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:
3:47 - Dave introduces the show and Standa Novak6:35 - Applying Getting Things Done to Standa's family12:51 - Extreme Programming16:50 - Standa's history with developing games and how he got into software development22:50 - The market for game developers26:14 - Standa's extremes and processes for acquiring self-awareness and allocating time to the right activities31:10 - Standa's vision for a "happier world" and his priorities36:09 - Standa's stories of failure - Lessons in humility42:11 - Standa's book recommendation45:58 - The things that have Standa most excited48:54 - Standa's top 3 tips for delivering more value52:48 - 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
Standa's book recommendation:
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - Eckhart Tolle
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