As the number of contributions grow, reviewer bandwidth becomes a bottleneck; and maintainers are always asking for more help. However, ultimately maintainers must at least Ack every patch that goes in; so if you're not a maintainer, how can you contribute? Why should anyone care about your opinion?
This talk will try to lay out some advice and guidelines for non-maintainers, for how they can do code review in a way which will effectively reduce the load on maintainers when they do come to review a patch.
Are you having trouble getting your bug reports fixed? It could be that you’ve yet to master the craft of bug reporting. It’s a common assumption that bug reports are easy to create, but a well-crafted bug report requires more than innate ability.
In this practical workshop, Neil will share his experiences (good and bad!) from ten years of bug reporting, and show how you can supercharge your bug reports:
First presented at the 2015 TestBash Workshop Day: http://www.ministryoftesting.com/training-events/testbash-workshop-day/
A code review is basically a technical discussion which should lead to improvements in the code and/or sharing
knowledge in a team. As with any conversation, it should have substance and form.
What’s involved in a good code review? What kind of problems do we want to spot and address? Trisha Gee will talk
about things a reviewer may consider when looking at changes: what potential issues to look for; why certain
patterns may be harmful; and, of course, what NOT to look at.
But when it comes to commenting on someone’s work, it may be hard to find the right words to convey a useful message
without offending the authors - after all, this is something that they worked hard on. Maria Khalusova will share
some observations, thoughts and practical tricks on how to give and receive feedback without turning a code review
into a battlefield.
XPDS16: Patch review for non-maintainers - George Dunlap, Citrix Systems R&D...The Linux Foundation
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ultimately maintainers must at least Ack every patch that goes in; so if you're not a maintainer, how can you contribute? Why should anyone care about your opinion?
This talk will try to lay out some advice and guidelines for non-maintainers, for how they can do code review in a way which will effectively reduce the load on maintainers when they do come to review a patch.
Slides from the presentation "Breaking Down the Prod/Dev Wall" at the nycdevops meetup, by Andrew Phillips. See https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/fmgjmnyxgbwb
Keith Schengili-Roberts - DITA Worst PracticesJack Molisani
While people are interested in hearing about successes, we can actually learn more from failure. Not only do we discover what not to do, but also how to avoid the circumstances that led to it. Presenter Keith Schengili-Roberts has seen a lot of good and bad things happen to DITA implementations over the years, and part of his job at IXIASOFT is to investigate what works, what doesn’t, and why. Listen to his stories on the best (worst) DITA practices!
Do the words 'open source' scare you (or your boss)? Do you want to contibute but don't know how? Did an angry person reply to your email scolding you for top-posting? This talk is for you! It will cover various real world relevant aspects of open source communites and projects, as well as put to rest various bits of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) that vendors may throw around. It'll cover best practices for interaction and contributing to open source projects and their communities (specific to archival, and also a more general foundation) on issue trackers, mailing lists, etc., with confidence, so that everyone can benefit.
Are you having trouble getting your bug reports fixed? It could be that you’ve yet to master the craft of bug reporting. It’s a common assumption that bug reports are easy to create, but a well-crafted bug report requires more than innate ability.
In this practical workshop, Neil will share his experiences (good and bad!) from ten years of bug reporting, and show how you can supercharge your bug reports:
First presented at the 2015 TestBash Workshop Day: http://www.ministryoftesting.com/training-events/testbash-workshop-day/
A code review is basically a technical discussion which should lead to improvements in the code and/or sharing
knowledge in a team. As with any conversation, it should have substance and form.
What’s involved in a good code review? What kind of problems do we want to spot and address? Trisha Gee will talk
about things a reviewer may consider when looking at changes: what potential issues to look for; why certain
patterns may be harmful; and, of course, what NOT to look at.
But when it comes to commenting on someone’s work, it may be hard to find the right words to convey a useful message
without offending the authors - after all, this is something that they worked hard on. Maria Khalusova will share
some observations, thoughts and practical tricks on how to give and receive feedback without turning a code review
into a battlefield.
