On Coding, Ego and Attention
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My thoughts on coding, ego and attention. How I learned to get out of my own way by learning about this link between ego and attention.
On Coding, Ego and Attention 15 June, 2020 My thoughts on coding, ego and attention. How I learned to get out of my own way by learning about this link between ego and attention. If being a good software engineer means being a good thinker, then becoming a better one should mean improving the way we think... right? Well, no little shame in saying that it's taken me more than a decade of coding to get this. To finally focus my attention on improving the way I think instead of learning yet another library, framework or programming language. At a certain point, the things that got in the way of m
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