Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2n4YCMH. Devon H O'Dell discusses how perceptions about one's own abilities influence goals and behaviors, and how to improve abilities and help others do the same starting with a simple shift in thinking. Filmed at qconsf.com. Devon H. O'Dell is a tech lead at Fastly, where he's primarily focused on getting folks un-stuck. Prior to Fastly, Devon was Lead Software Architect at Message Systems, and contributed heavily to the Momentum high-performance messaging platform. His experience over the past 15 years ranges from web applications to embedded systems firmware.

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60. •Linus Åkesson - Kernighan’s Lever, 2012
•Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow, 1991
•Carol Dweck - Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation,
Personality, and Development, 1999
•Allison Kaptur - Effective Learning for Programmers,
KiwiPyCon, 2014
•Brian W. Kernighan & P.J. Plauger - The Elements of
Programming Style, 1974
•Renée McCauley et. al. - Debugging: a review of the
literature from an educational perspective, 2008
•Maurice Wilkes - Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer, 1985

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