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Do you really feel like this is a real contribution to the conversation? Agile coaches help stabilize software development, and meditation teachers teach a valuable self-regulation skill. You not wanting or valuing something doesn't make it "snake oil".


I value stability in software development. I value self-regulation. I do not need someone on my team to encourage these. I need software engineers who have these values. "Gurus" like this person are an unnecessary cost, if not an outright scam.


I am iffy on agile (I feel like it is a codification of common sense, but people who need common sense codified are going to fuck up anyway) but I think meditation has proven universally valuable with no controversy.

A hedge fund I used to work at would encourage and pay for Transcendental Meditation training ($1000 I believe) because the correlation between meditation and better decisions making/collaboration was so blatant.




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