058: Kindness and Patience with Tara Scherner de la Fuente




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Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ianthro"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Astrid Countee</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tara Scherner de la Fuente: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MediaRemedial"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@MediaRemedial</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://www.mediaremedial.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mediaremedial.com</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="https://twitter.com/GoatUserStories"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@GoatUserStories</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcome to Episode 111010 of the Greater Than Code Podcast!</span></p> <p><b>02:09</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Tara’s Superpower and Origin Story: Patience</span></p> <p><b>04:56 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Conflating Patience with Kindness</span></p> <p><b>07:39 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Is writing code making us less thoughtful? AKA Patience in the Workplace</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/the-economic-value-of-rapid-response.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (The Doherty Threshold) </span></p> <p><b>16:22 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Warning Signs that a Company’s Culture is Not a Good One; Also, is it the company or is it individuals within a company?</span></p> <p><b>22:59 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Looking for and Interviewing for a Job at a Less Toxic Environment</span></p> <p><b>33:20 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– What does it mean to be a developer?</span></p> <p><b>36:33 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Interviewing and Privilege</span></p> <p><b>39:35 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Advice for Early Career Developers</span></p> <p><b>44:10 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Remote Work Culture</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Join Our Slack Channel!<br> </b><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">Support us via </b><a style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 1.8rem;" href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Are you Greater Than Code?</b><b><br> </b><b>Submit guest blog posts to </b><a href="mailto:mandy@greaterthancode.com"><b>mandy@greaterthancode.com</b></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Please leave us a review on iTunes!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Coraline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Being patient and kind.</span></p> <p><b>Astrid:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Software development is always something you can continue to improve at.</span></p> <p><b>Tara:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> People don’t have to be exactly like us to be a person that we want to work with. Being different can be an asset.</span></p> <p><b>Sam:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Interviewing somebody should be able finding out how they think and not about what they necessary know at the moment.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Transcript:</strong></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>CORALINE: </b> Hello and welcome to Episode 111010 of the Greater Than Code Podcast. I am Coraline Ada Ehmke and I am joined by the lovely and talented Astrid Countee.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>ASTRID:<span class="Apple-conver"></span></b></span></p>