193: Optimizing For Happiness with Tudor Gîrba

July 29th, 2020 · 1 hr 13 mins

About this Episode

02:09 - Tudor’s Superpower: Storytelling

  • Getting Beyond Your Self-Critic
  • Writing Code is Storytelling
  • There’s No Semantics Without Syntax

13:04 - Reading Stories (and Code)

  • Reading Code Takes Place in an Editor
  • Code is Not Text. Code is Data.

17:56 - Optimizing For Happiness

  • Automation Creates More Jobs
  • Choosing Tools is Important

“The tools that we create end up influencing how we see the world.” – Marshall McLuhan

27:48 - Moldable Development

32:50 - Editing Code as a Joint Activity

  • rust-analyzer
  • Simultaneous Perspectives Increase Communication Bandwidth

38:40 - Encouraging and Supporting the Presentation of New Ideas and Out-of-the-Box Thinking

58:41 - Culture is Formed by Storytelling; Identity is the Story We Tell About Ourselves

Reflections:

Rein: Reading and writing code can be different, but it can also be the same. See: the functional programming concept of lens.

Jessica: At the end of the presentation, if there’s no question that makes you think, then maybe you haven’t moved anything. Look for surprises.

Arty: Optimizing for happiness as a first principle. How do we do that more?

Tudor: With software, we are forcing people to listen to our ideas and then act according to our thoughts. That is a big responsibility, a privilege, and we have to train that skill.

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