The Wisdom of Nature: 5 Ways to Learn About Change
Hello to all the weekend developers!
Last week, I covered the Kanban tools that you can use to break down your tasks. You can read it here if you have missed it.
But what if you do not even feel to get started?
Are you feeling demotivated to work this weekend? Do you feel you do not have any energy to continue working on your pet project?
Hereās how Mother Nature can teach us about bringing change in our lives.
5 Ways Mother Nature Change
Mother nature brings changes in 5 different ways.
Seasonal changes: Throughout the year, nature undergoes seasonal changes in response to changes in temperature, daylight, and precipitation. For example, trees lose their leaves in the fall, and many animals hibernate during the winter.
Geological changes: Over millions of years, the Earth's landforms have changed through processes such as erosion, tectonic activity, and volcanic eruptions. Mountains have risen and fallen, and coastlines have shifted as a result of these geological changes.
Evolution: Life on Earth has evolved over billions of years through natural selection, genetic mutations, and adaptations to changing environments. Species have gone extinct, and new species have emerged as a result of these evolutionary changes.
Climate change: Human activity is causing rapid changes in the Earth's climate, with rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and rising sea levels. These changes are having significant impacts on ecosystems and the plants and animals that live within them.
Natural disasters: Events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires can have dramatic impacts on nature, causing sudden and significant changes to ecosystems and landscapes. While these events can be devastating, they can also create opportunities for new growth and regeneration.
What we can observe from these changes
4/5 changes are slow changes happening over the course of days, months, or even hundreds of years
Natural Disasters is the only one which can change the course in a single day. But most studies have shown, there was a significant pattern of change that happened before the actual event.
e.g. Earthquakes. The push and pull pressure between tectonic plates over many years can cause the earthquake
If you notice the season changing, you will see first the yellowing of leaves, late sunrises, and early sunsets before you experience the full blast of winter.
5 Key Takeaways
Change is consistent
Mother nature is consistent in doing the changes. The process is always on. If nothing else, this is one big takeaway that you can take. Be consistent with your actions.
It doesnāt matter whether you have a weekly or a daily routine. The key is to be consistent with it.
Change is small
Mother nature brings in changes every day. But the change is almost invisible on a daily basis.
What you forget is, all the effort that you are putting in is bringing a change in your life. The change is invisible. So even opening the laptop every weekend is a change that you brought into your life. Celebrate that.
This also affects how you think about the tasks you created on your Kanban board. Keep them small enough that you can do them in 10 minutes.
It means you only need 10 minutes of your time to do it. That thought itself will make you begin the task.
Adapt
Climate change shows how nature is adapting to human activity and changing the course of change. You might have a big challenge in your life.
But instead of reacting to it, you can think about how you can adapt to work around the challenge.
What this means is you have the freedom to move/create/delete your stories on the Kanban board to fit your life challenges.
Kill Your Darlings
If a species cannot adapt to the change that mother nature is bringing in, mother nature makes it extinct. You might have some projects that you always wanted to do but now you want to do a different project. This old project is holding you back.
Archive it. If the project is public on Github, make it private instead of trashing it. If you feel guilty about it, tell yourself that you can pick it up when you get time.
Every disaster is a new beginning
Those natural disasters destroy many things. But what that also causes is new growth and regeneration.
Your project might fail or you are made redundant in your role. It is sad, disappointing, and frustrating.
But what it does is, it also gives an opportunity to take stock and look at opportunities that you never looked at because you were busy with your existing job or project.
Weekend Reads
Kafka Basics: If you are looking to be a backend engineer, learning Kafka will give you a leg up in job interviews. But beyond that, I think it is exciting to use Kafka and see its benefits in a microservices architecture.
The quest for REST: Gives the basics of REST and also on HATEOS
How do you write the most effective code?: Get a primer on how to write code that solves business problem rather than satisfy your developer ego
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