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
121: Emergency Communication with Thai Wood
01:26 - Resilience Engineering and Closed-loop Communication
06:55 - Acknowledging Burnout in the Developer Community
09:31 - Professionalization and Formal Training
17:41 - Reliab…
120: Expect The Unexpected with Andy Hunt
01:55 - Andy’s Superpower: Explaining blindingly obvious things to people that they don’t see.
08:13 - Iterative Development and Continuous Learning: Becoming Comfortable with Uncer…
119: Cultural Brokerage with Bianca Escalante
01:55 - Bianca’s Superpower: Being a Cultural Broker
06:36 - Code-Switching and Identity As An Asset
Keynote: Who and What We're Leaving Behind by Bianca Escalante @ RubyConf 2018
118: A Piece of Luck with Jessica Kerr
01:50 - Jess’s Superpower: Being a Property of a Situation
04:25 - The Interpretation of Luck and the Psychology of Scarcity
08:17 - Physics; Physics and Software
12:06 - Conference …
116: Healing Organizational Trauma with Matt Stratton
Matty’s Talk, Fight, Flight, or Freeze — Releasing Organizational Trauma @ REdeploy 2018
02:59 – Matt’s Superpower: Taking metaphors and ideas around self-help and turning them into allegories and a…
115: Tension Between Opposites with Sam Joseph
01:30 – Sam’s Superpower: Persistence
08:07 – Mindfulness and Relaxation; Nonviolent Communication
Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Shambhala
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114: Theory of Mind with Jean-Francois Cloutier
02:41 – JF’s Superpower: Systems Thinking
06:58 – Robots and Elixir
Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind
Rodney Brooks -- Robots, AI, and other stuff
17:10 – Reapproaching…
113: Privilege as Legacy Code with Amr
Amr Abdelwahab - An empathy exercise: contextualising the question of privilege (EuRuKo 2018 Video)
01:53 – Amr’s Superpower: Seeing the bigger picture.
04:24 – It’s Not Just Code
11:18 – Privileg…
112: Dancing About Vulnerability with Marcel Byrd
00:53 – Marcel’s Superpower: An Explosive Relationship with Laughter
01:45 – The Intersection of Public Health and Art
06:36 – Authenticity and Vulnerability; Bringing Your Whole Self While Remaini…
111: Thermodynamics of Emotion with Thomas Perry
01:30 – Tom’s Superpower: Hot Toddies, Eccentricity, and Talking to Animals!
04:42 – Observing Animal vs Humans Behavior and Organizational Restructuring
10:25 – Looking Fo…
110: Human Incident Response with Courtney Eckhardt
RubyConf 2018 - Retrospectives for Humans by Courtney Eckhardt
01:16 – Courtney’s Superpower: Explaining things.
06:50 – Incident Response: How we talk to people how are are affected by incidents
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109: Tech Fashion Part 2 with Jaya Iyer of Svaha
01:11 – Jaya’s Superpower: Changing situations for the better.
02:54 – What does it take to change things?
99 Percent Invisible - Pockets: Articles of Interest #3
06:37 – The Lack of Science and …
108: Tech Fashion Part 1 with Kayte Malik of Dress Code
00:57 – Kayte’s Superpower: Taking Something That Doesn’t Exist & Making It Real
02:12 – Having Confidence
06:45 – Paying Closer Attention to Your Accomplishments
08:30 – Dress Code at a Tac…
Special Edition: Ruby Together – LIVE! from RubyConf 2018
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107: The Ruby Central Opportunity Scholarship Program
The Ruby Central Opportunity Scholarship/Guide Program
02:13 – Superpowers: Flying, Changing Diapers, and Empathy!
03:21 – Scholars’ Favorite Parts of the Conference
06:58 – Conferencing as an Int…
106: Taking Up Space with Laurie Barth
01:20 – Laurie’s Superpower: Being a Timesuck
08:44 – Interviewing and Hiring Developers Effectively
12:24 – Creating False Negatives: Turning Down Candidates Prematurely
18:1…
105: Code Switching with Maurice Cherry
01:49 – Maurice’s Superpower: Extreme Empathy
04:06 – Code Switching
13:21 – Creating and Fostering Safe Conference Environments
19:34 – Overcoming Feelings of Disco…
104: Jellyfish Signaling with Sam Livingston-Gray
01:33 – Is Sam a Jellyfish?
03:14 – Sam’s Superpower: Making Connections Between Weird Things
05:17 – Driving Evolution
08:19 – “Fitness Landscape” and “Fitness Function”
21:17 …
103: The Org You Were Born Into with Marcus Blankenship
01:12 – Marcus’ Superpower: Helping Engineers Become Good Bosses
02:30 – Bosses Who Don’t Wanna Boss: Ending Up in Management
10:37 – Are there people who just aren’t cut out f…