Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 276 | Arthur Doler - Empowering Mental Health Consumers
Guest:
Arthur Doler talks with Dave Rael about consuming mental health, caring about the people around you, psychology, and making an impact
Arthur (or Art, take your pick) has been a software engineer for 13 years and has worked on things as exciting as analysis software for casinos and things as boring as banking websites. He is an advocate for talking openly about mental health and psychology in the technical world, and he spends a lot of time thinking about how we program and why we program, and about the tools, structures, cultures, and mental processes that help and hinder us from our ultimate goal of writing amazing things.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Arthur Doler
- - Art's history with mental health challenges and mental health for software developers
- - Opening up with coworkers and constructive ways of helping one another
- - Helping mental health consumers as coworkers and using behavioral language rather than (mis)using clinical terms
- - Teams as families and caring about the people with whom you work
- - Mental health concerns specific to software developers
- - Art's interest in psychology
- - Leaning more on system 2 - training ourselves with rationality
- - Mindfulness
- - How Art got started in software
- - Multiplying impact
- - Art's book recommendations
- - Art's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Arthur
Resources:
- Art's Blog
- Art's Speaking and Conference Talks and Schedule
- Ed Finkler on Developer On Fire
- Open Sourcing Mental Illness
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Depression
- Anxiety disorder
- OSMI Survey
- Wellness Recovery Action Plan
- Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity - Kim Scott
- Obsessive–compulsive disorder
- Volkswagen Scandal
- Daniel Kahneman
- Amos Tversky
- Müller-Lyer illusion
- Mindfulness
- Headspace
Arthur's book recommendation:
Arthur's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Meditate
- Read constantly
- Be compassionate
