Panel:

Charles Max Wood

Dave Kimura

Eric Berry

Special Guest: 

David Richards

In this episode, the Ruby Rogues speak with David Richards. David has been a software developer for the last couple of decades and develops most of his software with Ruby. Currently, David is building fin-tech products for companies.

David is on Ruby Rogues to talk about the process of collaborative work, developer turnover, effective work, and personally connecting with your work. Also, the differences in being older and more experienced developer in today’s world. Lastly, David and the panel discuss the overall effectiveness of a developer in the company and among his/her peers.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 


Developer turnover
Work overload
Doing something that matter in your job
Finding yourself and passion for a job
Being an emotional developer
Generational expectations of your job
The definition of work has changed!
Knowledge worker
Being an older and experience
Working with new developers, and finding developers with experience
Doing the brown-bag lunch
Hiring and the kinds of things you want them to deliver
Power, pleasure, and meaning in a job vs. job title.
and much much more.


Links: 


We fired our top developer…
Gitlab
Get Data Chops


Picks:

David


Holding the Powerful Accountable
Machine Learning Mastery 


Dave


We fired our top developer…
SimpleCov


Chuck


Getting back into Coding
Gems -  CarrierWav, Fog, MiniMagic
Bash
VS code


Eric


Chad Whitaker - GradaPay
Github

Special Guest: David Richards.