XPDS16: Patch review for non-maintainers - George Dunlap, Citrix Systems R&D...The Linux Foundation
As the number of contributions grow, reviewer bandwidth becomes a bottleneck; and maintainers are always asking for more help. However,
ultimately maintainers must at least Ack every patch that goes in; so if you're not a maintainer, how can you contribute? Why should anyone care about your opinion?
This talk will try to lay out some advice and guidelines for non-maintainers, for how they can do code review in a way which will effectively reduce the load on maintainers when they do come to review a patch.
Slides from the presentation "Breaking Down the Prod/Dev Wall" at the nycdevops meetup, by Andrew Phillips. See https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/fmgjmnyxgbwb
Keith Schengili-Roberts - DITA Worst PracticesJack Molisani
While people are interested in hearing about successes, we can actually learn more from failure. Not only do we discover what not to do, but also how to avoid the circumstances that led to it. Presenter Keith Schengili-Roberts has seen a lot of good and bad things happen to DITA implementations over the years, and part of his job at IXIASOFT is to investigate what works, what doesn’t, and why. Listen to his stories on the best (worst) DITA practices!
Do the words 'open source' scare you (or your boss)? Do you want to contibute but don't know how? Did an angry person reply to your email scolding you for top-posting? This talk is for you! It will cover various real world relevant aspects of open source communites and projects, as well as put to rest various bits of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) that vendors may throw around. It'll cover best practices for interaction and contributing to open source projects and their communities (specific to archival, and also a more general foundation) on issue trackers, mailing lists, etc., with confidence, so that everyone can benefit.
Don't get blamed for your choices - Techorama 2019Hannes Lowette
As developers, we make choices all the time: architecture, frameworks, libraries, cloud providers, etc. And if you’ve been around for a while, you probably ended up regretting at least some of your choices.
In this session, we'll explore the typical pitfalls of making development choices and how to avoid them. By the end of this session, you will be armed to take any decision they will throw at you.
Now, if only there was a way to prove to your peers and superiors that you acquired this skill...
Well, there is! RAD Certification! I'll end my talk by telling you about this awesome certification program!
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You’ve worked hard on the information architecture models you’ve created but haven’t been able to sell them to the client, or your co-workers. Maybe the conversation around the IA has broken down into an unhealthy debate over semantics. In another scenario, you are tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary for a large organization that has a silo mentality and a lot of legacy content. Where to begin?
These scenarios will sound familiar to most IA professionals.
In this workshop, Abby will share her techniques for getting an organization that may have different ideas about how to organize and name content to agree upon a controlled vocabulary.
Abby will share specific tools in the form of diagrams, beyond the ubiquitous sitemap and wireframe, which communicate complex ideas. And she’ll share techniques for practicing information architecture with clients collaboratively.
I want to focus on the soft skills that make someone good at IA. So the lessons here are really about leveling up in skill set. Including:
- Conflict Resolution in IA
- Selling IA to others in your organization
- Improving stakeholder interviews
- Facilitating Low Fidelity Conversation about language
- Visualizing language with simple pictures to get clarity
Many companies and individuals these days release parts of their work as open source software. This benefits the entire software development community and brings are new set of challenges. Maintaining open source well takes time and effort. Abandoning a project can be very problematic for your users. How does one find a balance?
In this talk we’ll discuss how we did the impossible: make the users of more than 30 ClojureWerkz projects happy and still have a life.
3.15.17 DSpace: How to Contribute Webinar SlidesDuraSpace
Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series,
“Introducing DSpace 7: Next Generation UI”
Curated by Claire Knowles, Library Digital Development Manager, The University of Edinburgh.
“How to contribute to DSpace –be a part of the team!”
March 15, 2017 presented by: Claire Knowles - The University of Edinburgh, Maureen Walsh – The Ohio State University, Bram Luyten – Atmire, Hardy Pottinger – UCLA Library & Kim Shepherd - DSpace Developer and Committer
Sometimes, they just don’t get it.
