188: Going Off the Rails with Damien Burke
June 24th, 2020 · 59 mins 32 secs
About this Episode
01:10 - Damien’s Superpower: The ability to hold conflicting beliefs at the same time.
04:09 - Life is Hard. How do we make things easy?
- Simon’s Ant
- Emergent Behavior
- Conway’s Game of Life
- Embodied Cognition
- Cognitive Systems Engineering
- Joint Cognitive Systems
12:03 - Treating Expertise as Transferable to Different Fields
- Technical Privilege
- Cognitive Bias – List of Cognitive Biases
- Heuristic Shortcuts
- Specifications not Test – Damien’s “Don’t Call it Test-Driven Development Essay
- Fundamental Attribution Error
17:54 - Loving Yourself Unconditionally and Seeing Flaws
“You are whole, perfect, and complete.” – Damien Burke
- Virginia Satir: The basis of human interaction is acknowledging the inherent value in ourselves and another person.
- Giving Feedback – The key is authenticity.
- Treating People The Way They Want to be Treated vs How YOU Want to be Treated
- Mister Rogers: What do you do with the mad that you feel?
“The problem is never the problem; how we cope is the problem.” – Virginia Satir
27:03 - Shakespeare was Garbage
- Playing Shakespeare
- Highbrow Language
- Looking For Richard
30:08 - Sponsorship Message
31:20 - EarlyWords / Morning Pages
36:08 - Damien’s Background in Theater and Applying it to Tech
“I play the piano, but my instrument is the orchestra.” – Attribution Unknown
“The conductor is the only person in the orchestra that doesn’t make a sound.” – Benjamin Zander
Being a Leader/Conductor/Manager is an Act of Service
41:42 - Ontological Coaching
- Epistemic – What even is knowledge?
Reflections:
John: Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice
Rein: It is hard to translate theory into practice.
Damien: Life is hard. Make everything you can easy!
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