Andrea Goulet talks with Dave Rael about becoming technical, feeling like an impostor, confidence, taking risks, and practicing empathy
Andrea Goulet is the CEO of Corgibytes, a software development shop dedicated to maintaining and modernizing software applications and has been named by LinkedIn as one of the top 10 professionals in software under 35. She’s the founder of LegacyCode.Rocks and hosts a podcast dedicated to changing the way we think about legacy code. You may recognize her from prominent industry publications such as the First Round Review, Hanselminutes, Software Engineering Daily, and Developer Tea. Andrea is a sought after keynote speaker is currently working on her first book: Becoming Technical: Build an Amazing Career in Tech Starting at Square Zero
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Andrea Goulet
- - Andrea's early career and shaping experiences
- - Andrea's sales experiences and systems approach to selling
- - Andrea's story of getting reconnected with an old friend and finding a business and much more
- - Breadth, depth, and application of a lesson from one domain to another
- - Collaborations of people with different skills and complementing one another and attempting to understand one another
- - Confidence, courage, facing fear, and vlunerability
- - The many faces empathy
- - Accessibility of empathy and of technicality
- - The appeal of taking different approaches and bringing empathy to software
- - Andrea's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Andrea
Resources:
- CorgiBytes
- Legacy Code Rocks!
- Andrea's Becoming Technical Book
- Teen Talk Barbie
- Queueing Theory
- Act! CRM
- John Cutler on Developer On Fire
- The Great Courses
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage - Television Series with Carl Sagan
- Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - Television Series with Neil deGrasse Tyso
- Carl Sagan: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
- Accuracy and precision
- Technical? Non-Technical? Both! - Andrea Goulet
- Dr. Brené Brown
- Pavneet Singh Saund - Coding with Empathy
- Pavneet Singh Saund on Developer On Fire
- 6 Types of Empathy
- The Golden Rule
- Revenge of the Nerds
Andrea's book recommendation:
Andrea's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Listen actively
- Follow up
- Reflect backward