say that

just be yourself at work

"Why is it that a sense of ease and comfort isn't part of what we expect as programmers?"

We have this community of people... they spend a lot of time pretending. It would just be better for everybody if we would just... stop.





you

I don't know exactly what's going to happen here, but that's all right. Because I'm confident in my skills, I'm confident in myself, I'm confident in my relationships with my teammates. We'll be OK.

Can I get comfortable with changing the world, and not being able to do it alone? Because I think, if I can, I will write much better programs, I will live a much better life, and the significance of what I do will go up dramatically. Can I be OK with both the immense power of what I do and the enormous limitations?

act responsibly

my code works, the work that I do is important to somebody else, I make public committments, I make myself accountable



make all status information public

Beck noted that this is counter-intuitive. It might seem that the less information I publish, the more comfortable I'll be. But he found that transparency in his work yielded freedom from fear of embarrassment. It's also an indicator of one's level of ease at work.

value feedback appropriately

take it in context, be realistic: don't give in to flattery or attack.



Ease at Work , parts 2, 3, 4a, 4b, 5, 6, 7.

, parts 1

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