There’s this “small essay about self love” that you should read (at https://mastodon.social/@Damage/100339405504968121).

And, you know, it’s hard. Even accepting your flaws is hard, but loving them is *even harder*.
And one thing I loved *especially* about #socrates2018 is how there was room to explore that too! Your flaws, acceptance for them, even love for them!

My special thanks to @fii for creating space for me and some of mine, and helping me embrace them. It was just a Box, but it turned out to have exactly the right size!

Were I to sum up my #socrates2018 experience in two words it’d be energy and empathy.

Energy presents in several forms and flavours. There’s the calm, flowing energy of performing a kata, the curious, attentive energy of discussion involving different perspectives, the connecting, purposeful energy of standing together, in silence and darkness, for centuries, the frantic energy of throwing rice across the room and perfectly into the pot and *who put dirty dishes on the cutting board*‽

People there were mindful of their own and others’ energy,they could be attentive and excited in high-energy situations but would let you recover when you weren’t, in the way that was best for you, and people had room to be vulnerable: many sessions were introduced by people *asking for help*! Those were _some_ of the times one could feel the empathy.

It was an amazing experience and I hope I’ll get to attend more events like it in the future.

Somebody thanked me for existing at #socrates2018. Then there was a talk about monads. And nail polish. And frontend testing. And structuring React applications. Conversations about team culture, vim and emacs, and the fish shell. Refactoring code to make it worse. Roleplaying and tetris. People being kind to each other. People being delightfully evil. Above all: People seeing each other as humans. A one-of-a-kind experience. Thank you all.

Nothing like sauna 🧖‍♀️ to bring yourself down enough from Overcooked 2 - induced laugh flashes to be able to sleep 😴 #socrates2018

There will be a small marketplace tomorrow (Sunday) morning 9am for the workshops and the code retreat. We'll still have some rooms available so if you'd like to run sessions with the people who are staying, come and announce them!
#socrates2018

Bourdieu, social theory and power dynamics in pair programming with @[email protected] at #SoCraTes2018 - inspired by @[email protected]

No one will understand why this makes @[email protected] so happy #socrates2018

Evening and morning sessions #socrates2018

Board games have moved to Berlin #socrates2018