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Greater Than Code Mandy Moore
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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.
Featuring an ongoing panel of racially and gender diverse tech panelists, the majority of podcast guests so far have been women in tech! We’ve covered topics including imposter syndrome, mental illness, sexuality, unconscious bias and social justice. We also have a major focus on skill sets that tech too often devalues, like team-building, hiring, community organizing, mentorship and empathy. Each episode also includes a transcript.
We have an active Slack community that members can join by pledging as little as $1 per month via Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode)
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223: Emotions, Achievement, Joy, and Goals with David MacIver
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 -
222: Evaluating Human Performance with Elyse Robinson
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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SPONSORED AD: Whether you're working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level.
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Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more.
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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 -
221: Cultivating Strength and Change with Wesley Faulkner
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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Get started on Linode today with $100 in free credit for listeners of Greater Than Code. You can find all the details at linode.com/greaterthancode.
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220: Safety Science and Failure As An Opportunity For Growth with Josh Thompson
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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Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode's Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier.
Get started on Linode today with $100 in free credit for listeners of Greater Than Code. You can find all the details at linode.com/greaterthancode.
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219: How Are You Doing? with Mando Escamilla
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
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
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Linode: Whether you're working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level.
Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode's Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier.
Get started on Linode today with $100 in free credit for listeners of Greater Than Code. You can find all the details at linode.com/greaterthancode.
Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more.
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218: Building Bridges with Isa Herico-Velasco
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.
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
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Special Guest: Isa Herico-Velasco .
Sponsored By:
Linode: Whether you're working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level.
Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode's Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier.
Get started on Linode today with $100 in free credit for listeners of Greater Than Code. You can find all the details at linode.com/greaterthancode.
Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more.
Visit linode.com/greaterthancode and click on the "Create Free Account" button to get started.Support Greater Than Code
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