#18 - Wesley Faulkner: AWS, Community Management, DevRel

https://www.reconfigured.co/wesley-faulkner-aws-community-management-devrel/

Video: https://youtu.be/0rCO46uCcD0

Audio: https://podcast.reconfigured.co

Site: https://www.reconfigured.co

Hosts Matthew Kiernander and Ceora Ford sit down with Wesley Faulkner, senior community manager at AWS, and Mariann Lowery, product and UX research lead at Stack Overflow, to discuss designing products with empathy for the user, the importance of psychological safety at work, and things to keep in mind while communicating with neurodiverse colleagues.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/04/the-many-strengths-of-neurodivergence/

https://marketingpodcasts.net/2022/08/38-community-trust-and-technology-with-wesley-faulkner/

• It’s a game changer when a manager has confidence in you and fully invests in your success.
• On the importance of providing feedback and recognition.
• Kindness is a currency.
• Overcoming self-doubt with your LinkedIn recommendations and by reviewing your Instagram photos.
• Be just like me, different – Video.
• You don’t grow a community by isolating yourself, you grow it by bringing people in and allowing them to be themselves.
• The first step of trusting someone is trusting them. Model the behavior you want the community to have.
• Radiate your morals, principles, and values as a community.
• How to meet the needs of developers and build those relationships.
• Hugh Forrest and SXSW Interactive.
• The rising cost of living in Austin and Nashville.
• Neurodiversity.
• Thoughts about job interview processes.
• Fundamental Attribution Error.
• Meme about feeding house guests.
• The biggest business lie.
• Wesley’s article about his journey through a Devrel role.
• On having the courage to be authentic and brave.
• READ The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias by Jessica Nordell and Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture by Kim Scott.
• Find Wesley83 on Twitter and Polywork.