A system for software engineers to mastery and excellence that brings together mindfulness, learning habit and professionalism.

1. The Mindful
Engineer
A path to excellence for Professional Software Engineers

3. Craft, not just a job

5. Software is
eating the
world !!
Corollary - The world better
develop great software
engineers ! Software

6. But how ?
Hint : Go Meta

7. A helpful metaphor
Hardware [ Many ]
Apps [ ~Millions ]
SDKs [ Only 2 ]
OS [ Only 2 ]
Most power in hands of
those who own these
two !
Coding Standards

8. The Mindful engineer
Brain [ Hardware ]
Skills [ Apps ]
Mindfulness [ OS ]
Learning Habit [ SDK ]
Professionalism
[ Coding Standard ]

9. Two Superpowers
Mindfulness Learning Habit

10. OS
Mindfulness

11. Competing pulls
Attention Attention
Requirements
Coding
Design
Debugging
Refactoring Testing
Maintenance
Breaking NewsNotifications
Social MediaApps

12. Building the attention muscle

13. Three Myths to be dispelled
Spiritual/Religious practice
Requires abandoning everything
Needs lots of time

14. TIMTOWTDI !

15. SDK
Learning Habit

16. The Habit Loop

17. Have a Growth mindset

18. Training routine

19. Coding Standard
Professionalism

20. Amateur vs Pro

21. Do you want to build such things ?

22. Who is a Professional ?
Two characteristics -
Ability to work unsupervised
Ability to certify the completion of one’s work

23. Professional Coder
Take
Responsibility
Do No Harm
Practice
Know your
domain/field
Professionalism

24. Two superpowers
Mindfulness
Learning Habit
One Code
Professionalism

25. Join the community
gitter.im/MindSE

26. Resources
Books
Search Inside Yourself by Chade-Meng Tan
The Professional by Subroto Bagchi
Mastery by Robert Greene
Clean Coder by Robert Martin
Videos
Andy Puddicombe TED Talk
Accelerated Learning
Mindfulness apps
Headspace, Calm, ...