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
141: Navigating Blame
02:37 - Interpersonal Neurobiology and Emotionally Meaningful Experiences + Feelings Working on Software
05:42 - Postmortems and Incident Reviews
09:05 - Blaming People / Blamelessness
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140: Bounded Perfection with Amitai Schleier
01:29 - Running a Mail Server
08:49 - Amitai’s Superpower: Squirrel Power! and Orienting Himself in a New Problem Space (And Helping Others to Orient …
139: Conferencing
02:43 - First Conference Experiences
08:31 - The Importance of Networking + Stickers!!
14:56 - Conference Fashion
16:51 - Approaching Speakers After Talks and Tricks to Remembering Names + Faces
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138: Job Satisfaction
02:13 - What is Job Satisfaction?
03:25 - Predictors of Job Satisfaction
- Mission Alignment
- Psychological Safety
14:02 - Evaluating Job Satisfaction: Questions to Ask During Interviews
- What sho…
137: Pairing & Sharing with Llewellyn Falco and Clare Macrae
01:32 - Clare’s Superpower: Collecting and Sharing Useful Information
04:31 - Llewellyn’s Superpower: The Ability to Collaborate with Others
08:01 - Pairing Together: C++ Version of ApprovalTests
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136: Addressing Technical Friction
The Twitter thread:
All I can say here is that I try to lead by example. If there’s a clear path to “make the change easy, then make the easy change,” make sure the commit history shows that explici…
135: Intentional Learning with Saron Yitbarek
01:24 - Saron’s Superpower: Being able to figure out what people need + read people.
02:26 - Codeland Conference
July 22nd, 2019 in New York City!
134: Building Profiles with Halleemah Nash
01:43 - Halleemah’s Superpower: Cultural Fluency: Operating authentically and being who you are in any space you are in.
07:37 - Existing in Other Spaces; Active Listening
10:31 - B…
133: Dark Horses with Chanté Thurmond
01:56 - Chanté’s Superpower: Spotting Talent (Dark Horses)
05:33 - Perceiving Talent/Potential
09:15 - Confronting Biases and Societal Categorization/Division/Labeling
18:54 - Identi…
132: Distilling the Hailstorm with Claire Lew
02:06 - Claire’s Superpower: The Ability to Distill Things and Catching Pellets
05:21 - Janelle’s Superpower: Seeing the Gifts of Others and Bringing Them to Surface
08:19 - Sam’s Superpower: Being…
131: Poo-Covered Rocks with Cat Swetel
01:40 - Cat’s Superpower: Knowing What Other People’s Superpowers Are (before they do!)
03:32 - Managing a Platform with Ancient Value
07:54 - Telling Stories Within Code: History Matters
10:11 - …
130: Acceptance is the First Step with Britni Alexander
01:54 - Britni’s Superpower: Resilience; Also: Failure as an Opportunity, Wallowing, and Acceptance
- Is failure a “No, but…” or “Yes, and…” ?
- Acknowledging Emotions
129: Bringing The Fun with Lori Olson
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01:23 - Lori’s Superpower: Mapping
03:56 - “Positive Mania” and Getting Into Game Programming
128: Finding and Cultivating Community Leaders with Ben Pollard
00:48 - Ben’s Superpower: Making Arancini and Reading A Lot of Books
02:00 - Starting Local Welcome and Helping Refugees
09:37 - Humanization, Cognitive Biases, and Heuristics
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127: Hope and Suffering with Amy Newell
01:47 - Amy’s Superpower: Sustaining hope and faith in the face of what feels like no hope and no faith.
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman
07:40 - Am…
126: Asking Powerful Questions with Suzan Bond
01:04 - Suzan’s Superpower: Asking Powerful Questions
07:30 - Blending Technology and Coaching
10:32 - Blending Technology and Humans; Working Distributed/Remotely
15:32 -…
125: Everything is Communication with Sam Aaron
01:42 - Sam’s Superpower: Staring at the same problem for days -- Patience and Delayed Gratification
03:42 - Effective Communication: What is fluid?
08:54 - Logging
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124: Navigating Neurodiversity with Helen Needham
01:45 - Helen’s Superpower: Taking Abstract Information Seeing Things Others Don’t See
05:26 - Decoding People: Asking Contextual Questions and Listening For Motivation
11:52 - The Intersection of…
123: BOOK CLUB! Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Persig
05:21 - Persig’s Two Paradigms: Classical and Romantic
11:50 - What is beautiful?
15:49 - Quality
33:44 - Emotional Motivation
41:1…
122: Surfing with Michael "GeePaw" Hill
01:45 - Autopoiesis, Smell, and Passing
Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
Thud!: A Novel of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
11:15 - The Channels in Your Head (Noise)
12:15 -…