Greater Than Code
Greater Than Code
198: Learning From Failure with Ravs Kaur
02:30 - Rav’s Superpower: Learning to Learn
- Success and Failure
- Creating Environments Where It’s Safe to Fail
- Exploring Ideas and Collecting Datapoints
- Celebrating Feedback Cycles and Experiments
07:12 - Failing Fast – Getting Early Feedback Along the Way
- Getting Over the “Being Polished” Hump
- Learning for Self-Fulfilment
17:02 - Empathy as a Life Skill
- Simulation
- Empathy is Necessary to Learn Through Failure
26:40 - Uplevel: Empowering Engineers to do Their Best Work
31:49 - Productivity and Judgement Value
- The Effect the Pandemic Has Had ^
- Capturing Interruptions and Mitigating Responses
- The “is work happening?” panic and fear and the worry “is innovation at the same level?”
- The Ecology of Human Performance: A Framework for Considering the Effect of Context
41:42 - Using Data to Measure Well-Being and/or Engagement
- Process Tracing
- Why use ambient data?
Reflections:
Rein: 1) We need to take human performance necessary. 2) Steven Shorrock’s Model of Change.
Jacob: Thinking more about ambient data.
Jamey: Failing fast.
Ravs: How do you know if you’ve built a great product if you don’t have a way to measure what people are clicking on and/or trying to find?
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