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Greater Than Code

For a long time, tech culture has focused too narrowly on technical skills; this has resulted in a tech community that too often puts companies and code over people. Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology. Greater Than Code is providing a vital platform for these conversations, and developing new ideas of what it means to be a technologist beyond just the code.
Featuring an ongoing panel of racially and gender diverse tech panelists, the majority of podcast guests so far have been women in tech! We’ve covered topics including imposter syndrome, mental illness, sexuality, unconscious bias and social justice. We also have a major focus on skill sets that tech too often devalues, like team-building, hiring, community organizing, mentorship and empathy. Each episode also includes a transcript.
We have an active Slack community that members can join by pledging as little as $1 per month via Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode)

Latest Episodes:

053: BOOK CLUB! The Responsible Communication Style Guide Nov 01, 2017

Show notes

01:33 – Superpowers and Acquisition

02:50 – Reflective Listening

05:27 – The Responsible Communication Style Guide

11:54 – Asking Content-Related Questions

15:10 – Who is the target audience for this book?

17:45 – The Evolution of Writing the Book

19:39 – People-first Language

Kronda Adair: Five Stages of Unlearning Racism

23:40 – What if you get it wrong?

@kronda

Try to do good.

Fuck it up.

Apologize

Try not to make the same mistake again.

That’s the job.

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29:40 – Fearing Shame

34:22 – Political Correctness and Language Evolution

44:11 – “Use with Caution” Words

Reflections:

Astrid: The less that something is happening the way I want it to, probably the less that I know.

Sam: Learning something from a joke!

Jamey: People who don’t want to learn new things are boring. Also, not being self-reflective.

Audrey: It’s amazing to pay people for their work.

Thursday: Pride for the contributors of this project.

The Recompiler: Year 3 Kickstarter

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

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Special Guests: Audrey Eschright and Thursday Bram.

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052: Master’s Degrees, Double Binds, and Data Science with Emily Dresner Oct 25, 2017

Show notes

01:06 – Emily’s Background and Superpower

02:49 – Having a Master’s Degree: Was it worth it?

08:08 – Struggles After Retaining a Master’s

10:31 – Role Model: Emily’s Mom and Her Story

12:11 – “The Double Bind”

14:47 – Experiences Working at a Gaming Company

Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise by David Foster Wallace

18:33 – Transitioning to Upside and Building a Healthy Culture

21:50 – Engineering Vs Management

29:09 – Data Science

32:50 – Self-Selecting for Privilege

36:38 – Data Science and Security/Privacy

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil

46:55 – Having a Background in Actual Science; Conquering Biases

51:35 – The Importance of Mentorship and Internships from the Beginning

Reflections:

Coraline: Having a biases towards hiring people like yourself and other hiring biases.

Sam: Research cognitive biases.

Jamey: Computers aren’t people.

Emily: I really do enjoy teaching.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

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Special Guest: Emily Dresner.

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051: Creating Safer Spaces with Soo Choi Oct 18, 2017

Show notes

00:16 – Welcome to “The Venn Diagram Podcast. It’s a little bit of this and a little bit of that, but it’s definitely not that other thing.” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:09 – Soo’s Background at NASA and Superpower

06:01 – Wanting Attending Conferences and Speaking and then When Speaking at Conferences Goes Wrong

Soo Choi: Changing Diversity Constructs: My Journey as a Woman in DevOps @ DevOpsDays D.C. 2017

16:10 – Creating Safe Spaces: From Conferences to Workspaces

21:29 – Allies and Advocacy; Talking Salary

24:12 – Safe Spaces vs Safer Spaces

28:16 – Forgiving People Without Labeling Them (i.e. Sexist, Racist, etc.)

38:28 – Having “Fierce Conversations” and Collecting Better Tools

Aja Hammerly: We Don’t Do That Here

Reflections:

Soo: Sharing experiences in open and safer spaces.

Sam: Listening to each other’s experiences. Sit with cognitive dissonance, be okay with it, and see what it has to teach us.

