{"id":290,"date":"2009-03-14T14:08:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T22:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2009-03-14T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T22:08:24","slug":"mwrc-alan-whitaker-on-programming-passion-and-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/mwrc-alan-whitaker-on-programming-passion-and-ruby\/","title":{"rendered":"mwrc: Alan Whitaker on programming passion and Ruby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Whitaker: La Dolce Vita Rubyista<br \/>\nof Lead Media Partners<\/p>\n<p>Discovery &#8211; something that kids do. Something that many ruby programmers are<br \/>\ndoing as they leave old jobs for new jobs where they can use Ruby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing<br \/>\nwith new eyes.&#8221; &#8212; Marcel Proust.<\/p>\n<p>Resistance &#8211; anything worth doing is likely to meet resistance. Resistance<br \/>\nstands between the life we live and the life we would like to live.<\/p>\n<p>Cultivate passion while maintaining balance in life.<\/p>\n<p>Flow. The book. By Mihaly Csikszentmihalhyi.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoyment factors: Clear goals, no distractions, challenge, rapid feedback,<br \/>\ndeep involvement, sense of control, loss of self-concern, timelessness.<\/p>\n<p>The book &#8220;The Power of Full Engagement&#8221; says, &#8220;Energy, not time, is our most precious resource&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Whitaker: La Dolce Vita Rubyista of Lead Media Partners Discovery &#8211; something that kids do. Something that many ruby programmers are doing as they leave old jobs for new jobs where they can use Ruby. &#8220;The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.&#8221; &#8212; Marcel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/mwrc-alan-whitaker-on-programming-passion-and-ruby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mwrc: Alan Whitaker on programming passion and Ruby&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-mtnwestrubyconf","tag-mwrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}