FUTURESTACK13: Nerd Life Balance from Nick Floyd, Senior Software Engineer at New Relic
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Performance tuning your life to maximize awesome
NICK FLOYDFRIDAY OCTOBER 25TH 2:30PM
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Refactoring
var currentWorkLife = "behaviors that destroy the balance";
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Refactoring
var currentWorkLife = "behaviors that destroy the balance";var newWorkLife = currentWorkLife.Replace(“destroy”, “build”);
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var currentWorkLife = "behaviors that destroy the balance";var newWorkLife = currentWorkLife.Replace(“destroy”, “build”);
=> behaviors that build the balance
Refactoring
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Behaviors : the dark side
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Behavior : more working == more winning!
x = Time spent workingx
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x = Time spent workingx
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Behavior : more work == more win!
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Behavior : gold plating
The InfiniteZIPLINE
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Behavior : gold plating
The InfinitePLAN
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Behavior : gold plating
Spoon boy: “Do not try and bend the zipline. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.”
Neo: “What truth?”
Spoon boy: “There is no zipline.”
-The Matrix ZIPLINE == null
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Behavior : compartmentalizing
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Behavior : being an impostor
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Behavior
many, many more...
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Build : the light side
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Nerd’s hierarchy of needs
health
environment
mind
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Acting like someone
I’m NOT
health
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Being someone
I AMhealth
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Clean your desk
TOPenvironment
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Device wipe(Apps)olute zero
environment
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Enablers and accountability
environment
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environment
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Scrum board your day
mind
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Work in achievable chunks & bits
mind
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BAD:
GOOD:
mind
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images courtesy of: xkcd.com
Stop ideasStart projects
“There be the dragons, I can’t go.” “Sure you can, just bring a resistor color code chart.”
-- me having a conversation with myself
mind
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The Choice
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images courtesy of: f-secure
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mediocrity.pop
exceptional.push
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The Functional
24MI
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I love to...code
work on hard problems
help others win
make a difference in a kid’s life
automate all the things
create useable software
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Welcome to the Hall of Heroes
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Thanks
archcoder.com/nerd-life@nickfloyd
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Resources : books
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Resources : apps
Rescue Time
ClearTriage
Sleep cycle
Epic win