Parent Driven Development
Episode 017: Work and Family Boundaries
00:16 Welcome, Chris Arcand (https://twitter.com/chrisarcand)!
Chris is a Software Engineer at HashiCorp (https://www.hashicorp.com/) where he works on Terraform Enterprise (https://www.hashicorp.com/products/terraform), a product that adds collaboration and governance features to the popular open source infrastructure tool, Terraform (https://www.terraform.io/). 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 (https://www.redhat.com/). He calls the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota his home where he organizes the local Ruby users group, RubyMN (https://www.meetup.com/ruby-mn/?_cookie-check=tTPtT3O5bUmbVkoy), as well as moderates the ‘MSP Tech’ community Slack (http://msptech.herokuapp.com/). 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.
01:32 Balancing Working From Home with a 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
06:46 Making Family Plans
09:29 Commuting Vs Working From Home
Location is Vital
Having an At-Home Nanny
13:28 Choosing a Nanny Over Daycare
18:19 Maintaining Balance and Avoiding Excessive Interruptions
Noise. Cancelling. Headphones.
Shutting The Door
21:14 Improving Mental Presence When Not Working
Give Yourself Time to Decompress Before Family Time
Mindfulness/Meditation
25:23 Exposing Kids to "I'm working, and this is how I'm working."
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43:42 Genius / Fail Moments
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 (https://github.com/andrewbredow/kid-chores)
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 (https://twitter.com/crsexton)
JC Avena (https://twitter.com/jcavena)
Josh Puetz (https://twitter.com/joshpuetz) Special Guest: Chris Arcand.
