# The Sun

When you feel happy it becomes easier to learn and grow. Today, dedicate attention to the things that you enjoy. Whether it is savouring your coffee in the morning, chatting with a dear friend, petting a soft critter, feeling the sunshine on your face, or feeling satisfied with the work you complete, when you notice good feelings your world expands.

vitality, joy, success, optimism, clarity, authenticity

The Sun is a card of vitality, success, and simple joy. It represents solutions and information becoming clear, and the expression of one's authentic self.

# On Being A Senior Engineer (John Allspaw)

This is because they know that nothing they make will ever only be in their hands, and that good peer review is what makes better design decisions. As it’s been said elsewhere, they “beg for the bad news.”

the degree to which other people want to work with you is a direct indication on how successful you’ll be in your career as an engineer.

We as an industry need to (of course) refrain from critiques of human character and condition, but not shy away from critiques of work product. We need to get tougher skin and be able to receive critique through a lens that attempts to eliminate personal focus. There will be assholes, they should be shunned. But the attitude that someone’s code is their baby should come to an end. Code doesn’t have feelings, doesn’t develop complexes and certainly doesn’t exhibit the most important trait (the ability to reproduce) of that which carries for your genetic strains.

See also below #2 and #10 in The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming.

Nothing indicates that you have a lack of perspective and awareness like a poorly thought out and nonconstructive tweet that slings venomous insults. It’s a junior engineer mistake to toss insults about a piece of complex technology in 140 characters.

Mature engineers do not shy away from making estimates and are always trying to get better at it.

Avoiding responsibility for estimates is another way of saying, “I’m not ready to be relied upon for building critical pieces of infrastructure.”

In general, mature engineers are comfortable with working within some nonzero amount of uncertainty and risk.

Mature engineers understand that not all of their projects are filled with rockstar-on-stage work. However menial and trivial your early assignments may appear, give them your best effort.

Sometimes the saving grace of a tedious task is their simplicity and maturity manifests in finishing them quickly and moving on. Sometimes tasks are tedious because they require extreme discipline and malleable attention span.

When privileged people begin to see the systems of bias and privilege, their first instinct typically is to mentor those who haven’t benefited from the same privilege. This is understandable–they want to help those who are marginalized grow, get promoted, or become better engineers, to help balance out the inequity that pervades our industry. But at its core, this instinct to mentor plays into the idea that those who are marginalized aren’t already skilled enough, smart enough, or ready for more responsibility or leadership.

What members of underrepresented groups in tech often need most is opportunity and visibility, not advice.

They know that one cannot be both efficient and thorough at the same time (The ETTO Principle), that most projects engineers work on exist on an axis of optimality and brittleness, and that whether the problems they are solving are acute or chronic.

They know that they work within a spectrum of ideal and non-ideal, and are OK with that. They are comfortable with it because they strive to make the ideal and non-ideal in a design explicit.

Later on in the lifecycle of a design, when the original design is not scaling anymore or needs to be replaced or rewritten, they can look back not with a perspective of how short-sighted those earlier decisions were, but instead say “yep, we made it this far with it and knew we’d

# Juntando tudo sobre melhoria contínua

Todas as referências abaixo falam sobre a mesma coisa: a relação entre o caos e a ordem, a repetição como ordem necessária, mas o caos como o gatilho para descobertas necessárias, a força do ego em manter o círculo eterno e o poder da intuição em nos mover para dentro do redemoinho.

Em Groundhog Day Bill Murray Vive o mesmo dia eternamente até que aprenda a sair do loop eterno ou renascer como outra pessoa. A visão budista da reencarnação se encontra com o platô que é a tábua rasa onde escrevemos nosso futuro.

Jordan Peterson e a linha tênue entre o caos e a ordem, em como é a narrativa que contém a verdade maior que a verdade verdadeira, porque diferente da vida é a arte de contar uma história que sintetiza o que precisamos saber sobre toda a vida, é o sentido em meio ao caos da aparente razão.

Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality. In short, a story well told gives you the very thing you cannot get from life: meaningful emotional experience. In life, experiences become meaningful with reflection in time. In art, they are meaningful now, at the instant they happen.

STORYTELLING is the creative demonstration of truth.

Christopher S. Hyatt também nos apresenta a relação entre caos e forma, onde adotamos uma forma temporária para aprendermos algo e voltamos para o caos.

Freedom comes from the knowledge of the Orphic Mysteries. Life oscillates between chaos and form. Try on a form, use it —know it—discard it. Then from chaos make a new form. Repeat the Cycles as often as possible and you will feel alive and free.

One purpose of chaos, paradox, nonsense, and absurdity is to set itself against the linear world. These are not meant to take the place of linear knowledge or functions, but to act as a point of focus calling our attention and awareness to the something(s) which the linear model has missed, thus breathing new life into the predictable.

The goddess Eris (or Discordia) is the midwife of Chaos, the bringer of creative destruction. For those aspiring to the magickal life, she will be a most helpful handmaiden, a necessary preliminary, an archetype whose invocation is necessary if a New Order be wrought.

O caos é a maquininha de fazer coisa do Gaspareto, que aliena se mecânico, quando não houver um sentido no platô, mas permite o progresso se usado como catapulta para o sucesso.

Flow explica como a ordem interna é tão importante que até a dor auto infligida é melhor que o caos.

Even pain is better than the chaos that seeps into an unfocused mind. Hurting oneself, whether physically or emotionally, ensures that attention can be focused on something that, although painful, is at least controllable -- since we are the ones causing it.

Eckhart Tolle em O Poder do Agora define esta atitude em criar ordem como um espaço no fluxo contínuo da mente. Algo, segundo Tolle, "profundamente gratificante de se fazer".

Ao criar um espaço nesse fluxo contínuo da mente, conseguimos direcionar o foco de nossa atenção para o Agora, e por consequência tornando-nos conscientes do momento.

# O Segundo Cérebro

Nas profundezas do seu abdómen há um sistema nervoso vasto, conhecido como sistema nervoso entérico. Contém mais de 100 milhões de neurônios, mais do que a medula espinhal e mais do que o cérebro de muitos animais pequenos, como um gato ou um rato. Este “segundo cérebro” não só gerencia a digestão, mas também produz 90% da serotonina do seu corpo, o neurotransmissor do bem-estar. Ele se comunica com seu cérebro principal, através do nervo vago, o que afeta o seu humor, suas escolhas e sua intuição. Seu estômago não só digere... ele pensa, decide e sente. Nós carregamos um cérebro escondido na barriga... e raramente o ouvimos.

Fontes: Michael Gershon (O Segundo Cérebro), Scientific American ("O cérebro no seu intestino").