having Conversations Re: Diversity and Inclusion 23:16 – Making Workplaces Inclusive and Changing the Culture 35:56 – Educating Others — But Not on Demand 38:28 – What is the right way to be an ally? Reading Spaces 43:59 – Starting/Organizing Working Groups 45:34 – Advocating for D&I as Leaders Reflections: Jessica: Diversity and inclusion is hard because it’s more than just one thing. Sam: Don’t have conversations or be in them to not just be wrong. Janelle: Training, teaching, and educating, versus putting together a working group to get things done. Jamey: It’s okay to be wrong and sincerely apologizing. Astrid: It’s hard to be who you want to be in a world where people are constantly p

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 (https://www.agilealliance.org/events/women-in-agile-2018/) 15:48 – Biases, Understanding Dynamics, and Facilitating as an Ally @jessitron (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/902935755533807616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E902935755533807616&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greaterthancode.com%2F2017%2F09%2F20%2F047-communicating-across-boundaries-with-declan-whelan%2F) "To have biases is to be human. It's not a bad thing." @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 (https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/902949956889313280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E902949956889313280&

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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a5gUS649t0) 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. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.

This episode stars, Jeff Reichman, who talks about how the Houston tech community came together to help people through Hurricane Harvey and the aftermath, the technology opportunities in disaster response, the harvey-api that they developed, and how tech devs need to be side-by-side with relief efforts, while responding to tech needs right away. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.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 (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Jeff Reichman.

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 (http://www.firstlegoleague.org/) 11:34 – Project Callisto (https://www.projectcallisto.org/): 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 (http://joinfundclub.com/) Donate to Project Callisto (https://www.projectcallisto.org/donate.html) 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu