As developers, we’re constantly learning: whether it’s figuring out how to solve new problems and bugs, or focusing on new skills and knowledge to apply to our work. At FutureLearn, we reflect our company mission of providing the best learning experiences to everyone, within the way we work as well. We have a culture of learning and supporting each other, encouraging everyone to pursue the skills they want to have. This talk will help you make learning a more integral part of your processes, and explain how to run internal events, like hackdays and lightning talks, to support this.
See the video of the talk here: https://vimeo.com/139069166
17. “Many people think it means accept
failure with dignity and move on.
The better, more subtle interpretation is
that failure is a manifestation of learning
and exploration.
If you aren’t experiencing failure, then
you are making a far worse mistake:
You are being driven by the desire to avoid
it.”
~ Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
21. “Trusting others doesn’t mean that they
won’t make mistakes.
It means that if they do (or if you do), you
trust they will act to help solve it.”
~ Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.
23. "If you treat an individual as he is, he will
remain how he is.
But if you treat him as if he were what he
ought to be and could be, he will become
what he ought to be and could be."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25. "If I keep on saying to myself that I
cannot do a certain thing, it is possible
that I may end by really becoming
incapable of doing it. "
~ Mahatma Gandhi
27. Feedback:
I don’t like your commit messages.
Constructive feedback:
Your commit messages should explain the
value of your changes, rather than just
focusing on the implementation details.
Have you tried describing the problem
you’re trying to solve and the context
behind it?
50. “There are two parts to any failure:
There is the event itself, with all its
attendant disappointment, confusion, and
shame, and then there is our reaction to
it. It is this second part that we control.
Do we become introspective, or do we bury
our heads in the sand?
Do we make it safe for others to
acknowledge and learn from problems, or
do we shut down discussion by looking for
people to blame? ”
~ Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.