Amy Newell's guest appearances

Amy Newell

Greater Than Code

Tech Done Right

Brandon Hays

Jamey Hampton

Claire Lew

Brian Hogan

James Edward Gray II

Sandi Metz

Kerri Miller

Nadia Odunayo

Coraline Ada Ehmke

Saron Yitbarek

Carina C. Zona

Marlena Compton

Andy Hunt

Avdi Grimm

Katrina Owen

OwlTail

04:31 - Amy’s Superpower: Search Algorithms and Finding Things  Finding Things in Code  Visual vs Spacial Awareness  08:39 - Toxic Masculinity and Hierarchies in Engineering Roles  I’m not in security but whenever I hear people taking about who is more technical all I see is folks jockeying for status.(not blaming, that’s the culture we have made in software generally). But from outside whatever y’all mean when you say technical is completely opaque. “Soft Skills” vs “Technical”  14:22 - Measuring Skill Advancement  The Individual Contributor (IC) vs Manager Track Management vs Mentorship  21:02 - Congressive vs Ingressive  x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng  GTC Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng  22:43 - Ways Toxicity Shows Up in The Workplace  Doing/Recognizing “Real Work” Letting Go of Past Baggage Amy Newell - Lessons from Bipolar Disorder (The first time Amy said the word “Patriarchy”) Microaggressions  29:07 - Unlearning and Psychological Safety 37:07 - The Word “Nontechnical”  Respecting Expertise Skilled/Unskilled Labor: All Labor is Skilled Labor!  40:41 - Recognizing and Feeling Value  Being Your Authentic Self Making Culture Better for Everyone; Supporting People &amp; Making Space Counting Emotional Energy Enough Leaning In. Let’s Tell Men to Lean Out. Yes, and-ing  Reflections: Jessica: Every person has a unique set of ways they can have an impact and best contribute. Jamey: Feeling like you belong and realizing that others might not. Being aware of both mindsets. Amy: The onus really should be on people who have power and privilege in any conversation to be doing most of the work to be aware of what I see vs what they see.Special Guest: Amy Newell.Sponsored By:strongDM: Today's show is sponsored by strongDM.Managing your remote team as they work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs?Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are.With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams.Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It's full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it's a single unified query log across all database management systems.strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It's more control and less hassle.strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure.Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDTVirtual Genius: Collaboration between different disciplines in your organization can be difficult, and finding clarity and alignment on both the right problem to solve and the right solution design is even more so. We each approach improvement from our own (limited) perspective, without taking into account the whole story. How is that effective?Paul Rayner's EventStorming Facilitation Virtual Workshop is a multi-day online event that promotes collaboration between different disciplines in order to solve business problems in the most effective way.This virtual workshop with Paul consists of 4 sessions on Sep 28-Oct 1 from 9am-Noon (CDT) each day. To register and get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC.In this highly hands-on and interactive virtual workshop you'll learn advanced EventStorming facilitation skills spanning from large scale business discovery to collaborative solution design at the team level.Once again to get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC. Promo Code: VGGTCSupport Greater Than Code

