Developing with Passion

Understanding motivations, finding your passion, driving to success.

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1. PHP User Group: HAMBURG
   Passion,
   Happiness,
   Programming
   SEEMANT KULLEEN
   PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
   SUPPORT & SERVICES
   (ENGINE YARD, INC.)
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2. Emotional Decisions
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Creating Reality
   Code translates an idea
   directly into reality.
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7. Creating Experiences
   Create a reality that
   matters to people: Make
   it an EXPERIENCE.
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8. Meta
   The experience of an experience:
   EXPERIENCE
   INITIAL EMOTION RESULTING EMOTION
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9. Pseudocode for
   Emotional States
   final_state = experience(initial_state)
   delta = final_state - initial_state
   return delta
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10. Loyal Users
    When the emotional delta
    is high enough, we return.
    Loyalty resides within the
    delta.
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11. The Developer’s Delta
    As a developer, the
    experience of creating is
    itself an experience.
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12. Developers of
    Experiences
    Artists
    Musicians
    Painters
    Chefs
    Engineers
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13. User Experience
    When we create an
    experience for somebody,
    we trigger a delta in their
    emotional state.
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14. User Feedback
    The emotional equity
    spent in the creation
    process reflects back to
    its creators.
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15. Time is Unidirectional
    Spend your emotional
    effort carefully:
    LOVE what you do.
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16. Passionate Users
    First Requirement:
    Passionate Developers
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17. Passionate
    Developers
    Create things you believe.
    Create things you believe in.
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18. 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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19. Go Forth & Experience
    Joy of Creating Cool Things.
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20. Questions?
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21. 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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22. Further Information
    Chip Conley: Emotional Equations
    Eric Thomas: Secrets of Success
    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow
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