# The Mortifying Ordeal of Pairing All Day - Host: [simplermachines.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/simplermachines.com/) - Saved: May 13, 2021 (2021-05-13T10:56:38Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/157786566dd8/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/157786566dd8.json ## What Jamie wrote This is an insightful and deep article sharing Bennet's experience [pair programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming) every day over a long period of time. I found this a compelling read as it hits on the emotional aspects of pair programming, and the impact it had on her. > Pairing requires being vulnerable, to another human being, for hours at a time. Intimacy, both physical and mental. I had to share space, decisions, thought processes, and often feelings with this person. And continued… > I had to confront a lot of my fears about myself. I had to learn to show someone else all the things I didn’t know, my limitations as a human and a software engineer. I doubt many developers that sit down to pair program for an extended period consider these factors, but they may very well feel them and not know the source. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT186: Weekly Thing #186 / Blockchain, Pairing, Sharding](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/186/), Must Read ## Saved the same week - [Pinata Dedicated IPFS Gateways](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7e437e1fbdbb/) (medium.com, May 13, 2021) - [Crazy New Ideas](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/238d5f733528/) (paulgraham.com, May 13, 2021) - [Market-Making on the Internet – Stratechery by Ben Thompson](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ee915c8b4262/) (stratechery.com, May 13, 2021) - [Decentralized autonomous organisations (DAOs) | ethereum.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ff828aa25c25/) (ethereum.org, May 13, 2021) - [Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Eastern District of Virginia — Signal](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/42a91778c683/) (signal.org, May 13, 2021) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.simplermachines.com/the-mortifying-ordeal-of-pairing-all-day/