(We're Not) Saving Babies: Recent Episodes

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Ram and Randy discuss tech, family, and building a company. All while keeping our work in check, as it is never as important as we make it out to be.

Season 5 Episode 7On the final episode of (We're Not) Saving Babies:Ram and Randy talk:- Escaping the Matrix- What comes next- The end of the podcasthttps://anvil.shhttps://amazinglyaverage.devMovie Moments: https://youtu.be/TK69x6EEgX8?si=4N-atqwjgAICZ8jzWant to listen on your podcaster of choice?https://notsavingbabies.com/

Season 5 Episode 6 of (We're Not) Saving BabiesRam and Randy talk:

Trimming the fat
Giving yourself time to breathe
Scheduling your hobbies
Pulling out of the machinehttps://anvil.shhttps://amazinglyaverage.devWant to listen on your podcaster of choice?https://notsavingbabies.com/

Season 5 Episode 5 of (We're Not) Saving BabiesRam and Randy talk:- Bootcamps- Your Why- Questions to askhttps://anvil.shhttps://amazinglyaverage.devWant to listen on your podcaster of choice?https://notsavingbabies.com/

Season 5 Episode 4 of (We're Not) Saving BabiesRam and Randy talk:- The long tail on changes- Layers of Crap- Making change easyhttps://anvil.shhttps://amazinglyaverage.devWant to listen on your podcaster of choice?https://notsavingbabies.com/

Season 5 Episode 3 of (We're Not) Saving Babies

Ram and Shea talk: - Perks of Working from Home - Just do it - The gap between developer and engineer - We're all just human

https://anvil.sh https://amazinglyaverage.dev

Want to listen on your podcaster of choice? https://notsavingbabies.com/

Season 5 Episode 2 of (We're Not) Saving Babies

Ram and Randy talk: - Accidental Complexity

Black Boxes
Picking your own path

https://anvil.sh https://amazinglyaverage.dev

Want to listen on your podcaster of choice? https://notsavingbabies.com/

Season 5 Episode 1 of (We're Not) Saving Babies

Ram and Randy talk: - Interview tips

https://anvil.sh https://amazinglyaverage.dev

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Ram and Randy talk: - Our younger selves - The Entrepreneurial Bug - Taking the Hill - Knowing the game you are playing

https://anvil.shhttps://amazinglyaverage.dev

Connect with Shea in the amazinglyaverage discord server or on linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheadahl/

Want to listen on your podcaster of choice? https://notsavingbabies.com/

Season 4 Episode 9 of (We're Not) Saving Babies Featuring Shea Dahl aka SheaDLady (our first guest)

Ram and Randy catch up with Shea Dahl, and talk:

Donkeys and mules
The stickiness of AI- Job Hunting
Tears of the kingdom

https://anvil.sh https://amazinglyaverage.dev

Want to listen on your podcaster of choice? https://notsavingbabies.com/

Ram and Randy talk: - When dependencies fail - Roll-back mentality - Early alerting - Risk appetite

https://anvil.shhttps://amazinglyaverage.dev

Want to listen on your podcaster? https://notsavingbabies.com/

Season 4 Episode 7 of (We're not) Saving Babies

Randy and Ram discuss: Skill degradation, Feature engineering, and Ship-it mindset

Links mentioned in episode: https://anvil.sh, https://amazinglyaverage.dev

Want to listen on your podcaster? https://notsavingbabies.com/

Season 4 Episode 6 of (We're not) Saving Babies

Randy and Ram discuss:

The Amazingly average discord community
Wordwalls as a teaching tool
Leveraging Discord for rapid feedback & growing community
CodeGym: like a gym minus the sweat
Curiosity in real-time
Forge, tighter iterations and focused goals
https://anvil.sh
https://anvil.sh/codegym/
https://wordwall.app
https://amazinglyaverage.dev

