Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 430 | Sarah Dutkiewicz - Listening for the why
Guest:
Sarah Dutkiewicz talks with Dave Rael about teaching and learning, returning to programming, women in tech, and how to listen
Sarah has been in the technical realm since the late 90s. She has served in many roles – including technical support, manager, desktop support, server administrator, database administrator, developer, instructor, and mentor. Throughout her career, Sarah has found her place in the technical community – as an organizer, speaker, facilitator, author, editor, reviewer, blogger, and advocate. Due to her community involvement, Microsoft has awarded her the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award – 2009-2014 in Visual C#, 2015 in Visual Studio, and 2016 in Visual Studio and Development Technologies. Sarah loves sharing her passion for tech with the community whenever she can!
Chapters:
- - Sarah and Dave catching up
- - Returning to daily development work from other activities
- - Developers and managers and Sarah's many types of experience
- - Humans vs computers - machines doing exactly what they are told and the complexity of human interaction
- - The rewards of teaching
- - Gender bias in software teams
- - Being reasonable and good to people even in disagreement
- - Listening for the why
Resources:
- Sarah's first appearance on Developer On Fire
- Shawn Rakowski on Developer On Fire
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom - Jonathan Haidt
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
- Jonathan Haidt on the Elephant and Rider metaphor
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
- Eric Evans on Developer On Fire
- Aslak Hellesøy on Developer On Fire
- Test Your Understanding - Dave's Blog Post on Simple Programmer based on Aslak Hellesøy's Insight
- Bill & Ted
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek
- The 5 Whys
