Developer on Fire
Episode 176 | Linda Rising and Kendall Rael - Learning and Mindset
Linda Rising is an independent consultant who lives near Nashville, Tennessee. Linda has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University in the area of object-based design metrics. Her background includes university teaching as well as work in industry in telecommunications, avionics, and strategic weapons systems. She is an internationally known presenter on topics related to agile development, patterns, retrospectives, the change process, and the connection between the latest neuroscience and software development. Linda is the author of numerous articles and has published several books: Design Patterns in Communications, The Pattern Almanac 2000, A Patterns Handbook, and with co-author Mary Lynn Manns, Fearless Change: Patterns for introducing new ideas and released in 2015 More Fearless Change. Her web site is: www.lindarising.org
Kendall Rael is a 10-year-old 5th grade student who loves reading, soccer, playing piano, and her dearest friends. She is a daughter of the host of Developer On Fire.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show, Linda Rising, and Kendall Rael
- - Mindsets and the premise of this episode
- - Framing your view of the world and yourself based on messages that don't tell you what you think
- - Responding to frustration when learning is difficult
- - Falling down and getting back up - persisting in learning
- - Gender differences, disadvantages, and voices of doubt
- - Messages of "can't" from others and from self and a trick for responding
- - The joy of persisting and overcoming - the value of the struggle
- - The foresight of destiny of the reader/viewer in fiction and the absence of that in real life
- - Future, community, and helping one another
- - The benefits of music, and the virtues of self-knowledge and self-awareness
- - Nervousness and excitement
- - Advice for parents