The Mortifying Ordeal of Pairing All Day
The Mortifying Ordeal of Pairing All Day I had to confront a lot of my fears about myself, sometimes every day. I had to learn to show someone else all the things I didn’t know, my limitations as a human and a software engineer. May 7, 2021 • 6 min read From 2014 to 2020 I was part of an experiment: I paired all day, most days, for years. Hundreds of other engineers joined me in this experiment. I was working as a software engineer for Pivotal, in Cloud Foundry R&D, and everyone paired, often for eight hours a day. This was one of the best things I’ve ever done f...