Developer on Fire
Episode 430 | Sarah Dutkiewicz - Listening for the why
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:
- - Sarah and Dave catching up
 - - Returning to daily development work from other activities
 - - Developers and managers and Sarah's many types of experience
 - - Humans vs computers - machines doing exactly what they are told and the complexity of human interaction
 - - The rewards of teaching
 - - Gender bias in software teams
 - - Being reasonable and good to people even in disagreement
 - - 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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