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The One Where We Geek Out on Career Pivots with Ash Patel
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About our guest:
Ash Patel is an independent advocate for better software reliability practices. He's been a seasoned manager for over a decade and takes an organizational design and team development view on improving technology outcomes.
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Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela
Show Links:
- Capybara
- Capybaras at Toronto's High Park Zoo
- Intel Core i7 processor
- Windows Powershell
- Windows Subsystem for Linux
- JavaScript ES6
- Window frames property
- Priority codes (P0, P1, etc.)
- Environmental, social, corporate governance (ESG)
- Profits & Losses (P&L)
- The Odin Project
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Transcript:
ADRIANA: Hey, y'all, welcome to Geeking Out. The podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. Geeking out with me today is Ash Patel. Well, welcome, Ash.
ASH: Hey, how's it going, Adriana?
ADRIANA: Not too bad. Where are you calling from today?
ASH: I am actually in Australia right now because I wanted to escape the Toronto winter early. I feel like I've done it right in time.
ADRIANA: Yeah, I think so. I think you caught it. Just like when the sun is setting way too early and the weather is just that special shade of blah.
ASH: Yes. Just around Halloween times, it starts to hint at it's going to get bad. And then by mid November, we're already thinking, I need to get out of this.
ADRIANA: Yeah. Yeah, I totally don't blame you. So how long are you in Australia for? The duration of winter?
ASH: Pretty much. I'm looking at somewhere around March, April.
ADRIANA: That's awesome. So it's like summer for you all the time then, because you're going from summer to summer.
ASH: It has its downsides. I mean, it gets really hot in Australia, but it's a lot easier to deal with than -15 degrees or worse. Right?
ADRIANA: I agree. I come from a tropical country, and I have been living in Canada for 35 years, and I still cannot get acclimated to the freaking cold.
ASH: Oh, yeah, about that. I noticed that your mascot for the pod is a capybara.
ADRIANA: Yes, that's right. Which, incidentally, I discovered capybaras as a result o