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Hi there, I’m KBall, and I’m working on a new podcast focused on human skills in the technical industry. For this podcast, I’m digging into all of the non-technical skills that go into success in the tech industry, breaking them down, making them tactical and actionable. Because just because something is non-technical doesn’t mean it has to be fuzzy.
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How do you create positive relationships when a large part of your job is telling people ‘no’? Or run a whole-company initiative across thousands of people getting them to do boring, frustrating things like updating Access Control Lists...
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There aren't many people who have written a web framework that changes the way people think about development and gets used by millions of people. And there are even fewer who go on to try to do it again. But Miško Hevery has.
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How do we make working relationships between engineering and business stakeholders really work? Especially when it comes to high-stress common friction points like estimation?
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I wasn't expecting interviewing a data scientist to turn into a master class on negotiation, but that's what happened. Clear, concise, and memorable...
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How often have you had a long conversation about what to build, come away with new-found clarity, gone off and built it, and then come back and discovered that what you understood wasn't at all what the other person had intended?
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I suppose it's natural that a conversation about managing stress and anxiety turned to feedback. After all, giving critical feedback can be super stressful!
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Being a manager can feel incredibly contrived and awkward, especially when you are managing people who are more experienced or older than you are. But at the root of it, you're still human, and so are the people you're managing
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How does someone decide to go and study how to be a better manager? For Kyle Jaster, COO of Harvie, it happened because he had gotten into management for what he describes as ego purposes, and then discovered...
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This was one of those interviews where I felt like I was pulling out every single clip and highlighting it. I could have picked several different themes to summarize here - we talked about scale and how your role as a manager changes as you travel up the hierarchy...
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Christopher Chin has followed a fascinating if meandering path, starting in music and audio engineering, getting deeply interested in data, moving into data visualization and analysis, and now teaching data professionals how to speak in public and handle presentations.
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David Jay has built a career at the intersection of technology and social movements. He studies relationships, how they form, what impact they have on organizations and movements, and how to set up conditions to best foster their growth.
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Shawn Wang, also known as swyx, is best known for evangelizing the LearnInPublic movement, and for his developer relations and devtools work at companies like Netlify, Temporal, and Airbyte. He is a ridiculously prolific writer and speaker, hosts a number of online tech communities...