How to be a Passionate Programmer

What does it mean to be a passionate programmer? How can you give to your job and community while still taking care of yourself and avoiding burnout? How do you invest in yourself AND your career simultaneously? Hear answers to these questions and learn new perspectives from a married couple that works and codes together.

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1. HOW TO BE A PASSIONATE PROGRAMMER
2. Lunch in an Airport
3. Key Fundamentals 1.Know Yourself 2.Passion is Renewable
4. Who Are We? Cofounders of Cuttlesoft Married Couple Software Developers Beer Snobs Dog Lovers WWW.CUTTLESOFT.COM @CUTTLESOFT
5. Emily Morehouse- Valcarcel Director of Engineering at Cuttlesoft Python, JavaScript, & Elixir Enthusiast Avid Open Source Contributor BS Computer Science, Computer Criminology BA Theatre Face Maker @emilyemorehouse
6. Frank Valcarcel Director of Operations at Cuttlesoft Python and Go Enthusiast Systems Engineer Aspiring Kubernetes Guy 3 credits shy of CS Degree from FSU Obnoxious Laugher @fmdfrank
7. The Passionate Programmer Originally published in 2009. Has become the manual for career-minded engineers. Offers a strategy in 5 steps: 1.Choose Your Market 2.Invest in Your Product 3.Execute 4.Market 5.Refresh
8. CHOOSING YOUR MARKET
9. INVESTING IN YOUR PRODUCT
10. EXECUTING
11. MARKETING
12. REFRESH (maintaining your edge)
13. Optimize. for What? Happiness? Productivity? Fulfillment? Time?
14. Happiness (The Myth) Happiness is not a binary thing, but rather a spectrum. Passion and happiness are never mutually inclusive. We can’t frame a career in terms of happiness, because the definition of “happy” is terribly insufficient.
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19. Passion Has Many Faces It’s important to align your definition of passion with the many ways it can be exercised. Doing so helps you understand when you need to replenish it.
20. passion /ˈpaSHən/ noun strong and barely controllable emotion from the latin root pati, which means suffer
21. Motivation Drive, by Daniel Pink
22. Factors of Motivation Autonomy the desire to be self-directed Mastery the desire to continue improving Purpose sense that our work is transcendent and meaningful
23. Autonomy
24. Mastery
25. Purpose
26. Finding Purpose Mentoring Open Source Community Engagement Mentoring is great way to both discover purpose and gain mastery in a subject. Provides opportunity and sense of community. Giving back is it’s own reward. Aids in Mastery, self directed so innately autonomous, work serves a greater purpose
27. Mentoring “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.” ― Phil Collins
28. Community Engagement Good places to start: 1. Local Meetups 2. Conferences 3. Volunteering!
29. Open Source because two computers and two beers is how Emily merges PRs
30. Work / Life Sleep Work !Sleep && !Work 8 8 8
31. Work / Life
32. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ― Annie Dillard Life’s Work
33. Freedom Of Discovery
34. Creativity “Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.” ― Yo Yo Ma
35. creativity /ˌkrēāˈtivədē/ noun the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work. Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.
36. "The greatest scientists are artists as well,” - Albert Einstein creativity
37. passion creativity motivation
41. thank you! www.cuttlesoft.com / @cuttlesoft