
Amy Newell
Co-Host of Greater Than Code
Amy Newell has been a software engineer since 1999, when she fell in love with a heapsort. She is Senior Director of Engineering at Wistia. She likes to talk about engineering management and the relationships between suffering, authenticity, and productivity in the workplace. She also writes poetry, does stand-up comedy, reads tarot, advocates for the mentally ill, and parents two teenagers. She likes boots, oysters, mezcal, and anti-fascists.
Amy Newell has hosted two Episodes.
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210: Getting Sh*t Done with Harini Gokul
November 25th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
In this episode, Harini Gokul talks about putting technology to use for people who need it most, crisis management and rethinking blueprints, duality: humans being connected as interconnected systems, and what we need to be doing now to get the sh*t done.
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207: Investigation and Influence with Chelsea Troy
November 4th, 2020 | 55 mins 45 secs
Chelsea Troy talks in-depth about her Techtivism blog series: coding in investigation mode, engineers considering the actions and impact of their work systematically, the power of influence, making a connection between values and your work as an engineer, and individual vs collective action.