Arty Starr
Co-Host of Greater Than Code
Arty is author of Idea Flow, a data-driven approach to measuring the “friction“ in developer experience, and making improvement decisions based on data rather than gut feel. After a 17-year career as a developer, consultant, and CTO specialized in statistical process control and data supply chain, she is now a full-time entrepreneur, founder of Twilight City, Inc, a public benefit corporation building a next-generation platform for optimizing flow.
Arty Starr has hosted 65 Episodes.
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094: Humans All The Way Down with April Wensel
August 22nd, 2018 | 1 hr 4 mins
April Wensel talks about compassion: living according to your values, changing social makeups of teams, conscious business, and self-compassion and forgiveness.
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079: Respect As Currency with Richard Schneeman
May 9th, 2018 | 1 hr 11 mins
In this episode, Richard Schneeman talks about the skill and art of troubleshooting bugs, interviewing and evaluating job candidates, empathy in open source, and bringing open source values into company culture.
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077: Creating Space to Shine with Anjuan Simmons
April 25th, 2018 | 59 mins 11 secs
In this episode, Anjuan Simmons talks about empowering others, creating space to allow people to be the best versions of themselves, and building authentic and constructive relationships.
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069: Identity Is An Arrow with Avdi Grimm
February 28th, 2018 | 1 hr 2 mins
In this episode, Avdi Grimm talks about the pursuit of living a fixed life, achieving stasis, and becoming a visible person in tech while encouraging and inspiring others.
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063: The Distribution of Brilliance and Opportunity with Rehema Wachira
January 17th, 2018 | 1 hr 57 secs
In this episode, Rehema Wachira joins us to talk about being a software developer in Nairobi, Kenya, creating a Culture of Saving, diversity of thought, and how technology empowers people.
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057: Everything is UI with Christina Morillo
December 6th, 2017 | 52 mins 53 secs
Christina Morillo talks about automation processes: discovery and reconnaissance, multitasking and context switching, and being kind to your busy self.
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048: Finding Our Lane with Marco Rogers
September 27th, 2017 | 57 mins 2 secs
Marco Rogers joins the show to discuss engaging on social media, staying in your lane, and mixing social justice with your tech career.
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047: Communicating Across Boundaries with Declan Whelan
September 20th, 2017 | 1 hr 6 mins
Declan Whelan joins us to talk about communicating across boundaries: cross-cultural communication dynamics, adopting practices across teams, and technical debt vs technical health.
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046: Specialization vs Collaboration with Aria Stewart
September 13th, 2017 | 46 mins 13 secs
In this episode, Aria Stewart reflects on how specializing in one area of software development can lead to contemptuous behavior between people, teams, and company culture.
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Special Edition: Innovation Amidst a Disaster with Jeff Reichman
September 6th, 2017 | 46 mins 45 secs
This episode stars, Jeff Reichman, who talks about how the Houston tech community came together to help people through Hurricane Harvey and the aftermath, the technology opportunities in disaster response, the harvey-api that they developed, and how tech devs need to be side-by-side with relief efforts, while responding to tech needs right away.
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044: Lazy Perfectionism and Performative Diversity and Inclusion with Shanise Barona
August 23rd, 2017 | 49 mins 11 secs
In this episode, we talk to Shanise Barona about the terms "lazy perfectionism" and "performative diversity".
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041: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mind Manipulation with Casey Watts!
August 2nd, 2017 | 53 mins 30 secs
In this episode, we talk with Casey Watts about cognitive behavioral therapy and mind manipulation.
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Episode 036: Metaphors and Microservices with Matt Stine
June 7th, 2017 | 1 hr 14 mins
Matt Stine joins us for a conversation that starts out about consulting and morphs into a meta-conversation about rigorous communication, ubiquitous language, metaphors, and microservices.
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Episode 034: Systems Thinking in the Real World
May 24th, 2017 | 1 hr 1 min
In this episode, we talk about new ways to organize society around a culture of plenty rather than a culture of scarcity. Along the way we discuss the intersection of corporations and open source and the gatekeeping that prevents marginalized people from participating in open culture.
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Episode 031: Retrospectives and Agile Fluency with Diana Larsen
May 3rd, 2017 | 50 mins 24 secs
Diana Larsen joins us to talk about an earlier episode (#28) that we did where we touched on retrospectives and Agile Fluency.
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Episode 030: Essential Developer Skills with Tom Stuart
April 28th, 2017 | 1 hr 20 mins
Tom Stuart stopped by to talk about software development over the years, “junior” and “senior” developer nomenclature, good mentorship, and OOP.