Patience, the art of taking his time

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Patiencethe art of taking his time
(something that only experience can teach us)
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Rui Carvalho
(Core Software Craftsman)
#atbdx
@atbdx

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(intentionally left blank to wait a while…)

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HOW
INTERACTS
(in)PATIENCE
IN MY WORK?
Patience, engraving by Hans Sebald Beham, 1540

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USES CASES
(similarities with real life
scenarios are purely intentional)

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THAT NEW
TECH IS
REALLY
COOL!
hype is my master

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THAT NEW
TECH IS
REALLY
COOL!
hype is my master
For What?
beta, really?
For fun ?
Efficiency proved ?
Impact on legacy?

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I NEED MORE
TOOLS TO BE
PRODUCTIVE
code faster!

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I NEED MORE
TOOLS TO BE
PRODUCTIVE
code faster!
really, tools are
the key ?
need to code faster?
take a typewriting course …

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C ALWAYS
BEATS YOU,
IT’S FASTER!
performance is the key

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C ALWAYS
BEATS YOU,
IT’S FASTER!
performance is the key
you know « that premature
optimisation is the root of
all evil * », right?
*D.Knuth

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DESIGN
PATTERNS
ARE THE KEY
silverbullet syndrome (again)

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DESIGN
PATTERNS
ARE THE KEY
silverbullet syndrome (again)
Do you think that a small set
of recipes to rule them all is
always the best?

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TDD IS A
WASTE OF
TIME , I TRIED
FOR (X)
HOURS

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TDD IS A
WASTE OF
TIME , I TRIED
FOR (X)
HOURS
maybe you didn’t try hard
enough …

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ALL THESE
THINGS
TARGET SHORT
TERM
BENEFITS
… and yes, usually, as a professional
it’s not a good mindset

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I’M A SENIOR
DEVELOPER
WITH 2 YEARS
OF
EXPERIENCE!
Forever young baby!

@rhwy
WHEN I FINISH
MY MASTERS,
I'LL BE AN
ARCHITECT!
Sure! Here are the keys to the
house and some ﬁreworks. Enjoy!

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I WANT TO
FREELANCE,
COMPANIES
ARE EVIL !
how do you know that?

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AGILE IS NOT
FOR ME, I TRIED
FOR 2 WEEKS
WITHOUT
SUCCESS
keep it easy babe

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AT A PERSONAL
LEVEL YOU
OFTEN MISS
THE BIG
PICTURE

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I WANT TO BE
THE LEADER,
I’M THE
CREATIVE ONE
yep, you’re not alone…

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I WANT TO BE
THE LEADER,
I’M THE
CREATIVE ONE
yep, you’re not alone…
be rewarded by the team for
what you give them not for
how you want others to
consider you!

@rhwy
BUSINESS
GUYS ARE
DUMB, THEY
DON’T
UNDERSTAND
code guys are fools, they don’t
understand too

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BUSINESS
GUYS ARE
DUMB, THEY
DON’T
UNDERSTAND
code guys are fools, they don’t
understand too
code guys are fools,
they don't
understand either

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GROW FASTER,
I WANT TO
QUICKLY
SUCCEED LIKE
STARTUP X!
hum, do you really know when
they started their business?

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AT A TEAM LEVEL, LACK
OF patienceALWAYS
WORKS WITH A LACK OF
communication
HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE »

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BUT SOMETIMES, I’M VERY PATIENT!
for good?

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PROJECT IS BIG, IT TAKES 10MIN TO
COMPILE, IT’S PAINFUL TO WAIT…
…patience is not always the key

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MEETINGS ARE KILLING ME, BUT I
HAVE TO BE THERE AND WAIT …
…patience is not always the key

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I’M NOT HAPPY AT WORK BUT I CAN’T
CHANGE BECAUSE OF (X)
… patience is not always the key

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YOU’RE
PATIENT FOR
THINGS YOU
SHOULDN’T!
and again the problem is missing the
big picture and long term benefit!

