The Effective Developer Sebastian Daschner

Happy New Year, everyone! In this episode, I'll talk about my new year considerations, reflections and planning routines, some quiet days, different areas in life and some of my experiences.

In this episode I'm interviewing Vlad A. Ionescu. Vlad is the founder of ShiftLeft, has founded two different developer tool companies and is a former engineer at Google and VMware. We talked about all things productivity, and especially Earthly, a tool to improve CI/CD productivity.



More about Vlad & Earthly:



- Twitter @VladAIonescu

- https://vladaionescu.com/

- https://earthly.dev

In this episode, I'll talk about mindfulness and meditation, how they are connected to working productively, my own story in that topic, some research and helpful resources, and why we should care about this topic as developers.



Resources:



- Video Course: Developer Productivity Masterclass https://www.sebastian-daschner.com/courses/developer-productivity-masterclass
- Podcast: Huberman Lab by Dr. Huberman
- Paper: A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind by M. A. Killingsworth and D. T. Gilbert
- Book: Mindfulness in Plain English by Henepola Gunaratana
- Book: Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In this episode I'm interviewing Markus Wittwer, who trains knowledge workers in modern mindfulness techniques. We talked about meditation, mindfulness, other productivity techniques, and more.

You can find Markus here:

- https://www.markuswittwer.de/
- Twitter: @MarkusWittwer

In this episode I'm interviewing Adrian Cole, an engineer working at Tetrate on Open Source projects and well-known contributor to projects such as Zipkin, OpenFeign, Apache jclouds, and wazero. We talked about all things productivity, especially working remotely and working while traveling.

You can find Adrian here:

- GitHub: codefromthecrypt
- LinkedIn: Adrian Cole

Happy New Year! In this episode I'll talk about my resolutions for 2023, how my 2022 ended, some offline time to plan & reflect.