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Episode 302 | Kent Beck - Primary and Secondary Emotions

Jan 8 '18

Guest:

Kent Beck talks with Dave Rael about his experiences with understanding, embracing, and managing his emotions

Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development. Extreme and Agile methods are closely associated with Test-Driven Development (TDD), of which Beck is perhaps the leading proponent. Beck pioneered software design patterns, as well as the commercial application of Smalltalk. He wrote the SUnit unit testing framework for Smalltalk, which spawned the xUnit series of frameworks, notably JUnit for Java, which Beck wrote with Erich Gamma. Beck popularized CRC cards with Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki.

Chapters:

3:06 - Dave introduces the show and Kent Beck
10:16 - Fear of rejection, the temporal fault in the admonition to trust your feelings, signal vs noise in emotions, building self-awareness, and injecting logic
16:06 - learning from the emergence of secondary emotions and how to apply the lessons
18:02 - The reason for managing emotions, the need or absence of need for apology, and experiencing vs trusting feelings
21:57 - The virtue of management of your own emotions and influencing your feelings and the gradual improvement of mean time to repair
31:00 - Advice for people needing help with avoiding the bottling up of feelings and managing their emotions
34:32 - The ability to inject logic into emotional interaction
37:45 - The nature of a true apology
39:58 - Unsolicited advice and the anger of strangers on behalf of a perceived victim
42:52 - Kent's experience with going through with the coding job interview
48:02 - Looking at yourself as more than just your brain
49:56 - Keeping up with Kent

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Kent's top 3 tips for delivering more value:

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