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What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
How does empathy help you build better software?
Why is empathy important for working on a team?
Describe a situation in which your ability to empathize with a colleague or teammate was helpful.
When do you find it most difficult to be empathetic in professional settings? How can you improve your skills when faced with these scenarios?


1. Empathy, whether I knew I had it as a kid or n ot has been with me, most of my life.  I have glasses, plain and simple.
I have had them since Kindergarten.  I am not debilitated because of my sight, yet, I know what it is like to have an alteration in ones life.
I think because this stated when I was young, it helped sew the seed for understanding during my childhood, which allows me to appreciate what

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  Such an increase in a five year period is astounding, even on a business level.  The school takes pride in this achievement
  why shouldn't they?   What is amzing about the school though, maybe it was just on faculty level, is the level of support 
  that was given to them.  The idea to use the school colors as team representation and taking out the macho attitude of the 
  elements, goes to facilitate their success.  

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Hopefully the authors call to arms here is well received.  It is a continuing beating drum that is waiting for something...
What will the driving force be that will unite the people so reservedly, beyond monetary constraint.  Will it be famine,
energy, oil, religion, space?  Or maybe those issues will come up to and everyone will still do nothing...


ok. So I don't think he was yelling it out loud in his writing.  I just got that was the underlying tone with a few of his statements.
It also seemed he was saying *I warned you all 2 years ago* *don't look at me when you hate this place*

I also found his points to be compelling, adding a few different scopes of different aspects, that had never occurred to me before.

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odds = []
card_number = "4929735477250543"
card_number.split ("")


odds << card_number[1]
odds << card_number[3]
odds << card_number[5]
odds << card_number[7]
odds << card_number[9]

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%       6543.21.modulo(137)      #=> 104.21                    division, first number by the second number
      6543.21.modulo(137.24)   #=> 92.9299999999996

==           1 + 1 == 2  => true     1 + 1 == 3 => false        which means "are these equal?"
!=       (which means "are these different?")

<= less than or equal
=> 
abs      (-34.56).abs   #=> 34.56         absolute value
          -34.56.abs     #=> 34.56

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An interesting persepective.  Hell an even greater fact.  That companies, maybe not all, look at candidates at what they offer
instead of disregarding him for his age, his look, his views.   Part of the way he describes everything is almost like imagining what charlie's grandfather might have behaved in Willy Wonka.  

It's refreshing to hear that different ideas that had started with big companies, who were small at the time, are now in use across other business models and industries.  This is the kind of forward thinking that is impressive and is seeming to be contageous.

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  The questions that are posed in this article are threatening to some people.  Is the current teaching system broken?  Is giving students lettered credentials diminisihing our returns?  Do you lose control of your students if you meet them on an even playing field?
  I think the writer, looked at his results and took a moment to reflect.  How many people do that?  How many more should?  Realizing his responsibility to his students to be a better teacher so that kids wouldn't cheat or have less of a motive to do so.  Even so he still recognized it and used it to his advantage to sharpen himself rather than just put blame.

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  This article challenges some of my views.  I respect what the author is trying to do.  However I don't see it as a problem to
  talk to someone about the content and explain why it bothers them.  Obviously the reason to do that is to understand what you 
  are doing is wrong.  To do this, you have to be completely open and honest with yourself as you listen to what went down.
  
  One of the main things, I fell that is true, is that when someone describes the events that transpired against them, they out 
  emotion and malice and hate and in their labeling they blame the innocent "straight white man" that is their friend and who
  wouldnt do these things.
  
  
  if you want EQUALITY you have to have a conversation and where two sides can mutually and respectfully agree with eachother.

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  Seth,
  
  Thanks for helping me aginst my feelings of failure and dread.  I feel as well that our project taught us a lot.
  I think we should have talked and detailed more of a DTR than we did.  Primarily in the aspects of the time frames we planned
  to work together.  We ping ponged well and we made some great movements inbetween the hurdles.  You were seeing syntax errors 
  and a few other things along the same lines that I wasn't, if next time you could point that out and elaborate on it next time.
  I feel stronger after learning from this experience.  
  
  Chris

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5 minute breakdown talk about courage and the use of a pick up line.


in the first 1:30, I want to try to connect to my audience as well as start my story. This took some time to think about.
The way to connect with my audience is to include all and not only focus on just the male point of view.

in th next 1:30 - 3:00 I want to explain why courage is important to all of us and how each of us should receive it.

in the last two minutes of the talk, I would like to wrap up and tie in the use of how it is useful to each of us and then