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220 RR Augmenting Your Reality with Leon Gersing

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02:46 - Leon Gersing Introduction

  • Twitter
  • GitHhub
  • Blog
  • Dev Bootcamp
  • [Talk] Leon Gersing: Keep Software Weird

    • 03:24 - “Augmenting Your Reality”

    07:06 - Emotional Goals and Quantifying Happiness

    • Hacking Happy by Dusty Phillips

      • 13:49 - Quantification

      15:32 - Reacting to Data

      17:49 - Recognizing Patterns and Trends

      • Journaling and Meditation

        • 21:58 - FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)

        26:20 - The Software Development Mindset

        • Teams Should Play More
        • Encouraging Easter Eggs
        • Following Trails

          • 31:55 - The Ruby Community, Whimsy, and Creating Realities

          • why's (poignant) guide to Ruby: in color by why the lucky stiff

            • 40:41 - Leon’s Role at Dev Bootcamp

            42:16 - Wisdom; Not Authority

            44:14 - Recommended Reading

            • Aldous Huxley
              • The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
              • Jean Baudrillard
                • Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
                • America
                • Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown  

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