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Compassionate Coding with April Wensel
May 22, 2018
April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, shares her mission to humanize the tech industry. Discussions include the importance of empathy in tech, reframing team culture for success, the job hopping debate, and the power of compassionate coding to improve software engineering.
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- Compassionate Coding aims to humanize the tech industry by teaching emotional intelligence and relational competencies to software engineers and engineering leaders.
- The tech industry needs to reframe the idea of 'soft skills' as essential for success and prioritize emotional intelligence in order to create a culture shift.
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Humanizing the tech industry through compassionate coding
Compassionate Coding aims to humanize the tech industry by teaching emotional intelligence and relational competencies to software engineers and engineering leaders. The focus is on reducing stress, avoiding burnout, improving communication, promoting inclusion and diversity, and fostering ethical software development.
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