We’re just trying to do the right thing here. Isn’t our success dependent on our users being able to shop, buy, apply or contact us through our web site or app? So if we’re dependent on our users, shouldn’t we at least involve them somehow in the design process?
Not so easy.
For some of “those” people, design is easy. Don’t we already know what the problem is and what design we can use to fix it? Can’t we just leverage best practices? Why do we even need to test the design if we’re experts? No one ever says these things, right?
In the real world, user-centered design and usability is ironically, not that easy to adapt. It’s counterintuitive because it’s such hard work to make things easy. What we have to do is to make what we do easy to understand and easy to choose. This session may not change your reality, but by sharing in some lessons learned, hopefully you’ll have the tools to help change some minds.
Getting Started with Architecture Decision RecordsMichael Keeling
Documenting architecture design decisions is commonly considered a good practice and yet many teams don't take the time to write down the decisions they make. In our experience this happens for a few reasons: documentation is rejected as being too heavyweight, documentation has little influence since it is typically out of sight and out of mind, and many developers don’t know what to document. Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) address many of these problems by capturing design decisions in a simple, lightweight templates that is stored close to repositories used by stakeholders -- often in the same repository as code affected by the ADR.
In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to write effective ADRs and how to overcome road bumps teams often experience when first getting started with ADRs. By the end of this session you will have the skills you need to champion ADRs and help your team start (or improve) your design decision log.
Whether you're promoting a feature in your upcoming Unity game, documenting your Asset Store asset, or submitting a support ticket, you need technical communication skills. Two of Unity's most experienced technical communicators, Siobhan Gibson from the Documentation team and Kerry Turner from the Enterprise Support team, present a masterclass in technical communication.
In this session, you'll learn how to communicate accurately and clearly with your audience. You'll also see examples of the difference great technical communication makes at every stage of your project's development, from communicating with team members to marketing and support.
Speakers:
Siobhan Gibson - Unity Technologies
Kerry Turner - Unity Technologies
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This presentation is both a how-to as well as the material you need to prepare and host the Visualized Workflow workshop that Jeff describes in the Actionable Agile Tools book published by OikosofySeries.
You will find “Facilitator slides” which help you understand how to prepare and host each of the steps in the workshop.
You will also find the “Presentation slides”, which you can use directly in the workshop.
Test & Learn: How to Leverage Design to Learn & Deliver Results Quickly Optimizely
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Attendees will:
Learn how to leverage the Design role within a Growth team
Learn how design quality works in the context of a fast-moving team
Learn how to use design thinking to differentiate between haste and velocity as a cross-functional team
Walk away with tools to learn quickly while making meaningful progress against large unknowns
"Software Architecture for Humans!", Eberhard Wolff Fwdays
Software architecture is only appearing to be a technical topic. Of course, software needs to have technologies and structures, but people have to be at the focus of the architecture. After all, the key challenge of software development and software architecture is that the software systems we build are too complex for a single human to understand. However, the organization and management of people can also solve problems that relate to software architecture. Thus, the talk shows the dependencies between architecture, people, and organization - and how to use them to develop software more successfully.
You’ve worked hard on the information architecture models you’ve created but haven’t been able to sell them to the client, or your co-workers. Maybe the conversation around the IA has broken down into an unhealthy debate over semantics. In another scenario, you are tasked with creating a controlled vocabulary for a large organization that has a silo mentality and a lot of legacy content. Where to begin?
These scenarios will sound familiar to most user experience professionals. In this deck, I share my techniques for getting an organization that may have different ideas about how to organize and name content to agree upon a controlled vocabulary.
I also share specific tools in the form of diagrams, beyond the ubiquitous sitemap and wireframe, which communicate complex ideas. And techniques for practicing information architecture with clients collaboratively.
Static partitioning is used to split an embedded system into multiple domains, each of them having access only to a portion of the hardware on the SoC. It is key to enable mixed-criticality scenarios, where a critical application, often based on a small RTOS, runs alongside a larger non-critical app, typically based on Linux. The two domains cannot interfere with each other.
