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- Mindfulness and Programming

- "The Stress Of Being A Computer Programmer Is Literally Driving Many Of Them Crazy" - Business Insider
	- A bit sensationalist, but makes a good point: stress and inability to self-regulate and manage your emotional states can drive you crazy.  This isn't unique to programmers, but
	"1. Stress causes depression.
	 2. Perfectionists are more prone to depression.
	 3. Isolation reinforces depression.
	 As a software developer, those frequently go along with the job description.” - Timothy King

- “In order to be a good programmer I need to adopt a certain mindset. That mindset is slowly making me unhappy. I notice it in other programmers – not all of them – but many.

What mindset?

Focusing on the negatives, rather than the positives.

Why do you need to do that to be a good coder?

My workflow is something like this.

1. write some code
2. run the code
3. get an error message
4. find the error and back to step 1

Hour by hour, day after day, I do this. Always searching for what’s wrong with what I’m creating, rarely thinking about what’s good about it. It’s a negative reinforcement feedback loop.” - Myles Recny

- What mindfulness is not?

- What mindfulness does:
	- Reduced rumination -  "a decreased negative affect compared with a control group. They also experienced fewer depressive symptoms and less rumination. In addition, the meditators had significantly better working memory capacity and were better able to sustain attention during a performance task compared with the control group." - Chambers et al. (2008)

	- Stress Reduction - increases positive affect and decreases anxiety and negative affect, "... had significantly less anxiety, depression and somatic distress " - Farb et al., 2010

	- Boosts to working memory - Jha et al, 2010

	- Less emotional reactivity - (Ortner et al., 2007)

- Why be mindful?

- Basic mindfulness practices.
	Start of presentation: http://app.emaze.com/user/ianderse-15a37d05-4cb2-419d-96fe-a5f5ecf90b52

	- Mindfulness and Programming

	- "The Stress Of Being A Computer Programmer Is Literally Driving Many Of Them Crazy" - Business Insider
	- A bit sensationalist, but makes a good point: stress and inability to self-regulate and manage your emotional states can drive you crazy. This isn't unique to programmers, but
	"1. Stress causes depression.
	2. Perfectionists are more prone to depression.
	3. Isolation reinforces depression.
	As a software developer, those frequently go along with the job description.” - Timothy King

	- “In order to be a good programmer I need to adopt a certain mindset. That mindset is slowly making me unhappy. I notice it in other programmers – not all of them – but many.

	What mindset?

	Focusing on the negatives, rather than the positives.

	Why do you need to do that to be a good coder?

	My workflow is something like this.

	1. write some code
	2. run the code
	3. get an error message
	4. find the error and back to step 1

	Hour by hour, day after day, I do this. Always searching for what’s wrong with what I’m creating, rarely thinking about what’s good about it. It’s a negative reinforcement feedback loop.” - Myles Recny

	- What mindfulness is not?

	- What mindfulness does:
	- Reduced rumination - "a decreased negative affect compared with a control group. They also experienced fewer depressive symptoms and less rumination. In addition, the meditators had significantly better working memory capacity and were better able to sustain attention during a performance task compared with the control group." - Chambers et al. (2008)

	- Stress Reduction - increases positive affect and decreases anxiety and negative affect, "... had significantly less anxiety, depression and somatic distress " - Farb et al., 2010

	- Boosts to working memory - Jha et al, 2010

	- Less emotional reactivity - (Ortner et al., 2007)

	- Why be mindful?

	- Basic mindfulness practices.