Tom Young

Guacamole enthusiast.
He/him.

[Tom Young @ThomasTheYoung]

I know I have a lot of connections in or near Germany from AgileTD. I will be in Munich from 16-21 Sept, any recommendations for spots we should go to see/eat/drink while we are there? Local gems are so much more fun than tourist traps. Thanks!

[Meri 8x💉“Exiled for Good of the Realm” Williams @Geek_Manager]

“Finding the right candidates effectively” is the other talk Jason considered giving today … but actually “Engineering a more equitable hiring process” IS THE SAME TALK. There is in fact no conflict between equity and efficiency in hiring.

Jason Wodicka #LeadDevLondon

[LeadDev @TheLeadDev]

Next at #LeadDevLondon is Dr. Cat Hicks (@grimalkina) shaking things up with questions on productivity! Catch her talk 'how I learned to stop worrying about developer productivity and love developer thriving' here 👉 https://t.co/Ezf8ZYxTdg

[Meri 8x💉“Exiled for Good of the Realm” Williams @Geek_Manager]

“I don’t think we know how to talk about productivity … and we’re facing a real challenge with our teams as a result” @grimalkina #LeadDevLondon

[Shaun Stanworth @shauns_uk]

@h_carver @tangentialism @LisaKC_ @ColWalder @CDPROJEKTRED @korndaniel1 @ShopifyDevs @automattic @ShaneaLeven @fnthawar @RyanMacG @ShopifyEng @AliciaCollymore Ah, music to my ears: “keep projects short, very short”. Yes!!! Pragmatists of the world unite!

Use boring technology and keep things simple. Tackle uncertainty first. Focus on getting work done not started - hard agree, WIP is a poison on pace

#LeadDevLondon

[Meri 8x💉“Exiled for Good of the Realm” Williams @Geek_Manager]

@ColWalder “You’re going to have values anyway. Any time you bring a group of people together they develop values. If you don’t do it mindfully, you’ll do it accidentally. Take a purposeful approach to developing core values” @ColWalder #LeadDevLondon

[Cat Hicks @grimalkina]

This quote is really it. This is also exactly what motivates me to work on understanding our social systems.

Engineers 🤝 Social scientists

#LeadDevLondon

[Meri 8x💉“Exiled for Good of the Realm” Williams @Geek_Manager]

@tangentialism “Notice, Think, Persuade, Proceed — the four steps of caring about something. Maps nicely to my incantation of Do The Right Thing” @tangentialism #LeadDevLondon

[Cat Hicks @grimalkina]

This keynote discussion of *liminal spaces* from @tangentialism reminds me deeply of behavior change theory in social science! When old norms and implicit beliefs are questioned it's scary, but suddenly there's opportunity for small changes to yield huge impact #LeadDevLondon

[Scott Carey @scarey102]

“Nobody knows what to do because the inputs are so varied”
@tangentialism kicking things off #LeadDevLondon with a rallying cry for engineering managers to navigate a changing business landscape that is NOT the same as 2009

[Tom Young @ThomasTheYoung]

@NativeWired 😱 yep. It's back up for me now though, so no panic here

[Tom Young @ThomasTheYoung]

Either Slack is down or I have been fired and they haven't told me yet 🤔

[Vernon Richards | Ghostwriter & Coach @TesterFromLeic]

Watching people, you admire and respect crush their presentations and workshops, albeit from afar, is 🥰🥰🥰🥰

#agileTD

[Tom Young @ThomasTheYoung]

@Gem_Hill @jennydoesthings I loooove the sticker 🫶

[Parveen Khan🚢 @Parveen_Khan10]

Yea finally I got to wear a headset to do a talk. I had sooo wished for this but never was possible because I wear a scarf/hijab. #AgileTD made it possible. Thank you for making this happen 😊 @AgileTDZone

[Tom Young @ThomasTheYoung]

@MlleSophiePofie I think you might be right. There are certainly a lot of smart and kind people there who know lots more than me.
“Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

[Tom Young @ThomasTheYoung]

@BorisWrubel @AgileTD No lie, one of the vendors at LeadDevLDN brought a pair of masseuses instead of swag, so if you chatted to them you got a token you could exchange for a 5-10 minute massage! It was so good, and more eco friendly than plastic tat too.

[Tom Young @ThomasTheYoung]

@witchofthetest @MlleSophiePofie @gwendiagram @lisacrispin oooohhh really interesting! Sounds like a killer session, gutted I wasn't there.

[Tom Young @ThomasTheYoung]

@MlleSophiePofie @gwendiagram @witchofthetest @lisacrispin I saw a really interesting talk last summer where it was pointed out that often we tell people (particularly women and people of colour) that they have imposter syndrome when actually there are other cultural issues at play - similar ideas in https://t.co/nPueVyJzCD

[Tom Young @ThomasTheYoung]

@MlleSophiePofie @gwendiagram @witchofthetest @lisacrispin I feel this so hard 😅 "other people have real imposter syndrome because they are actually great. I have fake imposter syndrome because I actually _am_ rubbish, unlike them!" brain weasels are sneaky animals.