Social Audio as a Vector For Engineering Wisdom • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo https://gotochgo.com Bryan Cantrill - Co-Founder & CTO at Oxide Computer Company @bcantrill ORIGINAL TALK TITLE Technologists Around the Campfire: Social Audio as a Vector For Engineering Wisdom RESOURCES https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends Bryan https://twitter.com/bcantrill https://github.com/bcantrill https://linkedin.com/in/bryan-cantrill-b6a1 http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc https://mastodon.social/@bcantrill ABSTRACT Before there were systems of writing, technical know-how was passed via oral tradition. Even with our modern amenities, this deep aspect of our humanity remains essential: engineers very much learn from listening to stories from one another, be they over the lunch table, at the local haunt, or in the hallway track. But how do we do this in an era of remote work? We believe that social audio has an essential role to play in this new world. This belief is borne of our own experience: during the pandemic, we started gathering weekly via social audio -- first via Twitter Spaces, and now via Discord. While this started as a lark, we have found this space to have outsized impact: we recorded these conversations, and have made them available as a podcast ("Oxide and Friends") and have been struck by how many young technologists in particular have found them deeply meaningful. In this talk, we will talk about our experiences with social audio, and why we have come to view our lark as tacking into some of the deepest and most important aspects of our engineering craft --and of our humanity. [...] Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotochgo.com/2023/sessions/2543 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Henney, Buschmann & Schmidt • Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Volume 5 • https://amzn.to/3GAPzN7 Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Booch • Design Patterns (Gang of Four) • https://amzn.to/3sPJ8yk David Farley • Modern Software Engineering • https://amzn.to/3GI468M Kevlin Henney • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know • https://amzn.to/2Yahf9U https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #SocialAudio #Podcast #OxideAndFriends #BryanCantrill Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1