Jessica: Learning from other’s experiences.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

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Special Guest: Soo Choi.

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050: Open Source Anarchism with Steve Klabnik Oct 11, 2017

Show notes

00:16 – Welcome to “Greater Than Crabmeat” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:02 – Steve’s Background, Origin Story, and Superpowers!

06:00 – Contributing to Open Source

why the lucky stiff

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

11:07 – Succession Planning

The Meme Hustler

20:12 – Organizing Groups of People in a Non-Authoritarian Way

Mikhail Bakunin: What is Authority?

The RFC Process in Rust

36:23 – Avoiding Using Language with Political Connotation

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39:46 – Is anarchy equally accessible to everyone or is it only accessible/available to a privileged class?

43:11 – Problems with One-upmanship and “Shittalking” in Communities

Aurynn Shaw: Contempt Culture

50:39 – Seeking Out Different Environments and Building Environments People Want

Reflections:

Jamey: Leadership and how important it is to not put too much power in the hands of a few people.

Rein: How do you build systems of governance that don’t depend for their success on the goodness of the rulers?

Lorena: How do we learn to speak with others in ways that are inviting and create a safe space for us all?

Coraline: The notion of intentionality.

Steve: Jargon and exclusion.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

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Special Guest: Steve Klabnik.

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049: Technology For the Greater Good with Reyn Aubrey Oct 04, 2017

Show notes

Guest Starring:

Reyn Aubrey: @ReynAubrey | PocketChange | reyn@pocketchange.social

00:16 – Welcome to “For Good or For Awesome?” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:18 – Reyn Aubrey’s Background, Origin Story, and Superpower!

06:04 – Culture of a Company and Tolerance

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin

08:12 – Becoming an Entrepreneur at 19-years-old and PocketChange

10:40 – Charity Evaluation Criteria; “Wicked Problems”

pocketchange.social/charities

14:33 – Habitizing Donation

16:22 – Analyzing and Collecting Charity Data

GuideStar Charity Navigator

19:02 – How PocketChange is Structured

20:34 – The Ideation of “Technology For the Greater Good”

24:28 – Reyn’s Path Into Business and Entrepreneurship

Start It Up: The Complete Teen Business Guide to Turning Your Passions into Pay by Kenrya Rankin

28:33 – Good Business Beliefs, Virtues, and Values

34:00 – Bringing Anarchist Organizing Principles Into Business

Colin Ward: Anarchism as a Theory of Organization

The ‘Two Pizza Rule’ Is Jeff Bezos’ Secret To Productive Meetings

37:23 – Advice For Others Interested in Social Entrepreneurship

42:00 – Launching PocketChange and Reserve Your Launch Day Invite

44:51 – Gathering and Raising Venture Capital

47:35 – Advice For Others Interested in Social Entrepreneurship (Cont’d)

Reflections:

Rein: Check out Stafford Beer.

Coraline: A culture being defined by the least of something you’ll tolerate and entrepreneurs should solve for “Wicked Problems” — not pain points.

Jamey: All charities are not created equal.

Reyn: A value that isn’t acted on is at best an inspiration and at worst a pretense. Also, non-dominance based work relationships.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

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Special Guest: Reyn Aubrey.

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048: Finding Our Lane with Marco Rogers Sep 27, 2017

Show notes

00:16 – Welcome to “Greater Than Code: Like Uber, But For Not Being Shitty” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

02:04 – Background and Superpower

03:03 – Being Outspoken and Dealing with Pushback on Twitter

04:41 – “Staying in Your Lane”

11:12 – To Engage, or Not to Engage?

16:10 – Mixing Social Justice and a Tech Career

20:49 – Having Conversations Re: Diversity and Inclusion

23:16 – Making Workplaces Inclusive and Changing the Culture

35:56 – Educating Others — But Not on Demand

38:28 – What is the right way to be an ally? Reading Spaces

43:59 – Starting/Organizing Working Groups

45:34 – Advocating for D&I as Leaders

Reflections:

Jessica: Diversity and inclusion is hard because it’s more than just one thing.