04:31 - Amy’s Superpower: Search Algorithms and Finding Things <ul> <li>Finding Things in Code </li> <li>Visual vs Spacial Awareness</li> </ul> 08:39 - Toxic Masculinity and Hierarchies in Engineering Roles <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/amynewell/status/1298957052694409218" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I’m not in security but whenever I hear people taking about who is more technical all I see is folks jockeying for status.(not blaming, that’s the culture we have made in software generally). But from outside whatever y’all mean when you say technical is completely opaque.</a></li> <li>“Soft Skills” vs “Technical”</li> </ul> 14:22 - Measuring Skill Advancement <ul> <li>The Individual Contributor (IC) vs Manager Track</li> <li>Management vs Mentorship</li> </ul> 21:02 - Congressive vs Ingressive <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mathematicians-Manifesto-Rethinking-Gender/dp/1541646509" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.greaterthancode.com/category-theory-for-normal-humans" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GTC Episode 038: Category Theory for Normal Humans with Dr. Eugenia Cheng</a></li> </ul> 22:43 - Ways Toxicity Shows Up in The Workplace <ul> <li>Doing/Recognizing “Real Work”</li> <li>Letting Go of Past Baggage</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf8TYuAZY8g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amy Newell - Lessons from Bipolar Disorder</a> (The first time Amy said the word “Patriarchy”)</li> <li>Microaggressions</li> </ul> 29:07 - Unlearning and Psychological Safety 37:07 - The Word “Nontechnical” <ul> <li>Respecting Expertise</li> <li>Skilled/Unskilled Labor: All Labor is Skilled Labor!</li> </ul> 40:41 - Recognizing and Feeling Value <ul> <li>Being Your Authentic Self</li> <li>Making Culture Better for Everyone; Supporting People &amp; Making Space</li> <li>Counting Emotional Energy</li> <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/opinion/sunday/feminism-lean-in.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Enough Leaning In. Let’s Tell Men to Lean Out.</a></li> <li>Yes, and-ing</li> </ul> Reflections: Jessica: Every person has a unique set of ways they can have an impact and best contribute. Jamey: Feeling like you belong and realizing that others might not. Being aware of both mindsets. Amy: The onus really should be on people who have power and privilege in any conversation to be doing most of the work to be aware of what I see vs what they see.Special Guest: Amy Newell.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://strongdm.com/SDT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">strongDM</a>: <a href="https://strongdm.com/SDT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Today's show is sponsored by strongDM. Managing your remote team as they work from home? Managing a gazillion SSH keys, database passwords, and Kubernetes certs? Meet strongDM. Manage and audit access to servers, databases, and Kubernetes clusters, no matter where your employees are. With strongDM, easily extend your identity provider to manage infrastructure access. Automate onboarding, offboarding, and moving people within roles. Grant temporary access that automatically expires to on-call teams. Admins get full auditability into anything anyone does: when they connect, what queries they run, what commands are typed. It's full visibility into everything. For SSH, RDP, and Kubernetes, that means video replays. For databases, it's a single unified query log across all database management systems. strongDM is used by companies like Hearst, Peloton, Betterment, Greenhouse, and SoFi to manage access. It's more control and less hassle. strongDM. Manage and audit remote access to infrastructure. Start your free 14-day trial today at strongdm.com/SDT </a></li><li><a href="https://www.virtualgenius.com/events" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Virtual Genius</a>: <a href="https://www.virtualgenius.com/events" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Collaboration between different disciplines in your organization can be difficult, and finding clarity and alignment on both the right problem to solve and the right solution design is even more so. We each approach improvement from our own (limited) perspective, without taking into account the whole story. How is that effective? Paul Rayner's EventStorming Facilitation Virtual Workshop is a multi-day online event that promotes collaboration between different disciplines in order to solve business problems in the most effective way. This virtual workshop with Paul consists of 4 sessions on Sep 28-Oct 1 from 9am-Noon (CDT) each day. To register and get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC. In this highly hands-on and interactive virtual workshop you'll learn advanced EventStorming facilitation skills spanning from large scale business discovery to collaborative solution design at the team level. Once again to get 20% off your ticket, visit virtualgenious.com/events and use the code VGGTC.</a> Promo Code: VGGTC</li></ul><a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Greater Than Code</a>

199: Toxicity in Tech with Amy Newell

Managing Pain and Suffering at Work with Amy Newell Guest Amy Newell:: Director of Engineering at Wistia. Previous Director of Engineering at PatientsLikeMe. RailsConf 2019 - Failure, Risk, and Shame: Approaching Suffering at Work by Amy Newell Summary Our guest this week is Amy Newell. Amy is the Director of Engineering at Wistia, and she gave a talk at RailsConf this year entitled “Failure, Risk, and Shame: Approaching pain and suffering at work”. We have what I hope is an uplifting conversation about failure and pain, how to recognize it, and how to skillfully manage those feelings to be more resilient, prevent additional pain, and ultimately be more satisfied with your job. Notes 01:56 - Why Use Words Like “Pain” and “Shame” When Talking About Work Experience  Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman   04:21 - Specific Kinds of Pain and Suffering at Work 07:31 - Mistakes People Make When They’re Dealing with Failure, Anxiety, and Shame 10:28 - Skillful Responses 17:37 - Mitigating Pain 21:57 - Skillful Responses (Cont’d) 25:04 - Mindfulness  RAIN: Tara Brach  30:34 - Feedback and Identity  Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen Paul Graham: Keep Your Identity Small Special Guest: Amy Newell.

