Using Reflection

Show Notes Topics: Meditation, Mentoring, Python, Recruiting, Software Engineering, Teamwork, Team Leadership, Trust, Zen Buddhism Companies: MongoDB Wireless Generation Projects: Motor PyMongo Introduction In this episode we are joined by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, Python contributor and staff engineer at MongoDB. It’s a fun, insightful conversation touching on the dearth of mentorship in tech, differences in mindset when contracting vs. being on staff, the subtle and evolving effectiveness of long-lived teams, and the effect of Jesse’s Zen Buddhist practice on his approach to engineering. Guest Bio A. Jesse Jiryu Davis is a staff engineer at MongoDB in New York City. He’s the lead developer of the MongoDB C Driver libraries, libbson and libmongoc, and the author of Motor, an async MongoDB driver written in Python for Tornado and asyncio. With Guido van Rossum he co-authored “A Web Crawler With asyncio Coroutines”, a chapter in the “500 Lines or Less” book in the Architecture of Open Source A