Paul Sobocinski

@sobes
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Engineering Director at Thoughtworks.
Breaking production code since 2004.
Supporting professionals in their pursuit of technical excellence in Software Engineering practices.
“Short cuts make long delays.”
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Anyway, remember: Every single person who confuses correlation with causation, sooner or later, dies.
Focussed coding at #coderetreat Toronto today! #gdcr2024

Who’s ready for #coderetreat today?

#GDCR2024

🌐 Global Day of Coderetreat Toronto is back! 🌐

This event is a unique opportunity to learn via deliberate practice while creating meaningful and memorable connections with other software developers.

💻 Fair warning: you’ll be spending the whole day coding so come prepared with a laptop and power supply.

We'll be at the new Thoughtworks Canada office in downtown Toronto.

We hope you’ll join us!
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📆 DATE: Saturday, November 9th, 2024

#coderetreat

Register: https://na.thoughtworks.com/global-day-of-coderetreat-to-2024/

@flowchainsenseisocial sorry for my delayed response, but yes! Useful in satiating my curiosity. 😊

I can certainly relate to having observed effective managers being able to identify positive / negative group dynamics or spotting “natural” leaders.

Essentially, internalized knowledge (intuition) in sociology / psychology.

The reality is that most of the time, we get to set our own standards for whether we're doing a good job. And that matters a lot. It's a lot of power and a lot of responsibility. But many of us don't really understand it that way.
@flowchainsenseisocial hi and thanks for the reply. 🙂 Can you give some details on how “understanding group behaviours” looks like? Thanks!
If you are “non-technical” and working in tech, what do you bring to the table that you don’t expect anyone who *is* technical (e.g. a software developer) to bring?

As Marshall Rosenberg, Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, the Buddha, Shakespeare, and other influential thinkers have observed: Insults exist in the perception of the insultee, not in the words or actions of the insulter. #NVC #PersonalAgency

To paraphrase Gandhi - ""Nobody can insult me without my participation."

and

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the...fredom to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances" ~ Viktor Frankl

A few photos from #gdcr2023 in Toronto.

A lot more to come, stay tuned.

(We were busy coding 😜)

#coderetreat