Sam: Don’t have conversations or be in them to not just be wrong.

Janelle: Training, teaching, and educating, versus putting together a working group to get things done.

Jamey: It’s okay to be wrong and sincerely apologizing.

Astrid: It’s hard to be who you want to be in a world where people are constantly picking sides.

Marco: How dynamics pay out for people who aren’t fully engaged in the D&I conversation yet.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

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Special Guest: Marco Rogers.

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047: Communicating Across Boundaries with Declan Whelan Sep 20, 2017

Show notes

00:16 – Welcome to “I Rolled a Natural 20 For My Agility Check” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:31 – Background and Superpower; Empathy

09:08 – Cross-Cultural Communication Dynamics

15:48 – Biases, Understanding Dynamics, and Facilitating as an Ally

@jessitron
"To have biases is to be human. It's not a bad thing."

@dwhelan @greaterthancode

21:02 – Being Authentic

25:31 – Is Agile something that you are or something that you do?

35:37 – Adopting Practices Across Teams

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

@jessitron
People love consistency. Ask, what are the benefits? then strive for common outcomes, not common practices.

@dwhelan@greaterthancode

41:57 – Technical Debt and Technical Health: How do we amplify what we want?

Reflections:

Jessica: Strive for common outcomes; not common practices.

Coraline: Some situations should be taken as a promise for a conversation.

Janelle: Ask for permission.

Sam: Identifying and clarifying outcomes that we want.

Declan: Figure out how you can have effective conversations with your teams.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

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Special Guest: Declan Whelan.

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046: Specialization vs Collaboration with Aria Stewart Sep 13, 2017

Show notes

00:16 – Welcome to “The World is Upside Down. Can DevOps save us?” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:07 – Background and Superpowers

09:22 – Diagnostic Troubleshooting: “Expert Intuition Effect”

14:23 – Understanding Entire Systems vs Specializing in One Area

17:15 – Isolation Leading to Contempt

28:42 – The DevOps Movement and Culture Change

34:45 – Contempt Towards Processes

Janelle Klein: A Programmer’s Guide to Humans @ SeleniumConf UK

Reflections:

Astrid: Having a holistic approach towards Software Development.

Coraline: Why specialization leads to contemptuous behavior between teams and how to solve it for early career developers.

Janelle: Inside of us, we all have a soul.

Aria: Start telling new stories about the people who build fantastic products and tools.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

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Special Guest: Aria Stewart.

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Special Edition: Innovation Amidst a Disaster with Jeff Reichman Sep 06, 2017

Show notes

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.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

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Special Guest: Jeff Reichman.

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045: Sexual Assault and Project Callisto with Lynn Cyrin Sep 06, 2017

Show notes

Content/Trigger Warning: This episode discusses sexual assault.

00:16 – Welcome to “Fullstack Activism” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:22 – Lynn’s Background Story and Superpowers

FIRST LEGO League

11:34 – Project Callisto: Reporting Sexual Assault and Dealing with The System

17:57 – Institutional Betrayal and Keeping Information Private

20:49 – The Chain of Command: How Project Callisto Works

22:17 – Reticence When it Comes to Talking About Sexual Assault

26:04 – “Staying in Your Lane”

27:56 – Matching Reports

29:33 – The Technology Behind the App

34:14 – Evaluating Features

38:16 – Contributing to Project Callisto

Donate to Project Callisto

41:54 – Open Sourcing the Project

44:00 – Code Sharing

Reflections:

Coraline: Empathy and developers putting the psychological safety of their users first.

Brené Brown on Empathy

Astrid: Building technology for the greater good.

Jamey: If you don’t like what someone else is doing, you can do your own thing and make it happen.

Sam: Believe survivors.

Ashe Dryden: The Risk In Speaking Up

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

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Special Guest: Lynn Cyrin.

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