Developer Tea

By Jonathan Cutrell

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Devin Brown
 Jan 16, 2021
Use the breaker app to hear the first 300+/- episodes...then continue here...much better app...but great, short content episodes with lots of inspiring content and advice.

Mikhail
 Aug 21, 2020
Short useful focused episodes on wide range of software engineering career/work topics.

Jonathan Arnold
 Jan 18, 2019
concise and informative

Description

Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: developertea@gmail.com

Episode Date
Career Advice for Surviving AI Outsourcing
May 15, 2025
Take Back Your Time - Volatility, Pliability, and Agency and Your Obligations.mp3
May 01, 2025
Iteration or Target State Planning
Apr 24, 2025
Three Principles of Preparedness - Mitigate Risks and Capitalize On Opportunities
Apr 17, 2025
Did I Get That Right? - A High Leverage Habit that Requires Virtually Zero Skill
Apr 11, 2025
Meta Models - Logarithmic Returns
Apr 02, 2025
Dimensional Reframing - Think Along a New Axis
Mar 26, 2025
Chesterton's Fence - Why You Should Think Twice Before Rewriting That Project
Mar 21, 2025
Reframing Areas of Growth to Your Manager
Mar 12, 2025
Owning and Requesting Forward-Framed Feedback
Mar 05, 2025
Work Modes Using Autonomy and Definition Clarity Quadrant - Manager Frameworks and Tools Series
Feb 27, 2025
Manager Frameworks and Models - Product Lifecycle Governance
Feb 24, 2025
Philosophical Frameworks that Inform Your Decisions (Without You Even Knowing It)
Feb 17, 2025
How Can You Prepare for High-Impact Unknown Events?
Feb 08, 2025
Misconceptions about Exceptions and Cultural Shifts - Invisible Inertia
Jan 29, 2025
Action Orientation and Making Faster Decisions
Jan 22, 2025
Match your Action to Intention - Pairing Five Whats with Five Whys
Jan 15, 2025
Upgrade Your Resolutions
Jan 11, 2025
Ten Years of Developer Tea
Jan 05, 2025
Better Low-Information Estimates - Putting the "Scientific" in SWAG
Dec 17, 2024
Agency - How The On Over In Model Can Help You Grow Your Career
Dec 11, 2024
Using ChatGPT for Career Experience Simulations - LLMs and Direct Simulations for Faster Career Experience Gains
Dec 03, 2024
Coaching Yourself: Career Coaching Personas for Everyday Engineers, Part Three - Shoulder Socrates
Nov 19, 2024
Coaching Yourself: Career Coaching Personas for Everyday Engineers, Part Two - The Overoptimizer
Nov 12, 2024
Coaching Yourself: Career Coaching Personas for Everyday Engineers, Part One - The Available Manager
Nov 04, 2024
The Highest Leverage Work You Do - Footing the Ladder
Oct 18, 2024
Prioritization is the Ultimate Skill
Oct 04, 2024
Career Growth Comes From Finding Low Hanging Fruit in the Gaps
Sep 19, 2024
How Culture Might Eat Your Values For Breakfast
Sep 05, 2024
The Tricky Parts of Merit Cycles
Aug 29, 2024
Limiting Factors - The Hidden Focus That Matters the Most
Aug 22, 2024
Improve Your Chances In Your Engineering Job Search Using the Scientific Method with Brian Pulliam
Aug 14, 2024
Improve Your Chances In Your Engineering Job Search Using the Scientific Method with Brian Pulliam
Aug 08, 2024
Focus On Outcomes By Resetting Your Base
Aug 02, 2024
Portraying Confidence in the Face of the Unknown
Jul 24, 2024
Now, Next, Later, Never - A Simple Daily Framework for Managing Information and Prioritization
Jul 17, 2024
Bias to Action As A Skill
Jul 05, 2024
Managing Using Core Indicators of Team Outcomes
Jun 03, 2024
Inverted Thinking As a Strategy To Combat Bias
May 15, 2024
Talking To Yourself for Better One-On-Ones
May 08, 2024
Interview Prep: Two Counterintuitive Tips
May 01, 2024
The Top Resumé Mistake I See, Plus the Best Resumé Advice I've Ever Received
Apr 25, 2024
Prioritization Using Critical Path Thinking
Apr 23, 2024
Cultural Antidotes - Clarity Isn't Just Honesty
Apr 17, 2024
Demystifying Culture and Values
Apr 10, 2024
Principles of Work - Shorten Your Feedback Loops
Apr 03, 2024
Principles of Work - Be Your Own Advocate
Mar 29, 2024
Practical Application of Information Theory
Mar 27, 2024