This talk will explain how to use Xen for static partitioning. It will introduce dom0-less, a new Xen feature written for the purpose. Dom0-less allows multiple VMs to start at boot time directly from the Xen hypervisor, decreasing boot times drastically. It makes it very easy to partition the system without virtualization overhead. Dom0 becomes unnecessary.
This presentation will go into details on how to setup a Xen dom0-less system. It will show configuration examples and explain device assignment. The talk will discuss its implications for latency-sensitive and safety-critical environments.
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Not so easy.
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XPDDS19: [ARM] OP-TEE Mediator in Xen - Volodymyr Babchuk, EPAM SystemsThe Linux Foundation
Volodymyr will speak about TEE mediators. This is a new feature in Xen which allows multiple virtual machines to interact with Trusted Execution Environment available on platform. He developed mediator for one of TEEs, namely OP-TEE.
He will give background information on why TEE is needed at all and share some implementation details.
XPDDS19: Bringing Xen to the Masses: The Story of Building a Community-driven...The Linux Foundation
Xen is a very powerful hypervisor with a talented and diverse developers community. Despite the fact it's almost everywhere (from the Cloud to the embedded world), it can be difficult to set up and manage as a system administrator. General purpose distros have Xen packages, but that's just a start in your Xen journey: you need some tooling and knowledge to have a working and scalable platform.
XCP-ng was built to overcome those issues: by bringing Xen to the masses with a fully turnkey distro with Xen as its core. It's the logical sequel to the XCP project, with a community focus from the start. We'll see how it happened, what we did, and what's next. Finally, we'll see the impact of XCP-ng on the Xen Project.
XPDDS19: Will Robots Automate Your Job Away? Streamlining Xen Project Contrib...The Linux Foundation
Doug has long advocated for more CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) processes to be adopted by the Xen Project from the use of Travis CI and now GitLab CI. This talk aims to propose ideas for building upon the existing process and transforming the development process to provide users a higher quality with each release by the Xen Project.
XPDDS19: Client Virtualization Toolstack in Go - Nick Rosbrook & Brendan Kerr...The Linux Foundation
High level toolstacks for server and cloud virtualization are very mature with large communities using and supporting them. Client virtualization is a much more niche community with unique requirements when compared to those found in the server space. In this talk, we’ll introduce a client virtualization toolstack for Xen (redctl) that we are using in Redfield, a new open-source client virtualization distribution that builds upon the work done by the greater virtualization and Linux communities. We will present a case for maturing libxl’s Go bindings and discuss what advantages Go has to offer for high level toolstacks, including in the server space.
Today Xen is scheduling guest virtual cpus on all available physical cpus independently from each other. Recent security issues on modern processors (e.g. L1TF) require to turn off hyperthreading for best security in order to avoid leaking information from one hyperthread to the other. One way to avoid having to turn off hyperthreading is to only ever schedule virtual cpus of the same guest on one physical core at the same time. This is called core scheduling.
This presentation shows results from the effort to implement core scheduling in the Xen hypervisor. The basic modifications in Xen are presented and performance numbers with core scheduling active are shown.
XPDDS19: Implementing AMD MxGPU - Jonathan Farrell, Assured Information SecurityThe Linux Foundation
The use of Virtual GPUs (vGPUs) has widely grown in server farms to give Virtual Machines (VMs) dedicated graphics. Software rendering with virtual CPUs can only take us so far and even with Intel-GVT, which uses integrated graphics, there isn't enough power to do the fun stuff. In this presentation, Jon Farrell will be talking about the process of implementing AMD MxGPU on Xen, challenges that he encountered while doing it, and discussing performance metrics of bare metal and vGPU VM on popular benchmarks like 3D Mark* and The Witcher 3. To wrap up his presentation, Jon will share his thoughts about future research and where this technology can take us.
