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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:

044: Lazy Perfectionism and Performative Diversity and Inclusion with Shanise Barona Aug 23, 2017

Show notes

Come to Catskills Conf and meet Mandy & Jamey! Stay for the experience.

Shanise Barona: @shanisebarona | shanisebarona.com

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

02:19 – Shanise’s Background Story and Superpower

Girl Develop It

03:08 – “Lazy Perfectionism”, “The Explosion of Dissonance”, and “The Moment of Click”

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero

12:49 – Improving Self-Directed Learning

100 Days of Code

15:35 – Having Tunnel Vision Past the Point of Where You Should and Moving Beyond a Comfort Zone

“I understood lazy perfectionism differently, more as the tendency to refactor, polish, and improve the various “-ilities” of your code long past the point when you should have moved on to something else. It’s like . . . tunnel vision on things that are important but not all-important. Finding the right balance there is super hard for me.” – Nathaniel Knight

Thank you to our latest $50 Patron, Josh Schmelzle!

21:50 – “Performative Diversity” and Community Building

Ela Conf

28:33 – Words and Actions: Influencing Diversity and Inclusion (D&I)

34:25 – Being Angry on Social Media But Feeling the Need to be Perceived as Positive (All the Time)

Reflections:

Sam: Lazy perfection is a thing with a label and something to pay attention to.

Janelle: How shallow efforts can be to create change (i.e. conference diversity).

Mandy: Stop giving lip service! Step up and prove that you care about diversity and inclusion by supporting groups and missions like Greater Than Code.

Jamey: Having connections with people to prove to yourself you’re not alone.

Jessica: If you want to have diverse attendees, get a diverse leadership team.

Shanise: 1. Seeking a balance between wanting and not wanting explosions of dissonance.

Find opportunities to highlight people that wouldn’t normally get opportunities to be highlighted.

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.

To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.

Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!

Special Guest: Shanise Barona.

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043: The Accessibility of Board Games with Mischa Lewis-Norelle and James Edward Gray Aug 16, 2017

Show notes

James Edward Gray: @JEG2

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

01:58 – Backgrounds and Superpowers

Hilary Stohs-Krause: We’ve Always Been Here: Women Changemakers in Tech @ RailsConf 2017

04:44 – Examples of Accessibility Challenges in Board Games

07:00 – Games and Challenges

Escape: The Curse of the Temple (Purchase)

Millennium Blades (Purchase)

11:49 – The Power of House Rules

RoboRally (Purchase)

Small World (Purchase)

14:41 – German-style/Eurogames vs American Games

Ticket to Ride (Purchase)

Puerto Rico (Purchase)

Settlers of Catan (Purchase

Great Western Trail (Purchase)

16:45 – Video Games; Real-time vs Turn Based Games

Master of Orion (Purchase)

Don’t Starve Together (Purchase)

Rogue

19:35 – Tabletop Role-Playing Games (RPGs)

Dungeons and Dragons (D&D)

22:45 – Cooperative Games vs Competitive Games

Space Cadets (Purchase)

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong (Purchase)

22:45 – Bluffing Games, The Autism Spectrum, and Player Elimination

Mascarade (Purchase)

Sheriff of Nottingham (Purchase)

Werewolf (Purchase)

One Night Werewolf (Purchase)

Resistance (Purchase)

Sentinels of the Universe (Purchase)

Goblin Quest (Purchase)

Shut Up & Sit Down: Sean Bean Quest

35:14 – The Cost of Board Games: Time and Money

How to Build an Amazing Board Game Collection for $10!

Pandemic Legacy (Purchase)

Gloomhaven (Purchase)

Cheapass Games

Fiasco (Purchase)

The Open Game License

Spyfall (Purchase)

Mafia (Purchase)

43:02 – The History of Monopoly; Leftist Board Games

45:56 – Resources

Favorite Games:

Sam: Repello (Purchase)

Coraline: Tales of the Arabian Nights (Purchase)

Rein: Dungeons and Dragons: Second Edition and Lords of Waterdeep (Purchase)

James: Exalted (Purchase)

Jamey: Betrayal at House on the Hill (Purchase)

Mischa: Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (Purchase)

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.

Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!

Special Guests: James Edward Gray and Mischa Lewis-Norelle.

Support Greater Than Code

042: @CallbackWomen and Organizing Conferences for Diversity and Inclusion with Carina C. Zona Aug 09, 2017

Show notes

00:16 – Welcome to “Life, The Universe, and Podcasts!” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:13 – Carina’s Background and Superpower

02:58 – @CallbackWomen and The Naming Struggle to Make Sure Marginalized and Non-Binary People Know They Are Included

Ashe Dryden: Increasing Diversity at Your Conference

12:13 – Sending Signals and/or Indicators That Encourage People to Apply to Speak At Your Conference

I hate to say this, but conferences need to relocate out of the U.S. My country is making business travel to U.S. untenable for so many ppl. https://t.co/bMOfbe6VDP
— Carina C. Zona (@cczona) June 3, 2017

23:10 – Conference Outreach

27:56 – Accessibility at Conferences

34:19 – Conferences “Competing” for Speakers

Call For Proposals (CFP)

40:26 – Financial Aid, Travel Stipends, and Reimbursement

This is now part of the US non-immigrant visa application. This is obnoxious, absurd and threatens freedom of speech. pic.twitter.com/lnpLmC5v4I
— Nima Fatemi (@mrphs) July 22, 2017

49:05 – Making a Difference with @CallbackWomen and Codes of Conduct

#cocpledge

Ashe Dryden: Codes of Conduct 101 + FAQ

Fund Club

Donate to @CallbackWomen!

Pledge via Patreon!

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Reflections:

Jamey: Having travel and accommodation expenses covered is important for speakers.

Sam: Flipping the paradigm.

Coraline: Using influence to affect change.

Carina: Having speaker mentors: both experienced and newbies.

Rein: How conferences have evolved in a positive way around diversity and inclusion.

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.

Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!

Special Guest: Carina C. Zona.

Support Greater Than Code

041: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mind Manipulation with Casey Watts! Aug 02, 2017

Show notes

caseywatts.com/mindmanipulation

A Neurobiologist’s Guide to Mind Manipulation [slides]

00:16 – Welcome to “CBT: Chunky Bacon Tacos and Psychological Safety” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”

01:18 – Empathy Development

03:25 – Training for Customer Support

Greater Than Code Episode 037: Failure Mode with Emily Gorcenski

A Neurobiologist’s Guide to Mind Manipulation by Casey Watts @ EmberConf 2017

06:53 – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Coraline Ada Ehmke: Emotions as State Machines (from the GTC blog!)

10:48 – Acknowledging Emotion; Rationality

14:23 – Inner vs Outer Brain

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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

16:22 – Empathetic vs Empathic; Empathy vs Sympathy

Pavneet Singh Saund: Practical Empathy: Unlock the Super Power @ NDC Oslo

21:32 – The Earned Dogmatism Effect [Video]

26:10 – Maladaptive Thought Patterns

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31:34 – The “Woop” State and Psychological Safety

Amy Edmondson: Psychological Safety

Coraline Ada Ehmke: Antisocial Coding: My Year At GitHub

38:09 – Leading with Vulnerability

Reflections:

Janelle: Choose your presence.

Jessica: Feel feelings in the moment, and then act on them.

Sam: Rationality is a facade and state machines can be edited.

Coraline: Understanding empathy over only performing empathy.

Casey: Making responding with empathy a habit.

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.

Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!

Special Guest: Casey Watts!.