10 Signs You Will Suck at Programming

10 Signs You Will Suck at Programming (article)
Summary
My friend who is a great programmer shared the article on the SNS with a cool comment.
"This is the philosophy to be able to apply in many of your life. More than it, the philosophy will be created by being on top of something and then it must have common points and deserve applicability".
My thoughts are that it's impossible to be a programmer for me who is not young and haven't learned about programming before. However, for a person who is trying something to be on the top, the story must be worth to apply.

P.S. The title and expression in the story surprised me because it was really negative but many English articles that I've read before used positive ones.
"If you do something, you will never be successful as a programmer." OMG!

10 Signs You Will Suck at Programming
1 Lack of curiosity
Naturally, you have to be curious about what you want to be.

2 Lack of autonomy and resourcefulness
This is a natural thing that you have to learn and study independently to have many skills and knowledge without asking others. I think that books must give us those.  I laughed at this item said that force yourself to google questions before asking someone else for the answer. I wonder if there is a person who wants to be a programmer who doesn't use google and I think that the internet won't teach us the most important thing. We have to find it by ourselves.

3 Lack of persistence in the face of a problem
If we are making progress, there are always new problems that come to us. I think that a person who can continue to fight against problems persistently will be successful.

4 No feeling of success in overcoming a problem
Although problems are continuing, solving old problems and even small problems must give you power and good experiences. Feeling those is the way to succeed.

5 Impatient about learning and understanding
Don't give up. We have to learn and understand what we want patiently.

6 Getting bored/tired from thinking
For what we want, we mustn't get bored and tired. We can enjoy and excite for what we want.

7 Inability to think for yourself
We have to think about what we want by ourselves that are the most important for what we want.  Others do nothing for it.

8 Rigid, narrow and/or disorganized thinking
I think that thinking flexibly, widely and systemically is important.

9 Needing the "right" answer instead of recognizing a spectrum of "good" and "bad" answers
I want to explain it that all things are changing always. One thing that is good today might change bad or you might have better answers tomorrow.

10 Not paying careful attention to details
It's important for us to be able to pay careful attention to details.  I think that we won't realize important things lying close to us.

The story has a bonus and conclusion also.
It tells us that having a business mind is important. It means that it can help many people who willingly pays it.  Being on the top of something is great and its process must be great. we can do it.


Words in this story
inevitable /adj/ unavoidable
inability /noun/ inadequacy, inappropriateness, impropriety
disorganize /verb/ disrupt the systematic order or functioning of
order /noun/ regularity, system. method
suck /verb/ be very bad, disagreeable, or disgusting

Olivia Remes : How to cope with anxiety

Olivia Remes at TEDxUHasselt  (transcript)
How to cope with anxiety
Summary
The speaker researches about anxiety and tells us that anxiety is very common. However, we don't seem to think that, it's dangerous and important much more than we think. It'll be better for us to cope with our anxiety soon before it grows that we can't control.
She suggests that there are some ways that we can lower our anxiety. It’s that thinking that we aren't perfect, we forgive ourselves and we have a purpose and meaning in life.

After all, knowing why we exist and finishing work that might benefit future generations, it seems to lead our anxiety to being coped well, even if no one realizes we've one for them. Just we know that it makes us realize the uniqueness and importance of our life.

Words in this story
cope /verb/ manage in spite of difficulty, struggle successfully

Adam Grant : Are you a giver or a taker?

Adam Grant at TED@IBM  (transcript)
Are you a giver or a taker?
Summary
Give and take is the practice of making mutual concessions and a usually good-natured exchange. I was taught that I have to do something for other people definitely when a person did something for me and l shouldn't expect anything when I do something for others also.

In the story, especially at workplaces, according to the speaker's research, it turned out that takers always think about what others do for them but givers are likely sacrificing. It doesn't lead teams and organizations to success and givers will stop helping and be burnout.

The speaker suggests that by weeding takers, it builds a culture of successful givers. It’ll be a better environment where can make something easier for people to ask for help, nothing is taken by takers and givers' succeed.
Furthermore, the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.

Your success must come to you by helping other people succeed. Are you a giver?

Words in this story
generosity /noun/
paranoid /noun/ a person who suffers from delusions of persecution and distrust of others.
weed /verb/ removing weeds from the ground, uproot, pluck
mutual /adj/ (of a feeling or action) experienced or done by each of two or more parties toward the other or others.

