Joy - Maintaining Passion for Programming
summary
A career narrative moves from Java into Ruby and then into Elixir and Erlang, spun into the book Seven Languages in Seven Weeks and hands‑on experiments (Prolog puzzles, Haskell formalization). A startup called "I can make it better" builds Ruby apps, rewrites parts in Elixir, ships early but the first product fails and forces redesign. Cites a UC Davis study linking curiosity to dopamine, documents a heart‑artery health scare, then relocates and pivots to teaching languages as a sustainable way to restore passion.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:13Bitter Java
- 5:05Serverside Symposium
- 7:11Starting a Ruby Business
- 8:53Why do people love Ruby
- 9:47Matz is nice
- 13:50Looking for a way out
- 14:47Joe Armstrong
- 16:13Joy of crazy ideas
- 17:13Meeting Joe Armstrong
- 18:52Prolog
- 21:13Haskell
- 23:03Elixir
- 24:55Widowmaker
- 26:32Stress
- 27:05Heart attacks and stress
- 28:55Start a business
- 29:54Study
- 30:50Curiosity
- 33:37Building a ship
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