Susie Conley

10:25 - 13:49 - About company he works for, Temporal. Shawn sees workflow engines as an under-explored area of custom database. Descript is a customer of Temporal. They found him via his blog. He came in as employee #17. And was the kind of job that doesn’t exist until you are talking together and you create the role yourself. Shawn believes 20% of... See more

Career advise from July Evans: Write a “brag” document. It’s useful in negotiation, in annual review & promo conversations, and when you least expect it. Why: you can’t expect your manager to know everything you’ve done. Plus you need to combat your own human cognitive issues (memory, recency bias, self depreciation, etc). What to do: maintain a... See more

About Logseq: it is a tool to organize knowledge, a tool for bullet points. Not as technical as some, but much more technical than others: Emacs, Workflowy, Dynalist, Roam Research, Obsidian. Roam Research (a category defining “knowledge graph”)  and Obsidian are in similar spirit. It's an open source outliner software. Built on top of a database.... See more

0:00 - People are drawn to you for your specific skillset that only you can fill. There’s a U-shaped hole in the universe. And you created that gravitational pull that people find you. And I think as far as careers go, the more unique you are, the more un-subsitutable you are, the better compensated you will be. And the more you enjoy your job.

Discourse and Circle are being used for more curation beyond what Discord can do. Discourse for example allows for your posted content to be indexed by Google, so you get search value.

1:30 Definition of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction)

12:00-21:35 Discussion of the scientific and academic literature that observes computing practices as "folk practices" and ethnographic studies. Through the lens of cognitive science and behavioral science. Reading older texts even today proves to be so fundamental, bold, and innovative, even... See more

• Academic HCI work, where your output is published papers & it's very competitive.