Want to listen on your podcaster? https://notsavingbabies.com/

Season 4 Episode 5 of (We're not) Saving BabiesInspired by: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/developer-productivity-a-new-frameworkRandy and Ram discuss:- Organizational myopia- Shifting focus from Productivity to Dev-Ex- Mental overheadhttps://anvil.sh

Season 4 Episode 4 of (We're not) Saving Babies"Sometimes the best you can give is half you’ve got" - someoneRandy and Ram discuss:- Flow state- Building for change- Feedback cycles- Tipping the dominohttps://anvil.sh

Randy and Ram discuss:- Should employees care about your mission?- Priorities changing over time- Bringing your passionhttps://anvil.sh

Randy and Ram discuss:

Story and Spectacle in entertainment and in building a business- Our Narrative & Mission

Ram and Randy kick off season 4 talking about Sacred Cows and how they can stifle innovation, and force us to focus on the wrong things.

Ram and Randy discuss:

Breaking into tech
Becoming one of the people
Planning your exit

Show summary: There will be a point when you put a child down, and neither of you know it, but that will have been the last time.

Ram and Randy discuss

Interns
Lifting as you climb
Learning mode

Randy and Ram talk:

Overemployment
Polywork
Input vs Output driven companies

Ram and Randy talk about

Waiting on nothing
Learning to delegate
Try before you buy
And other things

Ram and Randy discuss:

Reflecting on wins
Small enough to finish
Don't play Tetris with your wins

Randy and Ram discuss:

Making work fun
Teambuilding
Injecting whitespace

Ram and Randy discuss

What happened between Season 2 and Season 3
Continued Layoffs
Feel what you feel
Perspective

Ram and Randy recap 2022, and discuss hopes and dreams for 2023 that include: Writing more Giving talks Growing AnvilSome of the things that Anvil worked on and went live in 2022 include: https://rubbrduck.app/ https://sifer.app/ https://notsavingbabies.com/ and some internal things we aren't ready to reveal

Ram and Randy discuss:

Starting a new job, and
How to set and manage expectations

Randy and Ram discuss:

Leading with questions
The gap between I don't know and its not possible
Seeing yourself in the code that has been built
Customers don't care about your codebase

Randy and Ram discuss:

Shields
Interviewing
Personal Value Propositions

Topics related to the following article: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/shields-down/

Ram and Randy talk:

Layoffs
Polywork
Investing in Yourself

Randy and Ram discuss:

Under-representation
Betting on entry-level engineers
Owning the talent pool

Randy and Ram discuss:

Growing vs Finding talent
Onboarding to a moving train
Hurdles of the early-career engineer

Ram and Randy discuss:

Priorities for building a business
Growing a Team
The next quarter

In the style of a Retro, Randy and Ram discuss the last 12 weeks or so of all things Anvil

https://anvil.sh

https://rubbrduck.app

Ram and Randy discuss Burnout:

Symptoms
How to help
Moving on

(Ram's personal blog containing burnout article: https://theramirobeltran.github.io/)

Ram and Randy talk Vacations:

Cadence
Favorite spots

Randy and Ram discuss the what and why of RubbrDuck.

Check it out at https://rubbrduck.app

Randy and Ram discuss:

The question, "Does it make the boat go faster?"
Opinions
Erosion of Trust

(with some technical difficulties)

Ram and Randy discuss:

Developer overhead and ergonomics

(with some technical difficulties)

Ram and Randy on:

Learning something for the first time
Code as rehabilitation

Randy and Ram discuss:

Learning to teach
Better Stand-ups
Knowing when to ask for help
Having a growth mindset

In this episode, we discuss

The no-day work week
Working when we work best

Picking up from the previous episode, Ram talks about his journey into tech, from struggling to get the first job to Senior Frontend Engineer.

Also discussed

Build failed startups, not side projects
Not excluding work from your resume
Undervaluing your previous work

Randy walks us through his journey into tech, from writing code in the Basic programming language to Principal Developer Productivity Software Engineer.

Randy and Ram discuss things related to tech, family, and building a company.

Music by Coma-Media on Pixabay.