Episode 226: 220 RR Augmenting Your Reality with Leon Gersing

Ruby Rogues

• Episode: Episode 226: 220 RR Augmenting Your Reality with Leon Gersing
• Website: Ruby Rogues
• Feed URL: https://feeds.feedwrench.com/RubyRogues.rss
• Duration: 00:58:21
• Published: 2015-08-12 17:00

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02:46 - Leon Gersing Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHhub
• Blog
• Dev Bootcamp
• [Talk] Leon Gersing: Keep Software Weird

03:24 - “Augmenting Your Reality”

07:06 - Emotional Goals and Quantifying Happiness

• Hacking Happy by Dusty Phillips

13:49 - Quantification

15:32 - Reacting to Data

17:49 - Recognizing Patterns and Trends

• Journaling and Meditation

21:58 - FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)

26:20 - The Software Development Mindset

• Teams Should Play More
• Encouraging Easter Eggs
• Following Trails

31:55 - The Ruby Community, Whimsy, and Creating Realities

• why's (poignant) guide to Ruby: in color by why the lucky stiff

40:41 - Leon’s Role at Dev Bootcamp

42:16 - Wisdom; Not Authority

44:14 - Recommended Reading

• Aldous Huxley
  • The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West
• Jean Baudrillard
  • Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
  • America
• Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown  

Picks

Dollywood's Splash Country Water Adventures Park (Avdi)
Normality (Avdi)
Jessica Kerr: Meritocracy @ PolyConf 2015 (Jessica)
Periscope (Chuck)
The Eventual Millionaire Podcast (Chuck)
Entreprogrammers Retreat 2015  (Chuck)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Leon)
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown (Leon)
Shel Silverstein - Freakin At The Freakers Ball (Leon)
The Circle by Dave Eggers (Leon)

Special Guest: Leon Gersing.