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WHY THIS
LACK OF
PATIENCE ?
Wilhelm Trübner (1878)

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PATIENCE
is the state of endurance under diﬃcult circumstances,
which can mean persevering in the face of delay or
provocation without acting on negative annoyance/anger
Patience is the level of endurance one can have before
negativity

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PATIENCE
In psychology and in cognitive neuroscience,
patience is studied as a decision-making
problem, involving the choice of either a small
reward in the short-term, or a more valuable
reward in the long-term

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STANFORD
MARSHMALLOW
EXPERIMENT
Stanford marshmallow experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment

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CONFIDENCE
our capacity for patience is directly related to our
conﬁdence in the system to reward us over time

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DELAYED GRATIFICATION
A person's ability to delay gratiﬁcation relates to
other similar skills such as patience, impulse
control, self-control and willpower, all of which
are involved in self-regulation

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Un Tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux Tu l’auras ;
L’un est sûr, l’autre ne l’est pas.
-Jean de la Fontaine
(le petit poisson et le pêcheur)

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HUMAN BRAINS
ON PATIENCE
Patience and long term thinking is hard because
our brains are not physically built for it.
They are built for ﬁguring out how to avoid dying in the
next couple of minutes

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THINKING
FAST AND SLOW
Daniel Kahneman

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THINKING:
2 SYSTEMS
System 1:
Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional,
stereotypic, subconscious
System 2:
Slow, eﬀortful, infrequent, logical, calculating,
conscious

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What I Can LOST now seems more
important than what I can GAIN later
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
LOSS
AVERSION

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I DON’T WANT TO SPEND TIME ON
TESTING NOW BECAUSE IT SEEMS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE TIME I
WILL LOOSE DEBUGGING IN
PRODUCTION LATER
Loss Aversion

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PASSION WILL NOT WAIT
Nietzsche
Will I be Patient and try to discuss with this bastard later to see how we
can solve the problem or will I try to kill him right now in a duel ?

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We have two ears and one mouth so
that we can listen twice as much as
we speak.
-Epictetus

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LAZINESS
Patience should not be confused with laziness,
complacency or inaptitude
Laziness is lacking a desire to fix a certain problem or complete a job

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PROCRASTINATION
stupid and unconscious because the delayed
action is not for a better reward but the same

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Take your time the
good way and only
when needed …

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The best way to be late is to
act in a hurry man
- Antoine Vernois

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You must learn to Spend
your time Wisely in
order to Move Forward

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DELIBERATE PRACTICE
takes time
http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracticePR93.PDF
K. Anders Ericsson

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exceptional abilities are not
immutable or due to innate talent
but reflect a life-long period of
deliberate effort to improve
performance in a specific domain
Deliberate practice

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… And yes that’s what
software craftsmanship
is about

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UNDERSTAND THE
PATIENT PATH THAT
LEADS TO THE RESULT
see the Big Picture

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NOT PATIENTLY PRACTICING YOUR SKILLS
STICKS YOU TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMID

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Not acting like a Hurry man is
patiently crafting our skills to
be able to master enough to
have the right intuition when
we need to speed

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REGULAR PRACTICE
Helps being Patient
because it grows our trust in the system

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FOLLOW THE PLAN
when sad or anxious about something: plan what
you really desire on the long term, the big picture,
it allows you to see the light ahead…

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Communication
Simplicity
Courage
Respect
Patience

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BUT…
NO BLIND PATIENCE
It’s important to do the right thing because we
believe it’s the right thing not only because we
expect a greater reward as it’s written in the
manual!…

@rhwy
Confidence, trust
to be happier and a better professional:
Regular practice
Follow the plan
Patience+Courage!

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No Victory Without Suﬀering
- JRR Tolkien

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LINKS - SLIDESHARE.COM/RHWY/PATIENCE2016
➤ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_gratiﬁcation
➤ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
➤ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
➤ https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patience
➤ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Practice_(learning_method)#Deliberate_practice
➤ http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/
EricssonDeliberatePracticePR93.PDF
➤ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition
➤ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata

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THANK YOU
FOR YOUR TIME
NCRAFTS.IO
2017-MAY-(18,19)

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@rhwy
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi
proderit olim
-Ovid
(Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

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