Blue Ridge Ruby 2024 | The Pursuit of Happiness by Dustin Haefele Tschan

Who in this world would say "no" to being a little happier? Luckily for us there has been a lot of wonderful scientific studies done on human happiness. This talk will cover a number of my favorite studies in this field, and how they can be applied to life and careers in tech. ___________________________________________________________________________ Dustin is a Software Engineer at Spreedly who loves a good pun and riding his bike over bridges because the unabridged version is too long. In a previous life he was a Chemical engineer, but over the years he grew unhappy with factory work. His passion for researching everything he could find about human happiness led him to quit his job, join a bootcamp, spend a few months exploring South America, and finally jump into Software Engineering full time. Dustin calls Athens, GA home, but loves to travel whenever he can.