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Pragmatic Thinking & Learning - Refactor Your Wetware

Andy Hunt is co-founder of The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, and is well known as a programmer, author and publisher The Pragmatic Bookshelf

Dreyfus model of skill acquisition

Use rules for novices, intuition for experts.

Skill distribution

Most people are advanced beginners.

This is your brain

CPU #1 : linear language processing.CPU #2 : super regular expression search engine.

Left Brain

Linear
Verbal
Logical
Right brain
Non-linear
Intuitive
Spatial

Get in your R-ight mind

Stop focus Turn up the sensory input, use your R-mode

R-mode to L-mode flow

Lead with R-mode, follow with L-mode. Get use to write drunk and revise your writing sober :)

# pair programming

Harvest your mind!

Dreams / Nightmares
Processing old ignored inputs

Invite your R-mode

Morning Page
Just write
Walking (maze vs labyrinth)

Everyone has good ideas; fewer go further.

Cna Yuo Raed Tihs?

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Learn Deliberately

At our current state of technology and culture, your ability to learn may be your most important element of success.

How to be SMART

Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time boxed

Create SMART objectives to reach your goals

Map, mind map

http://www.mindmapping.com/

Learn by teaching

Also known as "rubber ducking"

Gain experience

Gaining experience is key to learning and growth-We are learning best by doing

Perception is based on prediction

Perception is based on prediction
Prediction is based on context and past experience
- Difference in some friend's appearance ?
- Stereotipycal story of the wife's new hairdo

Why ? We see based on old input.

Experience using scaffolding

Get used to what success feels like

Experience using unscaffolding

Negative scaffolding
Make it artificially harder than it should base
Tie weights when running for training
Real seems a lot easier

Context Switching is expensive

Loss an instant 20 to 30 percent of productivity by context switching and dramatically increase error risks

So many things compete for your attention daily

Design problem in multiprocessor systems : you can spend all the CPU cycles coordinating tasks with all other the CPUs and not actually get any work done

Better smoke a joint than read emails

At work

Schedule your email conversations
Never use CMD/CTRL TAB
Use multi desktops arranges by tasks
Use multi monitors

Use the right tools

HeyFocusBlock distractions & improve your productivity with Focus
Haze HoverDistraction dimmer
FocusRemove distractions and get stuff done

Prepare to be interrupted

You have few seconds, leave yourself some "bread-crumbs" for yourself.

void powerfulFunction()
{
    for (Object item in items)
    {
        // Compute the power of the item
        // http://stackoverflow.com/...
    }
}

Shut up your L-mode

Meditate on this, I will

Thank You

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.”Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi

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