Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://testdouble.com/">Justin Searls</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/searls">@searls</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Justin Searls talks with Dave Rael about choosing the most difficult path, heightened insight from challenge, and the pitfalls of local optimization </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Justin Searls has two professional passions: writing great software and sharing what he’s learned to help others write even greater software. He helped start a software agency called [Test Double](http://www.testdouble.com), whose crack team of double agents solve complex problems with clean and simple solutions.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Justin Searls</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Natural language, the difficulties of English language, and parallels and differences between natural languages and computing environments</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The virtue of slow</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - "Making it hip to be slow"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Beware of dogma and helping teams to go well</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Justin's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Justin on being "lit up" on software and the pitfalls of local optimizations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Justin's story of failure - organizational dysfunction, team disconnection, rollback, and a self-destruct button</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Justin's success stories - big attention and use from a weekend project, creating useful software immersed in the lives of users</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Justin's book recommendation</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Justin's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Justin</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="http://testdouble.com/" target="_blank">Test Double</a></li> <li><a href="http://navyseals.com/3877/sealfit-slow-smooth-smooth-fast/" target="_blank">"Slow is Smooth...Smooth Is Fast"</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.daveramsey.com/home/" target="_blank">Dave Ramsey</a></li> <li><a href="http://elijahmanor.com/" target="_blank">Elijah Manor</a></li> <li><a href="https://vimeo.com/112203553" target="_blank">A Talk Justin Gave on Testing</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer" target="_blank">Serenity Prayer</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/episode-102-michael-feathers-providing-options" target="_blank">Michael Feathers on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem" target="_blank">Y2K</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Justin's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393320278/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II - John W. Dower</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Justin's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Step away</li> <li>Indicate positive emotion when communicating via text</li> <li>Pair program and collaborate even when you think you don't need to - avoid the hacker mentality</li> </ol> </div> </div>
