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

Guest:

Amitai Schleier

@schmonz

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 up3:36 - Family roles7:17 - Amitai on coaching and consulting and unique contributions via differentiators 17:42 - Collaborative coaching and learning to pay attention to your talents23:48 - Returning to programming after time off30:14 - Inclusion36:19 - 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 perspectives50:12 - Keeping up with Amitai

Resources: Amitai's first appearance on Developer On Fire Agile in 3 Minutes Latent Agility - Amitai's Consulting Clarifying the Spelling Change to Amitai's Name Amitai's Mail Server Projects Amitai's Status Amitai's Story of Mandelbrot in C Llewellyn Falco on Developer On Fire Transformers Cartoon Series Larry Bird Was a Much More Successful Coach than Dave Remembered "Dream Team" GeePaw Hill on Developer On Fire Erik Dietrich on Developer On Fire Amitai's Coding Tour Summer 2018: Conclusion Corey Haines Dr Sal Freudenberg SoCraTes Kent Beck on Developer On Fire Eric Evans on Developer On Fire Developer Hegemony: The Future of Labor - Erik Dietrich The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice The Joel Test - Joel Spolsky - Including Hallway Usability Testing

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