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In this episode, Scott Carey sat down with Nick Means, VP of Engineering at MedScout, ahead of his talk at LeadDev London 2024 about the history of the Barbican estate. We talked about the value of 1:1 meetings, storytelling as a leadership tool, spotting people's superpowers, struggling with bureaucracy, and how to build an AI team. "Software engineering is sort of like a character-building video game. You've got all of these people on your group that's traversing through this environment and everybody's got different skill alignments." 01:00 The importance of 1:1 meetings and storytelling in leadership 05:30 Building a culture of autonomy and leveraging individual superpowers 11:30 The challenges of working in a larger organization (GitHub 👀) 20:00 Building an AI team and verifying outputs
Nick's recommendation: Perplexity AI
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