Episode
How to work with other people
with Floor Drees, Jimmy Angelakos
Video of a conference talk about how to work with other people presented by Floor Drees and Jimmy Angelakos at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024. Lack of awareness around Mental Health issues has always been a problem in IT circles, leading often to unnecessary stress, burnout and strained relationships with colleagues and employers. This in turn can lead to employee churn for companies and strife within open source projects.
Neurodiverse colleagues might be struggling more than you are, first with WFH and now with RTO, with industry-wide layoffs, and with biased performance review schemes. Understanding how different things affect different people differently will help make a more safe and more productive workplace. Making things a little better for neurodiverse folks, means making things a little better for everyone.
We will share how our neurodiversity affects the way we work with others, as well as stories from peers. We aim to contribute to a better understanding of how your team members tick, and we want to invite people to share how others can help them get their best work done.
We believe that the PostgreSQL community could become one in which its members can bring their true selves to (their open source) work.
Floor is a Staff Developer Advocate at Aiven(.io), a managed solution for your favorite open source data tools. Previously she worked in Developer Relations roles at Grafana Labs and Microsoft. She co-organizes devopsdays Amsterdam and devopsdays Eindhoven, as well as several meetup groups including contributing.today, a monthly virtual-first-an-only meetup on open source topics.
Floor is a devopsdays core member, and a Microsoft MVP, awarded for my community work in the developer technologies space.
She talks about dinosaurs and chickens a lot.
Jimmy Angelakos is a Systems and Database Architect and recognized PostgreSQL expert who has worked with, and contributed to, Open-Source tools for 25+ years. He is passionate about participating in the community, and is an active member of PostgreSQL Europe and an occasional contributor to the PostgreSQL project. Jimmy is a regular speaker at conferences and events, sharing his insights with the community. Author of PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them, co-author of PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook.
Chapters
- 00:00 - Intro
- 05:41 - Definitions
- 07:54 - It's rough out there
- 09:52 - Depression, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, & more
- 13:29 - Tricky situations
- 17:49 - Not all people have the same skills & aptitudes
- 18:14 - Diversity drives innovation
- 20:00 - How to work with Other colleagues
- 26:36 - Contact & Resources
Recommended resources
Related episodes
Connect
- Twitter/X – @PosetteConf
- Mastodon - @posetteconf
- Threads – @posetteconf
- Subscribe to the POSETTE News
- Floor Drees | Twitter/X: @DevOpsBarbie | LinkedIn: /in/floordrees | Hachyderm: @floord
- Jimmy Angelakos | LinkedIn: /in/vyruss | Mastodon: @vyruss
Video of a conference talk about how to work with other people presented by Floor Drees and Jimmy Angelakos at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024. Lack of awareness around Mental Health issues has always been a problem in IT circles, leading often to unnecessary stress, burnout and strained relationships with colleagues and employers. This in turn can lead to employee churn for companies and strife within open source projects.
Neurodiverse colleagues might be struggling more than you are, first with WFH and now with RTO, with industry-wide layoffs, and with biased performance review schemes. Understanding how different things affect different people differently will help make a more safe and more productive workplace. Making things a little better for neurodiverse folks, means making things a little better for everyone.
We will share how our neurodiversity affects the way we work with others, as well as stories from peers. We aim to contribute to a better understanding of how your team members tick, and we want to invite people to share how others can help them get their best work done.
We believe that the PostgreSQL community could become one in which its members can bring their true selves to (their open source) work.
Floor is a Staff Developer Advocate at Aiven(.io), a managed solution for your favorite open source data tools. Previously she worked in Developer Relations roles at Grafana Labs and Microsoft. She co-organizes devopsdays Amsterdam and devopsdays Eindhoven, as well as several meetup groups including contributing.today, a monthly virtual-first-an-only meetup on open source topics.
Floor is a devopsdays core member, and a Microsoft MVP, awarded for my community work in the developer technologies space.
She talks about dinosaurs and chickens a lot.
Jimmy Angelakos is a Systems and Database Architect and recognized PostgreSQL expert who has worked with, and contributed to, Open-Source tools for 25+ years. He is passionate about participating in the community, and is an active member of PostgreSQL Europe and an occasional contributor to the PostgreSQL project. Jimmy is a regular speaker at conferences and events, sharing his insights with the community. Author of PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them, co-author of PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook.
Chapters
- 00:00 - Intro
- 05:41 - Definitions
- 07:54 - It's rough out there
- 09:52 - Depression, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, & more
- 13:29 - Tricky situations
- 17:49 - Not all people have the same skills & aptitudes
- 18:14 - Diversity drives innovation
- 20:00 - How to work with Other colleagues
- 26:36 - Contact & Resources
Recommended resources
Related episodes
Connect
- Twitter/X – @PosetteConf
- Mastodon - @posetteconf
- Threads – @posetteconf
- Subscribe to the POSETTE News
- Floor Drees | Twitter/X: @DevOpsBarbie | LinkedIn: /in/floordrees | Hachyderm: @floord
- Jimmy Angelakos | LinkedIn: /in/vyruss | Mastodon: @vyruss
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