Lorinda Brandon - Managing Remote Software Teams & Human History
Recorded: 2023-05-17
Lorinda Brandon's mix of pragmatism and optimism inspires me to keep finding solutions to technical challenges that don't neglect the humans facing them. In this episode, we talk about her experiences and thoughts managing remote software engineering teams and the importance of maintaining organizational culture even when our teams are distributed across the globe. This segues nicely into her current pursuit of a second bachelor's degree in archaeology. Why would someone so focused on the future spend so much time peering into the past? Because, as it turns out, we're not so different from the people who came before us.
Show Notes
Lorinda is the VP of Software Engineering for BetterCloud.
Recent research suggests that Neanderthals - not homo sapiens - were the first sailors, upending many anthropological assumptions.
Lorinda mentioned a book titled "Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art" which explores many of the revelations - and corrects many of the faulty assumptions - made about Neanderthal people and their cultures.
