A presentation at KonferenSE:20 by Robin Pokorny
The Habits of KonferenSE:2020 Highly Effective Engineers Robin Pokorny
00 Intro
00 Intro EFFECTIVE active compelling competent efficient adjective successful in producing a desired or intended result
00 Intro Data Structures & Algorithms What makes an engineer effective Unsplash: Zany Jadraque &Yancy Min, diagram: Wikipedia
Data structures I Red–black trees are balanced binary search trees. Rules: (i) Every node is either red or black. (ii) The root is black. (iii) Every leaf (the sentinel) is black. (iv) If a node is red, both its children are black. (v) For each node, all paths to descendant leaves contain the same number of black nodes. Source: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/cs10/lectures/0519/0519.html
Unsplash: Isaiah Rustad
00 Intro Soft skills. Hard skills.
00 Intro Soft skills. Hard skills.
00 Intro Fadik Manuel Daniel What makes an engineer effective ?
01 Complete, not continue Fadik
01 Complete, not continue ‘I don’t know this programming language’
01 Complete, not continue ‘Good job. I have a suggestion…’
01 Complete, not continue Unsplash: Remy Gieling
01 Complete, not continue No celebration No improvement Escalation of commitment Continue
01 Complete, not continue Risk Time
01 Complete, not continue Leadership Is Language by L. David Marquet
02 Murder your darlings Manuel
02 Murder your darlings
02 Murder your darlings
02 Murder your darlings ‘Separating what really matters from what sort of matters from what doesn’t matter at all.’ ~ Jason Fried and DHH
02 Murder your darlings getfreewrite.com
02 Murder your darlings ‘A good architecture maximizes the number of decisions not made.’ ~ Clean Architecture
02 Murder your darlings Willpower by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney
03 Work deep, learn deep Daniel
03 Work deep, learn deep
03 Work deep, learn deep “Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend not to create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.” ~ Cal Newport
(Time spend) ⨉ (Intensity of focus)
03 Work deep, learn deep Deep Work by Cal Newport
03 Work deep, learn deep The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
03 Presentation Template Work deep, learn deep small failures a rhythmic pattern of botches a shared facial expression 09 Unsplash: Jordan Whitfield
What makes an engineer effective? Observing. Fadik Manuel Daniel
Complete, not continue Murder your darlings Work deep, learn deep Fadik Manuel Daniel
Copy Detach Transcendent
END The end Observe so you can COPY with pride. The Habits of Highly Effective Engineers Robin Pokorny
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Hidden power from inside. For some professionals, this priority can take its toll as it removes the heart and 03 soul from the design process: Design to enhance everyday life.
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11 DESIGN CONCEPT Design to enhance everyday life. The idea that our clothes could assert some “Fictional names have been used to protect the privacy of participating professionals.”
I am a zealous engineer. Every morning I just wanted to write code, read code, and talk about code. But at the end of the day, I rarely felt I’d done any of that. The days somehow flew by. I blamed frequent meetings and colleagues for interrupting me. Two years ago I decided I want to change that. In the books, articles, and podcasts I discovered concepts and techniques, I had no idea they existed beforehand. I learned about the non-technical skills our industry tends to undervalue. I realised that when you do not possess the ‘soft’ skills you cannot utilise the ‘hard’ ones. I learned the power of deep work and how to get into one. I went on a year-long decision-making diet. I became confident with ‘good enough’. I stopped just hearing and started listening. And I finally felt effective every day. In my talk, I will share three tips, techniques, and best practices that I’m sure will make every individual engineer highly effective.
for free. You
can too.