<h2>Managing Pain and Suffering at Work with Amy Newell</h2> <h2>Guest</h2> <a href="https://twitter.com/amynewell" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amy Newell:</a>: Director of Engineering at Wistia. Previous Director of Engineering at <a href="https://www.patientslikeme.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PatientsLikeMe</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRG6uIkHH8c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RailsConf 2019 - Failure, Risk, and Shame: Approaching Suffering at Work by Amy Newell</a> <h2>Summary</h2> Our guest this week is Amy Newell. Amy is the Director of Engineering at Wistia, and she gave a talk at RailsConf this year entitled “Failure, Risk, and Shame: Approaching pain and suffering at work”. We have what I hope is an uplifting conversation about failure and pain, how to recognize it, and how to skillfully manage those feelings to be more resilient, prevent additional pain, and ultimately be more satisfied with your job. <h2>Notes</h2> 01:56 - Why Use Words Like “Pain” and “Shame” When Talking About Work Experience <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman</a> </li> </ul> 04:21 - Specific Kinds of Pain and Suffering at Work 07:31 - Mistakes People Make When They’re Dealing with Failure, Anxiety, and Shame 10:28 - Skillful Responses 17:37 - Mitigating Pain 21:57 - Skillful Responses (Cont’d) 25:04 - Mindfulness <ul> <li><a href="https://www.tarabrach.com/rain/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RAIN: Tara Brach</a></li> </ul> 30:34 - Feedback and Identity <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Well/dp/0670014664" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paul Graham: Keep Your Identity Small</a></li> </ul>Special Guest: Amy Newell.

Episode 65: Managing Pain and Suffering at Work 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 - Amy’s talk on “Suffering in the Workplace”: Genesis and Overview 13:40 - Living a Valuable Life vs a Happy Life  Examining Causes  Feeling The Pain Relieving Suffering by Seeking a Mindset of Innovation  24:02 - Bringing Your “Whole Self” to the Workplace; Alleviating Suffering in the Workplace 41:15 - Changing Culture in Organizations Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media  54:40 - Bipolar Disorder Reflections: Jessica: A framework for dealing with suffering. A separation of concerns between observing feelings and deciding what to do about them. Janelle: By supporting people, we can end up with a better, healthier, and more productive organization.  Avdi: Kindness in the workplace and power structures. Rein: How do you convince people to care about other people?  Also, work implies suffering. The obligation to reduce suffering is shared -- but not equally.  Amy: Disparities amongst different types of engineers and between engineering and other departments in tech companies. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!Special Guest: Amy Newell.Support Greater Than Code

01:47 - Amy’s Superpower: Sustaining hope and faith in the face of what feels like no hope and no faith. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400078393/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1400078393&amp;linkId=ff6561c5b085aff3ea8027c0a0ce9cf2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman</a> 07:40 - Amy’s talk on “Suffering in the Workplace”: Genesis and Overview 13:40 - Living a Valuable Life vs a Happy Life <ul> <li>Examining Causes </li> <li>Feeling The Pain</li> <li>Relieving Suffering by Seeking a Mindset of Innovation</li> </ul> 24:02 - Bringing Your “Whole Self” to the Workplace; Alleviating Suffering in the Workplace 41:15 - Changing Culture in Organizations <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375714499/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0375714499&amp;linkId=284e05bc84d39f993cf460ee90108511" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media</a> 54:40 - Bipolar Disorder Reflections: Jessica: A framework for dealing with suffering. A separation of concerns between observing feelings and deciding what to do about them. Janelle: By supporting people, we can end up with a better, healthier, and more productive organization. Avdi: Kindness in the workplace and power structures. Rein: How do you convince people to care about other people? Also, work implies suffering. The obligation to reduce suffering is shared -- but not equally. Amy: Disparities amongst different types of engineers and between engineering and other departments in tech companies. This episode was brought to you by <a href="https://twitter.com/therubyrep" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@therubyrep</a> of <a href="http://www.devreps.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DevReps, LLC</a>. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit <a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/greaterthancode</a> To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at <a href="https://www.paypal.me/devreps" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paypal.me/devreps</a>. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!Special Guest: Amy Newell.<a href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Greater Than Code</a>