Episode 430 | Sarah Dutkiewicz - Listening for the why

Guest:

Sarah Dutkiewicz

@sadukie

Sarah Dutkiewicz talks with Dave Rael about teaching and learning, returning to programming, women in tech, and how to listen

Sarah has been in the technical realm since the late 90s. She has served in many roles – including technical support, manager, desktop support, server administrator, database administrator, developer, instructor, and mentor. Throughout her career, Sarah has found her place in the technical community – as an organizer, speaker, facilitator, author, editor, reviewer, blogger, and advocate. Due to her community involvement, Microsoft has awarded her the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award – 2009-2014 in Visual C#, 2015 in Visual Studio, and 2016 in Visual Studio and Development Technologies. Sarah loves sharing her passion for tech with the community whenever she can!

Chapters: 0:15 - Sarah and Dave catching up2:37 - Returning to daily development work from other activities6:06 - Developers and managers and Sarah's many types of experience12:29 - Humans vs computers - machines doing exactly what they are told and the complexity of human interaction16:45 - The rewards of teaching23:51 - Gender bias in software teams38:16 - Being reasonable and good to people even in disagreement40:32 - Listening for the why

Resources: Sarah's first appearance on Developer On Fire Shawn Rakowski on Developer On Fire The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom - Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt Jonathan Haidt on the Elephant and Rider metaphor Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans Eric Evans on Developer On Fire Aslak Hellesøy on Developer On Fire Test Your Understanding - Dave's Blog Post on Simple Programmer based on Aslak Hellesøy's Insight Bill & Ted Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek The 5 Whys

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