Hack your life firmware (and other tips and tricks)

As developers, we love to optimize the minute details of our dev environment. We do sport to stay in shape – or maybe we should 😜. But what about your mental health? Do you optimize it? Do you take care of it?In this presentation, Emmanuel (Red Hat, Quarkus, Les Cast Codeurs, Hibernate, etc) shares his personal journey on the importance and impact of keeping a serene head, on how to do it in our information age worker life and more importantly in our life as human beings facing tough times.Through his experience, Emmanuel will discuss how to organize oneself without drowning, how to take care of one’s mental health and offer pieces of advice on how to see one’s professional evolution.The goal of this presentation is to encourage you to think about some aspects of your life, identify some approaches to try out and add a few tools to your life arsenal.In this presentation, Emmanuel (Red Hat, Quarkus, Les Cast Codeurs, Hibernate, etc) shares tips through his personal and professional journey. How to organize one’s to-do, how to keep a cool head when events seem to head into a train wreck, how to untangle why we seem to go on knee-jerk reactions in heated situations, and how to approach career and its evolution.Coders are humans too, let’s hack our firmware and upgrade our lives.