061: Destruction-Focused Development with Safia Abdalla




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Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/paladique"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jasmine Greenaway</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">|</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Safia Abdalla: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/captainsafia"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@captainsafia</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="https://safia.rocks/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">safia.rocks</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://zarf.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zarf</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/tanmulabs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tanmu Labs</span></a></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>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:53</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Safia’s Superpower: Sight</span></p> <p><b>03:04 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Learning Languages — Both Human and Programming</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blutner.de/color/Sapir-Whorf.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sapir Whorf Hypothesis</span></a></p> <p><b>07:56 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Being Empathetic in an International Perspective and Building Universal and Approachable Tech</span></p> <p><b>11:19 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– What does success look like for minorities in the Silicon Valley monoculture?; Being Tokenized</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Admiral Grace Hopper</span></a></p> <p><b>21:59 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Accepting Speaking Engagements Because of Who You Are (i.e. as a woman, minority, etc.)</span></p> <p><b>24:07 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Writing Things Down to Balance Prioritizing Decisions</span></p> <p><b>30:46 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Defining “Happy” and Always Feeling the Need to Do More</span></p> <p><b>37:02 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Destruction-Focused Development</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Destruction-Focused Development:<br> write it, delete it, repeat.<br> “I don’t become obsessed with the code.<br> I think it’s more important to be obsessed with the problem.” <a href="https://twitter.com/captainsafia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@captainsafia</a><br> on <a href="https://twitter.com/greaterthancode?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@greaterthancode</a></p> <p>— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) <a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron/status/943551570591002624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2017</a></p> </blockquote> <p></p> <p><b>43:58 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Safia’s Early Coding “Shenanigans”</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Coraline:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Being thoughtful about planning finite energy and labor. Also being content vs being happy.</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="lt"></p> </blockquote>