程序员思维修炼：连接现实与高效学习的关键

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AGAIN WITH THE “PRAGMATIC”? 16

What Are Agile Methods?

The term agile methods was coined at a summit meetin g

in February 2001 by seventeen leaders in software devel-

opment, including the founders of various development

methodologies such Extreme Programming, Scrum, Crystal,

and, of course, our own pragmatic programming.

Agile methods differ from traditional plan-based methods

in a number of signiﬁcant ways, most notably in eschewing

rigid rules and discarding dusty old schedules in favor of

adapting to real-time feedback.

I’ll talk about agile methods often throughout the book,

because many of the agile ideas and practices ﬁt in well

with good cognitive habits.

1.1 Again with the “Pragmatic” ?

From the original The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to

Master [

HT00] to our Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing imprint, you

will notice that we have a certain preoccupation with the word prag-

matic. The essence of pragmatism is to do what works—for you.

So before we begin, please bear i n mind that every individual is

different. Although many of the studies that I’ll reference have

been conducted on large populations, some have not. I’m going

to draw on a large variety of material ranging fr om hard scientiﬁc

fact proven with functional MRI scans of the brain to conceptual

theories, as well as material ranging from old wives’ tales to “Hey,

Fred tried it, and it worked for him.”

In many cases—especially when discussing the brain—the under-

lying scientiﬁc reasons are unknown or unknowable. But do not

let that worry you: if it works, then it’s pragmatic, and I will of fer

it here for y our consideration. I hope many of th ese ideas will work

for you.

Only dead ﬁsh go with

the ﬂow.

But some folks are just plain wired dif-

ferently; you may be one of them. And

that’s OK; you shouldn’t follow any advice

blindly. Even mine. Instead, read with an

open mind. Try the suggestions, and decide what works for you.

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EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS STUFF 18

These kinds of activities utiliz e very different pathways in the

brain—pathways that are affected by your very thoughts and how

you think them. Your thoughts are not disconnected from the rest

of the brain machinery or your body; it’s all connected. This is just

one example (and we’ll talk more about the brain later in the book),

but it helps illustrate the importance of thinking about interacting

systems.

Everything is

interco nnected.

In his seminal book The Fifth Discipline:

The Art and Practice of the Lear ning Orga-

nization [

Sen90], Peter Senge popularized

the term systems thinking to describe a

different approach of viewing the world. In systems thinking, one

tries to envision an object as a connection point of several systems,

rather than as a discrete object unto itself.

For instance, you might consider a tree t o be a single, discrete

object sitting on the visible ground. But in fact, a tree is a connec-

tion of at least two major systems: the processing cycle of leaves

and air and of roots and earth. It’s not stat i c; it’s not isolated. And

even more interesting, you’ll rarely be a simple observer of a sys-

tem. More likely, you’ll be part of it, wheth er you know it or not.

TIP 1

Always consider the context.

Put a copy of that up on your wall or your desktop, in your con-

ference room, on your whiteboard, or anywhere you think alone or

with others. We’ll be returning to it.

1.3 Everyone Is Talking About This Stuff

As I was mulling over t he idea of w riting this book, I started to

notice that a lot of people in different disciplines were talking about

the topics in which I was i nterested. But these were in very diff erent

and diverse areas, including the following:

• MBA and executive-level training

• Cognitive science research

3. Suggested by our old buddy Heisenberg and h i s quantum uncertainty principle,

the more general obse rver effect posits that you can’t observe a system without

altering it.

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WHERE WE’RE GOING 19

• Learning theory

• Nursing, health care, aviation, and other professions and

industries

• Yoga and meditat i ve practices

• Programmin g, abstraction, and problem solving

• Artiﬁcial intelligence research

There’s something

fundamental here.

When you start to ﬁnd the same set

of ideas—the same common thr eads—

showing up in different guises in these

very different areas, that’s usually a sign.

There must be something fundamental and very important lurking

under the covers for these similar ideas to be present in so many

different contexts.

Yoga and meditative techniques seem to be enjoying quite a bit of

mainstream popularity these days, and not always for obvious rea-

sons. I noticed an article in an in-ﬂight magazine around October

2005 that t rumpeted the headline “Companies Now Offering Yoga

and Meditation to Help Fight Rising Health-Care Costs.”

Large companies have not historically embraced such warm-and-

fuzzy activities. But the meteoric rise of health-care costs has

forced them t o take any course of action that might help. Clearly,

they believe the studies showing that practitioners of yoga and

meditative techniques enjoy greater overall health than the general

population. In this book, we’re more interested in the areas related

to cognit i on, but greater overall health is a nice side beneﬁt.

I also noticed that a number of MBA and executive-level courses

promote various meditative, creative, and i ntuitive techniques—

stuff that ﬁts in perfectly with the available research but that has

not yet been passed down to the employees in the trenches, includ-

ing us knowledge-worker types.

But not to worry, we’ll be covering these topics here for you. No

MBA required.

1.4 Where We’re Going

Every good journey begins with a map, and ours appears in the

front portion of this book. Despite the linear ﬂow of a book, these

topics are entwined and interrelated, as the map shows.

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WHERE WE’RE GOING 20

After all, everything i s connected t o everything else. But it’s some-

what difﬁcult to appreciate that idea with a l i near read of a book.

You can’t always get a sense of what’s related when faced with

countless “see also” references in the text. By presenting the map

graphically, I hope you get th e opportunity to see what’s related t o

what a little more clearly.

With that in mind, the following is roughly where we are headed,

despite a few side trips, tangents, and excursions on the way.

Journey from Novice to Expert

In the ﬁrst part of the book, we’ll look at why your brain works as

it does, beginning with a popular model of expertise.

The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition pr ovides a powerful way of

looking at how you move beyond beginner-level performance and

begin the journey to mastery of a skill. We’ll take a look at the Drey-

fus model and in particular look at the keys to becoming an expert:

harnessing and applying your own experience, understanding con-

text, and harnessing intuition.

This Is Your Brain

The most important tool in software development is, of course,

your own brain. We’ll take a look at some of the basics of cog-

nitive science and neuroscience as they relate to our interests as

software developers, i ncluding a model of the brain that looks a lot

like a dual-CPU, shared-bus design and how t o do your own brain

surgery of a sort.

Get in Your Righ t Mind

Once we have a better understanding of the brain, we will ﬁnd ways

to exploit underutilized facets of thinking to help encourage bet-

ter creati vity and problem solving, as well as harvest and process

experiences more effectively.

We’ll also take a look at where intuition comes from. Intuition, the

hallmark of the expert, turns out to be a tricky beast. You need

it, you rely on it, but you also probably ﬁght against using it con-

stantly, without knowing why. You may also be actively suspicious

of your own and others’ intuit i on, mistakenly thinking that it’s “not

scientiﬁc.”

We’ll see how to ﬁx that and give your intuition freer reign.

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