Barry Stahl talks with Dave Rael about coding for charity, family, optimizing your efforts, models, cognitive biases, and charitable interpretation
Barry is a .NET Software Engineer who has been creating business solutions for enterprise customers for more than 30 years. Barry is also an Election Integrity Activist, baseball and hockey fan, husband of one genius and father of another, and a 30+ year resident of Phoenix Arizona. When Barry is not traveling around the world to speak at Conferences, Code Camps and User Groups or to participate in GiveCamp events, he spends his days consulting as a Solution Architect and Developer and his nights thinking about the next AZGiveCamp, an annual event where software developers come together to build websites and apps for some great non-profit organizations.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Barry Stahl
- - How Barry discovered the GiveCamp movement and got involved
- - The unique flavor of AZGiveCamp
- - Influencing influencers for mutual benefit
- - How Barry got started in software
- - Barry's story of failure - lack of preparation for losing his father
- - Barry's book recommendations
- - The things that have Barry most excited
- - What developers should know about Artificial Intelligence
- - Barry's top 3 tips for dleivering more
- - Keeping up with Barry
Resources:
- AZGiveCamp
- Ada Lovelace
- Justin James on Developer On Fire
- Chris Koenig
- GiveCamp History
- Rob Richardson on Developer On Fire
- Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
- Common Gateway Interface
- David McRaney
- The You Are Not So Smart Podcast
- Linda Rising on Developer On Fire
- Blazor
- Genetic algorithm
- George Box
- "All models are wrong..."
- brilliant.org
- Jeremy Clark on Developer On Fire
Barry's book recommendation:
Barry's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Make sure you exercise your brain
- If you're not testing something, ask why
- Always assume the output of others comes from a good place