Name: Why I am so cool (as a software engineer) - Must watch if you are not cool.
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T19:07:32.000Z
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The imperative

Adverbs of frequency

I thought, it's coffee time and though sometimes it's really annoying, you know, we may be out on a road trip.

There may be a meeting or something, but once it hits 3 p.m. I gotta have my coffee.

And that's just how it's gonna be from here on out.

I don't miss coffee time for anything or anybody.

And you may be wondering, Well, why am I so cool?

And you know, you don't often see some for engineers as cool as me.

You know, we've all seen apples last WWDC commercial that was highly disrespectful for suffer engineers treating them like some kind of strange animal people who are uncultured, not fashionable, just scruffy little 30 animals who you can feed red Bull and pizza.

I used to crave Red Bull and pizza and all you had to do was give me that stuff and I could sit down and code at the hack a thon for many hours at the time, while everybody else might be out enjoying the night's fancy dinner at a French restaurant.

Me, I would be back in the computer lab just working on my code, eating my pizza Now.

I could have easily continued on this path, and unfortunately, many engineers never get off this track.

They stay on culture, and then I see as they get to their late twenties, late thirties.

They remain like that, and they never developed culture.

They never developed refinement, and they never see that light of success.

You know, the tech is a power that must be controlled responsibly, and it can overcome you if you are not careful.

A lot of new practitioners, they lose themselves in that process, they forget who they are.

They lose their humanity, and this can lead them to being single and lonely for the rest of their life.

So there's this image that software engineers need to be a certain way, you know, they need to be hunched over.

Aled, maybe have a beard, and the way they behave needs to be very arrogant, not very sociable.

Maybe talking a certain strange drug on the way.

Back in college, I had applied for this ridiculous internship at Microsoft one summer.

And during that same summer, my brother decided to go study abroad in Japan.

So I decided to apply to, and I would say to myself, What depends which I get If I get the Microsoft interview, I'm gonna do that.

Otherwise, I'm going to do this study abroad thing in Japan.

I don't know what else I'm gonna do in December.

And luckily for me, actually, I didn't get the Microsoft internship.

The next best thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go study abroad in Japan.

And what I found this day for me was allowed me to change my identity yourself.

Identity is something that I think is really holding you back in ways that you don't necessarily understand.

When I went off to study in Japan, I could reinvent myself.

No one had any preconceived notions of what happened, person.

I was and nobody even knew that I was a software engineer back then.

I was the biggest nerd that you could imagine.

I just didn't care about anything except the tech.

And when I went to Japan for me, I found that it was a land of coach, er a fashion and culture.

And most of all, it was a brand new environment for me to re invite myself.

This ability to reinvent yourself, I think, is a very key thing.

And unbeknownst to you, a lot of factors are holding you back from realizing your full of self.

Generally, that's going to be the people around you who are reinforcing the notion of who you are, what your limitations are, what type of person you are.

When I decided to go off their brand new country, I could completely redefined.

I'm gonna be a cool, healthy guy, and I could just make that happen, and nobody would be there to say, Oh, Patrick, I know you.

Why don't you just sit down and you know, another burrito?

By the way it happened to me when I went from high school to college up through high school, I over a lot.

Every day I would drink one Coca Cola and I would eat a cup new, though maybe a frozen pizza, a can of chili, something like that.

My life was not really in the country off my hands.

I felt that other people were reinforcing the idea of who I was when I went to college.

I decide that you want it's time to get my life in order.

I'm gonna get the unsorted and I'm going to start exercising.

And from then on, I began exercising on the consistent basis.

So this brings us back to the topic of programmers.

Junior's may be viewed themselves as nerds as geeks, and then the industry and society will view you this way too.

So it's very easy to find to this trap and the key to realizes it doesn't have to be this way.

Part of what I'm trying to do is set a new role model for what suffer Engineers might look like what they may be doing.

You've seen that I put out some videos where I'm traveling, doing really cool things, selling scuba diving and overall, being just, well, culture.

So next time you're in the project may be in the start up and people say, Well, let's just get some coke and pizza And then we can continue working.

Say no, no, I don't drink coke and I don't eat pizza, Okay?

Let them know that you're more culture than that and that you expect to be treated as such.

Now I know that you may be thinking what I like pizza and I like coke.

You know, I'll never forget this funding research.

I read where they would have a bunch of monkeys, and every time a monkey tried to grab like a banana, if the monkey would get shocked and then you have a brand new monkey, go into the cage and then it's gonna go try and grab the banana.

And on the other monkeys would try to stop it and I think was like, even if the banana was not rigged to shock anymore, the other monk.

Anyway, the point of this research was to show that animals are jealous and they will stop others from achieving higher status than day.

And so what you need to realize is a lot of people around you will pull you down so that you stay at the same level as they do and you know, for me and I know a number of people other, maybe you're living with your parents, and that's fine.

But you need to be careful that your parents will always look at you like a child, and they would treat you as such.

And because of that, it may be difficult for you to grow higher than that.

And you just need to be aware of that and make sure that you know what you're doing.

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