Revisiting Core Working Principles - Hyperfixation on Measurements and Communication Degradation
Mar 22, 2024
Revisiting Core Working Principles - Clarity as a Precursor to Focus and Strategy for Possibilities
Mar 20, 2024
Two Principle Categories To Judge Productivity Advice
Mar 16, 2024
Cost of Delay Curves and Classes of Service
Mar 14, 2024
Taking Personal Accountability for Systematic Failures
Mar 08, 2024
Stat Series: What Statistical Measure Are You Overusing? (And What to Do About It), Part Two
Mar 06, 2024
Stat Series: What Statistical Measure Are You Overusing? (And What to Do About It), Part One
Mar 01, 2024
Treat Your Time as A Product You Own
Feb 28, 2024
Von Restorff Isolation Effect and a Backfiring of Process
Feb 25, 2024
Perform a Career Premortem
Feb 22, 2024
Delegation, Ownership, Responsibility, and Agency
Feb 16, 2024
Apply Little's Law To What You Can Control
Feb 03, 2024
Finding Leverage by Escaping Functional Fixedness
Jan 26, 2024
Is it Actually Important to Question Assumptions?
Jan 16, 2024
9 Years - Persistence by Reducing Expectation
Jan 05, 2024
Good Plans, Bad Plans, and Road Trips
Dec 15, 2023
Negative and Positive Lollapalooza Effects
Dec 09, 2023
Fresh Eyes - How Anchoring Bias, Bandwagon Effect, Status Quo Bias, and Uniqueness Bias Interact When Joining New Groups
Dec 01, 2023
The Dark Side of Optimism Bias
Nov 27, 2023
Backlog Psychology - Breaking Out of the Habit Trap
Nov 09, 2023
Availability Heuristic and Substituting Hard Questions
Nov 03, 2023
Spend Your Time Intentionally Through Expectation Mapping
Oct 26, 2023
What is the Real Question? How To Be An Exceptional Listener
Oct 21, 2023
Backlog Psychology - Fix Your Broken Expectations
Oct 12, 2023
Backlog Psychology - Practice Requires Rhythmic Predictability
Oct 03, 2023
Backlog Psychology - Hyperbolic Discounting, Tech Debt, and Hacking Your Habits
Sep 21, 2023
Backlog Psychology - The Ziegarnik Effect - Why Limiting Work In Progress Protects Your Cognitive Load
Sep 17, 2023
Two Tips for Better Retros - Add Specificity, Respect Uncertainty
Sep 05, 2023
One Big Step Versus A Small Random Step
Aug 27, 2023
Interrogate Your Decision Making Rules
Aug 20, 2023
Schedule Carving
Aug 12, 2023
Long Term Scoreboard for Short Term Games
Aug 04, 2023
Slow Down and Start With One Goal
Jul 22, 2023
Using the Accountability Triangle When Diagnosing A Failure
Jul 13, 2023
Career Growth Starts With Improving Your Clarity
Jul 03, 2023
Tech Lag Over Tech Debt
Jun 26, 2023
Good Negotiation is About Collaborative Problem Solving
Jun 12, 2023
Tools To Deal With Layoff Anxiety
Jun 03, 2023
System Design - Limiting the Responsibilities Of A Given Actor
May 20, 2023
Focus on Process Orientation for Goal Setting
May 12, 2023
How to Give Better Feedback - My Single Biggest Piece of Advice to Increase the Effectiveness of Your Feedback
May 05, 2023
Planning is About Creating Clarity, Not Certainty
Apr 28, 2023
Process is Primarily for Managing Critical Moments
Apr 20, 2023
Taking Advantage of Hedonic Adaptation
Apr 11, 2023
Weber's Law and Contextual Framing
Apr 03, 2023
What Defines a Senior Developer? - You Won't Use All of Your Knowledge
Mar 31, 2023
The Pitfall of Control and Antidote of Trust
Mar 20, 2023
Working Balance - Confronting Reality with Optimism
Mar 17, 2023
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Choosing the Right Granularity Level
Mar 09, 2023
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Difficult Does Not Equate To Valuable
Mar 04, 2023
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Systematically Communicating Value
Feb 27, 2023
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Dynamic vs Static Understanding of Situations
Feb 24, 2023
Long Game, Short Game
Feb 22, 2023
The Rate of Change for Change Itself
Feb 15, 2023
Protecting Flow State - Setting Your Session Feedback And Goal
Feb 13, 2023
Protecting Flow State - Plan Now, Pause Later
Feb 10, 2023
Golden Advice - Always Leave Margin For Extra
Feb 06, 2023
Your Purpose is A Projection of Your Complex Identity
