Greater Than Code
For a long time, tech culture has focused too narrowly on technical skills; this has resulted in a tech community that too often puts companies and code over people. Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology. Greater Than Code is providing a vital platform for these conversations, and developing new ideas of what it means to be a technologist beyond just the code.
Featuring an ongoing panel of racially and gender diverse tech panelists, the majority of podcast guests so far have been women in tech! We’ve covered topics including imposter syndrome, mental illness, sexuality, unconscious bias and social justice. We also have a major focus on skill sets that tech too often devalues, like team-building, hiring, community organizing, mentorship and empathy. Each episode also includes a transcript.
We have an active Slack community that members can join by pledging as little as $1 per month via Patreon. (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode)
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 284
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2022
102: Sticky in the Flow with Katrina Owen
Greater Than Code Episode Episode 008: 99 Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen
01:29 – Katrina’s Superpower: Organizing and Systematizing
09:44 – Motivation by Success
101: A Difficult Conversation with Sonia Gupta
02:02 – Sonia’s Superpower: Talking about white supremacy and dealing with the fallout.
05:27 – Feeling Rightness and Motivation to Stand Up for Your Beliefs
10:15 – Seeing Your Advocacy and Effort…
100: The Business of Documentation with Jaime Slutzky
01:12 – Jaime’s Superpower: Taking complex ideas and figuring out the fastest way from here to there. (i.e.: logistics!)
05:41 – Tech as a Roadblock
19:44 – Handing Off Responsibilities to …
099: The Knowledge You Possess with Stephanie Morillo
02:40 – Stephanie’s Superpower: Intellectual Curiosity
13:06 – On Being a Content PM, Technical Writer, and Ruby Together Core Team Member
19:44 – Validating Open So…
098: Designing For Inclusion with Jenny Shen
01:51 – Jenny’s Superpower: Not Giving a F*ck and Sticking Up For Others
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
05:00 – Living a Remote Lifestyle and …
097: The Job of a Manager with Brandon Hays
00:43 – Brandon’s Superpower: Helping Other People Discover Their Own Superpower
02:04 – Maintaining Relationships When People Change Jobs So Frequently
04:31 – Climbing The Corporate Tech Ladder a…
096: Resilience Engineering with John Allspaw
John Allspaw: Etsy’s Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems
01:32 – John’s Superpower: Seeing connections across domains.
05:45 – All Technical Communities Run Small, the Intersect…
095: Cleaning House with Heidi Waterhouse
01:20 – Heidi’s Superpower: Being Able to Remember Where Other People Set Things Down
03:53 – Where will software be in three years?
Greater Than Code Episode 084: Federation Is Bad with Aurynn Sha…
094: Humans All The Way Down with April Wensel
01:07 – April’s Superpower: Synthesizing Seemingly Unrelated Concepts to Create Something New
02:30 – Tension Between Code and Compassion
05:47 – Living According to Your Values
11:33 – Team Value…
093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (Print Version)
01:57 – Eden’s Superpower: Being a Patient Learner
06:51 – Determining Your Ability/Eligibility to Speak as an…
092: A11y Ally with Rob DeLuca
01:09 – Rob’s Superpower: Ambition
05:00 – Designing and Testing for Accessibility
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview
091: Solving Puzzles and Productive Failure with Kim Vanderspek
02:03 – Kim’s Superpower: Being able to solve puzzles and problems and teaching others to do the same.
05:39 – Speaking and Teaching Math
11:44 – Using Technology to Visualize Math: Quilting, Sewin…
090: The Journey with Chelsea Troy
02:03 – Chelsea’s Superpower: Pushing through and enduring discomfort to accomplish things
06:24 – The Act of Writing and Reflection: Journaling as a Tool for Learning; Commit Tracing
14:…
089: Something Something Agile with Noel Rappin
Greater Than Code Episode 001: Taking Payments on the Web with Noel Rappin
02:58 – Noel’s Superpower: Extrapolating and Explaining Consequences of Tech Decisions to Others
06:24 – Cultural Patterns…
088: The Safety 2 Dance with Steven Shorrock
01:46 – Steven’s Superpower: Being a Super-Recognizer and Empathy
Steven Shorrock on the myth of human error (Courtney Nash & O’Reilly Radar)
04:21 – Steven’s Occupational History, Background, and …
087: The Jazz of Empathy with Chad Fowler
02:17 – Chad’s Superpower: Empathy!
07:47 – Using Introspection For a Means to Recover from and Deal with Bipolar Disorder
10:51 – Modeling Yourself
16:35 – The Importance of Self-Care
19:22 – Pr…
086: Culture Is A Community Growing Together with Jesse Oliver Sanford
01:18 – Oliver’s Superpower: The Ability to Read
01:54 – Cognitive Science and Emotional Cognition
The effects of BOTOX injections on emotional experience.
1…
085: BOOK CLUB! Technically Wrong with Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Buy the book! Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
01:02 – Sara’s Superpower: Communication and Connecting the Dots
03:43 – The Process of Writing, Edi…
084: Federation Is Bad with Aurynn Shaw
01:30 – Federation and Your Internet Identity
Stayin’ Alive in Technology: Who Are You? Coraline Ada Ehmke and Identity on the Internet
05:59 – Flaws of Federated Identity
10:18 …
083: Programming As An Identity with Tim Chevalier
01:10 – Tim’s Superpower: Keeping Himself From Laughing / Improv
04:19 – Tim’s Journey as a Programmer
09:12 – The Collision of Values Within the Programming Industry and The Meaning and Measuremen…