Sally Lehman talks with Dave Rael about turning disappointment into opportunity, teaching and learning, and delivering for teammates
Sally Lehman is an email geek. She grew up in various small towns in Oregon and Washington, and is a recent transplant to Tempe, AZ. Her first computer experiences were with EMACs, MS-DOS, and Ski Free when she was <5 years old. She built out the Puppet and CI/CD server infrastructure for GoDaddy email marketing and Madmimi.com, and maintains uptime on a range of GoDaddy's existing email products. Sally's favorite movie is Office Space, and she makes a mean Tiramisu. She is a Bit Flipper and Three-Quarter-Stack Developer, as well as the Self-appointed Savior of bad SPF records.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Sally Lehman
- - Sally's definition of value
- - The things that "light Sally up"
- - How Sally got started in software
- - The developer as an overworked and underpaid servant
- - Sally's story of failure, having to improvise and find another path when plans don't pan out
- - How Sally turned disappointment into opportunity
- - Sally's greatest success story, recognizing a problem and digging deep to acheive mastery
- - How Sally stays current with what she needs to know
- - Sally's book recommendation
- - The things that have Sally most excited about her present and future
- - The greatest sources of pain in Sally's life and work
- - The things about which Sally like to geek out apart from software
- - Sally's predication for the future of software
- - The nature of coding in the future
- - Sally's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Sally
- - Farewell
Resources:
Sally's book recommendation:
Sally's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Take care of your health - physically and emotionally
- Listen to the people around you and exercise empathy
- Care about the result and get things done