Description
Cats are notoriously unbothered, adaptable creatures which seems like the kind of energy we could all use more of in our open source communities. It’s all too easy to be reactive all the time and let the current state of events, tech news, world news and internal changes set your course. This is where cats come in. They do not care about the news, internal or external, they just adapt and continue to pursue their own goals. As Pythonistas, leaders and project maintainers, I believe we can learn from the cat.
In this talk I will discuss strategies for staying on target with your goals, communicating with team members about what’s important and working around what isn’t and share a few tricks for absorbing and releasing everything that comes in via a high information environment. You may not be able to sleep 20 hours a day, but you can control your attention and your approach to a changing world and keep pursuing your goals.