Hacking Your Emotional API 2.5 - RIRG

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1. Your Emotional API How to be a better developer by being a better human Rhode Island Ruby Group 2018 v2.5
2. @emotionalAPI John Sawers Founder and CTO of Data Simply Senior Developer at Privia Health @emotionalapi @johnksawers http://emotionalapi.com he/his/him
3. “Emotions just make so much sense to me” — No One Ever
4. @emotionalAPI • Cry • Make a Scene • Whine • Yell Don’t
5. @emotionalAPI Do • • • •
6. @emotionalAPI We’re on our own
7. Endpoints @emotionalAPI
8. Middleware @emotionalAPI delete /job/12 put /events/mother/visit put /baby/new post /people/co-worker/insult get /people/boss/compliment /feels/sadness 
 /feels/anger 
 /feels/fear 
 /feels/anger 
 /feels/pride Senses Wetware Inputs
9. Middleware @emotionalAPI delete /job/12 put /events/mother/visit put /baby/new post /people/co-worker/insult get /people/boss/compliment /feels/love 
 /feels/anger 
 /feels/fear 
 /feels/shame 
 /feels/pride Senses Wetware Inputs
10. Methods delete '/job/:id' 
 100.times do 
 Thread.new(post('/feels/fear') 
 end 
 20.times do 
 Thread.new(post('/feels/sadness') 
 end 
 end @emotionalAPI
11. @emotionalAPI A Public API The Bad News
12. Decomposability @emotionalAPI
13. “But feelings are icky, and I don’t wanna” — You, probably
14. “Trying not to feel something doesn’t work, and in some cases even back fi res” David Rock
15. @emotionalAPI Coding Solo
16. @emotionalAPI Cognitive Problems
17. @emotionalAPI Cognitive Problems • Poorer Executive Function [1]
18. @emotionalAPI Cognitive Problems • Poorer Executive Function [1] • Poorer Short Term Memory [2]
19. @emotionalAPI Cognitive Problems • Poorer Executive Function [1] • Poorer Short Term Memory [2] • Lower ability to handle stress and cope with crisis [3]
20. @emotionalAPI Cognitive & Health Bene fi ts • “not just in improved behavior but in measurable academic achievement.”[5] • “measurable health advantage”[9]
21. @emotionalAPI Coding Together
22. @emotionalAPI Cognitive Problems • More self-centered [4]
23. @emotionalAPI Cognitive & Social Bene fi ts • “Subjects made to feel powerful judged emotional expression more accurately.”[7]
24. @emotionalAPI Cognitive & Social Bene fi ts • “Subjects made to feel powerful judged emotional expression more accurately.”[7] • Help others with their emotional challenges
25. @emotionalAPI Cognitive & Social Bene fi ts • “Subjects made to feel powerful judged emotional expression more accurately.”[7] • Help others with their emotional challenges • Empathy!
26. @emotionalAPI Cognitive & Social Bene fi ts • “Subjects made to feel powerful judged emotional expression more accurately.”[7] • Help others with their emotional challenges • Empathy! • Better career advancement[8]
27. Scenarios
28. @emotionalAPI Degraded Cognition
29. @emotionalAPI Advocate for Ideas
30. @emotionalAPI Code Reviews
31. @emotionalAPI Distraction
32. @emotionalAPI Problematic Teammates
33. @emotionalAPI Impostor Syndrome
34. @emotionalAPI Interviewed, Hired, Fired
35. @emotionalAPI Manage & Mentor
36. http://frontside.io/ Senior Software Developer
37. Toolkit
38. @emotionalAPI 🙂 Level 1: Conceptual Tools 😯 Level 2: On Your Own 😰 Level 3: With Someone Else 😱 Level 4: With a Group
39. @emotionalAPI 🙂 Level 1 Conceptual Tools
40. @emotionalAPI You Control The Implementation
41. @emotionalAPI You can control where and when you express your feelings (But you don’t have to)
42. @emotionalAPI get('/feels/anger').perform_later
43. @emotionalAPI They Don’t Mean Anything
44. @emotionalAPI Fear of Loss of Control
45. @emotionalAPI Feelings are Enumerable, not Boolean
46. @emotionalAPI There Is No Should
47. 20 Minutes @emotionalAPI
48. @emotionalAPI 😯 Level 2 On Your Own
49. @emotionalAPI Move Your Body
50. @emotionalAPI Move Your Body Dancing • Singing • Exercise
51. @emotionalAPI Rubber Duck Debugging
52. @emotionalAPI “…consciously recognizing the emotions reduced their impact.” David Rock
53. @emotionalAPI Yup, talking
54. @emotionalAPI The Feel Wheel
55. @emotionalAPI “I feel” vs. “I am”
56. @emotionalAPI Emotional Retro
57. @emotionalAPI 😰 Level 3 With Another Person
58. @emotionalAPI Again, Talking
59. @emotionalAPI Feel fi rst
60. @emotionalAPI Feel fi rst
61. @emotionalAPI Emotional Mentorship
62. @emotionalAPI Open Sourcing Mental Illness is a campaign founded by Ed Finkler to change how we deal with mental health in the tech community. https://osmihelp.org/ @OSMIhelp
63. @emotionalAPI 😱 Level 4 With A Group
64. @emotionalAPI How did I get here? “…an intensive 20-hr Weekend Retreat in which you will explore your erroneous belief systems, learn to appropriately express emotions in a manner that heals…” Purpose • Passion • Peace http://aliceamos.me/p3retreat/
65. GET /feels/
66. @emotionalAPI As a child I wasn’t allowed to get angry
67. @emotionalAPI GET '/events/something/trivial' ⬇ POST ‘/feels/anger'
68. @emotionalAPI Do • • • •
69. @emotionalAPI Safe Space
70. @emotionalAPI Throw A Fit
71. @emotionalAPI Throw A Fit
72. GET /feels/
73. @emotionalAPI delete ‘/v5/parents/marriage’ 
 
