Ruby on Ice 2019: Teach by Learning; Lead by Teaching by Betsy Haibel
Channel: Ruby on Ice
Date: 2019-04-02

Ever caught yourself dictating code to a junior dev, rather than pairing? Or resorted to saying “best practice”? Kill two birds with one stone: use “dialogic teaching,” an adult-education technique. Let’s turn “technical leadership” into a two-way process that surfaces tradeoffs and gets buy-in.

By Betsy Haibel https://twitter.com/@betsythemuffin

Betsy Haibel is the founding CTO of Cohere. She writes fiction and nonfiction in English, Ruby, and Javascript – among other languages – and co-organizes Learn Ruby in DC. Her lifelong ambitions? To meet a red panda, and to break down barriers between “developers” and “users.”

https://rubyonice.com/speakers/betsy_haibel