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	Podcast:		Developer On Fire
	Episode:		Episode 164 \| Sandi Metz - Grounded Leadership
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:51:51
	Publish Date:		2016-09-11 19:00:00
	Description:		Guest: Sandi Metz @sandimetz Sandi Metz talks with Dave Rael about the serenity achieved with experience and age, the joys and perils of being a known leader, providing value, and the importance of grounding Sandi Metz, author of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP, believes in simple code and straightforward explanations. She prefers working software, practical solutions and lengthy bicycle trips (not necessarily in that order) and consults and teaches about object-oriented design. Chapters: 0:57 - Dave introduces the show and Sandi Metz 3:21 - What it means to be a "woman of a certain age" and the perspective it brings, including tolerating people for who they are 5:38 - Believing in the good intentions of others 8:31 - The things that "light Sandi up" 10:48 - Bicycling and the importance of care for your physical condition 13:13 - Sandi's career arc and how she became an author, speaker, and leader and the value of a "leaky filter" 16:38 - Identity, leadership, teaching, service, grounding, and the perils of positive attention - "Internet Sandi" vs "Real Sandi" 19:12 - Kind regard from audiences and the ability and encouragement to be authentic 21:50 - Sandi's experience with women in tech - how it differs from those of others; the importance of not dismissing someone else's experience because it differs from your own 28:19 - Empathy for the experience of people in uncomfortable situations 31:59 - How Sandi got started in software 34:32 - The changing landscape of computing and user experiences 36:38 - Sandi's philosophy of failure - dropping production database tables is not necessarily a failure; Failure vs mistakes; The desire to hide mistakes rather than expose them; Diffusing blame 44:00 - Sandi's success stories - great code, being an author, and being useful to strangers 46:19 - Sandi's book recommendation 47:00 - The things that have Sandi most excited 49:31 - Sandi's top 3 tips for delivering more value 50:12 - Keeping up with Sandi Resources: Sandi's Blog Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) - Sandi Metz 99 Bottles of OOP - Sandi Metz Jim Weirich Linda Rising on Developer On Fire Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl Sandi's book recommendation: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler Sandi's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Be fit Be humble Be brave
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