S1E2: "Software engineering is like a character-building video game" with Nick Means

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In this episode, Scott Carey sat down with Nick Means, VP of Engineering at MedScout, ahead of his ⁠talk at LeadDev London 2024 about the history of the Barbican estate⁠. We talked about the value of 1:1 meetings, storytelling as a leadership tool, spotting people's superpowers, struggling with bureaucracy, and how to build an AI team. "Software engineering is sort of like a character-building video game. You've got all of these people on your group that's traversing through this environment and everybody's got different skill alignments." 01:00 The importance of 1:1 meetings and storytelling in leadership 05:30 Building a culture of autonomy and leveraging individual superpowers 11:30 The challenges of working in a larger organization (GitHub 👀) 20:00 Building an AI team and verifying outputs Nick's recommendation: ⁠Perplexity AI

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