We have made it through a couple of intense years, with physical and mental health challenges. We know that we embed the values we hold into the systems we design, and these systems happen to run our world. Consequently, as software engineers, we carry a special impact on society and the world at large.
Under stress we tend to disconnect from our values - e.g., when I am really stressed, I may have a harder time being kind.
That means taking care of our wellbeing and resilience not only ensures that we don’t burn out or bug out, but also that we develop better and more adequate systems to support a sustainable lifestyle.
In this talk, I show the science backing that up as well as simple tools to mitigate the risks of burnout, increase resilience, and reintroduce joy into leadership and daily tasks of engineering.