K. Erica Dodge : Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish

K. Erica Dodge a tTED-Ed  (transcript)
Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish
Summary
I wonder that the art in the title means a fine art or a technique.
The word : Goytoku is an old word and people now don't use usually. Gyo means fish and Taku means impression, it’s explained in the story, so it means a trace by being put and printing to record the species and size of the fish you caught over 100 years ago when cameras and printing machines weren't invented yet.
There seem to be two different methods. One is putting a paper first on the fish and putting ink on it. Another is painting directly on the fish and then pressing a paper into the fish. It's not reducible and not magnifiable also.

I remembered to have my own hand printing. It’s created by in the direct method when I was a kid who painted on my hand with non-toxic red Sumi-e ink and put my hand on the paper. I can now know how small my hand was.

This must be the same great way. Non-toxic Sumi-e ink was used for Gyotaku and fish could be released after that also.

Words in this story
revere /verb/ worship, respect, honor
rub /verb/ scrub
magnify /verb/ make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope.

Alain de Botton : A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

Alain de Botton at TEDGlobal 2009  (transcript)
A kinder, gender philosophy of success
Summary
Philosophy is a study of the principles of existence behavior and knowledge, and a study of the nature of human thought and of the world. I wonder if I can explain gently and l can think something philosophically also.

My reading of success is that there are many ways to succeed but there is no role model. It's because we live different lives of mentors who already succeeded and time.
I think that people compare between mentors' success and your success thus you think that you might not succeed. We should focus in on our own ideas, make sure of it, and be truly the authors of our own ambitions. There's no envy, fear, and failure there. People love equality, though, they always try to divide all things. It'll show inequality and give you a threatening sort of reality.
I believe that my idea of success is not the same as others. Its way is always changing and People can decide their own success by themselves. It's not too late.

Words in this story
contempt /noun/ insult, contempt, slight, denigration
aristocracy /noun/ noble, aristocrat
meritocracy /noun/ a high class, rank, and grade like government by the gifted or skilled

Roy Bahat and Bryn Freedman : What is the meaning of work?

Roy Bahat and Bryn Freedman at TED Salon: Zebra Technologies  (transcript)
What is the meaning of work?
Summary
In our world, robots can do our works soon. The speakers invest in it, but they aren't our enemies. They come to us to understand what is the meaning of work because they understand why we don't want to lose our jobs.

It's because we are very worried not to get money and not to do work is that we think we are not needed.

However, they tell us that the thought that working for a long time have your value has been wrong. There is your value and dignity in your heart, next to you, and it's close to you. It’ll give you stability. You can find what you are needed.

Words in this story
stable /adj/ steady, firm  stability  /noun/ the state of being stable.
instability /noun/  insecurity

Bruce Aylward : How we'll stop polio for good

Bruce Aylward at TED2011  (Transcript)
How we’ll stop polio for good
Summary
Polio is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Children and even adults are likely infected with it, paralysis continues for life, and many patients are dying. It's because polio has no symptoms of infection, no one realizes, and it’s spreading.

Thus almost completely eradicated of polio isn't’ good enough because soon, it’s infectious. In fact, this story was told in 2011. On 2015, in Nigeria, it's going to be eradicated in 2017, though, in 2016, two cases were detected again.
India seemed to be taken off the WHO list of polio endemic countries in 2012.

The action of polio eradication started from around 1930 in America. It took for 20 years to develop the polio vaccine. It succeeded in America, but almost leads to polio outbreaks suddenly but for new tips polio, a vaccine isn't working and finance is also lacking.

In the world, reinfection of polio is reducing, though, almost is not good for us. Again, it’ll be likely spreading. What the polio eradication means to kill the virus itself that causes polio everywhere on Earth.

Words in this story
infectious disease /noun/ contagious disease, epidemic
tenacious /adj/ tenacious, persistent, persevering
endemic /adj/ (of a plant or animal) native or restricted to a certain country or area.

Seth Berkley : HIV and flu — the vaccine strategy

Seth Berkley at TED2010  (transcript)
HIV and flu - the vaccine strategy
Summary
For understanding the article, it'll be better to summarize the fundamental knowledge of vaccines.
1, In our bodies, we have the immune system to protect against disease. When we are living, our body is called an organism that rejects invasions of antigens that are foreign substances. This is the immune response.

2, Infectious diseases are caused by the growth of pathogenic organisms in the body. HIV and flu are infectious diseases but in our bodies, those antigens are increasing and weaken the immune system also.

3, A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. Surprisingly, making a vaccine requires taking a pathogen first, by injection it into our bodies, we are pre-immunized, pre-trained to recognize and defeat specific pathogens, even if we have no natural immunity.  Its change is that our bodies can make antibodies to recognize and neutralize a specific invader.

