Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

1H15M Making Stuff Up - the floor is LAVA!

Sponsored · Ship Features Fearlessly Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers. →
Avatar for Nathan Hughes Nathan Hughes
November 05, 2011
Programming
2
100

1H15M Making Stuff Up - the floor is LAVA!

Life lessons from improv, presented at 1DevDay Detroit November 2011.

Avatar for Nathan Hughes

Nathan Hughes

November 05, 2011
Tweet

More Decks by Nathan Hughes

See All by Nathan Hughes
Detroit Labs Spring 2013 Mobile Update
Avatar for Nathan Hughes ndh313
1
67
Hiring Well
Avatar for Nathan Hughes ndh313
2
120
Raising Girls Stinks
Avatar for Nathan Hughes ndh313
0
340
The Floor is Lava! Practice Being Uncomfortable with Improv
Avatar for Nathan Hughes ndh313
1
130
Github and the Software Startup
Avatar for Nathan Hughes ndh313
5
300

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
AIによるイベントストーミング図からのコード生成 / AI-powered code generation from Event Storming diagrams
Avatar for nrs nrslib
2
1.9k
AI時代の認知負荷との向き合い方
Avatar for OptFit Corp. optfit
0
160
余白を設計しフロントエンド開発を 加速させる
Avatar for karacoro / からころ tsukuha
7
2.1k
Apache Iceberg V3 and migration to V3
Avatar for Tomohiro Tanaka tomtanaka
0
170
Unicodeどうしてる？ PHPから見たUnicode対応と他言語での対応についてのお伺い
Avatar for てきめん tekimen youkidearitai
PRO
1
2.6k
AI & Enginnering
Avatar for codelynx codelynx
0
120
登壇資料を作る時に意識していること #登壇資料_findy
Avatar for konifar konifar
4
1.6k
副作用をどこに置くか問題：オブジェクト指向で整理する設計判断ツリー
Avatar for Koya Masuda koxya
1
610
2026年 エンジニアリング自己学習法
Avatar for yumechi(Motoki Hirao) yumechi
0
140
React 19でつくる「気持ちいいUI」- 楽観的UIのすすめ
Avatar for Hiroshi Morishige himorishige
11
7.5k
なぜSQLはAIぽく見えるのか/why does SQL look AI like
Avatar for florets1 florets1
0
480
AgentCoreとHuman in the Loop
Avatar for Har1101 har1101
5
240

Featured

See All Featured
Cheating the UX When There Is Nothing More to Optimize - PixelPioneers
Avatar for Stéphanie Walter stephaniewalter
287
14k
<Decoding/> the Language of Devs - We Love SEO 2024
Avatar for Nikki Halliwell nikkihalliwell
1
130
Prompt Engineering for Job Search
Avatar for Mfonobong Umondia mfonobong
0
160
Money Talks: Using Revenue to Get Sh*t Done
Avatar for Nikki Halliwell nikkihalliwell
0
150
Deep Space Network (abreviated)
Avatar for Tony Rice tonyrice
0
64
No one is an island. Learnings from fostering a developers community.
Avatar for Antonio thoeni
21
3.6k
Leading Effective Engineering Teams in the AI Era
Avatar for Addy Osmani addyosmani
9
1.6k
StorybookのUI Testing Handbookを読んだ
Avatar for Shingo Yamazaki zakiyama
31
6.6k
Understanding Cognitive Biases in Performance Measurement
Avatar for Philip Tellis bluesmoon
32
2.8k
End of SEO as We Know It (SMX Advanced Version)
Avatar for Michael King ipullrank
3
3.9k
First, design no harm
Avatar for Per Axbom axbom
PRO
2
1.1k
From Legacy to Launchpad: Building Startup-Ready Communities
Avatar for Dug Song dugsong
0
140

Transcript

  1. Making Stuff Up (the floor is LAVA!) Nathan Hughes @ndh313

    1

  2. Sorry. No Code. 2

  3. TEDxDetroit v1.0 3

  4. 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 3 6 9 12 Age

    when asked “Who is an artist?” % Who Raise Their Hands * Note: All data is simulated, aka, made up. Charts and Graphs Proving a Point* 4

  5. Eleanor Roosevelt “Do one thing everyday that scares you.” 5

  6. Defend the Line. 6

  7. At Every Opportunity, Go Big. 7

  8. Yes! And... 8

  9. Practice Being Uncomfortable. 9

  10. If You Believe It Exists, It Exists. 10

  11. Two ears. One mouth. Listen. 11

  12. Want Gifts? Give Gifts. 12

  13. Don’t Waste Your Intro. 13

  14. Create Your Perfect Opportunity. 14

  15. Make Them Look Good. 15

  16. But Don’t Be a Pushover. 16

  17. The Show Must Go On! And Remember, 17

  18. Ferndale, MI gocomedy.net @gotwits Your Turn? 18

  19. Good Bye! @ndh313 19