A coworker last week, while going over my plans for a demo with a group of old-guard developers who likely would respond negatively to our "no code" environment: Ok, you're going to get pushback, but expect that going in and don't let them scare you. It may take a couple sessions for them to start seeing the value.
Me, starting the meeting: Ok, show of hands, who likes coding?
The room:
Me: Great. Show of hands, who likes coding data pipelines.
The room:
Me: Fair enough. In that case, I'll start by showing you a quick wizard for raw ingestion and some reusable mappings and task flow options so you never have to code a data pipeline again and save tons of time in the process. Sound good?
The room:
Once they're used to the interface and impressed with the time it's going to save them:
Me: So do you want to see some of the other low-code capabilities for modeling and design?
The room:
My coworker, hearing about the super productive session from the specialist this week: Wtf.
😂😂😂😂
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Chronic Over-Worker Ryan
Johnny, walking into their hotel room: Love, you can't have all those books in bed.
Ryan, during finals week, buried in 12 stacks of textbooks: But, I need them.
Johnny, concerned: But where will you sleep?
Ryan, chugging a cup of coffee: Oh, don’t worry about that, I just won't.
Johnny, immediately starting to clear the books: Ok, no, why am I suddenly the responsible one in this relationship? You need sleep darling.
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Ethics funny
Ok so sometime in my second year of college I was taking an introduction to ethics class. And the ethics class goal was to “teach students to consider moral dilemmas in a rational manner” or some such shit but basically I found out academics can turn ANY subject into something to memorize so we basically ended up learning all these old dude with beards beliefs on their own systems of morals they made up, which was actually pretty cool cause my teacher was  amazing.
And so basically we would learn about these different moral theories for how we should act and every time we learned one my professor would take a poll of “who thinks this is a good basis for morality and who doesn’t”.
(My professor made it very clear from the start that any religion was an integral part of ethics, so it was always a valid view to place your polls on and take into account, just as not having one was)
One day we were studying some theory or another, I don’t remember the name, but it was a type of utilitarianism, which said that the right thing to do was that which maximized pleasure and goodness.
So after talking about the theory for awhile I was like you know this seems like a pretty good moral code right? Just do what maximizes goodness or whatever.
Then the class takes a poll as usual, and I voted that yes, I thought this seemed like a good moral basis.
And then.
As he was taking a vote for who didn’t like this moral theory, I realized, and screamed,
“Wait I have a religion!”
And thrust my hand in the air and asked to change my vote because I remembered this was not the moral law that the religion I chose to believe in approved of.
And oh my god guys it was so funny the whole class just burst out laughing and everyone was joking like
have y’all ever gotten so deep into ethical debates you forgot you had a freaking religion and believed in God? Lol
Anyways so it was even funnier because for the rest of the poll like ten members of the class changed their votes as well because they too had forgotten…
And then for the rest of the semester we would take polls and someone would change their vote and we’d be like “did you forget your religion too” and most of the time they actually did
Somehow still we were all very open minded and willing to consider these other moral laws (cause like you can’t have true faith without being able to consider other views) (and there were several various religions in that class not just Christianity whoo diversity) but
but seriously guys it was so funny
Have you ever been so deep in ethical debates you forgot your religion?
Yes.
Yes I have.
And so did half my class apparently! And we teased each other about it relentlessly
But a professor that encourages diversity of thought and expressing it? taking various religions (and absence of) into account and considering all views respectfully when forming opinions? That professor was unreal and I was very lucky.
In an almost solely Christian town having someone at a College teaching kids to HAVE different opinions, and different religions, and that that was ok was... incredible. And honestly? For the atheist kids in that class who had been told that having a different mindset wasn't ok, they had so much healing when we just. laughed together in acceptance of mental diversity. Because we actually found joy and laughter in seeing different views? I made so many friends... except the one kid who just refused to study at all. he annoyed me. This one girl with a hijab was sooo sweet and smart plus the atheist kid who hated Aristotle's guts, that class was so cool
(and now? when anyone who's faced religious discrimination in that class hears of a different religion, instead of flinching away from the negativity, we smile because we remember our little group of peers in a class about ethics who were young and dumb and just loved laughing together in acceptance. I think everyone should have such a memory... perhaps it should even be standard over negative ones)
I ended up starting a running gag in my ethics class where when students would suddenly remember to account for their religion in their opinions and we'd tease them about it (the professor was the head teaser ok we had like ten minutes every time where we laughed at having to change our votes because of forgetting our religion from debating too long)
And this is super expressive of the much larger issue of why people do or don't believe in religion in the first place, because people debate themselves out of facts or whatever, and perhaps this isn't that funny out of context
But with all the problems with religion and disbelief in the world, I ended up in a class of young adults having no idea what to do with their lives, laughing our heads off because we kept having to change our votes on polls because we forgot which religion we believed in. Which is just something inexplicably human? Large issues, deciding the courses of our lives, but maybe it's just the small moments that bring better understanding and connection or something
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