Episode 66: Stories and Community with Ariel Caplan

Stories and Community with Ariel Caplan Guest Ariel Caplan: Co-Host of Dev Empathy Book Club, Backend Developer at Cloudinary, and Flatiron School Alum. Personal Site Summary Our guest this week is Ariel Caplan. Ariel is a developer at Cloudinary and the Founder of the Dev Empathy Book Club. At RailsConf this year, Ariel gave a keynote about culture and stories using examples from Israeli and American children's literature. In our conversation, we focus on the stories that developers tell ourselves about who is successful, what it takes to be successful, and what people and skills are left out of those stories, and how we might be able to change them. Notes 02:18 - Stories We Tell New Members of the Community RailsConf 2019 - Keynote: The Stories We Tell Our Children by Ariel Caplan 04:17 - The Myth of the Lone Genius 06:28 - How Stories Affect Day-to-Day Expectations on Teams The Passion Gospel - Avdi Grimm Passion | David Mitchell's SoapBox Tim Cook Thanks Apple Devs 12:36 - Stories That Benefit Our Employers 16:11 - How We Treat New Developers Don't Ask Us Questions. We'll Just Ignore You. 21:11 - “Real Programmers” Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World 26:30 - Computer Science Education 31:07 - People Skills and CommunitySpecial Guest: Ariel Caplan.