Discovering Your Software Umwelt
summary
Applies the biological concept of umwelt to software development by having each author write 1500-word narratives about their tooling, careers, and surprising pivots then annotate each other’s drafts, extract common threads, and create targeted prompts. Process uses first-person reflective methods and yields concise one-paragraph self-summaries plus reusable prompts focused on origins and pivots for teams to reproduce; outcome is practical reflection tools and a protocol that people report helps surface hidden assumptions.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:35Programmers in conflict
- 4:01Software Umwelt concept
- 8:38Perceiving our Umwelt
- 9:22Personal narratives
- 13:59Common threads
- 14:46Origins in software
- 20:45Career pivots
- 28:12Personal software origins
- 34:23Programming insights
- 41:28Exploring your Umwelt
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