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The Other Side of Empathy

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Who Am I?

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Who Am I? Nick Hehr Empathetic Community Member Front-End Developer Disney Fan Bouldering Enthusiast

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Why Do I Care?

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Why Do I Care? Psychology & Leadership Degree Constant Collaboration w/ Designers & Devs I Community

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Who Should Care?

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Everybody

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What Is Empathy?

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What Is Empathy? The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

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What Is Empathy? Seeing the world through the eyes of someone else.


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Where Did The Other Side of Empathy Come From?

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Where Did It Come From? Using Twitter Snap Judgements Mob Mentality

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Breakdown

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Breakdown Context Constructive Feedback Communication Caring

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Context

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The internal and external factors that influence the decisions we make and actions we take.

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How It Relates No One is Un-Opinionated We All Have Biases Listening is Key “Why?”

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Set The Example

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Example User Stories with Gherkin

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It captures the ‘who’, ‘what’, and ‘why’ of a requirement in a simple, concise way.

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Remembering Context Take A Deep Breath Clear Your Mind Ask “Why?” (sincerely) Listen

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Constructive Feedback

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“The return of information that helps to develop or improve.”

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How It Relates “If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.”

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How It Relates “If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.”

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How It Relates “If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all.”

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How It Relates “If you don’t have anything constructive to say, then don’t say anything at all.”

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What about negative feedback?

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Good Feedback > 140 characters

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Mutually Agreed Upon Set Up With Expectations In An Open Space Shared With Context Constructive Feedback is…

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Example Code Reviews

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It is intended to find and fix mistakes overlooked, improving both the overall quality of software and developers' skills.

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Encouraging Constructive Feedback

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https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/ CONTRIBUTING.md

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https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie/blob/master/ CONTRIBUTING.md

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Communication

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The successful sharing of ideas and feelings between people.

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Communication is a broad area that encompasses how we interact with each other.

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How It Relates What We Say How We Say It Where We Say It

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“I” Statements For Giving Constructive Feedback For Getting Context

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“You” Statements For Getting Context For Giving Constructive Feedback

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Example Switching Platforms

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How We Communicate General = Slack Standups = Hangouts / In-Person Recorded Discussions = GitHub Issues Long-Form / Async = Email

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Creating Communication

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https://.slack.com/ customize/slackbot

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Caring

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To provide the needs of something and show interest in it.

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How It Relates Caring is Sharing And Listening And Understanding

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How Much Do You Care?

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Do You Care Enough… To Write A Blog Post? To File An Issue? To Send An Email? To Record A Screencast? To Submit A Pull Request?

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– Yoda “Don’t give in to hate. It leads to the Dark Side.”

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Example Documentation

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Documentation Matters Wikis Code Comments Styleguides Pattern Libraries README.md

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Exemplifying Caring

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Mentoring Matters Remember Starting Out? Did You Have A Mentor? Did You Want A Mentor? Do You Want To Learn?

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Contributing • Just Listen For A Day • Apply The Examples • Start Off Small • Remain Open to Sharing

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“It still sounds like too much work.”

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Resources hipsterbrown.com/empathy

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Thank You