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144: Being Greater Than Code with Jamison Dance

August 21st, 2019  |  50 mins 46 secs

Jamison Dance joins the show to talk about life as an engineering manager: context switching, career advancement, and providing team members with opportunities for growth. He also talks about his podcast that he co-hosts: Soft Skills Engineering, the evolution of tech culture, and organizing the React Rally conference.

139: Conferencing

July 18th, 2019  |  59 mins 19 secs

As veteran conference speakers, the panelists decided to have a conversation around conferences: what newbies can expect, how to make the most out of them, and advice for if you’re thinking about speaking.

136: Addressing Technical Friction

June 26th, 2019  |  55 mins 5 secs

In this episode, the panelists talk about a Tweet of Sam’s that had recently gotten some attention re: responsible refactoring and technical friction. They discuss reacting to other people’s code with kindness and empathy, requesting code walkthroughs, being explicit and clearly stating the problems you are trying to solve within your codebases before refactoring, and what to do if you experience resistance.

130: Acceptance is the First Step with Britni Alexander

May 15th, 2019  |  52 mins 52 secs

In the first half of the show, Britni Alexander talks about resilience: seeing failure as an opportunity, not wallowing in failure, and the ultimate acceptance of failure.

Then she shares a bunch of lies that developers tell themselves and others including: who is or isn’t a programmer, what it’s actually like to be a programmer, how to measure success as a programmer, and more.

126: Asking Powerful Questions with Suzan Bond

April 17th, 2019  |  52 mins 45 secs

Suzan Bond, Coraline, and John discuss blending technology with coaching and humans, managing and working on distributed teams, autonomy, listening to yourself and your intuition, and developing solid leadership skills.

124: Navigating Neurodiversity with Helen Needham

April 3rd, 2019  |  52 mins 28 secs

Helen Needham, an autistic person and an advocate of promoting the value of neurodivergent thinking, talks about decoding people, the intersection of empathy and neurodiversity, being deliberate as a survival skill, and paying attention to EQ: emotional intelligence.

116: Healing Organizational Trauma with Matt Stratton

February 7th, 2019  |  42 mins 4 secs

In this episode, Matt Stratton discusses incident response communication, leading by example, the way we should be handling postmortems, and telling the hero’s story vs the story of the people.

113: Privilege as Legacy Code with Amr

January 16th, 2019  |  46 mins 11 secs

In this episode, Amr talks about the fact that it’s not just code: people need to own their privilege and use it for good by calling out others, being good allies, and avoiding biases.

112: Dancing About Vulnerability with Marcel Byrd

January 9th, 2019  |  48 mins 22 secs

In this episode, Marcel Byrd talks about the intersection of public health and art, authenticity and vulnerability, reading a room and determining safety, and the beauty of dance.

110: Human Incident Response with Courtney Eckhardt

December 19th, 2018  |  1 hr 22 secs

In this episode, Courtney Eckhardt talks about incident response: how we talk and interact with people who are affected by crappy things. She also talks about disabilities in the workplace and professional spaces, the tension between accessibility and security, and incident retrospectives and defensiveness as a natural instinct to feedback.

108: Tech Fashion Part 1 with Kayte Malik of Dress Code

December 5th, 2018  |  45 mins 40 secs

In this episode, Kayte Malik, of Dress Code, shares the mission of her company: to empower more girls and women to get involved in coding through creation and innovation. Kayte and the panelists discuss confidence, owning your accomplishments, and debunking the myth that code, tech, and STEM are for boys only.

102: Sticky in the Flow with Katrina Owen

October 24th, 2018  |  55 mins 31 secs

In this episode, Katrina Owen talks about organization and systematization, motivation by success, and how her past experience in training for circus is parallel to her career in software development.

101: A Difficult Conversation with Sonia Gupta

October 17th, 2018  |  53 mins 39 secs

In this episode, Sonia Gupta and the panelists have a candid conversation about white supremacy and standing up for your beliefs, advocating for others while staying in your own lane, intersectionality, and who has to ultimately do the work.

099: The Knowledge You Possess with Stephanie Morillo

October 3rd, 2018  |  1 hr 1 min

In this episode, Stephanie Morillo talks about content strategy, technical writing, organizing and optimizing company internal systems, and that you need to give yourself more credit for the things you’ve already accomplished!

097: The Job of a Manager with Brandon Hays

September 12th, 2018  |  47 mins 54 secs

Brandon Hays talks about mentorship, management, and leadership skills, as well as maintaining relationships with people, climbing the tech ladder, strategizing career growth.

091: Solving Puzzles and Productive Failure with Kim Vanderspek

August 1st, 2018  |  47 mins 44 secs

In this episode, Kim Vanderspek talks about solving puzzles and teaching others to do the same by using technology to visualize math by quilting, sewing, Playdough, and other mediums. She also explains why failure is an important part of success, and why perseverance matters over content.