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About This Keynote
In this talk, I relate the practice of masterclasses in music to feedback cycles and how we can apply that to software engineering and development.
Takeaways
- Explanation of some musical concepts
- An exploration of the components of feedback
- Practical things you can do to get better at feedback
- Live music!
Slides
π After I present, please leave your thoughts, comments, and questions about my keynote in the comments below!
About Helen Hou-SandΓ
Helen Hou-SandΓ is the Director of Open Source Initiatives at 10up and a Lead Developer for the WordPress open source software project, now powering more than 40% of the web. From her start as a PHP/MySQL applications developer to focusing on "the front-end of the back-end" from both the development and UX perspectives, she has a knack for figuring out what people need to get things done on their websites, including most recently on the relaunch of WhiteHouse.gov for the Biden-Harris Administration.
This keynote will be presented as part of CodeLand 2021 on September 23. After the talk is streamed as part of the conference, it will be added to this post as a recorded video along with the slides.
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This talk sounds seriously awesome! Really looking forward to this. π
Hello hello πβΊ
Excellent keynote π
first keynote and we're already about to jam to some music, hyped! π₯
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I love this combination!! music and engineering yesss
Amazing!!!!
Hi All
I love the number of musicians I've seen in the tech world. I've worked for years in the theater as a musician, singer and actor, but I've always been in love with technology which made me a bit weird among my co-workers. It's awesome to see this representation.
There must be a correlation between musicians and tech, because there is a surprising amount of musicians that I know that are also in tech, and vice versa!
The skills are definitely transferrable! (Speaking from experience). Plus, supply/demand is more in our favor in tech. It's a shame there aren't more opportunities to make a sustainable living in the Arts.
It really is such a shame, I've always been open that I ended up in a web development job because of money and insurance and because at the end of the day, I do love the piano and being a musician, but I like the computer just about as much and if I look at this pragmatically it makes more sense to make a living on the computer. I wish it weren't that kind of a choice, but here we are.
I feel 1000000% the same.
There really are! I used to play with a string quartet that was made up of other people who had previously done serious music study but had switched over into tech for various reasons. I linked this in another comment as well but here's a talk I gave about some of the other connections :) wordpress.tv/2016/06/30/helen-hou-...
Loving this comparison for feedback and learning music - as a prior music education major, this is all too familiar to me, and honestly something I haven't thought about how they could connect.
Props to you, music education is possibly the hardest major there is. So many credits, so many zero credit classes, so many requirements. If you can do that, you can do this tech thing :)
Thanks! I ended up switching to general music ultimately because I realized halfway through that teaching was not what I wanted to do lol, but I have immense respect for those who do. :) I got a lot of great experience through it, though! Especially learning how to play all the different instruments - great mindset for getting a good overview of how different frameworks work!
So this is about communication skills and understanding? Not receiving critisim, but understanding comments?
What makes feedback more than criticism and how to both give it and do something with it :)
Music is so underrated. It indeed is an excellent healer. Awesome talk. Loving it!
This is going to be exciting.
I love the ties between code and music in terms of feedback and communication.
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