Greater Than Code

Come to Catskills Conf (https://catskillsconf.com/) and meet Mandy & Jamey! Stay for the experience. 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 (https://www.girldevelopit.com/) 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 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062457713/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062457713&linkId=4bc21e549783a89e20985c17591cc368) You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0762447699/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0762447699&linkId=39b7be7a61c4d68c133d091413272aee) 12:49 – Improving Self-Directed Learning 100 Days of Code (https://github.com/Ka

James Edward Gray: @JEG2 "Purchase" links are affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3ojRN4CT7I) 04:44 – Examples of Accessibility Challenges in Board Games 07:00 – Games and Challenges Escape: The Curse of the Temple (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/113294/escape-curse-temple) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00720I7TC/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00720I7TC&linkId=68e011bda94e857e4b22dad236dcf6ba)) Millennium Blades (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/113294/escape-curse-temple) (Purchase (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936920573/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1

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 (https://www.ashedryden.com/blog/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— Carina C. Zona (@cczona) June 3, 2017 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

caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation (https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTW1b3aErmPfUWmyj9_bARHW-Cl-7b6q7acmIdWOg5KhGhErYd5NDyZioXFqamTRMMdPlORCD4WOGu9/pub) A Neurobiologist’s Guide to Mind Manipulation [slides] (https://www.slideshare.net/CaseyWatts/neurobiologists-guide-to-mind-manipulation-010) 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtefvXagutM) 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 via GIPHY Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374533555/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&link

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 (https://twitter.com/jennschiffer/status/859473189902135296) 04:29 – Our Communication Skills and Curbing the Snobbery “It’s just not good business to be a jerk.” - @jennschiffer— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) July 15, 2017 Greater Than Code Episode Episode 039: The B-Side of Software Development with Scott Hanselman 11:33 – Arguing on the Internet Want to help make us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to mandy@greaterthancode.com. 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

00:16 – Welcome to “Hanselminutes! (https://hanselminutes.com/)” …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 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812979680/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0812979680&linkId=84982318e94004fe908eedbc62099b87) 21:39 – Being a Teacher Over a Programmer; Ideas of Mediocrity, 10x Engineering, and Comparison to Others We RISE Women in Tech Conference (https://werise.tech/) Jessica Kerr: Hyperproductive development (http://blog.jessitron.com/2017/06/the-most-productive-circumstances-for.html) Amanda Palmer: oh Lorde, deliver me from Fucking Joan. (https://medium.com/@amandapalmer/oh-lorde-deliver-me-from-fucking-joan-17ed0a1d83e8

00:16 – Welcome to “Shopping is Hard; Let’s Do Math!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”; Eugenia’s Introduction Books: How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465097677/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465097677&linkId=0d495c591e20d50802c3fa80ef30775d) Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465094813/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0465094813&linkId=1c8d256e9484319b7631615ccc857fd1) YouTube Channels: TheCatsters (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCatsters/featured) TheMathsters Articles: Eugenia Cheng Makes Math a Piece of Cake (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/science/eugenia-cheng-math-how-to-bake-pi.html) Everyday Math (https://www.wsj.com/news/types/everyday-math) 01:54 – Getting Into Math: Is math useful? Is that the point? A Mathematician

00:16 – Welcome to “Diamonds Are For Gender” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:56 – Origin Story, Superpowers, and Data Science 04:20 – Diversity and Career Paths in Data Science 10:51 – Ethical Debates Within the Data Science Field Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553418815/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553418815&linkId=0ed7c081ef2baa2e5a6f33a076e2929b) Therac-25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25) FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) (https://www.greaterthancode.com/2017/06/21/episode-037-failure-mode-with-emily-gorcenski/) 17:21 – Software Development and Engineering; Failure Modes in Software 21:44 – Failure Modes in Democracy; Voting Machine Software 33:37 – Working for a Government Contractor 36:21 – Data Patterns and Tampering 39:00 – Open Data and Open Science 45:59 – Falsifying Data Reflections: Coraline: Considering all the ways som

00:16 – Welcome to “Chinchilla Chat: Where It’s All Chinchillas…All The Time…” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 03:10 – Matt’s Origin Story in Software Development 09:04 – The Business of Consulting 16:24 – Empathy in Consulting 20:07 – Rigorous Communication and Shared Language; Microservices Ludwig Wittgenstein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) Metaphors We Live By (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226468011/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0226468011&linkId=eb1e64309e20b18e5700df50e48890ae) 39:05 – Ubiquitous Language (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226468011/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0226468011&linkId=eb1e64309e20b18e5700df50e48890ae) Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018475/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl

