Standa Novak - Extreme Productivity
Standa Novák is a software engineer with 5 years of commercial experience, currently working at NetSuite/Oracle. He has also had an almost year-long career as a videogames programmer. He is still creating games in his free time and sometimes streams the development live. In his personal life, he is a dad, sometimes a musician, a video-maker and likes doing anything creative. He likes to take things to extreme levels, in a way of Extreme Programming. For example, practicing the Getting Things Done methodology literally everywhere :)
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Standa Novak
- - Applying Getting Things Done to Standa's family
- - Extreme Programming
- - Standa's history with developing games and how he got into software development
- - The market for game developers
- - Standa's extremes and processes for acquiring self-awareness and allocating time to the right activities
- - Standa's vision for a "happier world" and his priorities
- - Standa's stories of failure - Lessons in humility
- - Standa's book recommendation
- - The things that have Standa most excited
- - Standa's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Standa
Resources:
- Standa's Wiki site
- Standa on Facebook
- Standa's YouTube Channel
- Standa on Twitch
- Getting Things Done
- David Allen Recommended Label Maker
- "Uncle Bob" Martin on Developer On Fire
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition (The XP Series) - Kent Beck
- The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers - Robert C. Martin
- Unity Game Engine
- Ludum Dare
- Shawn Rakowski on Developer On Fire
- Mini Metro
- Madfinger Games
- Zeitgeist Film Series
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
Standa's book recommendation:
Standa's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Be honest wherever and whenever it's both possible and safe
- Share your incompleteness
- Have a lower bar for your expectations, be satisfied with what you have, and don't be too hard on yourself