4, However, the challenge of HIV and flu viruses is that those are always changing. It's a mutation.  It means that antibodies made by injecting a vaccine become impossible to recognize and neutralize pathogens. 1)
A new virus can jump from birds into humans 2) furthermore a virus of a human, avian and swine mixture appears. 3)

5, Continuing studying new vaccines requires much money and time, however, vaccines create antibodies to protect us, it leads our societies to protecting and it can protect some people who can't use vaccines also.

6, The study is continuing, broadly neutralizing antibodies are now being made and the cost is decreasing by stopping using eggs.

Including those are the vaccine strategy.  We also have to have correct knowledge of vaccines and not only protecting an individual but also protecting each other means other countries' people,  researchers, and companies.

Words in this story
alteration /noun/ change, modification
mutation /noun/ mutate /verb/ change, variation, changing, transition, alteration
antibody /noun/ protein in the blood which reacts to infectious agents
immunity /noun/ condition of being insusceptible to a disease; exemption, freedom, protection.
antigen /noun/ foreign substance which stimulates the production of antibodies when introduced into a living organism
neutralize /verb/ render (something) ineffective or harmless by applying an opposite force or effect.

Elizabeth Pisani : Sex, drugs and HIV — let's get rational

Elizabeth Pisani at TED2010  (transcript)
Sex, drugs and HIV - let’s get rational
Summary
Rationality is being based on or agreeable to reason.
Although the speaker says that let’s get rational in the title, the cause of spreading HIV is that all people thought rationally about HIV. What?  What shall we do?

As a public health nerd, the speaker really works hard to tell people that sharing needle is very dangerous and getting HIV. It means nearly 100  percent.
As a government, they want to clean their cities to win votes thus they don't allow drugs and they send people to jail soon by only carrying needles.   
Those are easy to understand and rational.
People know it well and people who use drugs that are banned also know it well, though, they don't want to go to jail thus they don't have a needle but they share it. They know that sharing it is really dangers, but they don't want to go to jail. For them, it's rational.
However, infection is not stopping.

Next challenge was about sex in this story.
As a public health nerd, the speaker really works hard this time also to tell that people have to use a condom to avoid HIV. It’s understood well and the people in some groups having more sexual partners in shorter spaces of time, in fact, follow it more than others.
As a government, they also cooperate because they help all people who are in those groups and other groups and companies which are especially commercial sex companies to win a vote. People understand those rationally and the rates of condom use in commercial sex are increasing.

However, infection can't stop by a few people who rationally know that people can't get HIV just by having unprotected sex.

In the last, the speaker angrily tells us that the truth is that everyone has a different rationale 💢

Somehow, I really really understand. It's the same as the Japanese problem: decreasing birthrate and aging of the population problems. There are as many different ways of being rational as there are human beings on the planet. It's relationally glory, though, the rational result is distressful, especially, it seems to involve in sex and drugs.

Words in this story
prevalence /adj/  spread out over a large area
dangerous /adj/  danger /noun/
rational /adj/  rationale /noun/

Keith Lowe : Why we need to stop obsessing over World War II

Keith Lowe at TEDxAthens  (transcript)
Why we need to stop obsessing over World War II
Summary
This is a surprising title for me who thought that the speaker wasn't definitely an American. Of course, he seems to be a Londoner and a historian.

The beginning of this year, l thought why l didn't study our Japanese history, thus l’ve just read many books about World War 2 and l think that it's enough yet. However, the title seems to say to me like l don't need to study about World War 2.

There are many differences between the speaker and me. For example, he is European, a man and  a historian who studies history a lot. However, l think this is a big chance to summarize my opinion so far. It might change tomorrow though l try to do it.

First, l summarize the story 1) and l want to write about why l started to read books about world war 2, 2) what I want to tell you, 3) and my conclusion. 4)

1)The answer of the speaker why we need to stop obsessing over World War 2 seems to be for making our world a much more peaceful place. His opinions are that the Second World War is used just for trying to get people to feel good about themselves and in our society, there are difficult grey areas where people don't allow to point out. Thus people, especially politicians would use the words: Second World War. However, it's often not related with the Second World War and it’s to provoke an emotional response.

As a historian who studied it really hard, he tells us that's the wars certainly will never be solved peacefully. If we could all just learn to accept it, our world must be much more powerful places.

What? What did he say?

