Episode 399 | Barry Stahl - Optimizing Impact

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Barry Stahl talks with Dave Rael about coding for charity, family, optimizing your efforts, models, cognitive biases, and charitable interpretation

Barry is a .NET Software Engineer who has been creating business solutions for enterprise customers for more than 30 years. Barry is also an Election Integrity Activist, baseball and hockey fan, husband of one genius and father of another, and a 30+ year resident of Phoenix Arizona. When Barry is not traveling around the world to speak at Conferences, Code Camps and User Groups or to participate in GiveCamp events, he spends his days consulting as a Solution Architect and Developer and his nights thinking about the next AZGiveCamp, an annual event where software developers come together to build websites and apps for some great non-profit organizations.

Chapters: 0:32 - Dave introduces the show and Barry Stahl5:32 - How Barry discovered the GiveCamp movement and got involved11:01 - The unique flavor of AZGiveCamp19:58 - Influencing influencers for mutual benefit22:08 - How Barry got started in software28:26 - Barry's story of failure - lack of preparation for losing his father34:12 - Barry's book recommendations40:01 - The things that have Barry most excited41:42 - What developers should know about Artificial Intelligence45:18 - Barry's top 3 tips for dleivering more 51:40 - Keeping up with Barry

Resources: AZGiveCamp Ada Lovelace Justin James on Developer On Fire Chris Koenig GiveCamp History Rob Richardson on Developer On Fire Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Common Gateway Interface David McRaney The You Are Not So Smart Podcast Linda Rising on Developer On Fire Blazor Genetic algorithm George Box "All models are wrong..." brilliant.org Jeremy Clark on Developer On Fire

Barry's book recommendation: You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself - David McRaney You are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself - David McRaney

Barry's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Make sure you exercise your brain If you're not testing something, ask why Always assume the output of others comes from a good place