Programming Empathy: Emotional State Machines
summary
Claims that emotions are emotional state machines and proposes a concrete five-step model (trigger → experience → reaction → decision → outcome). Examples include personal case studies, engineering-style diagrams used to isolate a misbehaving feature and produce a fix in 30 minutes, and operational responses (password resets, two-factor, credit freezes) after a Linux dox incident tied to the Contributor Covenant with 100,000 adoptions. Expect diagrams, candid failure and recovery stories, and practical behavioral steps rather than theory.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 3:36MEASURING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
- 9:39NARCISSISM
- 11:16CODEPENDENCE
- 12:26TRUE EMPATHY
- 14:25THE EXPERIENCE
- 15:00THE DECISION
- 15:38THE OUTCOME
- 18:55SUBCONSCIOUS REACTION
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