I now understand what he wants to tell us. It's to stop obsessing so it's not to stop saying but it's learning more to use it and to make our world better. This is the same as my conclusion. 4)

2)Why l started to read books about the World War 2 is that l wanted to have skills to explain about Japanese problems because l study English and l sell world's flags.
3)The story makes the Japanese all the evil monsters and why the Chinese are all selfless heroes.

I’m really glad that my learning is not wasted. What the speaker wants to tell us must be that there is a big damage not to learn Second World War and to be deceived by myths.

Words in this story
aftermath /noun/ after-effect, consequence, secondary effect, sequel
inherent /adj/ congenital, innate
foster /verb/ cultivate

Lindy Lou Isonhood : A juror's reflections on the death penalty

Lindy Lou Isonhood at TEDWomen 2018  (transcript)
A juror’s reflections on the death penalty
Summary
Also in Japan, the issue of the death penalty needs to be open for discussion, though, that is set. In schools and families, that is set. People can't tell that they are against it but they can't tell favor also.

The speaker was a juror and a law-abiding person who followed the judge’s instructions and voted “yes” to sentencing a guilty man to death.
However, she started to have a question about justification of the death penalty.

Even though there's a man who deserves the death penalty, he might be able to be seen as a human. As the same person, whether people want to give a man the death penalty or not? Can it be thought that a judicial system would be broken? Those made the speaker sick and leave there. She is thinking about that for over 20 years.

No one wouldn't answer sentencing someone to death as a juror makes a person a murderer.

The big reflection on the death penalty for the speaker was that she had silently lived about the issue for a long time though she started to show her thoughts that there's a person who opposes to the death penalty by talking with her granddaughter.

She tells us this is one of the lesson for her life, so a younger generation has a possibility to do something for social issues more than relying on old culture beliefs.

I think that it means that social issues are for all of us, it's not something that only governments or elderly people solve but young people can ignore. We are living in the same society that has many issues that we have to discuss.

Words in this story
juror /noun/ jury, juryman
abiding /adj/əˈbīdiNG/ permanent, constant

Jonathan Wilker : What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue

Jonathan Wilker at TEDxPurdueU  (transcript)
What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue
Summary
I thought that I was very sorry to the speaker because Japanese people probably thought that sea creatures are food, how those are cooked is the best, and how those have a taste.
First, I didn't know what rocks in the picture were covered, furthermore, l had forgotten what name of shellfish is called in English completely.

In the story, sticky sea creatures are shellfish and mussels, oysters and barnacles appear. They produce the adhesive to protect themselves and their babies from predators and nature by cementing to each other on rocks.
In fact, not only protecting themselves from nature but also they really help the cycle of sea systems. Reef and other small creatures at the coast are protected by sticking shellfish on rocks. The speaker tells us what they do is filtering the water, holding sand and dirt in place, letting small creatures stay and so on. He suggests that the substance that they produce in nature must be really healthy and natural. It must change our chemical and non-recycle systems. There are still many things that we have to learn from nature.

Words in this story
symbiosis /noun/ paragenesis
degradable /ask/ able to be humiliated, able to be broken down (Chemistry)

Khalida Brohi : How I work to protect women from honor killings

Khalida Brohi at TEDGlobal 2014  (transcript)
How I work to protect women from honor killings
Summary
I thought that the words “honor killings” was a joke though it's existing and I wondered why the word “embroidery” appeared here.

The honor killing is a custom in a small village where the speaker lives. It's Killing by family because men and women are suspected of having relationships before or outside of marriage. In the village, the marriage is already arranged by parents before daughters are adults, in the first place, the birth of a girl child is not celebrated, women are told to have patience as their main virtue, they can't go to school and they are forced  to marry before they are around ten years old.

The speaker tried to stop the custom by creating a group, though, people believed it's an honor and she didn't know how to cooperate with women in the village who also fight the problem silently. She failed and she found out there's a huge gap.

In the village, there is a severe costume though there has been beautiful songs, culture, tradition, stories mountain and a lot of sheep.

She realized that she must not challenge both centuries-old customs, she apologized and she tried to promote three main cultures that were music, language, and embroidery.

I understood that both sides that are men and women have to realize their potential and someone just continues giving inspiration. The most important thing is counting giving and naturally, cooperation and independence have to be made. People need to know where their rights are and how to take them by themselves. It takes much time for the problems of countries' history and customs, though, it has to continue as humans to understand equality between men and women and to live better. I think that I also want to continue doing like the speaker is continuing because humans must love their own country.

Words in this story
indigenous /adj/ indigenous, native, local
dweller /noun/ resident, inhabitant
embroidery /noun/ the art or pastime of embroidering cloth
replicate /verb/ copy reproduce