I'd think our brief time here is about��creating��meaning, first and foremost for ourselves. When we have a lighted path, a goal for our journey (whether or not��we reach our destination), we tend to serve a greater purpose. "Journey" comes from the French��jornee��which means a day, or a day's travels. It refers to our daily activity.
When we we are engaged in neither meaning nor happiness, we waste our days. When we are engaged in meaning but not happiness, we are sacrificing our days. When we are engaged in high happiness but little meaning, we are in a stimulating or addictive environment. Only when we are immersed in both happiness and meaning do we create an optimal, contributing life.
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to take both my meaning and happiness out of others' hands, and create them both myself".--Alan Weiss
Definitely applies to our tech.
Happy New Year!
Phil
Happy New Year, everyone!
Over the last year, I went through a rather extensive tour and I directly exposed Moose, GT and Pharo to some 2000+ technical people through various sessions and trainings at conferences and companies. The tour will continue this year.
Most of the sessions are not directly about Moose, GT or Pharo, but about broader topics that are served through what we do around here. These topics can relate to solving problems without reading code, to steering agile architecture, or more recently, to even broader topics like software environmentalism. If you are wondering what software environmentalism is, please take a look at this talk:
https://youtu.be/N3l3eB62oSw?list= PLqvTNJtc942Cs9Qo4ikCGrUNtAw93 Q0JA
I now have the confirmation that there is a whole space which is unaddressed by mainstream technologies. Often people find themselves frustrated having to build their systems on top of opaque technologies with not much hope of understanding what is going on under the hood both because they do not have access to what is behind and because they are provided lack the tools to investigate. You see, developers are suppose to have the coolest job on the planet, and many of them are unhappy. This has to change, and we can do that.
In a conversation I had with a highly respected researcher, after explaining how our tools allow us to work, he noted reluctantly ���so, you are claiming that you are practicing a fundamentally different software engineering?���. This question took me a little by surprise because the only answer I found myself being able to provide was ���yes���. I sent him this talk:
https://youtu.be/XWOOJa3kEa0?list= PLqvTNJtc942Cs9Qo4ikCGrUNtAw93 Q0JA
It is strange to be in the position to tell the world that we are constructing something fundamentally better, but I really do believe that we are.
I wish you a happy and bold new year!
Cheers,
Doru
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