Episode 66
Stories and Community with Ariel Caplan
July 17th, 2019
38 mins 26 secs
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About this Episode
Stories and Community with Ariel Caplan
Guest
Ariel Caplan: Co-Host of Dev Empathy Book Club, Backend Developer at Cloudinary, and Flatiron School Alum. Personal Site
Summary
Our guest this week is Ariel Caplan. Ariel is a developer at Cloudinary and the Founder of the Dev Empathy Book Club. At RailsConf this year, Ariel gave a keynote about culture and stories using examples from Israeli and American children's literature. In our conversation, we focus on the stories that developers tell ourselves about who is successful, what it takes to be successful, and what people and skills are left out of those stories, and how we might be able to change them.
Notes
02:18 - Stories We Tell New Members of the Community
04:17 - The Myth of the Lone Genius
06:28 - How Stories Affect Day-to-Day Expectations on Teams
12:36 - Stories That Benefit Our Employers
16:11 - How We Treat New Developers
21:11 - “Real Programmers”
26:30 - Computer Science Education
31:07 - People Skills and Community