In this episode, Sam Joseph talks about making spaces to have safe and nonviolent conversations, collaborative communication and learning, delivering working solutions that meet end-user needs, and the value of doing things the way you’re used to vs a way that might be better. Hi friends!...that's what Scott Hanselman says whenever he starts a talk or a podcast. He's done over 650 episodes of his Hanselminutes podcast that he calls "Fresh AIr for Developers." It's a tight 30 min technology chat show that shares the same values that we do here at Greater than Code. There's a HUGE library of guests for you to catch up on and a new high quality show every Thursday afternoon with a fresh face you may not have seen on other shows! Panelists: Jamey Hampton | John K. Sawers Special Guest: Sam Joseph: @tansakuu Sam is a CoFounder of AgileVentures, a charity that helps groups of volunteers gather online to develop open source solutions for other charities all around the world. Sam's been mucking about with computers since the early 80s and followed the traditional education system through to a PhD in Neural Nets. Next he went all industry, researching mobile agents at Toshiba in Japan, going freelance and then swung back to academia to research peer to peer system and collaborative systems. He now spends the majority of his time trying to make AgileVentures a sustainable charity enterprise, with occasional moonlighting as a contract programmer. Show Notes: 01:30 – Sam’s Superpower: Persistence AgileVentures Blog 08:07 – Mindfulness and Relaxation; Nonviolent Communication Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Shambhala 17:23 – Collaborative Communication and Learning 26:17 – The Tension Between Code/Architectural Beauty and Delivering Working Solutions That Meet End-Users Needs The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman 38:49 – Being “Used to Things” and Getting Things Done via Incremental Changes Technology Strategy: Leaky Boats and Rocket Ships Reflections: John: 1) Thinking about relaxation as something you do as opposed to things you don’t do. 2) Learning how communication works and communicate better with other people more authentically. Jamey: Reading people cues is hard and beating yourself up over missed communication is not productive. Sam: Sometimes it’s okay to not have emotional energy to make changes. Want to help keep us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to mandy@greaterthancode.com. Are you Greater Than Code? Submit guest blog posts to mandy@greaterthancode.com Please leave us a review on iTunes! 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! Transcript: ["Hi, friends." That's what Scott Hanselman says whenever he starts a talk or a podcast. He's done over 650 episodes of his Hanselminutes Podcast that he calls 'Fresh Air for Developers.' It's a tight 30-minute technology chat show that shares the same values that we do here at Greater Than Code. There's a huge library of guests for you to catch up on and a new high quality show every Thursday afternoon with a fresh face you may not have seen on other shows.] JAMEY: Hello, listeners and welcome to Episode 115 of Greater Than Code. I'm one of your host, Jamey Hampton and I am here with my friend, John K Sawers. JOHN: Thank you, Jamey and I'm here to introduce our guest for today, Sam Joseph. Sam is a co-founder of AgileVentures,
In this episode, Sam Joseph talks about making spaces to have safe and nonviolent conversations, collaborative communication and learning, delivering working solutions that meet end-user needs, and the value of doing things the way you’re used to vs a way that might be better.
Hi friends!...that's what Scott Hanselman says whenever he starts a talk or a podcast. He's done over 650 episodes of his Hanselminutes podcast that he calls "Fresh AIr for Developers." It's a tight 30 min technology chat show that shares the same values that we do here at Greater than Code. There's a HUGE library of guests for you to catch up on and a new high quality show every Thursday afternoon with a fresh face you may not have seen on other shows!
Panelists:
Jamey Hampton | John K. Sawers
Special Guest:
Sam Joseph: @tansakuu
Sam is a CoFounder of AgileVentures, a charity that helps groups of volunteers gather online to develop open source solutions for other charities all around the world. Sam's been mucking about with computers since the early 80s and followed the traditional education system through to a PhD in Neural Nets. Next he went all industry, researching mobile agents at Toshiba in Japan, going freelance and then swung back to academia to research peer to peer system and collaborative systems. He now spends the majority of his time trying to make AgileVentures a sustainable charity enterprise, with occasional moonlighting as a contract programmer.
Show Notes:
01:30 – Sam’s Superpower: Persistence
AgileVentures Blog
08:07 – Mindfulness and Relaxation; Nonviolent Communication
Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Shambhala
17:23 – Collaborative Communication and Learning
26:17 – The Tension Between Code/Architectural Beauty and Delivering Working Solutions That Meet End-Users Needs
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
38:49 – Being “Used to Things” and Getting Things Done via Incremental Changes
Technology Strategy: Leaky Boats and Rocket Ships
Reflections:
John: 1) Thinking about relaxation as something you do as opposed to things you don’t do.
2) Learning how communication works and communicate better with other people more authentically.
Jamey: Reading people cues is hard and beating yourself up over missed communication is not productive.
Sam: Sometimes it’s okay to not have emotional energy to make changes.
Want to help keep us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag,
and bring us to conferences near you?
Support us via Patreon!
Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to mandy@greaterthancode.com.
Are you Greater Than Code?
Submit guest blog posts to mandy@greaterthancode.com
Please leave us a review on iTunes!
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!
Transcript:
["Hi, friends." That's what Scott Hanselman says whenever he starts a talk or a podcast. He's done over 650 episodes of his Hanselminutes Podcast that he calls 'Fresh Air for Developers.' It's a tight 30-minute technology chat show that shares the same values that we do here at Greater Than Code. There's a huge library of guests for you to catch up on and a new high quality show every Thursday afternoon with a fresh face you may not have seen on other shows.]
JAMEY: Hello,