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09 Mar 2013

Heroic Measures

play (48 minutes 23 MB)

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about how software developers often have to go “above and beyond” as part of their work.

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Rejected Episode Titles:

  • I Would Call That a General Glow
  • This is Derailing Rather Rapidly
  • It Captures the Beginner’s Mind
  • Chocolate Frosted Ego Batter
  • I Have a Cape and Everything
  • “Realistic” Is in Air Quotes
  • I’m Totally Butchering Agile
  • We’ll Just Throw More Bodies at It
  • Kind of a Squishy Definition
  • Anything You Do That Isn’t Sustainable
  • I’m Not a Lawyer
  • Anxiety Is a Good Harbinger
  • I’m Going to Upgrade Myself
  • Your Definition of Heroism Falls a Bit Short
  • How Much You Neglect the Other Parts of Your Life
  • A “Corporate Stooge” as Dan Benjamin Would Call It
  • That Sounds Horrifying
  • The Way a Lot of People Do It, the Way Your Friends Do It
  • The Air They Breathe
  • Now You’re in Charge, Go Make This Work
  • Almost Kind of an Anti-Heroic Measure
  • You Need Heroic Management
  • Treated Like Kings
  • I Mean, They’re in California, Right?
  • Outside the Apple Vernacular
  • Come in or You’re Fired
  • There Were Sprints, Is What I’m Saying
  • Don’t Get Stuck There
  • Not Zero-Based