Principle Philosophy for Developers, Entrepreneurs, and Artists

Talk from DjangoCon EU about how we think about our decision making process and how we can use it to become better developers, entrepreneurs, and artsist.

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1. TOOLS HOW TO BUILD THE DEVELOPERS WANT TO USE
2. TOOLS HOW TO BUILD THE DEVELOPERS WANT TO USE CANCELLED
3. PRINCIPLE PHILOSOPHY for developers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
4. PRINCIPAL
5. PRIN·CI·PLE /ˈprinsəpəl/ A rule or belief governing one's personal behavior.
6. PHI·LOS·O·PHY /fəˈläsəfē/ A particular system of thought based on investigation.
7. My thoughts about the rules and beliefs that govern my personal behaviors and decisions. /ˈprinsəpəl fəˈläsəfē/ PRINCIPLE PHILOSOPHY
8. @SwiftAlphaOne Note: I’m not Ryan Gosling
9. PERSON? How can I be a good
10. PRINC PLES It’s all about
11. Life Principles ✔ Always give my best ✔ Don’t be a quitter ✔ Help those less fortunate ✔ Don’t steal ✔ Fight for my right to party
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13. GRAY & GRAY
14. PROGRAMMER? How can I be a good
15. L Programmers use O G I C ?
16. ✔ Write readable code and comments Programming Principles ✔ Don’t repeat myself ✔ Open source my code ✔ Write solid tests & make them pass ✔ Moar cats
17. WRONG Someone on the Internet is
18. def shouldDoThing(thing): if thing.isGood: return True else: return False Hint: It doesn’t work like this.
19. IMMANUEL KANT (1724 - 1804)
20. R eason vs. Instinct
21. REASON MORALS implies
22. THE THREE PRONGS KANT’S MORALITY of
23. DUTY
24. These are not the contributors you’re looking for.
25. THE GOAL VOLITION
26. Universal Lawfulness
27. priori vs. posteriori
28. A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else. “ ” - Mahatma Gandhi
29. def shouldDoThing(thing): if thing in experiences: return shouldDoThingAgain(thing) else: addThingToPastExperience(thing) if thing.goodScore > thing.badScore: return True else: return False
30. EXPERIENCES Σ n i = 0
31. Everything looks different from the trenches.
32. STORY TIME!
33. LITTLE LEAGUE
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35. + =
36. LEARN? So what did we
37. FENCES Swing for the
38. Set reasonable goals too.
39. ...and that’s totally ok! YOU SUCK
40. Quitting is easy, I’ve done it thousands of times “ ” - Who the hell knows
41. </example>
42. PROGRAMMER? How can I be a good
43. PROGRAMMER? How can I be a good better
44. ENTREPRENEUR? How can I be a good better
45. ARTIST? How can I be a good better
46. Take Aways ✔ Build a strong foundation of principles ✔ Learn from your experiences and share them ✔ One size doesn’t fit all ✔ Build a great network ✔ Ask the right questions
47. @SwiftAlphaOne THANK YOU theycallmeswift@gmail.com
48. This is some base text This is the Emphasis Text This is some cursive text And Something Red for contrast THE END