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I would highly encourage everyone to watch Kent Beck's 2015 RubyConf talk (which has nothing to do with Ruby): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aApmOZwdPqA http
by jkingsbery 8y ago
I would highly encourage everyone to watch Kent Beck's 2015 RubyConf talk (which has nothing to do with Ruby):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aApmOZwdPqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aApmOZwdPqA
In the talk, he discusses a few things, but one thing he discusses in the importance in doing things periodically for which we are beginners. If you are getting paid to do something, you're probably not a beginner. One way to practice not making money is take up a hobby in which you are a beginner. I don't mean like: I'm a programmer by day, and I YouTube about programming by night (that's still about programming). Find something completely unrelated to what you're doing.
- bluGill 8y agoPutting a YouTube video together is something I'm a beginner at. The content might be programming (Something I'm an expert in), but there is a lot about video production that I do not know. Of course after a short time of doing those YouTube videos I'm no longer a beginner and now I need to find something different.
- 0x445442 8y agoIt must be nice for Kent to just trot off and investigate whether or not his work "matters". For the rest of us, this is a non starter because that effort can't be captured in a story or a task attached to a story on the Jira board. Us mortals might be able to convince our boss that our investigation is worthy of a spike but it'd be bounded to a couple of hours. For us dark matter engineers we need to tell ourselves that, because we're paid, our work "matters".
- john-radio 8y agoWhat is a dark matter engineer?
- JakeTheAndroid 8y agopeople who work on things you'll never see.