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02:15 - David’s Superpower: Being Confused



Norms of Excellence
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance


11:56 - Daily Writing



David’s Newsletter: Overthinking Everything
Unfuck Your Habitat


15:47 - Learning to Be Better at Emotions


23:22 - Achievement and Joy as Aspirational Goals



[Homeostasis vs Homeorhesis](https://wikidiff.com/homeostasis/homeorhesis#:~:text=is%20that%20homeostasis%20is%20(physiology,to%20a%20trajectory%2C%20as%20opposed)
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein


Reflections:


Jessica: Trying not knowing yourself.


Rein: You shouldn’t be the owner of all your desires. Instead, you should measure your life by how well you follow the intentions that arise out of your values.


Jacob: Thinking of yourself as the sum of all of the habits you maintain or don’t.


David: The [Homeostasis vs Homeorhesis](https://wikidiff.com/homeostasis/homeorhesis#:~:text=is%20that%20homeostasis%20is%20(physiology,to%20a%20trajectory%2C%20as%20opposed) distinction, and cleaning a home as an ongoing process.


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JACOB: Hello and welcome to Greater Than Code, Episode 223. My name is Jacob Stoebel and I'm joined with my co-host, Rein Henrichs.


REIN: Thanks, Jacob and I'm here with my friend and also stranger because we haven't done this together in months, Jessica Kerr.


JESSICA: Thank you, Rein! And Iím really excited today because our guest is David MacIver. Twitter handle, @DRMacIver.


David MacIver is best known as the developer of Hypothesis, the property-based testing library for Python, and is currently doing a Ph.D. based on some of that work. But he also writes extensively about emotions, life, and society and sometimes coaches people on an eclectic mix of software development, intellectual, and emotional skills. As you can probably tell, David hasn't entirely decided what he wants to do when he grows u and that's the best because if you had decided well, then so few possibilities would be open.


David, hello!


DAVID: Hi, Jessica! Great to be here.


JESSICA: All right. I'm going to ask the obligatory question. What is your superpower and how did you acquire it?


DAVID: So as you saw me complaining about on Twitter, this question doesn't translate very well outside of the United States.


JESSICA: Yeah, which is fascinating for me.


DAVID: I'm a bit too British to say nice things about myself without soun

02:05 - Elyse’s Superpower: Fearlessness



Moving to Mexico
Living in Mexico
Dual-Existing and Codeswitching
Elyse’s Podcast & Blog
A Day In The Life


19:41 - Auditor => IT Consultant



Lissa Explains it All
Discovering The Cloud


24:02 - Broken Interview Processes and Evaluating Human Performance


Reflections:


Damien: The ways that I can be fearless.


Arty: You only have one life. Don’t put limits on it.


Rein: Being intentional about making our networks more inclusive.


Elyse: There isn’t a pipeline problem in IT.


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ARTY: Hi, everyone! Welcome to Episode 222 of Greater Than Code. Iím Artemis Starr and Iím here with my fabulous co-host, Rein Henrichs.


REIN: Thanks, Arty. Iím here with my co-host, Damien Burke.


DAMIEN: Thanks, Rein and Iím here with our guest, Elyse Robinson.


Elyse Robinson has been described as fearless. After losing her mother to blood cancer, she left America to mourn her mother in Mexico and decided to stay. Going into her 5th year of residing in Mexico, she is the Founder of NewsIn.IT and runs a blog, podcast, and a YouTube channel about her life in Mexico under ElyseRobinson.com.


Before becoming the fearless person Elyse is now, she was an auditor that kept the public safe and before COVID hit, an IT consultant in Mexico helping people understand the intricacies of the cloud.


You can find Elyse splitting her time between America and Mexico when she gets tired of tacos and Spanish, or Chick-Fil-A and English.†


Welcome to the show, Elyse.


ELYSE: Thank you.


DAMIEN: So you know the first thing we do on this show is ask every one of our guests the same question. So for you, Elyse, what is your superpower and how did you acquire it?


ELYSE: Fearlessness! Not many people would leave everything they know to go move to another country and then stay for almost 5 years. [chuckles] I tell people that closed mouths donít get fed. You have to put yourself out there for opportunities or else, theyíll just pass you by so I donít have an issue doing that.


