Chris Sexton
Co-Host of Parent Driven Development
Chris is the VP of Engineering at Radius Networks, where he builds mobile proximity tools and services. He cofounded the Arlington Ruby Meetup and helps organize both Ruby Retrocession and Ruby for Good events.
When not working, Chris likes doing projects with with his kids: Hardware, LEGO, dog training, woodworking, and of course some programming.
Chris Sexton has hosted 32 Episodes.
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052: Taking Breaks
September 2nd, 2020 | 32 mins 12 secs
quarantine, self care, taking breaks
This week, Allison, KWu and Chris discuss the importance of taking breaks, how they take breaks, and why sometimes choosing the adult decision isn't always necessary.
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050: Agile Household with Yvonne Marcus
August 5th, 2020 | 32 mins 15 secs
accountability, agile home, agile household, mom life, yvonne marcus
Yvonne Marcus joins the panelist to discuss Agile Household. Yvonne created Agile Homes, a four-week course that looks to get your family together by making everyone feel like a valued member of the team, and instilling autonomy and having fun!
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049: Arit Amana
July 22nd, 2020 | 34 mins 24 secs
arit, new panelist, parenting podcast
New panelist Arit Amana joins the group! The group discusses quarantine, childcare duty, WFH, and all the madness in-between.
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048: Darcy Lockman - All The Rage
July 8th, 2020 | 39 mins 50 secs
all the rage, darcy lockman, moms and dads, myth of equal partnership, parenting, parenting share, parenting tips
JC and Chris are joined by author and journalist, Darcy Lockman, to discuss her book All The Rage: Mothers, Fathers and The Myth of Equal Partnership. From our society culture, to patriarchy, to the parent dynamic at home, The group hashes out the realities and ways to improve parenting dynamics at home.
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045: Miriam Tocino: Zerus and Ona
May 27th, 2020 | 43 mins 12 secs
children's book, miriam tocino, new mom, parenting, zerus and ona
Allison and Chris are joined by Miriam Tocino, a former architect turned teacher and coder, new mom, and creator of Zerus and Ona, a children's book that explains the difficult topics of the binary world.
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043: Managing Parents on Your Team
April 29th, 2020 | 48 mins 27 secs
manager, managing parents, parents, teamwork
Today our panelists sit down with Nick Means to talk about strategies and experiences of managing parents on your team. Parent have unique needs as they care for little humans and some may not exactly know what those unique needs are, unless you too are a parent. We break down techniques and share experiences of what it's like managing parents in tech.
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041: COVID-19
March 25th, 2020 | 46 mins 33 secs
covid-19, covid19, family, full time remote work, the new normal
Everyone's talking about it, covid-19 is all the rage. In today's episode KWu, Chris and Allison share their quarantine updates, remote work highlights, and dish on the extreme scenes seen in most grocery stores right now.
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037: New Panel Intro - Welcome Chris and Adarsh
January 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 23 secs
growing families, irregular schedules, traveling with kids
In this episode we welcome two new panelist to Parent Driven Development, Chris Arcand and Adarsh Pandit! We learn a little bit about our new panelist and then dive into topics about irregular work schedules, the kids, traveling with the kids, and our teams growing families.
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036: The Process for International Adoption
December 11th, 2019 | 43 mins 12 secs
international adoption agencies, parenting school, process for international adoption, things to consider when adopting a child
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035: Summer Vacation
November 20th, 2019 | 43 mins 40 secs
family vacations, road trips, summer break, summer vacation
Josh, KWu, JC and Chris reflect back on summer vacations when they were growing up, as well as the differences and similarities they're faced vacationing now as the parent. Plus, road trips are always nostalgic to reminisce on!
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034: Extracurricular Activities
October 30th, 2019 | 56 mins 10 secs
activities, back to school, extracurricular
Special guest, Barrett Clark, joins Josh, Kwu, Allison, JC and Chris to discuss back to school and extracurricular activities for kids: how to help your kids find their passion, the expectations of school activities, the financial side, and what it means for the parents. Tune in for a deeper dive!
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032: Tackling More
September 11th, 2019 | 42 mins 58 secs
back to school, engineering, management
Dana Jones talks about going back to school with four older children and teaching herself to code when they were little. We also talk about some of the similarities of management and parenting.
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031: Negotiating A Shorter Workweek
June 12th, 2019 | 37 mins 55 secs
communication, remote work
Itamar Turner-Trauring talks about some of the tactics he wrote about in his book, "You Can Negotiate A 3-Day Weekend", such as overcoming "this isn't normal" and "entitlement" feelings, scheduling your shorter workweek, and optimizing your output value and impact when you're not measuring your working hours.
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029: Organizing Conferences
May 15th, 2019 | 44 mins 55 secs
balance, conferences, time management
Andy Croll and Chris Sexton talk about their experiences with juggling organizing conferences and parenting.
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028: Primary Caregiving
May 1st, 2019 | 39 mins 30 secs
communication, nannies, remote work
In this episode, Nick Gauthier stops by to talk about being a full-time parent as a man, partner dynamics and making decisions, how having a child has changed the way Nick works, and why he is a big proponent of Communication Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
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027: Fear Mongering and Inducing Panic
April 17th, 2019 | 40 mins 10 secs
fear, panic, scary
Due to the "Momo Challenge": the latest in a series of internet "challenges" and urban legends, Chris, Jess, JC, and Mandy talk about fear mongering and inducing panic: What do we do as parents to protect our kids? Do we, as technologists, have an advantage in understanding "hoaxes" better than non-technologists? Should we ignore the hype and "let live and let go?" And how much do we/should we be monitoring our kids?