I believe that Richard Feynman can teach ServiceNow developers (and any software developers) a great deal - about physics, sure; but also about our own discipline.

I'm something of a physics nut myself (insert Spider-Man meme here), which has led me to something of an obsession with Richard Feynman. His work, of course (I've even got a Feynman diagram tattooed on the back of my neck), but also his life and upbringing. I'm interested in how someone like Richard Feynman was raised, and what lessons can be taken about how to raise children to become people with his best qualities. Qualities like intellectual curiosity and earnest, unabashed, confident-yet-humble exploration.

I once talked about the importance of confident-yet-humble exploration of new topics on a podcast with Robert Fedoruk and Cory Wesley. You can jump straight to the relevant time-code in that episode if you're interested in hearing it, here. (https://perspectives.snc.guru). This is a topic about which I am deeply passionate. I strongly believe that if we had more people with the sort of confident and humble intellectual curiosity of Richard Feynman, the world would be a much better and better-off place.

So, to that end, here are a couple of lessons I've taken about software development, from the late great physicist, Richard Feynman.