Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://gigasquidsoftware.com/">Carin Meier</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/gigasquid">@gigasquid</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> 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 </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>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. </p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Carin Meier</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The origin of gigasquid</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Carin up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carin's interest in the interface between the physical and the soft worlds</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Biological computing and slime molds</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carin's path to software through physics</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carin's introduction to Clojure</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Carin got started in software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carin's story of failure - identity tied up in ballet - a lesson learned in application of the term developer to self</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carin's success story - motivated by team - advice for fixing teams</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carin's thoughts on having "made it"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Carin stays current with what she needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Bio-inspired ways of looking at systems</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Carin most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carin's causes of pain and suffering</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which Carin likes to geek out</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carin's current relationship with ballet</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carin's prediction for the future of software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Motivations for functional programming</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carin's top 3 tips for delivering code</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Carin</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1491909048/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Living Clojure - Carin Meier</a></li> <li><a href="http://gigasquidsoftware.com/" target="_blank">Carin's Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty9QDqV-_Ak" target="_blank">2013: Carin Meier, "The Joy of Flying Robots with Clojure"</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/gigasquid/roomba-drone-friends" target="_blank">Code from the "Joy of Flying Robots" presentation</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Carin's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EB3MZXC/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Physarum Machines: Computers From Slime Mould (Volume 74) - Andrew Adamatzky</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Carin's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Thought over code</li> <li>People over process</li> <li>Feeback, feeback, feeback</li> </ol> </div> </div>
