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140: Bounded Perfection with Amitai Schleier

01:29 - Running a Mail Server

08:49 - Amitai’s Superpower: Squirrel Power! and Orienting Himself in a New Problem Space (And Helping Others to Orient Them in Their Own Problem Spaces)

15:03 - Refactoring

23:15 - Managing Developer Time

Global Day of Coderetreat

Brooklyn November 2018: Global Day of Coderetreat

Conway’s Game of Life

28:57 - Feedback and Systems

33:38 - Email Servers

35:46 - Predictability

WeCamp

40:39 - Quality and Collaboration

45:47 - Orienting and Problem Space

Reflections:

Jessica: Having useful questions.

John: The bounded perfectionism concept and the tests as questions.

Rein: What are the minimum possible criteria for progress?

Amitai: “Make hidden things visible. Make abstract things concrete. Make implicit things explicit.” ~ Virginia Satir

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