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I did a short survey of 55 developers about burnout. Naturally, being a burnout focused survey, pretty much everyone who replied was … [Read more...] about The Software Developer Burnout Survey 2020

Emotional health is mental health It was world mental health day a while back. Mental health is a blanket term that covers … [Read more...] about Emotional Health 101

One of the side effects of my meditation practice is that I am quite aware of my thoughts.  If I pay attention for a second, I can … [Read more...] about Dealing with your Inner Critic – a programmer’s guide

A new year is a chance to refocus. It's an opportunity to check in, to ask yourself what you truly want out of life, whether you are getting … [Read more...] about Optimise this year for flow

One of the main points that I try to make at CodingMindfully.com is that a programmers work is channeled through their mind, so it’s in … [Read more...] about 6 ways meditation makes me a better programmer

  Warren Buffett: “We need to learn the slow ‘yes’ and the quick ‘no.’” I'm naturally a people pleaser. There is part of my psychology … [Read more...] about Why knowing how to say “no” is important, and how to do it

My colleague had that look in his eyes. One I’ve seen in my own eyes many times before. It had been a long day with a tricky bug, in an … [Read more...] about On calling out stress in other developers (and yourself)

(Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash) I work with several extremely competent people. The kind of people who appear naturally effortless … [Read more...] about What to do when faced with the excellence of others

As programmers we educate ourselves to a high degree about the internal operations of the platforms that we work with. We acquire knowledge … [Read more...] about What I’ve learned about HumanOS – the Human Operating System

5 Yoga Poses Every Programmer Should Try In case you didn’t already know, sitting is the new smoking. It’s also a pretty prominent feature … [Read more...] about 5 Yoga Poses Every Programmer Should Try

Beginning I've fallen in and out of love with code a hundred times. When I was ten, I was impressed and mystified by the ZX Spectrum … [Read more...] about Falling in and out of love with Code

How to optimise your experience of life One of the things I’m most concerned about in life is opti mising my experience. I want my work … [Read more...] about Keep your code flowing – an introduction to flow for programmers