45 min
223: Emotions, Achievement, Joy, and Goals with David MacIver Greater Than Code
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- Technology
02:15 - David’s Superpower: Being Confused
Norms of Excellence
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
11:56 - Daily Writing
David’s Newsletter: Overthinking Everything
Unfuck Your Habitat
15:47 - Learning to Be Better at Emotions
23:22 - Achievement and Joy as Aspirational Goals
[Homeostasis vs Homeorhesis](https://wikidiff.com/homeostasis/homeorhesis#:~:text=is%20that%20homeostasis%20is%20(physiology,to%20a%20trajectory%2C%20as%20opposed)
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Reflections:
Jessica: Trying not knowing yourself.
Rein: You shouldn’t be the owner of all your desires. Instead, you should measure your life by how well you follow the intentions that arise out of your values.
Jacob: Thinking of yourself as the sum of all of the habits you maintain or don’t.
David: The [Homeostasis vs Homeorhesis](https://wikidiff.com/homeostasis/homeorhesis#:~:text=is%20that%20homeostasis%20is%20(physiology,to%20a%20trajectory%2C%20as%20opposed) distinction, and cleaning a home as an ongoing process.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Transcript:
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JACOB: Hello and welcome to Greater Than Code, Episode 223. My name is Jacob Stoebel and I'm joined with my co-host, Rein Henrichs.
REIN: Thanks, Jacob and I'm here with my friend and also stranger because we haven't done this together in months, Jessica Kerr.
JESSICA: Thank you, Rein! And Iím really excited today because our guest is David MacIver. Twitter handle, @DRMacIver.
David MacIver is best known as the developer of Hypothesis, the property-based testing library for Python, and is currently doing a Ph.D. based on some of that work. But he also writes extensively about emotions, life, and society and sometimes coaches people on an eclectic mix of software development, intellectual, and emotional skills. As you can probably tell, David hasn't entirely decided what he wants to do when he grows u and that's the best because if you had decided well, then so few possibilities would be open.
David, hello!
DAVID: Hi, Jessica! Great to be here.
JESSICA: All right. I'm going to ask the obligatory question. What is your superpower and how did you acquire it?
DAVID: So as you saw me complaining about on Twitter, this question doesn't translate very well outside of the United States.
JESSICA: Yeah, which is fascinating for me.
DAVID: I'm a bit too British to say nice things about myself without sounding like I'm being self-deprecating.
JESSICA: Self-depreciating it is!
DAVID: [laughs] So I th
02:15 - David’s Superpower: Being Confused
Norms of Excellence
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
11:56 - Daily Writing
David’s Newsletter: Overthinking Everything
Unfuck Your Habitat
15:47 - Learning to Be Better at Emotions
23:22 - Achievement and Joy as Aspirational Goals
[Homeostasis vs Homeorhesis](https://wikidiff.com/homeostasis/homeorhesis#:~:text=is%20that%20homeostasis%20is%20(physiology,to%20a%20trajectory%2C%20as%20opposed)
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Reflections:
Jessica: Trying not knowing yourself.
Rein: You shouldn’t be the owner of all your desires. Instead, you should measure your life by how well you follow the intentions that arise out of your values.
Jacob: Thinking of yourself as the sum of all of the habits you maintain or don’t.
David: The [Homeostasis vs Homeorhesis](https://wikidiff.com/homeostasis/homeorhesis#:~:text=is%20that%20homeostasis%20is%20(physiology,to%20a%20trajectory%2C%20as%20opposed) distinction, and cleaning a home as an ongoing process.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Transcript:
SPONSORED AD: Whether you're working on a personal project or managing enterprise infrastructure, you deserve simple, affordable, and accessible cloud computing solutions that allow you to take your project to the next level.
Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode's Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier.
Get started on Linode today with $100 in free credit for listeners of Greater Than Code. You can find all the details at linode.com/greaterthancode.
Linode has 11 global data centers and provides 24/7/365 human support with no tiers or hand-offs regardless of your plan size. In addition to shared and dedicated compute instances, you can use your $100 in credit on S3-compatible object storage, Managed Kubernetes, and more.
Visit linode.com/greaterthancode and click on the "Create Free Account" button to get started.
JACOB: Hello and welcome to Greater Than Code, Episode 223. My name is Jacob Stoebel and I'm joined with my co-host, Rein Henrichs.
REIN: Thanks, Jacob and I'm here with my friend and also stranger because we haven't done this together in months, Jessica Kerr.
JESSICA: Thank you, Rein! And Iím really excited today because our guest is David MacIver. Twitter handle, @DRMacIver.
David MacIver is best known as the developer of Hypothesis, the property-based testing library for Python, and is currently doing a Ph.D. based on some of that work. But he also writes extensively about emotions, life, and society and sometimes coaches people on an eclectic mix of software development, intellectual, and emotional skills. As you can probably tell, David hasn't entirely decided what he wants to do when he grows u and that's the best because if you had decided well, then so few possibilities would be open.
David, hello!
DAVID: Hi, Jessica! Great to be here.
JESSICA: All right. I'm going to ask the obligatory question. What is your superpower and how did you acquire it?
DAVID: So as you saw me complaining about on Twitter, this question doesn't translate very well outside of the United States.
JESSICA: Yeah, which is fascinating for me.
DAVID: I'm a bit too British to say nice things about myself without sounding like I'm being self-deprecating.
JESSICA: Self-depreciating it is!
DAVID: [laughs] So I th
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