The Perl Conference 2019

A useful-psychology double-whammy: (A) Developers are great systems thinkers. Surprise: your brain is a system too! Reframe frustration into accomplishment, and become a more effective and bubbly person using a frontal cortex feedback loop. (B) Want your team to be the happiest, most productive team around? Recent psychology research reveals one key attribute of the most successful teams, and it's within your influence.

Let's face it, we're all defective. Or at least we write defective code. Even TeX, the most scrutinized program in the world, had a bug filed against it in 2014. I may not be able to help you write less bugs, but I can help you write less code. Somewhere between Chihuly, Escher, black holes, origami and Mannheim Steamroller, I'll share some of my habits that help me write less code, but with more impact.