The latest articles on DEV Community by suyogrk (@suyogrk). https://dev.to/suyogrk https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F616977%2Fa00105d5-72be-4488-8e72-ff4b310d8736.png https://dev.to/suyogrk en suyogrk Wed, 05 Jan 2022 03:12:55 +0000 https://dev.to/suyogrk/100-awesome-tech-talks-1-ease-at-work-kent-beck-48j4 https://dev.to/suyogrk/100-awesome-tech-talks-1-ease-at-work-kent-beck-48j4 <p><a href="https://www.infoq.com/presentations/self-image/">Ease at work - Kent Beck</a></p> <h2> What does ease mean? </h2> <ul> <li>State of comfort</li> <li>Freedom from worry, pain or agitation</li> <li>Readiness in performance, facility</li> </ul> <h3> State of comfort </h3> <p>We need to have a sense when working that we are doing the right thing, that we are at the right place, that we are answering our calling.</p> <h3> Freedom from worry, pain or agitation </h3> <ul> <li>anxiety is kryptonite for programmers</li> <li>if we are worrying, we are not doing our best work.</li> <li>we are anxious about deadlines, expectations</li> <li>we are worrying about technology, looking at new technology</li> </ul> <h3> Readiness in performance, facility </h3> <ul> <li>We should not worry about things that dont matter</li> <li>care deeply about things that do matter.</li> <li>care deeply about our work -&gt; be fulfilling some kind of purpose</li> </ul> <h2> What causes unease? </h2> <ul> <li>We have to work on the sense of ease</li> <li>what is taking it away?, how to get it back?</li> </ul> <h3> Battle between two extremities </h3> <ul> <li>We are swinging between two extreme states</li> <li>We are awesome, the best programmer in the world</li> <li>We are bad, the worst programmer</li> <li>We need to reduce the amplitude of these swings so that our self image is correlated with reality.</li> <li>We need to manage these extremes</li> </ul> <h2> How to be more at ease? </h2> <h3> My work matters </h3> <ul> <li>If we believe that our work does not matter, we are not at ease</li> <li>work that does not matter is a place of dis-ease</li> <li>Find purpose in different ways <ul> <li>Economic : sales go up, company is more valuable</li> <li>Social impact</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3> Knowing that the code works </h3> <ul> <li>TDD - designs get better, more feedback, more documentation <ul> <li>I know that my code works.</li> <li>fear is transmuted into boredom.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Afraid of breaking something, causes unease</li> </ul> <h3> Pride </h3> <ul> <li>be proud of your code.</li> <li>we can be proud of our code in different dimensions. <ul> <li>following best practices</li> <li>writing clean code</li> <li>taking a mess and cleaning it up</li> <li>adding successfully to a mess</li> </ul> </li> <li>when we are proud of our work, we are at ease</li> </ul> <h3> Make public commitments </h3> <ul> <li>make public commitments about what you are going to do</li> <li>accountability -&gt; without excuse, without blaming others <ul> <li>not blaming others</li> </ul> </li> <li>we can fall short sometimes.</li> <li>when we can account for ourselves -&gt; we are at ease</li> <li>schedule chicken -&gt; everybody in the table knows you are not going to make the schedule</li> </ul> <h3> Interpret feedback </h3> <ul> <li>interpret both positive and negative feedback.</li> <li>dont be carried away by both positive and negative feedback.</li> </ul> <h3> I am a beginner </h3> <ul> <li>learning new things help us see the limits of our knowledge</li> <li>we get more feedback by deliberately putting ourselves in the mindset of a beginner</li> </ul> <h3> Meditate </h3> <ul> <li>Meditation helps us with ease</li> </ul> <h3> Serve </h3> <ul> <li>Deliberately doing things with no sense of reward.</li> <li>helping others</li> </ul> <blockquote> <p>A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval</p> <ul> <li>Mark Twain</li> </ul> </blockquote> career motivation techtalks