Comfortable with Uncertainty

A presentation at EmberFest 2018 in in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Melanie Sumner

Comfortable with Uncertainty

Comfortable with Uncertainty

A story

A story

Which one are you?

Which one are you?

So much wrong on the internet

So much wrong on the internet

How we relate

How we relate

How we respond

How we respond

Responding with fear closes the door to possibility.

Responding with fear closes the door to possibility.

We all have fears and discomfort

We all have fears and discomfort

We can never avoid uncertainty.

We can never avoid uncertainty.

Tools to cultivate fearlessness

Tools to cultivate fearlessness

Practice Observing

Practice Observing

Observe how it makes you feel

Observe how it makes you feel

Observation

Observation

Analyze the claim

Analyze the claim

Analyze the context

Analyze the context

Abstract

Abstract

Look at a scenario

Look at a scenario

Look for significance

Look for significance

Another Scenario

Another Scenario

Look again.

Look again.

Analyze the collection methods

Analyze the collection methods

Are the data collection methods easily available?

Are the data collection methods easily available?

Analyze the backers

Analyze the backers

Take time to think.

Take time to think.

The future of Ember?

The future of Ember?

Be fearless.

Be fearless.

We all experience things that make us feel angry, afraid, or uncertain about the future. How can we learn to become comfortable with uncertainty, so we can be successful and happy? This talk shares some tools we can add to our lives, so we can choose to cultivate our fearlessness.

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Resources

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  • Art

    Art for this presentation was purchased from Creative Market.

  • Font

    The font used in this presentation is called Fern, and was created by David Jonathan Ross.

  • Dev's guide to analyzing survey/research results (blog)

    Some of the inspiration for this talk came from a blog article I wrote in April 2018 about the basic skills developers should have when reading survey results or research data.

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