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Episode 139 | Amitai Schlair - Making Lives Better

Amitai Schlair talks with Dave Rael about bringing out the best in people, expectations, relationships, simplicity, and that it's never too late

Amitai Schlair (@schmonz) is a software development coach, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, and award-winning bad poet. He publishes fixed-length micropodcasts at Agile in 3 Minutes, writes variable-length articles at schmonz.com, and contributes code and direction to notable open-source projects such as NetBSD, pkgsrc, and ikiwiki. Amitai’s ideas, prose, music, and puns have manifested at multiple conference including, the International Rachmaninoff Conference, and the Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest.

Amitai's book recommendation:
Amitai's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
  1. Know why it matters
  2. Know yourself
  3. Make your teammates great

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