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		<title>Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/11/08/hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago Kate and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary.  Readers might not know but Kate read and proofed every post on this site and made every one better. This morning at 7am she had a major brain haemorrhage and is now lying in a coma with serious brain damage.  It is too early to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=655&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dumbing Down: Media, Multi-tasking and Misrepresentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inner Game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infomania]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I posted a piece on Unnecessary Context Switches &#38; the Myth of Multitasking looking at some of the research on the topic.  The consistent result: the more things you try to do at once the worse you will perform at each of them.  Despite this, many working environments expect us to constantly switch our attention [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=529&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Introspection</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/10/17/google-introspection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers may have noticed a hiatus in posts.  Last month, having just released the post on (In)Decision Making, I headed to the emergency room with what turned out to be appendicitis.  That was followed by surgery, some complications and a slowish recovery.  All up, not a great month. As I get back on the proverbial bike [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=611&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(In)Decision Making</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/09/18/indecision-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[1-on-1 Game]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inner Game]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Procrasination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you more likely to book your next vacation through LastMinute.com or through PlanWayAhead.com?  Do you make snap decisions or like to keep your options open?  Are you usually the first to meetings or the last? Do you like to arrive at the airport with seconds to spare or would this send your stress sky [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=573&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Competence vs. Confidence</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/09/05/competence-and-confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psygrammer.com/?p=561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you feel confident?  Try this quick 2 minute Test of Confidence before continuing. One of the first pieces I wrote in this blog, The Flow – Programming in Ecstasy, explored the factors that help us get into The Zone.  Most writing on this topic emphasizes the need for silence and lack of distractions.  While that is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=561&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical Lemmas</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/08/29/ethical-lemmas/</link>
		<comments>http://psygrammer.com/2011/08/29/ethical-lemmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psygrammer.com/?p=525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: this blog includes actual codes of ethics.  Reading codes of ethics may result in drowsiness.  Do not read this blog while driving or operating heavy machinery. Last week&#8217;s psygrammer post, Sharing Benefits Increases Cheating, was a glimpse on how people make (un-)ethical judgements and creating a working environment that fosters ethical behavior.  As I reflected [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=525&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing Benefits Increases Cheating</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/08/15/sharing-benefits-increases-cheating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is a thought bubble on honesty and cheating in the workplace following two articles I read recently.  The first is an interesting report on how people are more likely to cheat if the benefits of that cheating are shared with another person, even with an anonymous stranger.  The likelihood of behaving dishonestly doubled (21% to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=491&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Entitled and The Narcissist</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/08/03/the-entitled-and-the-narcissist/</link>
		<comments>http://psygrammer.com/2011/08/03/the-entitled-and-the-narcissist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psygrammer.com/?p=424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think we are all entitled to some basics in our working environment; to be rewarded fairly for our contributions, to work safely, to be allowed to act ethically, amongst others. There are some people who, however, hold an exaggerated sense of entitlement.  They might feel they have a right to be given things which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=424&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Test-Oriented Programmers (TOPs) vs. Detesters</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/07/10/test-oriented-programmers-tops-vs-detesters/</link>
		<comments>http://psygrammer.com/2011/07/10/test-oriented-programmers-tops-vs-detesters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psygrammer.com/?p=399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the cliché goes, there are few certainties in life. For programmers, bugs are one of the certainties. How we react to bugs matters. There are plenty methodologies, processes and technologies that deal with bugs. These are all important and are widely written about. I think that programmers also benefit from a better understanding of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=399&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abstract Oriented Programmer</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/06/15/abstract-oriented-programmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psygrammer.com/?p=360</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a story I have heard many times about programmers. &#8220;I asked Joe to write a simple bit of code to do &#60;xyz&#62;.  It should have taken a few hours, maybe a day at worst.  He took several days, he wrote a general framework that was far more complicated than we needed.  Why does he [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=360&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Performance Curve</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/06/01/human-performance-curve/</link>
