I feel like, and this is just me being a brazen individual, that if you're spending your coffee break talking about code you're doing it wrong. Let that jam go, for ten minutes. Forty. Whatever! Just stop talking about your code when you're supposed to be on break. So that you can come back to it fresh as roses.
Now I spend most of my time around my partner. Who is in tech, and works remotely. So I actually talk tech (goober style, akin to a five year old describing an event) with my gal on the regular. Something I've seen perusing the old Reddit block is non-tech daters complaining about how absolutely abysmal it is dating tech workers. Because we just don't know how to turn it off. So I try, although I'm not sure if I succeed, and willfully phasing out to regular old average Jo when I'm not talking tech.
But also that's just about downtime. Explaining technical ideas, I suppose I can point yet again to a good old fashioned sub-reddit ELI5. In learning, as a beginner, I cannot understand a concept unless it's explained succinctly. Examples help. While there is no world in which this conversationalist can be succinct, I will say that being long in the ears/short in the tongue and to the point is gold.
Basically means -> if a non-technical individuals asks you a question -> listen to their full question -> ask for a second to think, they won't turn you down as long as you give a response within a reasonable time -> decode what they're asking/attempting to ask -> grab the answer from your "localStorage" -> boil that down to simpler action = result logic and respond with that. At least that's my assumption.
You can also always say what you think they want to hear (some people aren't even looking for a real answer, they just want to have an in to talk). Or they're looking for a sounding board, and just need to express something to you, without your input.
So that's my 411. As for jargon, I don't understand it either. But slang, I use it. But that's because I'm a putz. And putz' gunna do what putz' gunna do.
*p.s. - this is not an endorsement for Reddit - where happiness goes to die. Just saying I do browse it from time to time and there's some good stuff on there. Some...
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I feel like, and this is just me being a brazen individual, that if you're spending your coffee break talking about code you're doing it wrong. Let that jam go, for ten minutes. Forty. Whatever! Just stop talking about your code when you're supposed to be on break. So that you can come back to it fresh as roses.
Now I spend most of my time around my partner. Who is in tech, and works remotely. So I actually talk tech (goober style, akin to a five year old describing an event) with my gal on the regular. Something I've seen perusing the old Reddit block is non-tech daters complaining about how absolutely abysmal it is dating tech workers. Because we just don't know how to turn it off. So I try, although I'm not sure if I succeed, and willfully phasing out to regular old average Jo when I'm not talking tech.
But also that's just about downtime. Explaining technical ideas, I suppose I can point yet again to a good old fashioned sub-reddit ELI5. In learning, as a beginner, I cannot understand a concept unless it's explained succinctly. Examples help. While there is no world in which this conversationalist can be succinct, I will say that being long in the ears/short in the tongue and to the point is gold.
Basically means -> if a non-technical individuals asks you a question -> listen to their full question -> ask for a second to think, they won't turn you down as long as you give a response within a reasonable time -> decode what they're asking/attempting to ask -> grab the answer from your "localStorage" -> boil that down to simpler action = result logic and respond with that. At least that's my assumption.
You can also always say what you think they want to hear (some people aren't even looking for a real answer, they just want to have an in to talk). Or they're looking for a sounding board, and just need to express something to you, without your input.
So that's my 411. As for jargon, I don't understand it either. But slang, I use it. But that's because I'm a putz. And putz' gunna do what putz' gunna do.
*p.s. - this is not an endorsement for Reddit - where happiness goes to die. Just saying I do browse it from time to time and there's some good stuff on there. Some...