Gear-Up
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What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you?
- I honestly have been a lot less empathetic since my mid teen years, but I still tend to be very understanding about being in another persons shoes. Whenever I go to a restaurant and hotels/hostels, I think of how I can help the person who will be attending me or cleaning after me in someway to make it easier on them. I don't know how it has helped me but I am sure they appreciate it. I beleive that just simply thinking, " what would I like or do different if I was this person?" helps.
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How does empathy help you build better software?
- Empathy would help me be a better programmer by helping me stand and understand the lives of those using the software. If there is something that the user struggles with it would be great to help the user by building software that is useful for them, that would make their life easier. It's about thinking of the way you can make a difference with your knowledge. Technology has come