Providing Globus Services to Users of JASMIN for Environmental Data AnalysisGlobus
JASMIN is the UK’s high-performance data analysis platform for environmental science, operated by STFC on behalf of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In addition to its role in hosting the CEDA Archive (NERC’s long-term repository for climate, atmospheric science & Earth observation data in the UK), JASMIN provides a collaborative platform to a community of around 2,000 scientists in the UK and beyond, providing nearly 400 environmental science projects with working space, compute resources and tools to facilitate their work. High-performance data transfer into and out of JASMIN has always been a key feature, with many scientists bringing model outputs from supercomputers elsewhere in the UK, to analyse against observational or other model data in the CEDA Archive. A growing number of JASMIN users are now realising the benefits of using the Globus service to provide reliable and efficient data movement and other tasks in this and other contexts. Further use cases involve long-distance (intercontinental) transfers to and from JASMIN, and collecting results from a mobile atmospheric radar system, pushing data to JASMIN via a lightweight Globus deployment. We provide details of how Globus fits into our current infrastructure, our experience of the recent migration to GCSv5.4, and of our interest in developing use of the wider ecosystem of Globus services for the benefit of our user community.
OpenFOAM solver for Helmholtz equation, helmholtzFoam / helmholtzBubbleFoamtakuyayamamoto1800
In this slide, we show the simulation example and the way to compile this solver.
In this solver, the Helmholtz equation can be solved by helmholtzFoam. Also, the Helmholtz equation with uniformly dispersed bubbles can be simulated by helmholtzBubbleFoam.
How Does XfilesPro Ensure Security While Sharing Documents in Salesforce?XfilesPro
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SOCRadar Research Team: Latest Activities of IntelBrokerSOCRadar
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has suffered an alleged data breach after a notorious threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated data from its systems. Infamous data leaker IntelBroker posted on the even more infamous BreachForums hacking forum, saying that Europol suffered a data breach this month.
The alleged breach affected Europol agencies CCSE, EC3, Europol Platform for Experts, Law Enforcement Forum, and SIRIUS. Infiltration of these entities can disrupt ongoing investigations and compromise sensitive intelligence shared among international law enforcement agencies.
However, this is neither the first nor the last activity of IntekBroker. We have compiled for you what happened in the last few days. To track such hacker activities on dark web sources like hacker forums, private Telegram channels, and other hidden platforms where cyber threats often originate, you can check SOCRadar’s Dark Web News.
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Even though at surface level ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError’ appears as one single error; underlyingly there are 9 types of OutOfMemoryError. Each type of OutOfMemoryError has different causes, diagnosis approaches and solutions. This session equips you with the knowledge, tools, and techniques needed to troubleshoot and conquer OutOfMemoryError in all its forms, ensuring smoother, more efficient Java applications.
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This presentation emphasizes the importance of data security and legal compliance for Nidhi companies in India. It highlights how online Nidhi software solutions, like Vector Nidhi Software, offer advanced features tailored to these needs. Key aspects include encryption, access controls, and audit trails to ensure data security. The software complies with regulatory guidelines from the MCA and RBI and adheres to Nidhi Rules, 2014. With customizable, user-friendly interfaces and real-time features, these Nidhi software solutions enhance efficiency, support growth, and provide exceptional member services. The presentation concludes with contact information for further inquiries.
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In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I ...Juraj Vysvader
In 2015, I used to write extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB3, etc and I didn't get rich from it but it did have 63K downloads (powered possible tens of thousands of websites).
Software Engineering, Software Consulting, Tech Lead.
Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Spring Security,
Spring Transaction, Spring MVC,
Log4j, REST/SOAP WEB-SERVICES.
We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
First Steps with Globus Compute Multi-User EndpointsGlobus
In this presentation we will share our experiences around getting started with the Globus Compute multi-user endpoint. Working with the Pharmacology group at the University of Auckland, we have previously written an application using Globus Compute that can offload computationally expensive steps in the researcher's workflows, which they wish to manage from their familiar Windows environments, onto the NeSI (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) cluster. Some of the challenges we have encountered were that each researcher had to set up and manage their own single-user globus compute endpoint and that the workloads had varying resource requirements (CPUs, memory and wall time) between different runs. We hope that the multi-user endpoint will help to address these challenges and share an update on our progress here.