		<comments>http://psygrammer.com/2011/06/01/human-performance-curve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 06:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[the zone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In writing the last blog on motivation my mind was drawn repeatedly  to thoughts about performance.  After all, motivational techniques are primarily about boosting performance.  But as I put &#8220;pen to paper&#8221; for this blog it turned out harder to write than I expected.  Human performance is a squiggy topic but unquestionably important. I start out [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=332&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motivation, Bonuses and Open Source</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/05/10/motivation-bonuses-and-open-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 00:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start with a few quick observations on money and motivation. Bonuses can be an easy and expensive way to demotivate staff just as to motivate them. Experiments consistently show that financial motivation can actually reduce performance particularly on tasks that require thinking &#8230; like programming. If money were the sole motivator then open source [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=318&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stand up for your health</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/04/17/stand-up-for-your-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 07:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not good news for programmers&#8230;  &#8221;Prolonged sedentary time is ubiquitous in developed economies and is associated with an adverse cardio-metabolic risk profile and premature mortality.&#8221; according to recent research. In English&#8230; Too much sitting is bad for people’s health even if they exercise several times a week. David in 1504 vs. David in 2011 (Photoshop [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=301&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remote &amp; Textual Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/04/12/textual-relationships-and-remote-collaboration/</link>
		<comments>http://psygrammer.com/2011/04/12/textual-relationships-and-remote-collaboration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, many programmers collaborate remotely.  Some collaborators will never meet in person.  Some will not even meet by phone or video conference and so will collaborate solely through textual encounters. With so many distributed teams it is important to ask whether physical interactions provide software teams with an advantage and what can be done to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=291&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questions of Dominance</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/04/10/questions-of-dominance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I step cautiously into the realm of the &#8220;Alpha Geek&#8221; and of team hierarchies, power and dominance behaviors amongst programmers. Hierarchies,  or the &#8220;Pecking Order&#8220;, are part of human social life just as they are a part of animal life.  Any social hierarchy implies that there is dominance.  Dominance is achieved through behavior. Gorillas beat their [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=280&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unnecessary Context Switches &amp; the Myth of Multitasking</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/03/28/unnecessary-context-switches-the-myth-of-multitasking/</link>
		<comments>http://psygrammer.com/2011/03/28/unnecessary-context-switches-the-myth-of-multitasking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Tony C. who sent this suggestion as follow-up to the recent Social Media post: Thought you might be interested in this article and the book that it references &#8211; “The Myth of Multitasking” [Disclosure: I haven't read the book and so this is not an endorsement.] This book deals with &#8221;Human Multitasking&#8221; &#8211; not [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=272&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biases create Software Effort Mis-Under-Estimations (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/03/16/biases-create-misunderestimations-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://psygrammer.com/2011/03/16/biases-create-misunderestimations-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s post about misunderestimations (part 1) considered the practical difficulty of estimating software effort.  Uncertainty of estimates is created by complexity and the infamous, but poorly understood, &#8220;unknown unknowns&#8221;.  The uncertainty is too often ignored. Consider the best way to estimate&#8230; Team Lead: I need to know precisely how long task X will take. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=256&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Software Effort Mis-Under-Estimations (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/03/12/misunderestimations-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://psygrammer.com/2011/03/12/misunderestimations-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids ask parents &#8220;Are we there yet? Are we there yet? …&#8221; Programmers are asked &#8220;How long will it take? … Are you done yet? Are you done yet? …&#8221; Alas for programmers it can be difficult to answer either question reliably or accurately.  To paraphrase a recent US President … Programmers tend to misunderestimate [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=207&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media at Work: Turn on, tune in, or drop out?</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/03/11/social-media-at-work-turn-on-tune-in-or-drop-out/</link>
		<comments>http://psygrammer.com/2011/03/11/social-media-at-work-turn-on-tune-in-or-drop-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psygrammer.com/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month in a post about working in The Zone I noted how the multitude of distractions on a typical computer screen can impact our ability to focus. This seems particularly so for tasks like programming that require high concentration. But many working environments expect programmers &#8211; and other staff &#8211; to respond quickly at [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=244&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;At Least You&#8217;re Aware of Your Incompetence&#8221; (4 Stages of Learning)</title>
		<link>http://psygrammer.com/2011/02/24/at-least-youre-aware-of-your-incompetence-aka-start-learning/</link>
		<comments>http://psygrammer.com/2011/02/24/at-least-youre-aware-of-your-incompetence-aka-start-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>psygrammer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.&#8221;   Winston Churchill After I gave a talk recently I was pulled aside by a colleague. He pointed out that the way I expressed one topic had the potential to put off one of the groups present.  To my credit I was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psygrammer.com&#038;blog=19538590&#038;post=164&#038;subd=psygrammer&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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