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PHP User Group: HAMBURG
Passion,
Happiness,
Programming
SEEMANT KULLEEN
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
SUPPORT & SERVICES
(ENGINE YARD, INC.)
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Emotional Decisions
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We Rely on Our Emotions
We prefer products with higher
ratings, and avoid products with
lower ratings.
We give high ratings to things we
like.
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What do we like?
We like things that make us somehow feel
good:
LEARNING (e.g. TED)
USEFUL & HELPFUL (Django’s ORM)
FUNNY (reddit)
FUN (AC3, HALO 4)
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Code can cause emotions
When you experience bad code, you
don’t like it.
When you write great code, maybe
you can even make people feel
empowered!
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Creating Reality
Code translates an idea
directly into reality.
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Creating Experiences
Create a reality that
matters to people: Make
it an EXPERIENCE.
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Meta
The experience of an experience:
EXPERIENCE
INITIAL EMOTION RESULTING EMOTION
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Pseudocode for
Emotional States
final_state = experience(initial_state)
delta = final_state - initial_state
return delta
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Loyal Users
When the emotional delta
is high enough, we return.
Loyalty resides within the
delta.
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The Developer’s Delta
As a developer, the
experience of creating is
itself an experience.
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Developers of
Experiences
Artists
Musicians
Painters
Chefs
Engineers
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User Experience
When we create an
experience for somebody,
we trigger a delta in their
emotional state.
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User Feedback
The emotional equity
spent in the creation
process reflects back to
its creators.
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Time is Unidirectional
Spend your emotional
effort carefully:
LOVE what you do.
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Passionate Users
First Requirement:
Passionate Developers
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Passionate
Developers
Create things you believe.
Create things you believe in.
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Passion is..
When you do something even if you
don’t get paid for it.
When you do something and forget
to eat, or forget to sleep.
All-consuming: pain is insignificant
compared to the thrill.
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Go Forth & Experience
Joy of Creating Cool Things.
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Questions?
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Finding My Passion?
Be passionate about life.
Find joy in living.
Code is only a way to
express our experience of
life.
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Further Information
Chip Conley: Emotional Equations
Eric Thomas: Secrets of Success
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow
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