In this episode, Evan Light, a freelance software developer and mentor, talks about working with an apprentice, remote mentoring, and the power of reflection and education through suffering.
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Show Notes:
Evan Light (twitter / blog / Ruby DCamp / Triple Dog Dare)
 00:52 – Evan Light Introduction
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- Freelance Software Developer
- Developer Mentor
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01:03 – History with remote work
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- Wife’s health
- Frustration Driven Development: Evan’s WindyCityRails Talk 2012
- Former government contractor
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02:36 – Adjusting to working from home
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- Allowed him to focus more
- Easy at first, but harder the longer he has been doing it
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Needy cats
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06:28 – Day to day work process
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- Maintain 2 clients at a time
- Remote pairing
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07:32 – Pairing with clients
08:20 – Working with an apprentice
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- Working in person
- Pairing locally
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10:07 – Remote mentoring
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- Startups whose code is a mess
- People who want to learn techniques or learn from a problem
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12:40 – Pomodoroing
13:54 – Working with larger distributed teams
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- The people who perform well aren’t the people you expect to perform well and vice versa
- Work ethic tends to be different in the office than for people who work at home
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17:09 – Regular Agile Retrospectives
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- Defining iteration length
- Describing what things went well and what made people happy and what didn’t work well and made people unhappy
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20:54 – Reflection
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- Education through suffering
- Frustration Driven Development
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective people by Stephen R. Covey
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28:00 – Do what you love and share it with other people and it pays you back
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