Casey Watts!
Co-Host of Greater Than Code
Casey Watts! likes system optimizing, technology, singing, dancing, blowing bubbles, enthusiasm, clear communication, and hugs. He loves helping people collaborate together more effectively (people systems~). Casey is also the author of Debugging Your Brain.
Casey Watts! has hosted 21 Episodes.
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233: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Matter with Jess Szmajda
May 5th, 2021 | 47 mins 24 secs
Jess Szmajda talks about the importance of using inclusive language, active listening, and metacognition: asking ourselves, “What are we not thinking about?” when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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229: Union Organization with Melissa McEwen
April 7th, 2021 | 53 mins 30 secs
Melissa McEwen talks about how she helped unionize Glitch, common misconceptions when it comes to the idea of unions, Melissa’s previous experience with working with unions, positive skills union organizers should have, evaluating human performance, and tips for those who are interested in how to go about organizing such an endeavor.
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221: Cultivating Strength and Change with Wesley Faulkner
February 10th, 2021 | 53 mins 5 secs
Wesley Faulkner talks about the idea that as a society, we should be sharing responsibility based on strengths and delegating “weakness”. We should be operating as a string quartet! He also talks about how mission statements usually represent false values that are especially harmful to marginalized people and groups and attempting to talk truth to power and enact change.
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218: Building Bridges with Isa Herico-Velasco
January 20th, 2021 | 44 mins 35 secs
In this episode, Isa Herico-Velasco talks about community learning and cultivating leadership pipelines through organizations such as RailsBridge and Bridge Foundry, the intersection of music and technology, and working with monolith codebases in her work life at The Internet Archive.
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217: Robots As "Social Entities" with Laura Major
January 13th, 2021 | 50 mins 40 secs
In this episode, Laura Major, co-author of 'What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration' with our previous episode’s Julie Shah, explores the human/robot partnership and how we are attempting to make our world robot compatible. She also talks about the idea of robots as “social entities” and how media affects the way people view robots.