Cameron Presley talks with Dave Rael about having mentors, being a mentor, being a professional, leading, organizing user groups and conferences, and multiplying the impact of teams
Cameron Presley is a software engineer, avid boardgamer, and Microsoft MVP living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He currently works for SentryOne as a software engineer, focusing on improving the lives of Microsoft Data Professionals! When not slinging code for his day job, Cameron spends his time organizing content for Functional Knox, co-organizing Lambda Squared (a single day, single track functional programming conference), working with speakers for CodeStock and helping developers improve their craft and career through Code Connective.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Cameron Presley
- - The human element in creating software and Cameron's ambitions to teach math
- - Being a mentor and having mentors
- - Cameron on organizing user groups and conferences
- - Connections and getting great speakers
- - How Cameron got started in software
- - Cameron on remote work
- - Cameron's story of failure - working n isolation and slamming in changes without due diligence
- - Cameron's success story - making lives better by embedding in a dysfunctional team and fixing some destructive practices
- - Being a professional and the importance of interacting as equal participants
- - Cameron's book recommendations
- - The things that have Cameron most excited
- - Book club utility and mechanics
- - Cameron's mentoring efforts with Code Connective
- - Humility, better ways of offering suggestions for better code, and collective code ownership
- - Cameron's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Cameron
Resources:
- Cameron's Blog
- FunctionalKnox
- Lambda Squared
- Code Connective
- Geoff Mazeroff
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Kansas City Developer Conference
- Reid Evans on Developer On Fire
- John De Goes on Developer On Fire
- Paul Snively
- Emily Estes
- Julie Moronuki
- David Koontz
- LambdaCast
- The Haskell Book
- Bryan Hunter on Developer On Fire
- Remote: Office Not Required - Jason Fried
- David Heinemeier Hansson on Developer On Fire
- Dave Thomas on Developer On Fire
- Ted Patterson
- Sandi Metz on Developer On Fire
Cameron's book recommendation:
- The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers - Robert C. Martin
- The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact - Edmond Lau
- Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager - Michael Lopp
Cameron's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Make sure you understand what you need to deliver
- Try to get feedback on what you are doing
- Get to know your team