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269: Being Your Authentic Self – Turning Adversity Into Power with Nikema Prophet

February 2nd, 2022  |  1 hr 7 mins

Nikema Prophet talks about authenticity and power, seeing other people for their whole selves, facilitating safe spaces, becoming a founder, thoughts on education and homeschooling, and how impostor syndrome should not be normalized.

266: Words Carry Power – Approaching Inclusive Language with Kate Marshall

January 12th, 2022  |  58 mins 4 secs

Kate Marshall talks about setting healthy energetic boundaries with others, the fact that words hold immense power and gives advice on how to take responsibility for unintentionally causing harm without overthinking it because progress takes practice, and gives insight on what it’s been like to open a mutual aid-centered model yoga studio over the past few years where people feel included, safe, and loved.

265: Computer Science Education – Forge Your Own Path with Emily Haggard

January 5th, 2022  |  52 mins 52 secs

Emily Haggard recently graduated from college and took a break from taking her finals to join us to talk about her community college path, computer science curriculums, and what makes a great mentor.

260: Fixing Broken Tech Interviews with Ian Douglas

November 24th, 2021  |  1 hr 4 mins

The way we do tech interviews is broken. Ian Douglas talks about how current company interview processes don’t align with skills that companies actually need. We discuss how the community and companies could actually overhaul the system to work together and collect antipatterns so that we could turn the way we do things around to leave everyone having had a nice experience overall, no matter the outcome.

255: Building Global Love Bubbles with Anne Griffin

October 20th, 2021  |  1 hr 19 mins

Anne Griffin joins the show to talk about making people feel they matter on teams by changing company culture, sharing concerns with upper management, and often, having difficult conversations. How do we help people who want to learn to be better people learn to be better people? How do we feel about having designated “work therapists”? How should teams share job responsibilities clearly and fairly?

254: Transitioning Into Tech with Danielle Thompson

October 13th, 2021  |  51 mins 28 secs

Danielle Thompson talks about entering tech as a former person in the hospitality industry with an anthropology degree, and how doing those things in the past have helped her to better work with people today. We also talk about the streaming revolution, and you can catch Danielle every Wednesday at 7PM Pacific, for Code School QA at twitch.tv/thejonanshow!

253: Reframing the Value of Open Source with Jen Weber

October 6th, 2021  |  54 mins 25 secs

Jen Weber talks about differences between working on open source vs commercial software products, things you should keep in mind when it comes to pushing major vs minor releases, and ways we as an industry could do open source better as a collective whole.

248: Developing Team Culture with Andrew Dunkman

September 1st, 2021  |  1 hr 12 mins

Andrew Dunkman talks about setting boundaries both as an employee and a leader. He talks about ways to perform health checks on teams, keeping members happy to avoid things like burnout, and how psychological safety is of the utmost importance in a workplace.

245: Hacking Reality with Rony Abovitz

August 11th, 2021  |  1 hr 20 mins

Rony Abovitz talks about having a free-willing imagination, and using his gifts of insight and intuition to maintain a sense of wonder and free-spiritedness.

The conversation veers towards talking about power structures and hierarchies and we wonder, is it possible (or will it ever be) to use technology to decentralize social structures? Can (or should we) hack reality?

230: Using Tech + Policy For Good with Corey Ponder

April 14th, 2021  |  1 hr 10 mins

Corey Ponder talks about what it means to support Black lives, having conversations around allyship, developing empathy, and using the intersections of tech + policy for good.

228: Career Snarkiness – Words Hold Weight with Corey Quinn

March 31st, 2021  |  1 hr 8 mins

Corey Quinn talks about his job of keeping up with AWS and the personal evolution of Corey Quinn, the person: speaking truth to power (kindly, but snarkily), making and delivering jokes, recognizing your own failure modes, and approaching & handling D&I as a business owner.

224: Better Allies with Karen Catlin

March 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 9 mins

Karen Catlin talks about being a better ally and everyday actions to create inclusive workplaces, why it’s important to venture beyond homogenous networks, and ways we can help mitigate gender disparity in the tech industry.

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.

204: Creating Community Spaces in The Age of COVID with Nicole Archambault

October 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 12 mins

Nicole Archambault talks about both the social and technical communities she has built and why it’s important to overcome isolation and still form connections in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. She also talks about radiating love and how-to human, as well as how she has gotten involved in educational tech entrepreneurship.

202: The Art of Storytelling in Technology with Asra Nadeem

September 30th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

Asra Nadeem talks about how storytelling is important for change, human creativity vs technology automation, the responsibility of creators and consumers in tech, and how her company, Opus AI is telling and monetizing peoples' stories globally.

194: I Don’t Need You To Like Me, I Need You To Hate Racism with Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn

August 5th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn talks about racism: Antiracism is a lifelong learning process, understanding white supremacy, the fact that having empathy is insufficient, and how systemic racism is embedded in the technology field and how we as technologists should be shifting orientation.