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Trip Report: The Lead Developer 2016
→: Trip Report: The Lead Developer 2016Last year I spoke at the Lead Developer, and this year I was excited to come back as an attendee. It was really great last year, but speaking is super stressful and always my priority is to give a good performance, so I sometimes don’t get to enjoy events I’m speaking at that much. Or I’m…
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Technically Speaking Update
→: Technically Speaking UpdateWe have changed a few things with Technically Speaking lately. Firstly, we stopped using Google Docs to collaborate (partly because of the terrible formatting problems in the HTML that gets generated) and moved over to writing in markdown and checking into GitHub. We also open sourced the repo – so now the content is more…
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Talking Shine Theory and Other Things on LTOE
→: Talking Shine Theory and Other Things on LTOEI was on Less Than or Equal in March, something that I’ve actually been engaging in self-promotion of, because I think it’s one of the better things I’ve done. Largely because Aleen (the host) asked such thoughtful questions, and made me feel so comfortable speaking to her. I’ve also discovered that I just love podcasts…
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#GHC15 – Brian Nosek: Solving Implicit Bias in Gender and STEM
→: #GHC15 – Brian Nosek: Solving Implicit Bias in Gender and STEMStart far from implicit bias, at the implicit associations of the mind. Our understanding is mediated by our sensory systems. The mediation of these and all cognitive architecture, means that reality and our experience of reality, is not the same thing. Lots of inferences our mind makes to help understand reality. This gap. First way…
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#GHC15 – CRA-W Leadership Workshop: Gaining Recognition
→: #GHC15 – CRA-W Leadership Workshop: Gaining RecognitionMy notes from the session from Deb Agarwal (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Mary Jane Irwin (Pennsylvania State University) at GHC. Submit “leadership style” proposals. Submit “early career” LDRD and “Genius” grants. Create tools/systems that other use to do their research OSS TED talks Forces you to learn how to give a good talk, on time.…
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My Process for Writing a New Talk
→: My Process for Writing a New Talk(in no particular order) This seems like a good idea. These are points I should cover. Why the hell am I doing this. I should not be talking about this topic (reasons: assorted). Ooh break through! This is the angle I’ll take! Excited! It’s happening so just write the damn thing. I’ve given so many…
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NSConf15: Marco Arment – App Marketing For Small Developers
→: NSConf15: Marco Arment – App Marketing For Small DevelopersMy notes from Marco’s talk at @NSConf [video]. Hopefully convince you to consider marketing in apps. Truly effective marketing is a respectable part of business. As necessary as good engineering, and good design. Refusing to consider is just doing yourself and your apps is a disservice. Marketing is fine. Even good. We need it. But…
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My Current Policy on Speaker Travel Costs
→: My Current Policy on Speaker Travel CostsAbout a year ago I wrote about how I get myself uninvited from unflattering speaking invitations (TL;DR I use them as negotiation practise). And last August I wrote about the different options that speakers have when it comes to travel costs – including not going. I was pretty public about not speaking if there was no…
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NSConf – Jessie Char – Expert of Nothing
→: NSConf – Jessie Char – Expert of NothingMy notes from @jessiechar‘s talk at @nsconf [video]. Going through a period of transition. Very fluid. Feel uncomfortable prescribing processes to people. Ambivalence is not the same as apathy. Ambivalence – caring too much about both sides to make a decision. Apathy – not caring enough to make a decision. Same result, but different. Why process is so…