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🛫 Retelling near-death experiences helps aviators find meaning and purpose at work
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Retelling near-death experiences helps aviators find meaning and purpose at work
When aviators face a close brush with death, their harrowing experiences often become stories—told again and again in break rooms, over beers or in quiet conversations with trusted colleagues. But what effect do these stories have on the people telling them? Can the act of storytelling itself help them make sense of their work—and even find deeper meaning in it?

"The #cloud isn’t your friend. It’s a business. And when their business needs conflict with your data’s existence, guess which one wins?"
"I wasn’t alone in being targeted by AWS—especially #MENA. Hundreds of Reddit threads, websites, forums, all telling similar stories."
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"Objective-C is a West Coast language. Objective-C is a hippie. You throw stuff at it and it just trusts you. “Peace maaaaaannn… if you say this is an NSArray I believe you…” and it leans back in its armchair, smoking weed, listening to Marley, Floyd, Doors, or Janis, looking at you with deep eyes, telling you stories about Buddhism and how important is ecology, and that tonight they are going to a retreat in the beach to pray for Yemanjš and the salvation of dolphins."

The Developer Guide to Migrate Across Galaxies
This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.