Developer on Fire

Episode 436 | Amitai Schleier - Safe for Programmers and Non-programmers

Aug 12 '19

Guest:

Amitai Schleier returns to Developer On Fire to talk with Dave Rael about inclusion, special abilities, coaching, perspectives, and safety

Amitai Schleier (@schmonz) is a software development coach, legacy code wrestler, non-award-winning musician, and award-winning bad poet. He publishes fixed-length micropodcasts at Agile in 3 Minutes, writes variable-length articles at schmonz.com, and contributes code and direction to notable open-source projects such as NetBSD, pkgsrc, and ikiwiki. Amitai’s ideas, prose, music, and puns have manifested at multiple conference including, the International Rachmaninoff Conference, and the Alfred Joyce Kilmer Memorial Bad Poetry Contest.

Chapters:

0:16 - Dave and Amitai catch up
3:36 - Family roles
7:17 - Amitai on coaching and consulting and unique contributions via differentiators
17:42 - Collaborative coaching and learning to pay attention to your talents
23:48 - Returning to programming after time off
30:14 - Inclusion
36:19 - Amitai's European Coding Tour and making the world safe for Programmers (and the team safe for non-programmers)
45:13 - The power of multiple perspectives
50:12 - Keeping up with Amitai

Resources:

Amitai's book recommendation:

Amitai's top 3 tips for delivering more value:

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