Naomi Freeman on Empathy in Software

In this episode I'm talking to Naomi Freeman, two time nominated Woman of Influence for Royal Bank of Canada's Women Entrepreneur award. Naomi has been an engineer, team lead, CTO and founder. Naomi is also an instructor for Treehouse and LinkedIn Learning and she actively takes a mentoring role in Rails Girls and Coder Dojo.

Naomi is passionate about using Software to better the world and is currently co-authoring a book on Software and Empathy with a working title of The Compassionate Coder. In this episode we talk about Naomi's journey from a Philosophy and Creative Writing degree to software development, diversity in the software workplace, Naomi's work with RailsGirls and CoderDojo and of course, empathy in software development.

Naomi gives us an excellent book recommendation, besides her own, of The Black Box Society by Frank Pasquale.

I think you'll enjoy this one!

Links:

• Naomi's website - https://www.naomifreeman.com/
• Compassionate Coder - https://compassionatecoder.com/
• Treehouse - https://teamtreehouse.com/
• LinkedIn Learning - https://www.linkedin.com/learning
• RailsGirls - http://railsgirls.com/
• CoderDojo - https://coderdojo.com/
• The Black Box Society - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Box-Society-Algorithms-Information/dp/0674970845/ref=sr_1_1