Globus Connect Server Deep Dive - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
We explore the Globus Connect Server (GCS) architecture and experiment with advanced configuration options and use cases. This content is targeted at system administrators who are familiar with GCS and currently operate—or are planning to operate—broader deployments at their institution.
Globus Compute wth IRI Workflows - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
As part of the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program, NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and ALCF at Argonne National Lab are working closely with General Atomics on accelerating the computing requirements of the DIII-D experiment. As part of the work the team is investigating ways to speedup the time to solution for many different parts of the DIII-D workflow including how they run jobs on HPC systems. One of these routes is looking at Globus Compute as a way to replace the current method for managing tasks and we describe a brief proof of concept showing how Globus Compute could help to schedule jobs and be a tool to connect compute at different facilities.
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Innovating Inference - Remote Triggering of Large Language Models on HPC Clus...Globus
Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently the center of attention in the tech world, particularly for their potential to advance research. In this presentation, we'll explore a straightforward and effective method for quickly initiating inference runs on supercomputers using the vLLM tool with Globus Compute, specifically on the Polaris system at ALCF. We'll begin by briefly discussing the popularity and applications of LLMs in various fields. Following this, we will introduce the vLLM tool, and explain how it integrates with Globus Compute to efficiently manage LLM operations on Polaris. Attendees will learn the practical aspects of setting up and remotely triggering LLMs from local machines, focusing on ease of use and efficiency. This talk is ideal for researchers and practitioners looking to leverage the power of LLMs in their work, offering a clear guide to harnessing supercomputing resources for quick and effective LLM inference.
13. Necessary to accomplish goals?
• Is it clear what the goals are?
• Do we need to make a change, or can the goals be met with existing
functionality?
15. Architecture / Interface
• Is this the best way to solve the problem?
• Is this the right part of the code to modify?
• Is this the right level of abstraction?
• Is the interface general enough? Too general? Forward
compatible?
17. Functionality
• Does it do what it’s trying to do?
• Is it doing it in the most efficient way?
• Does it handle all the corner / error cases correctly?
19. Maintainability / robustness
• Is the code clear? Appropriately commented?
• Does it duplicate another piece of code?
• Does the code make hidden assumptions?
• Does it introduce sections which need to be kept “in sync” with other
sections?
• Are there other “traps” someone modifying this code might fall into?
20. Style
• Comments,carriage returns, “snuggly braces”, &c
• See CODING_STYLE and tools/libxl/CODING_STYLE
• No extraneous whitespace changes
21. Patch
• Informative one-line changelog
• Full changelog
• Motivation described
• All important technical changes mentioned
• Changes since previous revision listed
• Reviewed-by’s and Acked-by’s dropped if appropriate
27. Template for a changelog
• What does the current code do?
• Why is that a problem?
• How does this patch fix it?
• Any other changes the patch is making
28. Reviewing tips
• Code follows data: Look at the data structures first
• Three ways to look at a patch
• Look at the patch itself (emacs / vim ‘diff mode’)
• Look at the patched file
• Graphical diff (i.e., meld)
32. Wikipedia Entry on Foot-Binding:
"Foot-binding resulted in lifelong disabilities for most of its subjects. …
Binding usually started during the winter months since the feet were more
likely to be numb, and therefore the pain would not be as extreme. …The toes
on each foot were curled under, then pressed with great force downwards
and squeezed into the sole of the foot until the toes broke…”
33. Why you shouldn’t say code is “garbage”
• Makes the patch author angry
• They spend time and mental energy wrestling with their feelings
rather than coming up with solutions
• Doesn’t contain any information
• The facts are both more powerful and more persuasive
34. Your experience is a fact
• Example:
• “This confusing”
• “It took me a long time to figure out what was going on here”
• Example:
• “This is fragile”
• “This seems fragile to me”
• “If X happens, Y will happen.”