00:16 – Welcome to “Yes, SJWs Do Actually Code” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:22 – Superpower Origin Story 06:00 – “Real Programming” 08:45 – Being Gay in the Tech Industry; Micro Activism (http://www.microactivist.com/) 16:17 – Setting Workplace Culture 21:20 – Working in Open Source While Working in a Company like npm (https://www.npmjs.com/) 25:50 – Monetizing npm npm Enterprise (https://www.npm-enterprise.com/) 32:55 – npm@5 42:00 – The 10x Engineer 44:19 – Technical Hiring 49:53 – Why Whiteboarding and Code Exercises Don’t Work 51:51 – Organizing Engineers Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591846404/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1591846404&linkId=c494a8d5b6315f65af8e4f4a31c3f450) Reflections: Astrid: Not being concerned with how other people view you as a programmer. Coraline: Remembering good hiring practices to influence others. Sam: Making your interview

00:16 – Welcome to “Missives from the Future of Tech: Ladies’ Night Edition” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:20 – Where the Lines Cross; Social Responsibility of Engineers Tragedy of the Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons) 06:53 – Why We Do What We Do 09:03 – Surviving and Functioning For All Humans: Basic Social Support 16:20 – Preventing Infrastructure Decay and Advancing the Whole 19:54 – “The Cycle of Safety” The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553380966/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553380966&linkId=057eda599b58fdadf1e06c52a9256018) 25:21 – Scarcity 30:15 – Where are we focusing? 33:25 – Reframing The Tragedy of the Commons; Gatekeeping The Broken Promise of Open Source by Coraline Ada Ehmke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKpbejoneFs) 37:56 – Organizations as Business AND Schools The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The L

00:16 – Welcome to “What is your favorite color?” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” How to teach your dog to take selfies… and text them to you (https://mashable.com/2016/07/26/teach-dog-text-selfie/) 01:34 – Superpower Origin Story; Mental Illness in College Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GFII62/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B005GFII62&linkId=79bcb3acaec3579dbe20b56995fc6577) 10:13 – Disclaimer: We Are Not Doctors and a Message on Self-Diagnosis 13:03 – Panel Experiences with Mental Illness: Rock Bottom, Shame, Stigma, and Fear DBT Therapy (https://behavioraltech.org/resources/faqs/dialectical-behavior-therapy-dbt/) 25:54 – How Mental Illness Seems to Uniquely Affect the Tech Community 31:06 – Coping Mechanisms 34:17 – Creating an Environment That is Beneficial to People with Mental Health Issues; Work-Life Balance Open Sourcing Mental Illness (Open Sourc

Amy Unger: @cdwort | Heroku 00:16 – Welcome to “JIRA Card Catalogs and The People Who Love Them” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:05 – Superpower Origin Story, Growing Up with a Computer in the Family, and Being a Teenager Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher (https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Clubhouse-Women-Computing-Press/dp/0262632691/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494455362&sr=8-1&keywords=Unlocking+The+Clubhouse+Women+in+Computer+Science) 08:30 – Humanities and History 10:39 – Access to and Preservation of Literacy (Who is writing our history?) 15:03 – Categorizing Information and Making it Accessible…But, Also Privacy? 17:21 – Reliance on Google as the “Defacto Archive”? 19:49 – Digital Records (Algorithms) vs Human Curation 24:10 – What can librarians and library science offer a company?: Information Architecture 27:32 – Algorithm Manipulation, Social Engineering, and Information Security 32:24 – Whose stories are we collecting, archiving, and making available to the

** This conversation stems from an earlier episode when Janelle joined the panel: Episode 028: Brains, Feedback Systems, Demons, and Goats. 02:03 – Retrospectives ** “Software work is learning work.” @DianaOfPortland— Greater Than Code (@greaterthancode) May 3, 2017 OODA Loop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop) 11:07 – Documenting Feelings and Emotions 17:40 – Following Through With and Solving Action Plans 20:08 – Focusing, Lists of Action, and “Best Practices” 30:27 – What is value in the context of software development? / Measuring Waste 33:39 – Taking Things in Small, Bite-sized Pieces: Refactoring Mob Programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_programming) 55:58 – Agile Fluency ** Your Path through Agile Fluency on Martin Fowler’s Blog (https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/agileFluency.html) Reflections: Janelle: Thinking about the focusing step and how much effort goes into those things versus the benefits of focusing on things from the recent past. Taking human emotions into conside

00:16 – Welcome to “Cycles in Philosophy of Software, Common Principles with Different Names & Reference” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:47 – Superhero Origin Story BBC BASIC (http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html) 04:45 – Nomenclature: “Junior” and “Senior” Developers; Differences Between “Early Career” Developers and “Experienced” Developers 13:56 – Solving the Skill Assessment Problem; Learning Methodically 20:55 – Software Development Now vs Then 29:51 – Do Programming Languages Create Certain Biases? 44:16 – Good Mentorship and Telling People What’s Next to Level Up 55:58 – Cohorting/Teaching Classes with Sandi Metz; Object-Oriented Design and Object-Oriented Programming Reflections: Janelle: Looking at things as multidimensional problems. Rein: An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg Sam: The importance of the skill of metacognition. Tom: How the work as changed as being a developer. Nonviolent Communication: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Ros

