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
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On this day in Paris in 1948, the United Nations issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that sets out the fundamental rights and privileges of all people and all natio…
159: Bias in AI with Lauren Maffeo
02:26 - Lauren’s Superpower: Remembering Useful Yet Sentimental Facts About People
03:57 - Lauren’s Professional Background
07:35 - Bias in the Downsides of AI
- Automation vs. Augmentation
- Meredit…
158: Exploring Company Values with Ariel Caplan
01:22 - Ariel’s Superpower: Extreme Irritability
- How to Address What is Irritating You
07:30 - Accessibility Needs - Learning What Irritates Others
- Disability Simulation in the Workplace
- Hot-K…
157: Reinventing Education with Willem Larsen
01:12 - Willem’s Superpower: Meta
02:20 - Accelerated Community Learning
- Self-Sustaining Communities
12:45 - Reimagining the Education System
- Unschooling
- Open-Space
- Systems of Privilege
- Jordan…
156: Authenticity in Interviewing with James Edward Gray II
01:30 - James’ Superpower: Spending time chasing his daughter and her robots around. Helping with her robotics club at school.
02:37 - “Just Be Yourself” is Terrible Advice
03:50 - What Are You Try…
155: Ethical Open Source with Don Goodman-Wilson
01:10 - Don’s Superpower: He is a generalist. He has lots of skills he can bring together in one place.
02:25 - Ethics and Open Source
- Open Source is Broken
- OSI
- How Can we Make Sure Our Code isn’t…
154: Filtering Your Brain with Ambreen Hasan
01:12 - Ambreen’s Non-Technical Superpower: She is Very Good at Zoning People Out
- Learning necessary information from conversations
03:20 - Ambreen’s Technical Superpower: Any Challenge She is Gi…
153: Your Favorite Philosopher Is You with Mannah Kallon
01:16 - Mannah’s Superpower: He is Comfortable in His Own Skin
- Being Yourself
02:17 - Assessing Identity and Evaluating Sense of Self in New Culture
- What a Philosopher is
03:42 - Quoting Beyo…
152: Embracing Mathematics with Philip Wadler
02:35 - Philip’s Superpower: Being Not Afraid of Mathematics
04:07 - Programming Language Foundations in Agda
Special Edition: Becoming an Elder & the "Stage Two" of Life
There's a point in life, somewhere around the halfway mark, where the reality check hits -- you're going to die. There's a future without you in it. There's a new generation of children growing up,…
151: Off Meta with Amir Rajan
02:27 - Amir’s Superpower: Sensitivity to Development Pain
A Picture of Amir’s Keyboard and Battlestation
06:59 - Developer Productivity and Breaking Constraints
16:58 - I…
150: Cultural Transformation with Brian Lonsdorf
01:34 - Brian’s Superpower: Communicating and Listening
02:36 - The Role of Empathy in Teaching/Communicating
- Process Empathy
- Empathetic Report
04:11 - Learning and Teaching Functional Programmi…
149: Creating Effective Culture with Jesse James
01:49 - Jesse’s Superpower: Empathy by Learning to be Empathetic
- Taking a Step Back
- Mental Triggers
- Neurodiversity and Empathy
07:51 - Culture
- What is culture?
- Culture Fit
- Creating/Building/For…
148: Floober and Cognitive Outsourcing with Jacob Stoebel
00:43 - Jacob’s Superpower: Being Obsessive Re: Specificity; Allergic to Ambiguity on Teams
02:09 - Talking About Neurodiversity in Workspaces
- Self-diagnosis
- “Masking”
- Jacob’s Background and Intro…
147: Organizing Organizations with Jennifer Tu
00:52 - Jennifer’s Superpower: Seeing Inefficiencies in Processes
02:56 - Coaching Clients to Reorganize Their Organizations Due to Growth
Jean Hsu: Re-structuring a growing team
Communicating Cha…
146: Self.conference with Amber Conville
00:50 - Amber’s Superpower: Adaptability
01:48 - Self.conference -- Coming again next year in early June!
- Background/Origin
- Evolution of Diversity
- Transparency of Metrics
- Partnering with Organizat…
145: Balancing Hierarchies and Equity in Organizations with Brandy Foster
01:17 - Brandy’s Superpower: Adaptability
02:22 - Codes of Ethics
- Facial Recognition Technology
- Fear Detection Software / Emotion Recognition
- AI "emotion recognition" can't be trusted.
- Royal Oak p…
144: Being Greater Than Code with Jamison Dance
01:53 - Jamison’s Superpower: Moving swiftly between layers.
03:59 - Being An Engineering Manager
- Context Switching
- Career Advancement as an Engineer
- Title Inflation
- Providing Team Members…
143: Indigenous Data Sovereignty with Keoni Mahelona
01:20 - Keoni’s Background and Superpower: Building things quickly.
03:57 - Respect for Indiginous Cultures + Community + People
08:55 - Ownership of Data
14:52 - Learning Māori
18:59 - Indigenou…
142: Modeling Constraints in Human Systems with Will Larson
00:48 - Will’s Superpower: 1) The ability to take something complicated and to find simple ways to think about it that work most of the time. 2) A rigorous love of structure.