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In a remote work world, it's a little more challenging to feel connected to your co-workers. Dave and Nana discuss how important team bonding is and successful team bonding activities (like Fika). 

Dave interviews Nana about what success looks like as an Engineering Manager. Nana goes into what the 4 pillars that orient her work, if she still has time to write code, metrics for measuring progress, prioritizing, and much more.
Resources:
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul Graham
Presentations Episode - Dev Sounds Podcast
Management books:

The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim

Have you ever gotten frustrated with yourself while trying to solve a programming problem? Dave and Nana talk about all things problem solving: debugging tips, rituals and habits to help you get out of a bad headspace, getting into a “flow” state (via the Breakout Principle), and more. This conversation is inspired by Dave’s blog post: https://www.scraggo.com/programming-with-more-ease/

In this episode, we discuss the book: Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life by Ozan Varol. We saw lots of ways to apply what we learned in the book to software engineering and life.

Author link:

https://ozanvarol.com/books/

A quick summary:

“Through engaging stories to illustrate key concepts, Varol shares how to Launch, Accelerate, and Achieve. In Launch, he explores the topics of embracing uncertainty, reasoning from first principles, and thinking creatively. In Accelerate, he discusses how we can improve our abilities to solve problems. In Achieve, we learn how to respond to the flip-side outcomes of failure and success.”

credit: https://mentalpivot.com/book-notes-think-like-a-rocket-scientist-by-ozan-varol/

Dave and Nana talk about their experiences giving presentations, and share tips along the way!


Where to give talks:


Meeting with colleague(s)
Tech Talk at your company
Lunch n' Learn at your company
Educational institutions like coding bootcamps
Meetups like the CodePen meetup
Streaming online as a Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc event
Record and post on YouTube. After, promote through your blog or social media

Resources:


Visualization for Presentation class - Kelogg - Prof. Steven Franconeri
Situation Complication Resolution framework
Tech Talk - How I'd Improve My Capstone Project (a Dave presentation)

Dave and Nana take the 16personalities.com test to discover their Myers Briggs Type Indicators.

Want to discover your 5 letters? Take the test here.

Learn more about Myers Briggs personality theory:


https://www.16personalities.com/
https://www.16personalities.com/articles/our-theory
https://www.16personalities.com/articles/tactics-judging-vs-prospecting
https://www.16personalities.com/articles/identity-assertive-vs-turbulent