00:16 – Welcome to “The Tale of Space Cat Burritos” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 02:26 – Space Technology and the Cultural Portrayal of Science NASA Explorers Program (https://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov/) 08:24 – The Influence of Science Fiction on the Current Developments in Science NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC) (https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/index.html) The Comet Hitchhiker (https://www.nasa.gov/content/comet-hitchhiker-harvesting-kinetic-energy-from-small-bodies-to-enable-fast-and-low-cost) Supernatural Horror in Literature By H. P. Lovecraft 14:47 – What is sci-fi telling us about the world we live in now? The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032) The Expanse Series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(novel_series)) 18:34 – “Hard” vs “Soft” Science Fiction; “Hard” Conference Talks vs “Soft” Talks Coraline Ada Ehmke: Metaphors Are Similes. Similes Are Like Metaphors @ Rubyfuza 2017 (https://www.youtub

00:16 – Welcome to “Goats On Podcasts” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:19 – Origin Story 04:36 – The Development of Development 06:58 – Automated Tests and Mistake Detection 09:21 – Designing Releases and Best Practices 20:13 – “The Code is Better” There is no "the code is better."There is only "our experience is better." (users and developers)@greaterthancode with @janellekz— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) April 12, 2017 15:08 – Measuring Effort, #CollaborativePain, and The Error Handling Process abstraction: great when it works.when something breaks it's like an egg cracking and all its guts spill out.@janellekz @greaterthancode— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) April 12, 2017 Why Software Gets In Trouble by Gerald M. Weinberg (https://leanpub.com/whysoftwaregetsintrouble) 33:24 – Discovery and Documentation 37:44 – Agile Fluency Agile Fluency Project: Chart Your Agile Pathway (https://www.agilefluency.org/) Quality Management Maturity Grid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qua

00:16 – Welcome to “Plotting the Rebellion” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:39 – Origin Story and Superpowers 03:05 – Getting Hooked on Hackathons 04:42 – Corporate Hackathons; Making Hackathons Accessible and Inclusive Greater Than Code Episode 015: Zuri Hunter as Queen of Hackathons DataHack4FI (http://datahack4fi.org/) 09:38 – Organizing Hackathons 12:21 – Non-programmers and Hackathons; Bringing in Diverse Perspectives “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.” ~Jamie Zawinski Code: Debugging the Gender Gap (https://www.codedoc.co/) 22:46 – Building Things for Others, Leadership Roles, Group Dynamics, and Men vs Women Ctrl Alt Delete Hate Hackathon (https://www.hackathon.com/event/ctrl-alt-delete-hate-hackathon-32802882304) Lady Problems Hackathon (http://ladyproblemshackathon.com/) 35:28 – Overnight Hackathons vs Non-Overnight Hackathons 36:38 – The Value of Celebrating Glorious Failure and Responding to Stress and Pressure B

00:16 – Welcome to “Unrepentant Cyborgs” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 01:28 – Codeland Conference (http://codelandconf.com/) 02:02 – Making Conferences Accessible, Affordable, and Unintimidating for People 13:00 – Ticket Prices and Structure 15:01 – Creating an Immersive Experience and Community With and For People You Care About 25:11 – Leading by Example and Maintaining a Positive Persona 29:49 – The Importance of Money and Financial Freedom Tech Done Right Episode 002: Career Development with Brandon Hays and Pete Brooks (https://www.techdoneright.io/002-career-development-with-brandon-hays) 39:52 – Ethics as Automatic Technology Scales and Capitalism Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam M. Grant (https://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Helping-Others-Success/dp/0143124986) 49:45 – In summary: Codeland Conference Reflections: Sam: Thank you for the book recommendation for Give and Take. Astrid: People first. Rein: Support worker-owned cooperative organizations. Leadership is doing things

00:16 – Welcome to “Not Your Mother’s Podcast!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!” 00:55 – Origin Story and Getting Involved in Coding 03:17 – Programming Perspectives From People of Different Backgrounds; Teaching Adults vs Children 08:19 – Work/Life Balance 11:32 – Changing Culture Around Gender Roles and Caregiving “Culture is like water in that it flows from the top down.” Nev Schulman Wants to Erase Gender Stereotypes for Parents (http://www.mtv.com/news/2976598/nev-schulman-gender-stereotypes-parenting-catfish-laura-perlongo-cleo/) 18:18 – The MotherCoders Organization (http://www.mothercoders.org/) What to expect when you’re done expecting (https://medium.freecodecamp.org/what-to-expect-when-youre-done-expecting-25fb0c00393?gi=ac6aa83c6d74) 24:27 – Teaching Frontend Development and The Stereotype that Women are Better at Frontend than Backend Work We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs) 3