Retreat into Competence
Retreat into Competence is an apprenticeship pattern that focuses on the idea that when you find yourself in a situation where you are overwhelmed with new information, it is alright to withdraw back into something you are more comfortable with. By doing this you allow yourself to gain back your mental composure, and gives you…
Expand Your Bandwidth
Expand your bandwidth is an apprenticeship pattern that teaches the idea that as well as learning and improving at tasks that we are comfortable and familiar with, we need to be able to learn about completely new and novel ideas in order to excel in our fields. The pattern mentions signing up for online blogs,…
Sprint 3 Personal Retrospective
This final sprint was much more of a struggle than the other two prior sprints. Since we got a lot of progress done in achieving our goals throughout the past two sprints, we figured that this sprint would let us bring everything together and finalize everything we have worked on up until this point. Unfortunately…
Find Mentors
Find Mentors is an apprenticeship pattern that talks about the importance of having someone that you can directly go to for help or ask questions in order to further your own understanding about the subject matter. This pattern talks about the importance of having a mentor, and the difficulty associated with finding a good one.…
Practice Practice Practice
Practice Practice Practice is an apprenticeship pattern that focuses on the idea that deliberate practice is the best and most efficient way to learn and master a craft. This apprenticeship pattern is similar to breakable toys, but it is more focused on the actual act of practicing rather than the consequence free ability to make…
Learn How You Fail
The apprenticeship pattern Learn How You Fail deals with the process of identifying in which ways you fail, prioritizing what is worth your time to address and what is not, and working to resolve the issues that you deemed worth fixing. We are advised not to wallow in self pity when we fail, but instead…
Sprint 2 personal Retrospective
For our second sprint I think our group improved in many aspects of the process. Last sprint there was a lot of confusion around what exactly needed to be done and how, as well as issues with managing time and expectations. The group also had relatively poor over all communication over discord, although that was…
Sustainable Motivations
Sustainable Motivations is an apprenticeship pattern that touches on the idea that despite loving programming issues such as frustration, lack of motivation, and in extreme instances burnout are still very possible. This apprenticeship pattern discusses how to deal with issues and attempt to mitigate them before they even really begin. One way to go about…
Breakable Toys
Breakable toys is an apprenticeship pattern similar in spirit to Be the Worst. They both encourage us to improve by failing in one sense or another. While the Be the Worst apprenticeship pattern focuses on joining a team where you are the worst in order to learn from others on your team, Breakable Toys emphasizes…
Be The Worst
Be the worst is an apprenticeship pattern from chapter four that focuses on surrounding yourself with people who are better than you in order to constantly keep improving yourself. The chapter argues that if you are the best in your respective group then you will not grow and improve as a person. I whole heatedly…
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