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Episode 047 | Amy Palamountain - Enhancing Communication

Amy Palamountain talks with Dave Rael about listening and understanding, delivering enhanced communication, and exciting big changes

Amy Palamountain is from New Zealand and really likes programming, skiing and is a bit of a Morrissey fan. She works at GitHub building GitHub Desktop, so day to day she writes a ton of C#. She has a background in genetics, high performance computing, Web API design, and JavaScript client side architectures. These days she finds herself focusing on what it means to build a slick UI using reactive extensions.

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Amy's book recommendation:
Amy's top 3 tips for delivering more value:

1. Try to listen from the perspective of the speaker
2. Participate in code review and volunteer to do so
3. Talk to your customers and really listen

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