105: Code Switching with Maurice Cherry

Greater Than Code

• Episode: 105: Code Switching with Maurice Cherry
• Website: Greater Than Code
• Feed URL: https://www.greaterthancode.com/feed/podcast
• Duration: 01:07:23
• Published: 2018-11-14 06:00

In this episode, Maurice Cherry talks about the concept of code switching: being different people around different people. He also talks about overcoming feelings of discomfort, trust and both how it’s lost and how it can be re-established, diversity in design, and shifting your mindset from a creator to a chronicler. Panelists: Astrid Countee | John K. Sawers | Janelle Klein | Jessica Kerr Special Guest: Maurice Cherry: @mauricecherry | Revision Path | Glitch Show Notes: 01:49 – Maurice’s Superpower: Extreme Empathy Function Podcast w/ Anil Dash 04:06 – Code Switching 13:21 – Creating and Fostering Safe Conference Environments 19:34 – Overcoming Feelings of Discomfort 22:16 – Human Decisions in Software: Why We Should Care 31:57 – Trust: How We’ve Lost It and How Should We Re-establish It? A Developer Relations Bill of Rights AngelList 41:24 – Establishing Trust in a Company From the Ground Up: Glitch 47:03 – Diversity in Design and Shifting Your Mindset From a Creator to a Chronicler Kim Goulbourne Ekpemi Anni Senongo Akpem    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: It’s useful to think about code switching in context of my own behavior and using it as a practice for increasing empathy by trying to determine if other people are code switching in a certain situation. Janelle: Putting myself in an outsider situation. Jess: Storytelling and experience creating. Astrid: Parents encouraging young creators. Maurice: We all have more work to do and we all have privileges we are blind to. 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 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: ASTRID:  Hello, everybody and welcome to our 105th episode of Greater Than Code. My name is Astrid Countee and I'm here with my great friend, John Sawers. JOHN:  Thank you, Astrid and I'm here with Janelle Klein. JANELLE:  Thanks, John and I am here with the wonderful and awesome, Jessica Kerr. JESSICA:  Good morning. Thanks, Jenelle and today, we have a special guest. Maurice Cherry, serves as marketing, design and communications lead at Glitch, the friendly community where everyone can discover and create the best stuff on the web. Before Glitch, Maurice was principal and creative director at Lunch, a multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, Georgia. These days, Maurice is perhaps best known for his award-winning podcast, Revision Path, which showcased these black designers, developers and digital creators from all over the world. Other projects of Maurice's include the Black Weblog Awards, the web's longest running about celebrating black bloggers, video bloggers and podcasters; 28 Days of the Web and The Year of Tea. Maurice is the 2018 recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary from AIGA. He was named as one of GDUSA's People To Watch in 2018 and was included in the 2018 edition of The Root 100 -- he was #60, their annual list of the most influential African-Americans ages 25 to 40. Maurice has a bachelor’s degree in math from Morehouse College and a master's degree in telecommunications management. Maurice, welcome to the show. MAURICE:  Thank you so much for having me. JESSICA:  Oh, we forgot to tell you.