Parent Driven Development Episode 028: Primary Caregiving 00:17 Introducing Guest, Nick Gauthier! Becoming a Full-time Parent Nick is currently the CTO and Co-founder at Nomics (https://nomics.com/). Before co-founding Nomics, Nick created MeetSpace (https://www.meetspaceapp.com/), a video conferencing application for distributed teams. Before that, Nick worked at Codeship (http://codeship.com/) on the Codeship Pro Continuous Delivery platform, as well as various other web application consulting projects in Ruby on Rails, Go, and JavaScript. 03:55 Being a Full-Time Parent as a Man "Aww, you're babysitting!" 🙄 Experiences with "Mommy and Me" groups and Meetups. Feeling instrusive in Mom spaces. Breaking into a "Mommy Group". 08:17 Partner Dynamics and Making Decisions Getting the scoop and being thankful to not have other parents' problems. Liking vs not liking the baby phase. 11:07 Changes as Baby Grows Transitioning to a nanny but still working from home. When going to work is a "vacation" or an "escape". Fielding distractions. 17:11 How Having a Child Has Changed the Way Nick Works Working with other parents. Context switching and protecting time. Asynchronous communication. 24:16 Communication Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Any communication, the normal expected turnaround time is 24 hours; unless in text is says urgent. Cell phone calls are last resort, but must be answered. Everything is "Do Not Disturb". Keep communcation very close to or 100% on topic. 29:06 Team Relationship Building + Watercooler Talk Optional "huddles" with no agenda. Explicit watercooler time. Company retreats. 31:21 Genius / Fail Moments Nick's daughter announced "Oh yeah! Get some beer!" in the middle of the store. (#Fail) But, she is mastering potty training with M&Ms as rewards! (#Genius) Chris: M&M inflation. (#Fail) "Scream Parade" on the other hand... (#Genius) Allison: Flow picture charts for the morning on what her son needs to do to leave the house 👍🏻. (#Genius) Follow & Support Please follow us @parentdrivendev (https://twitter.com/parentdrivendev) on Twitter or email us at panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com (mailto:panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com). Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com (https://parentdrivendevelopment.com). Support us via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev) and get access to our our Slack Community. Panel Josh Puetz (https://twitter.com/joshpuetz) Chris Sexton (https://twitter.com/crsexton) Allison McMillan (https://twitter.com/allie_p) Special Guest: Nick Gauthier.