Greater Than Code
228: Career Snarkiness – Words Hold Weight with Corey Quinn
02:21 - Corey’s Superpower: Reading 3,400 WPM
- Increasing Reading Speed
05:35 - Keeping Up w/ AWS
08:45 - Delivering Corey Quinn – Personal Evolution
- Speaking Truth to Power (Kindly, but Snarkily)
- Privilege
- Sonia Gupta and Corey Quinn - Embarrassingly Large Numbers: Salary Negotiation for Humans
- Holding Yourself Accountable
- Defensiveness
- This Cloud Computing Billing Expert Is Very Funny. Seriously. (NYT Article)
- Intentionality
25:51 - Career Snarkiness
28:05 - Approaching and Handling D&I as a Business Owner
- Discussing Salary Compensation
43:44 - Making and Delivering Jokes
45:08 - The Prospect of Being a Public Figure
50:03 - Recognizing Your Own Failure Mode
- The Art of Delegation
54:32 - Approachability
- Admitting Mistakes
- What’s the point?
Reflections:
Rein: Systems derive their purpose from how they relate to larger systems.
Tim: Iterating on oneself to become a better person. Becoming a human optimized.
Arty: Holding yourself accountable. Taking responsibility for how other people see you in a public context.
Mando: There’s a power in not hiding who you are. Apologizing for not letting people know what’s going on.
Corey: Words are loud. Words are heavy. Words carry weight. Words carry impact. There is a balance.
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