And I don't have to worry about side effects from writing tests.
You're taking me too literally when I say I want to manage anxiety. If medication is a solution, so is not hacking at all, or just remaining inexperienced and non-introspective about my coding. Anxiety usually has good reason, and it requires improving the _codebase_. But my metric for how the codebase is doing is my own perception as I live and breathe it.
I have a love-hate relationship with anxiety. I need to listen to my perceptions, because that's key to where the code comes from. But those perceptions also have the ability to demotivate me away from the code. It seems like an obvious connection to me ever since my experience with burnout. Learning about the non-linearities in my motivational structure makes me a better programmer.
Has Kent Beck influenced me? Definitely. Listening to myself works for me. I don't see how thinking more about how I operate and how I learn my skills can do more harm than good. Paraphrasing Sun Tzu, "Know yourself". http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu
And I don't have to worry about side effects from writing tests.
You're taking me too literally when I say I want to manage anxiety. If medication is a solution, so is not hacking at all, or just remaining inexperienced and non-introspective about my coding. Anxiety usually has good reason, and it requires improving the _codebase_. But my metric for how the codebase is doing is my own perception as I live and breathe it.
I have a love-hate relationship with anxiety. I need to listen to my perceptions, because that's key to where the code comes from. But those perceptions also have the ability to demotivate me away from the code. It seems like an obvious connection to me ever since my experience with burnout. Learning about the non-linearities in my motivational structure makes me a better programmer.
Has Kent Beck influenced me? Definitely. Listening to myself works for me. I don't see how thinking more about how I operate and how I learn my skills can do more harm than good. Paraphrasing Sun Tzu, "Know yourself". http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu