Learning on Steroids (Without Sacrificing Your Personal Life)
summary
The talk compares skill improvement across diverse activities (paddle tennis backhand, piano chord inversions, efficient minion farming in League of Legends) and draws out learning principles that can be applied to software development craft, specifically to practicing techniques like effective TDD. It presents concepts and concrete applications for optimizing practice and transfering those methods to improve technical skills in projects.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:24Clear goals
- 13:40Toxic motivations
- 18:56Learning plan
- 25:16Learning vs performance
- 32:07Individual and team skills
- 38:09Coaching value
- 44:14Wrap-up
- 48:47Q&A
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