Moving to a whole another country, not knowing anyone. Wanting to mourn, not knowing the language and not knowing the culture. Oh, that'll make you fearless all the way around. [laughs]


DAMIEN: Or the opposite. It could have had the exact opposite effect.


ELYSE: That's true. That's true. Because I know many people that have moved to another country and then they came right back and so. [chuckles]


REIN: What do you think made the difference for you in terms of staying versus leaving?


ELYSE: Everything just fell into place. I tell people all th

01:59 - Wesley’s Superpower: Connecting With People and Being a Social Chameleon


11:31 - Sharing Responsibility Based on Strengths; Delegating “Weakness”



Strengths Finder 2.0
Positions vs Roles


23:52 - Mission Statements Are Bullsh*t (especially for marginalized people/groups)



False Value Systems
Veni Kunche: Diversify Tech


Greater Than Code Episode 212: Diversify Tech with Veni Kunche



“The real barrier is individuals who don’t want to lose power.”


32:16 - Talking Truth to Power: Enacting Change



Systems Thinking: A Primer
Networking
Running For City Council / Learning How Politics Work
A Promised Land by Barak Obama
User Research
Accessing People


“Strong opinions don’t mean right opinions.”


Reflections:


Damien: The decommodification of labor and people.


John: Finding strengths and leaning into them so you can be the most effective.


Casey: We are stronger together.


Wesley: Skills are things you aren’t necessarily born with. You can create and cultivate them.


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Special Guest: Wesley Faulkner.
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01:48 - Josh’s Superpower: Teaching nearly anything he knows to almost anyone



Fear Remediation


05:04 - Safety Science and Staying Safe While Rock Climbing



2020 Accidents in North American Climbing
Accidents are the result of normal work
How Complex Systems Fail


17:42 - Transfer of Knowledge from Experts to Non-Experts


23:07 - Root Cause Analysis & Taking Gambles


33:00 - Failure As An Opportunity For Growth



Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice by Cedric Chin


50:07 - Psychological Safety



William Khan: Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work


Reflections:


Rein: Operators are always gambling and taking risks.



Cognition in Practice by Jean Lave
The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action


Mando: How to properly build systems and teams that are friendly to lesser experienced individuals to bring up folx who are earlier in their careers or other industries.


Josh: Commemorating team learning experiences.


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Special Guest: Josh Thompson.
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03:19 - Mando’s Superpower: Willingness to Talk About Anything Personal with Others


08:39 - Dealing with Life in 2020/2021



Rationality vs Non-Rationality
Feeling Lost and Unmoored


18:30 - Finding Anchors



Narrative and Story
Emotion
Song
Rhyme
Repetition
Affiliation


Ted Lasso
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow


34:28 - Being Okay Being Less Productive


Sea Shanty TikTok


46:47 - Practicing Gratitude For Communities You Do Have; Talking to Kids About Feelings



What do you do with the mad that you feel? – Mr. Rogers
Sesame Street: Dave Matthews and Grover Sing about Feelings



“If it’s mentionable, it’s manageable.” – Fred Rogers



Reflections:


Rein: The ability for there to be a higher-level cognitive function that happens after emotional and affective responses and that it is capable of mediating between those responses and action.


Mando: Giving a specific name to how he’s feeling right now: lost.


Damien: The value of interrogating feelings.



“Community is not the sum of its members but the product of their relationships.” – Russell Ackoff



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02:12 - Isa’s Superpower: Being a Bridge



RailsBridge
Bridge Foundry – They’re Hiring !!


08:56 - Community Learning



Asynchronous Communication


Discord

Cultivating a Leadership Pipeline
Transparency
“Many hands make light work.”


19:16 - Pivoting From Rock’n’Roll to Software Engineering: Software + Music



Gigwell: Talent Booking
Everything Relates to Tech Somehow


27:57 - Grappling with Impostor Syndrome


Reflections:


Damien: Community over architecture.


Casey: Community and mentorship.


Isa: Talking to other engineers re: non-code + community and sustainability.


Laurie: Finding new ways to collaborate in a remote/pandemic world.


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Special Guest: Isa Herico-Velasco .
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