Programming Like An Athlete
summary
Compares programming to athletic training and gives four concrete practices: cross-training where only 10% of time goes to the core task and the rest builds supporting skills (DevOps, UX, communication), track progress in a notebook with dates, tasks, measurements and qualitative notes to show real improvement, staged overload and deliberate recovery (disconnecting from tech, offseasons, injury rehab) and cooperative drafting via OSS, Stack Overflow, meetups; cites the statistic of 85 phone checks a day.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:54Cross training for programmers
- 3:18Measuring progress in training
- 4:44Progressive training and recovery
- 6:59Recovery from burnout and injury
- 8:01Training others as a community
- 9:48Summary and call to action
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