Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 097 | Bryan Hunter - Reducing Fear
Guest:
Bryan Hunter talk with Dave Rael about safety
Bryan Hunter is an independent technical advisor with over two decades of consulting experience in complex business domains. He is also a Microsoft MVP in F#, the founder of Nashville Functional Programmers, and a past-president of NashDotNet. Bryan is an international speaker and has shared his expertise in Lean and functional programming at conferences and universities in London, Manila, Oslo, and throughout the US.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Bryan Hunter
- - Bryan's multi-disciplinary exposure in school and experience with getting into professional software
- - Bryan's story of getting exposed to Erlang and how it resonated with what he had seen of Lean
- - Bryan's definition of value
- - Value and things that are inappropriate
- - The things that "light Bryan up" - reduction of suffering and making problems go away
- - How Bryan got started with software - mindset around repetitive tasks
- - Bryan's story of failure - hardware failure for a demonstration and the resulting abusive treatment
- - Bryan's success story - using a working proof to demonstrate a solution, empasize simplicity, and turn around a nasty situation
- - How Bryan stays current with what he needs to know
- - The things that have Bryan most excited
- - The story of Bruce Tate, José Valim, Seven Languages, and Exlir
- - What Bryan geeks out apart from software
- - Bryan's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Bryan
Resources:
- Nashville Functional Programmers
- Nashville .NET User Group
- Bryan Talking about Elixir on .NET Rocks!
- W. Edwards Deming
- Erlang
- Joe Armstrong
- Alonzo Church
- Alan Turing
- Lambda calculus
- The Conversion of the Apostle Paul on the Road to Damascus from - Acts of the Apostles - Chapter 9
- Zach Lieberman on Developer On Fire
- Robert C. Martin - "Uncle Bob"
- Management By Results - W. Edwards Deming
- Toyota - 5 Whys
- Heath Computer
- Taiichi Ohno
- Toyota's Respect for People
- Greg Shackles on Developer On Fire
- PEBCAK
- The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman
- Elixir
- Programming Elixir: 1.2 Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun - Dave Thomas
- Dave Thomas on Developer On Fire
- Bruce Tate on Developer On Fire
- Bryan's Reference to His Absurdity Reminds of Doc Holliday's Hypocrisy
- Bryan on Lean and Functional Programming
- Early Podcast from 2013 with Bryan featuring Joe Armstrong and José Valim on Elixir
Bryan's book recommendation:
Bryan's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Culturally reduce fear by making safe places where experimentation is safe2. Build proofs
3. Hop into different things