 post ‘/v6/parents/:dad_id/set_emotional_distance/1000’ 
 
 post ‘/v8/parents/:dad_id/diseases/cancer’ 
 
 delete ‘/v17/parents/:dad_id’
74. @emotionalAPI /v5 delete ‘/v5/parents/marriage’ do 
 20.times.do { 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/fear')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/sadness')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/blame')) 
 } 
 delete('/feels/self_worth') 
 end
75. @emotionalAPI /v8 post /v8/parents/:dad_id/diseases/cancer do 
 20.times.do { 
 Thread.new(delete('/v5/parents/marriage')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/fear')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/sadness')) 
 } 
 end
76. @emotionalAPI /v17 def ‘/v17/parents/:dad_id’ do 
 1000.times.do { 
 Thread.new(post('/v8/parents/:dad_id/diseases/cancer')) 
 Thread.new(delete('/v5/parents/marriage')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/anger')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/sadness')) 
 } 
 end
77. @emotionalAPI Stack Trace NoMethodError - unde fi ned method `paternal_approval’ for BossClass: /me/feels/panic.rb:9:in `initialize' /me/feels/love/daddy:14:in `none_for_you’ /me/feels/fear/mistake/guaranteed_to_be_ fi red:21:in `realize_mistake’ /me/events/releases/prod/bug_count/metrics.rb:39:in `count_bugs’
78. @emotionalAPI Stack Trace NoMethodError - unde fi ned method `paternal_approval’ for BossClass: /me/feels/panic.rb:9:in `initialize' /me/feels/love/daddy:14:in `none_for_you’ /me/feels/fear/mistake/guaranteed_to_be_ fi red:21:in `realize_mistake’ /me/events/releases/prod/bug_count/metrics.rb:39:in `count_bugs’
79. “Crying doesn’t indicate you are weak, since birth it has always been a sign to indicate you are alive” — attributed to Charlotte Brontë
80. @emotionalAPI /v17 def ‘/v17/parents/:dad_id’ do 
 1000.times.do { 
 Thread.new(post('/v8/parents/:dad_id/diseases/cancer')) 
 Thread.new(delete('/v5/parents/marriage')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/anger')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/sadness')) 
 } 
 end
81. @emotionalAPI Diff def ‘/v17/parents/:dad_id’ do 
 1000.times.do { 500.times.do { 
 Thread.new(post('/v8/parents/:dad_id/diseases/cancer')) 
 Thread.new(delete('/v5/parents/marriage')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/anger')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/sadness')) 
 } 
 end
82. @emotionalAPI Diff get ‘/me/events/releases/prod/bugs/count_high’ do 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/unloved')) 
 Thread.new(get('/feels/panic')) 
 puts 'oops' 
 fi x_it 
 move_on 
 end
83. @emotionalAPI Baggage
84. @emotionalAPI The Ultimate Goal
85. Soft Skills Super Hard Skills
86. @emotionalAPI Best Practices
87. @emotionalAPI Pick One Thing
88. @emotionalAPI Compassion
89. DEEP BREATH
90. @emotionalAPI Thank You So Much Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/johnksawers/your-emotional-api-how-to-be-a-better- developer-by-being-a-better-human-v2 Videos: http://emotionalapi.com Twitter: @emotionalAPI
91. @emotionalAPI Come get a feel wheel! I’d love to hear what your ‘one thing’ is
92. @emotionalAPI References [1],[2] “…a lack of power impairs our cognitive function.’ Amy Cuddy, Presence 119 [3] “In fact, people who have a high sense of personal control…cope signi fi cantly better in crisis…because their executive functions are intact” Amy Cuddy, Presence, 136 [4] “Powerlessness makes us self-absorbed” Amy Cuddy, Presence 121 [5] “Helping children improve their self-awareness and confidence, manage their disturbing emotional impulses and increase their empathy pays off not just in improved behavior but in measurable academic achievement.” — Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence xi [6] “The [people who feel] powerful process information more abstractly, integrating information to extract the gist, detecting patterns and relationships” Smith, P.K., Dijkterhuis, A, & Wigbuldus, D.H. Psychology Science, 19, 1258-1259 [7] “Subjects made to feel powerful judged emotional expression more accurately.” Amy Cuddy, Presence 127 [8] “…having high leadership potential were far stronger in EI competencies…” Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence xiii [9] “Those who can mange their emotional lives with more calm and self-awareness … have … distinct and measurable health advantage … confirmed by many studies” Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence xi [10] “…when they were asked to name the emotion, the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex activated and reduced the emotional amygdala reactivity. In other words, consciously recognizing the emotions reduced their impact.” David Rock, Your Brain At Work 127 [11] Gross found that people who tried to suppress a negative emotional experience failed to do so. While they thought they looked fine outwardly, inwardly their limbic system was just as aroused as without suppression. Trying not to feel something doesn’t work, and in some cases even backfires. David Rock, Your Brain At Work 119