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With developers spending less than a third of their time actually writing code, developer experience includes all the other stuff: maintaining code, testing, security issues, addressing incidents, and more.
The Case for 'Developer Experience' - Future
future.a16z.com
And when you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect with them. You’re too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Startupy
Jhanas, breathwork, psychedelics, MDMA, etc are all tools to for inducing altered states, from which new insights can arise. None of the actual methods matter, so much as putting your brain into what I think of as “developer mode,” from which you can write new rules that govern your thoughts and behavior, then close things up and operate anew. (Some people call this [“neural annealing.”](https://opentheory.net/2019/11/neural-annealing-toward-a-neural-theory-of-everything/))
How to Do the Jhanas
Nadia Asparouhova
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