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Episode 428 | Zayne Turner - Joyful Perspectives

Jun 17 '19

Guest:

Zayne Turner talks with Dave Rael about art, technology, learning, perspectives, people, motivations, and joy

Zayne Turner is a Principal Developer Evangelist with Salesforce. She focuses on helping developers gain the resources and skills they need to solve their toughest problems and build applications they can be proud of. She started working in technology and learned to code while working in the arts. Her past lives include poet, ghostwriter, developer, systems administrator, password resetter and keeper of all the batteries, and technical consultant. She is a fan of all foods, pie over cake, and coffee at all hours.

Chapters:

0:16 - Dave introduces the show and Zayne Turner
2:43 - The meaning of the evangelist role, especially with Salesforce, and Zayne's path into working for Salesforce
7:36 - Zayne on becoming a technologist from being primarily an artist
10:48 - Zayne on being a ghostwriter and inhabiting the perspective of someone else
13:12 - Zayne's story of failure - proceeding with simplification without considering the ramifications and the reasons for the complexity of the existing solution
16:05 - Gaining confidence in software work
19:02 - How community involvement presented opportunity for Zayne
24:07 - The impact on Zayne's art of becoming more focused on software development
27:37 - Zayne's success story - gaining space to work on improvement from fighting technological fire
29:57 - Zayne's book recommendation
32:08 - Zayne, the maker
35:06 - The things that have Zayne most excited
37:20 - Zayne's top 3 tips for delivering more value
38:27 - Keeping up with Zayne

Resources:

Zayne's book recommendation:

Poetics of Relation - Édouard Glissant

Zayne's top 3 tips for delivering more value:

Think about people
Think about why
Make sure that human part of your brain is alive - what you are doing should provide joy