The Sistine chapel, math teachers and the future of digital work

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1. The Sistine Chapel, math teachers and the future of digital work Cserei Zoltán 2019/11/27 Moonka.space
2. impactful engineering
3. Florence 1500s artists vs. carpenters 2:1 impactful engineering
4. hackers are just like painters (Paul Graham) impactful engineering
5. less visible — not replaceable impactful engineering
6. ensuring continuous outstanding work impactful engineering
7. where do you excel? impactful engineering
8. pushing pixels, optimising algorithms, ensuring server security, tailoring bundle sizes impactful engineering
9. impactful engineering Frontend Backend JavaScript
10. impactful engineering Data integrity Effective storage Clean APIs Concurrence Safe transactions Usability Client side speed Easy to read copy Effective data usage Nice animations
11. it’s not about the stack it’s about where you’re deeply involved impactful engineering
12. telling it like it is
13. Tinder wasn’t built for marriages telling it like it is
14. “half of our frontend codebase is CoffeeScript” telling it like it is
15. “I know what columns and rows are but that’s about it” telling it like it is
16. we enjoy struggle why the bullshit then? telling it like it is
17. ensuring continuity
18. who is going to teach my kids math? ensuring continuity
19. the school system failed us especially in the East ensuring continuity
20. we need people who want to pass down their craft ensuring continuity
21. to teach well, first: work well ensuring continuity
22. how does good work happen? ensuring continuity
23. recruiters are expensive
24. salt is salary recruiters are expensive
25. 1000 bags of salt / mt 12000 bags of salt / yr recruiters are expensive
27. 5.40 UAH / kg recruiters are expensive
28. 1000 bags = 270000 UAH 11250 USD recruiters are expensive
29. 10 effective months: 1200 bags of salt / eff. mt. recruiters are expensive
30. recruiter fee: 12000 x 30% = 3600 bags of salt recruiters are expensive
31. no incentive for a long term working relationship, fee paid after 3 months recruiters are expensive
32. quit / fire after 6 months recruiters are expensive
33. another 3600 bags total cost now: 19200 bags of salt recruiters are expensive
34. effective cost: 19200 / 8 2400 bags of salt / eff. mt. recruiters are expensive
35. everybody loses recruiters are expensive
36. non-technical problems
37. most people can learn the tech non-technical problems
38. dynamic environment, young team, competitive salary, specialty coffee, thai massage non-technical problems
39. “Senior Vue developer, 1000 bags of salt” non-technical problems
40. but who is going to use your work? non-technical problems
41. do you really care about that ping pong table? non-technical problems
42. would you rather work on self-driving cars or an online casino? non-technical problems
43. maybe you like old tech non-technical problems
44. maybe you’re not a charismatic team player non-technical problems
45. maybe you’re fed up with Scrum non-technical problems
46. maybe you don’t like TDD non-technical problems
47. all that is OK non-technical problems
48. Moonka.space
49. not everything is scalable Moonka.space
50. start small, walk the walk Moonka.space
51. asking the real questions Moonka.space
52. no recruiting agencies no spam no bullshit Moonka.space
53. Дякую! Moonka.space