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
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"All of me is in it."
With guest Amitai Schlair of Agile in 3 Minutes
People
Amitai Schlair @schmonz
Alex Harms @onealexharms
Mike Hill @geepawhill
Topics
- 1:57 "Agile Ass-Hattery"
- 3:29 "Hey, Alex, I need your help.
- Here's where you sign up for Maitria's rare updates list
- 8:19 "Ends don't justify means. Means justify means."
- 10:14 "...whether manipulation is coercion..."
- 15:52 "I am the same doofus, no matter what angle you take the picture from."
- 19:50 "...what I'm mostly doing is making myself out to be better than I am."
- 25:36 "When I'm being effective, it's because... I have manipulated myself."
- 31:01 "When I am in a state of geek joy, I am all of me. All of me is in it. I am one thing."
Reading/Listening/Playing/Watching
Amitai
Errors, by Jerry Weinberg
Geepaw
Reconstruction, by Eric Foner
Alex
Crystal Society, by Max Harms. Info and a free download available at Max Harm's website.
Music
Nikolai Karlovich Medtner, Opus 26, No. 3, performed by Amitai Schlair