How to Talk to Developers
summary
Starts with 12 air squats and a live Law of Demeter enactment using volunteers to show how coupling breaks when a component is refactored, then demonstrates real-time Vim workflows—relative numbers, a leader key that commits WIP and pushes—via live coding. Argues that being interesting beats being informative, covers body language and power posing, and finishes by teaching the room to sing Happy Birthday to prove audience-engagement techniques actually work; mentions the new product Learn Prime and discount code RAILSON.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Start
- 0:4512 Air Squats
- 3:19Law of Demeter
- 9:35Basics of Tdd
- 11:38Vim Productivity
- 13:08Indenting
- 14:40Absolute Numbers
- 15:12New Leader Command
- 17:15Live Demos
- 18:03Body Language
- 18:51Default Posture for Talking
- 21:53Functions
- 23:55Macro View
- 27:35Accept Its Inevitability
- 29:17Power Posing
- 29:47Mock Interviews
- 30:58Power Pose
- 33:43Anti-Patterns
- 35:08Pre Apologizing
- 35:45How To Ask for Questions
- 36:06Ask for Questions
- 43:18How To Stand
- 44:38Improving Resonance
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