I fucking* love

to code!

*Did I really need to swear?

No, but it’s effective when used sparingly.

Swear words emotionally affect the listener more than normal words and make them more likely to remember what you say.

And it doesn’t hurt anyone.

Public swearing research reveals that swearing is a common conversational practice resulting in no obvious harm.

Double productivity in

one easy step!

Phil Haack

@haacked

http://haacked.com/

but first, a little about me...

Microsoft is not the Borg...

is the Borg.

This is

enough about me

love of coding blockers

individually

at work

industry wide

If there’s one thing I could tell my younger self...

Stop chasing the $$$

It doesn’t motivate you.

But, once the task called for rudimentary cognitive skill, a larger reward led to poorer performance.

People care about

The extra hours hurt more than they help

150 years of research proves that long hours at work kill profits, productivity and employees

Heroes

are only fooling themselves

bored?

Community!

Humans are social beings

Open Source

Demand your

Programmer bill of rights!

2 monitors

Fast computer

Choice of Keyboard and Mouse

Comfortable chair

Fast Internet

Quiet Working Conditions (flow)

Coding

True story.

GitHub was founded

over some beers.

Flat hierarchy

Distributed

Bootstrapped

Profitable

how we work

optimize for happiness

meetings are waste

async communication

no set work hours

automate all the things

take vacation when you need it

This can’t possibly work!

New ideas!

New ideas excite us and move us forward.

Polyglot it up

We all have something to learn from each other.

Respect!*

*yes, even for aussies

From 1984 to 2006, the number of women majoring in computer science dropped from 37% to 20%

Asked to guess what percentage of FOSS developers are women, mostly people guess a number between 30-45%

...

The exact figure, though, is even lower: 1.5%

...with every successive level of increased diversity, companies actually appear to do better on all those measures of business performance.

intimidation

...in conclusion

Work somewhere that

makes you happy

and

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