Parent Driven Development
Parent Driven Development
Parent Driven Development
017: Work and Family Boundaries
36 minutes Posted Nov 28, 2018 at 10:00 am.
Welcome, Chris Arcand!
Balancing Working From Home with a 19-Month-Old
Making Family Plans
Commuting Vs Working From Home
Choosing a Nanny Over Daycare
Maintaining Balance and Avoiding Excessive Interruptions
Improving Mental Presence When Not Working
Exposing Kids to "I'm working, and this is how I'm working."
Genius / Fail Moments
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Parent Driven Development
Episode 017: Work and Family Boundaries
00:16 Welcome, Chris Arcand!
Chris is a Software Engineer at HashiCorp where he works on Terraform Enterprise, a product that adds collaboration and governance features to the popular open source infrastructure tool, Terraform. As an advocate of distributed teams and open source, he’s spent the majority of his career at other distributed, open source companies such as Red Hat. He calls the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota his home where he organizes the local Ruby users group, RubyMN, as well as moderates the ‘MSP Tech’ community Slack. Outside of software, Chris is an avid backpacker and amateur ice hockey player, as well as the father of a rambunctious little 19-month-old.
The Aspect of Literal Time: Utilizing time when kids are napping/otherwise busy
"Shift Work" vs Having Flexible Hours
Hashicorp's "Flexible Time Off" Policy vs "Paid Time Off"
Approaching Work and Dividing Up Your Day
Location is Vital
Having an At-Home Nanny
Noise. Cancelling. Headphones.
Shutting The Door
Give Yourself Time to Decompress Before Family Time
Mindfulness/Meditation
JC: Has successfully kept his kid alive for 18 years! (#Genius) Also, his sophomore is starting in varsity football! (#Genius) Also, also, he is the team photographer which is a great hobby to have. (#Genius)
Josh: Andrew Bredow's Chore Chart
Chris A: His hockey room! His son is showing interest! (#Genius) ...But, having a new roof put on his house during naptime was probably not the best plan. (#Fail)
Chris S: Let his kids help him paint a room! (#Genius) ...But, it turns out they weren't very good at it. (#Fail)
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Panel
Chris Sexton
JC Avena
Josh PuetzSpecial Guest: Chris Arcand.