This gist contains a short assignment I'd like everyone to complete before our formal lesson. The prework involves reading some of the React Router documentation, and will allow us to keep the lesson more hands on.
1. What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
Oh man. Empathy begets openness, which begets self-understanding, which is the key to understanding others. When one can be honest with oneself, the mysteries of human interaction begin to unfold, in my opinion anyway. Empathy helps you begin to rid yourself of unhelpful tools, such as judgement, anger, resentment, etc. (especially unhelpful in the workplace) and develop underutilized ones. Empathy has helped me see outside of myself, helped me see both the good parts and the tough parts of myself, which has helped me better understand my peers, friends, loved ones.
2. How does empathy help you build better software?
Empathic centered design taked a look at the product use case in its native context, rather than what we hope the use case will be. This is a major benefit not only to the end user, but also to the company, saving in the end both hours and saving on the budget (the idea being that empathic design will result in less
1. When you've worked towards a goal in the past, what systems or tools have been helpful for you in accomplishing that goal? How could you adapt those same systems/tools to use while at Turing?
Like we learned in Mod 0, you must define your variables before being able to draw on/use them. As obvious as it seems, I feel that that this is a key element that is often missed (at least it was for me for some time), that is to define your goals! Once defined, and once careful thought has been put towards that goal, milestones for attaining it should begin to take shape - smaller 'sub-goals' to hit along the path to your greater goal. As you work through those milestones, perhaps it will better inform your greater goal, becoming a little more defined and a little less nebulous.
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