The Habits of Highly Effective Engineers

A presentation at KonferenSE:20 in September 2020 in by Robin Pokorny

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The Habits of KonferenSE:2020 Highly Effective Engineers Robin Pokorny

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00 Intro

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00 Intro EFFECTIVE active compelling competent efficient adjective successful in producing a desired or intended result

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00 Intro Data Structures & Algorithms What makes an engineer effective Unsplash: Zany Jadraque &Yancy Min, diagram: Wikipedia

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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

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Unsplash: Isaiah Rustad

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00 Intro Soft skills. Hard skills.

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00 Intro Soft skills. Hard skills.

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00 Intro Fadik Manuel Daniel What makes an engineer effective ?

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01 Complete, not continue Fadik

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01 Complete, not continue ‘I don’t know this programming language’

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01 Complete, not continue ‘Good job. I have a suggestion…’

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01 Complete, not continue Unsplash: Remy Gieling

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01 Complete, not continue No celebration No improvement Escalation of commitment Continue

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01 Complete, not continue Risk Time

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01 Complete, not continue Leadership Is Language by L. David Marquet

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02 Murder your darlings Manuel

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02 Murder your darlings

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02 Murder your darlings

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02 Murder your darlings ‘Separating what really matters from what sort of matters from what doesn’t matter at all.’ ~ Jason Fried and DHH

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02 Murder your darlings getfreewrite.com

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02 Murder your darlings ‘A good architecture maximizes the number of decisions not made.’ ~ Clean Architecture

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02 Murder your darlings Willpower by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

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03 Work deep, learn deep Daniel

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03 Work deep, learn deep

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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

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03 Work deep, learn deep High-quality work produced

(Time spend) ⨉ (Intensity of focus)

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03 Work deep, learn deep Deep Work by Cal Newport

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03 Work deep, learn deep The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

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03 Presentation Template Work deep, learn deep small failures a rhythmic pattern of botches a shared facial expression 09 Unsplash: Jordan Whitfield

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What makes an engineer effective? Observing. Fadik Manuel Daniel

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Complete, not continue Murder your darlings Work deep, learn deep Fadik Manuel Daniel

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Copy Detach Transcendent

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END The end Observe so you can COPY with pride. The Habits of Highly Effective Engineers Robin Pokorny

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Create new concept. 02 Design to enhance everyday life. New York 2020/02/20 Design has the power to pull people closer, guiding them visually so they can easily engage with your brand.

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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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New York 2020/02/20 01 Hidden power from inside. For some professionals, this priority can take its toll as it removes the heart and soul from the design process: 03 For some professionals, this priority can take its toll as it removes the heart and soul from the design process:

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Early Upcoming. More Than Slide The image of the ‘tortured artist’ is a familiar characterisation that asserts that the most creative among us are bound to be touched 05 by mental affliction. Event. Design to enhance everyday life.

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Let’s learn how to make it happen. 01 Ultimately shape culture A research project I conducted on the meaning of the clothes associated with a high street brand, The idea that our clothes could assert some sort of influence over our behaviour isn’t groundbreaking. Whenever I tell people that I studied fashion psychology 06

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Build interface. “Fictional names have been used to protect the privacy of participating professionals.” Design to enhance everyday life. It is evident in the way artists help us interpret social justice, and even the way we consume technological innovations and how these have integrated into our everyday lives. 06

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1.526.125+ A research project I conducted on the meaning of the clothes associated with a high street brand, Intrigued by current political affairs around the conduct of american police officers towards black men, researchers at a canadian university conducted a study, in which students wore policestyle uniforms.r Design to enhance everyday life. 08 Professionals, this priority. Following your artwork.

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Multipurpose presentation. Presentation Template D I It’s been an awesome, but intense, [summer/fall/winter/spring]. Many things are tracking well, but there are some challenges we’re working through. Template Template The idea that our clothes The idea that our clothes could assert some could assert some E A 09

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Presentation Template New Target 2020 It’s been an awesome, but intense, [summer/fall/winter/ spring]. Many things are tracking well, but there are some challenges we’re working through. A research project I conducted on the meaning of the clothes associated with a high street brand, 09

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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.”