Foojay Podcast #61: Keep Your Body And Mind Healthy

At Devoxx and JFall, we talked with Georgios Diamantopoulos, Lutske de Leeuw, Tom Cools, Jessica Siewert, and Rijo Sam about staying physically and mentally healthy as software developers.

There are many topics to handle, like the impact of AI on how valuable we feel, how COVID-19 impacted careers, how we work in and with remote teams, how to get to know new colleagues and much more. Yes, there is even a sidestep where we compared the Java and .NET communities.

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Guests

Georgios Diamantopoulos

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgiosd/
• https://x.com/georgiosd

Tom Cools

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-cools-17547548/
• https://bsky.app/profile/tcoolsit.bsky.social

Lutske de Leeuw

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lutske/

Jessica Siewert

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesiewert/

Rijo Sam

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijosam19/
• https://github.com/Rijosam

Content

00:00 Introduction of topic and guests

00:48 Georgios Diamantopoulos about the impact of your work on your body

05:22 Comparing Java to .NET community

06:54 Lutske de Leeuw about the impact of AI on our job

09:13 Impact of Covid and working from home

10:48 Talk with your colleagues about mental issues

12:06 Tom Cools about switching jobs

13:00 About the danger of a burnout, dealing with stress, and trying too much at the same time

17:08 How to deal with Impostor Syndrom

20:31 Jessica Siewert about dealing with conflicts within a team

22:50 How to get in contact with new people

24:58 Rijo Sam about working in and with remote teams

26:34 Schedule “coffee moments”!

30:54 Impact of time zone differences

33:02 Misunderstanding each other because of cultural differences

34:44 The danger of text chat versus having a voice chat

37:04 Avoid team burnout!

37:43 Conclusion