18: Can't Read Kant
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Alex talks with Joe Cannatti about parenting, social anxiety, and zen buddhism. The music is This is Everything That I Own, by Corissa Bragg.
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17: Finding that space in between
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Guest Evan Light and Alex talk about mindfulness, empathy, Search Inside Yourself, and kitties. Music: (via the Free Music Archive)
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16: Existential Angst
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Alex and JB talked about depression, energy, financial security, and creating your own meaningful story. The music is Calling on Dolphins, by Fourstones.
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15. Another one of those words
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Jessica Kerr, Alex Harms. I accidentally deleted this one and now I'm putting it back. So.
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14: Always Making Goofy Faces
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Dave Shah, Alex Harms. We talked about the TDD & strong convictions, Military & peace & love, getting your mind blown at conferences, religion, and who knows what else? Music: John Philip Sousa. Stars and Stripes Forever
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13: It's scary, and that's good
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Alex Lancaster & Alex Harms discuss emergence, improv, art. Music: Will Bernard and Motherbug, Three-toed Sloth
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12: The Joys and Dangers of NVC
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Guest Isaac Schlueter & Alex talk about NVC, and how it has helped us, and ways we've seen it used to create pain, as well. And we touch on Isaac's company, NPM, employee happiness, and Javascript. The music this time is a , found at archive.org.
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11.5 We interrupt this podcast...
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Jason Felice, Alex Harms. This is an unplanned episode, in which Jason & Alex have a conversation about LambdaConf, etc. (Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, courtesy of archive.org)
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11: Don't Let Go
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Duke Green, Jason Felice, Alex Harms. We talked a lot about race, and a little about not getting caught up in ideas about yourself while coding that distract you from the work. And Duke sang a song for us.
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10: This Emergent Dance
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Episode 10: This Emergence Dance
info_outline"Hi-Fivin the Universe"
With guest Mike "Geepaw" Hill of Helping Geeks Produce
People
Alex Harms @onealexharms
Mike Hill @geepawhill
Topics
- 1:44 Astor Piazzolla, New Tango
- 5:04 "Oh my gosh! They're pottery dorks!"
- 6:12 "What makes you a nerd isn't what you love. It's how you love it." (Paraphrased Wil Wheaton)
- 6:58 "I'm in it. I'm so engaged in it that I disappear from my own view."
- 11:45 "being in fear feels to me like it stops up the works."
- 13:40 "My focus is not on the fear."
- 14:55 "When you push back in time on Jazz, all roads lead to Louis Armstrong."
- 15:18 "Hello, Dolly!"
- 18:05 "I'm just gonna stand up, and I'm gonna play the shit out of this! ... It comes through. You can hear that."
- 22:10 "He's hi-fivin the universe. He's celebrating for the sheer exuberant joy of 'I'm alive, and I make sounds!'"
- 24:03 "How do I get there? How do I do that? ... Here are the things that get in the way of geek joy..."