Justin SiimonStark

Well I do want to share that video to my friends and family, some of them may need that in there lives. But I agree that we can leverage empathy in the work place to help the world take baby steps in the right direction.

How do you think the concepts covered in Gear Up today will impact you as a software developer? 3-5sent.

Learning about it now and having constructive conversations, will certainly keep it forefront going forward. I hope to be able to implent these discussions in many scopes. Share these ideas and opinions with my future teams and have a healthy discussion on incorporating empathy in the workplace. In the content I will create in the future, I hope that it relates to the end user. As well as setting and continueing a standard for the industry as a whole to follow.

It's hard to collect my thoughts in the moment. But I really appreciated some of the things ot

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(1) Read through 29 Behaviors That Will Make You an Unstoppable Programmer

I believe in the age old method of measure twice, cut once. In doing so should help cut down on the time it takes to fix the errors in the first place. So if there is a tool that is popular, but isn't quite meant for the job at hand, it is most likely better to find the proper way. Rather than clunking around the code and duct taping it all together.

Working in a lot of sales and customer service positions has really opened my mind as to how important empathy is in assisting those in need of help. I prefer not to "sell" to someone, but rather discover a solution whether its a win for just them or a "win" for me as well. In which knowing that they leave fully satisfied is enough of a "win" for me.

Building better software, to me that means the software will serve the user better than they could have imagined themselves. Empathy can be a strong tool to put you in the shoes of the user, to relate to them and imagine what better would mean to them.

With empathy in mind, teams can put in their best efforts to resolve conflict and come to a better understanding of one another in a constructive and beneficial way.

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	Article 1: Why is Empathy Essential for Design, by Mathieu Turpault

	Having experiences of empathy will generally make you feel more connected with another person, allowing you to see the design solution in a different light. When you experience the positive change it creates it tends to make you feel more as if what you accomplished was helpful and more meaningful.