Carin Meier talks with Dave Rael about priorities, learning new things, and the importance of having an identity outside what you do for a living
Carin started off as a professional ballet dancer, studied Physics in college, and has been developing software for both the enterprise and entrepreneur ever since. She has a thing for Clojure and can be usually found with a cup of tea in her hand, hacking on her Roomba, AR Drone, or any other robots that happen to be nearby. She hails from Cincinnati, where she works remotely as a developer for Cognitect, and also helps organize the Cincinnati Functional Programmers user group.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Carin Meier
- - The origin of gigasquid
- - The things that "light Carin up"
- - Carin's interest in the interface between the physical and the soft worlds
- - Biological computing and slime molds
- - Carin's path to software through physics
- - Carin's introduction to Clojure
- - How Carin got started in software
- - Carin's story of failure - identity tied up in ballet - a lesson learned in application of the term developer to self
- - Carin's success story - motivated by team - advice for fixing teams
- - Carin's thoughts on having "made it"
- - How Carin stays current with what she needs to know
- - Bio-inspired ways of looking at systems
- - The things that have Carin most excited
- - Carin's causes of pain and suffering
- - The things about which Carin likes to geek out
- - Carin's current relationship with ballet
- - Carin's prediction for the future of software
- - Motivations for functional programming
- - Carin's top 3 tips for delivering code
- - Keeping up with Carin
Resources:
Carin's book recommendation:
Carin's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Thought over code
- People over process
- Feeback, feeback, feeback