102: Sticky in the Flow with Katrina Owen

Greater Than Code

• Episode: 102: Sticky in the Flow with Katrina Owen
• Website: Greater Than Code
• Feed URL: https://www.greaterthancode.com/feed/podcast
• Duration: 00:55:31
• Published: 2018-10-24 07:00

In this episode, Katrina Owen talks about organization and systematization, motivation by success, and how her past experience in training for circus is parallel to her career in software development. Panelists: Coraline Ada Ehmke | John K. Sawers  | Janelle Klein | Sam Livingston-Gray Guest Starring: Katrina Owen: @kytrinyx | kytrinyx.com | Exercism.io Greater Than Code Episode Episode 008: 99 Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen Show Notes: 01:29 – Katrina’s Superpower: Organizing and Systematizing 09:44 – Motivation by Success The 5 Second Rule | Mel Robbins Procrastination | Mel Robbins 18:04 – Trust and Code Review 27:04 – Systematizing and Refactoring 30:54 – Training for Circus and its Parallels with Software Development and Mentorship and Working with Others Sarah Mei: How We Make Software: A new theory of teams 43:12 – Deliberate Practice and the Appearance of Expertise Want to help keep us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to [email protected]. Reflections: John: Short iterations and early feedback as a way of creating and maintaining motivation. Coraline: How to create a sense of psychological safety in code reviews, in particular. Sam: The five-second window in which you can change your behavior and increase motivation. Janelle: Feedback loops as spirals that are reinforcing towards the positive or negative. Katrina: Practicing the craft of programming. Also, Cal Newport's Top Performer Course. Are you Greater Than Code? Submit guest blog posts to [email protected] Please leave us a review on iTunes! 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 interactive 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! Transcript: CORALINE:  Hello and welcome to Episode 102 of Greater Than Code. My name is Coraline Ada Ehmke. I'm joined today with my dear friend, John Sawers. JOHN:  Thanks, Coraline and I am here with Janelle Klein. JANELLE:  Thanks, John and I am here with my fabulous co-host, Sam Livingston-Gray. I do love saying your name. SAM:  Why, thank you. I do love hearing it. Hello, Janelle and hello listeners. I am super thrilled to be able to introduce Katrina Owen. Katrina is an ecosystem engineer at GitHub. She accidentally became a developer while pursuing a degree in molecular biology. When programming, her focus is on automation, workflow optimization and refactoring. She works primarily in Go and Ruby, contributes to several open source projects and is the creator of the amazing Exercism.io, which is a platform for code practice and programming mentorship. Katrina, welcome to the show. KATRINA:  Thank you. I’m so happy to be here. SAM:  Or perhaps, I should say, welcome back to the show because you were with us back on Episode 8. KATRINA:  That's been a while. SAM:  It really has. CORALINE:  That's like over 50 episodes ago, right? My math isn't great. KATRINA:  Your math could use some work. Yeah, that's right. SAM:  Wait, but I thought you had to be good at math to be a programmer. Unnecessary arithmetic. As you probably remember from last time, Katrina, we like to start by asking everybody what is your superpower and how did you acquire it? And I actually don't remember the answer that you gave, so you can just surprise us all with whatever you like. KATRINA:  I also don't remember the answer that I gave, so here we go again. You know, I pack a mean dishwasher.