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
196: Documentation as Performance with Aisha Blake
02:26 - Aisha’s Superpower: Proofreading
04:05 - Documentation
- “The Code Documents Itself”
- Context / Entry Points
- Documentation as a Narrative
- The Value of Documentation
07:54 - Forms of Documen…
195: Pivoting to PPE with Christina Perla
02:33 - Christina’s Superpower: Resourcefulness, Industrial Design
- Pratt Institute
- Building Physical Mockups of Items
- Learning on The Go
07:30 - Starting Makelab; Inspiration for 3D Printing
- En…
194: I Don’t Need You To Like Me, I Need You To Hate Racism with Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn
02:28 - Courtney’s Superpower: Speaking on the Topic of Racism
“You can’t prioritize your discomfort over living your own values.” – Courtney
- White Liberals Are Dangerous: the “I’m liberal...I’m n…
193: Optimizing For Happiness with Tudor Gîrba
02:09 - Tudor’s Superpower: Storytelling
- Getting Beyond Your Self-Critic
- Writing Code is Storytelling
- There’s No Semantics Without Syntax
13:04 - Reading Stories (and Code)
- Reading Code Takes P…
192: Bringing Our Whole Selves with Siobhán Cronin
02:36 - Siobhán’s Superpower: Catalyzing Personal and Community Change
04:19 - Managing Change During COVID-19
- Experiencing Joy While Grieving
- Bringing Your Whole Self to Work (a boundary being st…
191: Sitting Down Together with Amy Tobey
02:14 - Amy’s Superpower: Looking at a mess and seeing the potential for what it could be.
03:40 - Generalists vs Specialists
“The job descrip…
190: Social Media, Privacy, and Security with Joe LeBlanc
01:32 - Joe’s Superpower: Hospitality
06:20 - Social Media: It's time for us to stop acting like we are getting access to social media f…
189: Succeeding in Science with Deborah Berebichez
01:13 - Debbie’s Superpower: Having an excellent memory and a detailed-oriented brain
03:23 - Teaching Science in Fun Ways
188: Going Off the Rails with Damien Burke
01:10 - Damien’s Superpower: The ability to hold conflicting beliefs at the same time.
04:09 - Life is Hard. How do we make things easy?
187: Seeing The World with Bryan Liles
01:50 - Bryan’s Superpower: The ability to see the world as it is
06:52 - Conference Circuits / Virtual Conferencing
186: The Universe Makes it Happen with Emily Gorcenski
Emily has been on GTC before! Check out her previous episode: 037: Failure Mode
01:08 - Emily’s Superpower: Hunting Nazis and Data Science
- Emily’s Motivation to Do This Work – Fighting Back
- What i…
Special Edition: #BlackLivesMatter
There are no show notes nessecary for this episode. Your job is to listen and learn from these 3 strong women.
Special Guests: Isa Herico-Velasco , Kim Crayton, and Shireen Mitchell.
185: Adaptive Capacity and Mutual Aid with Michelle Glauser
02:27 - Michelle’s Superpower: Resilience
04:59 - Techtonica
- The Board
- Breaking Barriers Into Tech
- Income Sharing Agreements
- Job Placement Success
- Setting Cohorts Up For …
184: The Python Software Foundation and the Future of Conferencing with Naomi Ceder & Ewa Jodlawska
01:39 - Ewa’s Superpower: Organization
02:01 - Naomi’s Superpower: Empathy for the Marginalized
02:51 - The Python Software Foundation (PSF)
05:26 - Regional and Loca…
183: How We Learn with Vaidehi Joshi
01:47 - Vaidehi’s Superpower: Learning new things and teaching them to other people
- Teaching Things Helps YOU Learn
- Deciding on Things to Learn
05:01 - Approaching Learning
- Reading
- Relating Thi…
182: Labor Organizing with Ellen Wondra
00:41 - Ellen’s Superpower: Knowing what her pets are thinking. (Observation and Paying Attention to Non-Verbal Cues.)
- Virginia Satir, Congruence and Incongruence
- Lie to Me
- Detecting Microexpressio…
181: Normalcy Theater with Aaron Aldrich
02:04 - Aaron’s Superpower: Relating to people on any level because he has so many hobbies!
- Useful in DevRel
- Ending Up in Unexpected Places
- Trying New Things and Nerding Out
06:42 - Everything Ha…
180: Open Source Freedom and Technical Purity with Tobie Langel
02:34 - Tobie’s Superpower: Bridging tribes.
- Avoiding Labels
04:13 - Being a Co-Conspirator of Ethical Open Source
- Contributing to the Greater Good
- Finding Deeper Meaning in Open Source, Softwa…
179: Conference Magic with PJ Hagerty
02:43 - PJ’s Superpower: Convincing people that karaoke is a good idea.
- PJ’s Karaoke History
- Why Karaoke is Awesome
07:13 - The DevRel World (DevRel = Developer Relations)
13:42 -…
178: Data Science and Sponsorship with Emily Robinson
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