154: Filtering Your Brain with Ambreen Hasan

About this Episode

01:12 - Ambreen’s Non-Technical Superpower: She is Very Good at Zoning People Out

• Learning necessary information from conversations

03:20 - Ambreen’s Technical Superpower: Any Challenge She is Given She Will Try to Just Do It

• Comfort with Uncertainty

06:03 - Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset

• It’s OK to Not Know Everything
• Using Resources to Your Advantage

08:40 - Ambreen’s Hobbies Outside of Software

10:10 - Thinking About Things in a Molecular Way

• Taking Chunks at a Time When Learning Something New
• Breaking Down Big Concepts into Small Things You Can Learn
• Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

13:45 - Ambreen’s Journey to Software Engineering

• C++
• Turning a Love Into a Career
• Ruby, Rails, Go, Docker

20:30 - Self-Advocating for New Work Experience

22:00 - Empathy in Engineering

• Auditory Fatigue
• Pair Programming vs Mob Programming

Reflections:

John: Intentionally recognizing uncomfortable learning situations and be okay with it.

Jacob: Your emotional state does matter at work and we as professionals need to recognize that this has relevance to one’s ability to do work.

Arty: It is important to help others to be able to come out of their comfort zone and be ok with not knowing everything.

Ambreen: Likes Jacob’s idea of being productively lost, but there is progress being made. There are many different styles of learning.

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