Climbing Rocks & Coding Blocks

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Connects rock climbing habits to concrete dev practices: breaks problems into steps using a Tower of Hanoi example, plans with sketches and technical tasking, practices expected failures via test-driven development and push/rollback drills, and trains on sandboxes like exercism.io and Global Day of Code Retreat. Recommends Kaizen: mastery by trying different paradigms, measurement via Pomodoro/Kanban, mentorship with pair programming and shared commits, and building psychological safety so diverse teams learn faster.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:57Tower of Hanoi
3. 10:05Planning
4. 17:31SUCCESS
5. 26:51Pomodoro Technique
6. 27:24Retrospective
7. 29:04BRIDGING GAPS

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