Feb 02, 2023
Demystifying Purpose by Focusing On Your Purpose For Today
Jan 31, 2023
Reframing Deficiencies as Strengths
Jan 28, 2023
Management Model of Ability and Will Applied to Self
Jan 23, 2023
Beginner Confidence
Jan 19, 2023
Comparing Cost Curves and Second Order Thinking
Jan 17, 2023
Spectrum of Buy-In For Behavior Change
Jan 11, 2023
Your Learning Investment Portfolio
Jan 09, 2023
Celebrating 8 Years - Plus, What it Feels Like to Be Wrong
Jan 05, 2023
Using Strategy, Tactics, and Operations to Achieve Intentions
Jan 03, 2023
Resolve To Make Important Asks In The New Year
Dec 23, 2022
Complexity As A Depreciating Asset
Dec 21, 2022
Your Biggest Opportunity is In Your Daily Influence
Dec 15, 2022
Get Acquainted With What Holds You Back
Dec 12, 2022
How Ordering Your Events in A Day Can Matter
Dec 09, 2022
Don't Fear AI Taking the Coding Jobs (Fixed Audio)
Dec 07, 2022
Don't Fear AI Taking the Coding Jobs
Dec 05, 2022
Focus On Activities With Asymmetrical Upside
Nov 30, 2022
Misjudging Others Attention On Us
Nov 28, 2022
An Outsider Exercise in Gratitude
Nov 24, 2022
You Know The Right Decision, Now Reduce The Friction
Nov 21, 2022
Using Observational Techniques to Find Your Personal Values
Nov 16, 2022
Avoid Defining Success Outside Your Locus of Control
Nov 14, 2022
The Toxic Laziness of Overwork Culture
Nov 10, 2022
Start With Precise Communication
Nov 07, 2022
The Error of Discounting the Unexpected
Nov 02, 2022
Looking at What Wasn't Done
Oct 31, 2022
Success is Born From Luck and Action
Oct 26, 2022
Build Environments That Produce Habits
Oct 24, 2022
Design Your Low Stakes Environment As A Mirror of Your High Stakes Environment
Oct 20, 2022
Better Goals - Deriving Values from Personal Investment and Risk Tolerance
Oct 18, 2022
Better Goals - Finding Cohesion Between Your Long and Short Term Goals
Oct 12, 2022
Better Goals - Two Guidelines for Better Outcomes
Oct 10, 2022
5 Powerful Questions To Design Your Time More Effectively
Oct 05, 2022
Short Term Tactics, Long Term Principles
Oct 04, 2022
Revolutionize Your Most Important Meetings with Powerful Questions
Sep 28, 2022
Diffuse and Focused Thinking
Sep 26, 2022
Why It's Hard to Do Nothing
Sep 21, 2022
Demystifying Decision-Making - Success is Not Just About Making Good Decisions
Sep 19, 2022
What You Have In Common With the Smartest Person In the World
Sep 15, 2022
A Way Out of Overwhelm
Sep 12, 2022
Understand Position and Interest To Make Better Collaborative Decisions
Sep 09, 2022
Future Thinking Is Not Planning For A Single Course of Events
Sep 05, 2022
Balancing Decision Frames
Aug 31, 2022
Copy of How Feedback Loops Shape Our World (Fixed Audio)
Aug 31, 2022
Reframing Every Decision As A Tradeoff
Aug 29, 2022
Judging Quality of Decisions Instead of Outcomes in Performance Reviews
Aug 27, 2022
How Feedback Loops Shape Our World
Aug 22, 2022
Solve Specific Problems by Composing General Solutions
Aug 19, 2022
Common Excuses for Not Setting Goals
Aug 15, 2022
Better Process to Match Intentions to Actions
Aug 12, 2022
Change Through the Lens of Adjustment and Maintenance
Aug 10, 2022
Built to Change
Aug 06, 2022
Deconstructing Status Meetings
Aug 03, 2022
Lower Cognitive Load - Pick Your Tools, Then Do Your Work
Jul 27, 2022
Lower Cognitive Load - Primary Activities, Modes, and Cues
Jul 25, 2022
Lower Cognitive Load - Limit Everything In Progress
Jul 22, 2022
Lower Cognitive Load - Principle of Least Surprise
Jul 20, 2022
Applying Systems Thinking for Better Thoughts
Jul 13, 2022
Outside View or Anecdote? The Right Answer is Both
Jul 11, 2022
Protect Transparency On Your Team
Jul 08, 2022
Meeting Red Flags - Problems In Your Meetings That Signal Issues In Your Culture
Jul 07, 2022
Better Meetings: Who Is the Audience?
Jun 30, 2022
Better Meetings - What Kind of Meeting, What Kind of Goal?
Jun 27, 2022
Your Career Growth Doesn't Just Depend On Your Competency
Jun 23, 2022
Two Questions Focused On Unearthing Hidden Information In Yourself
Jun 21, 2022
Asking a Taboo Question
Jun 15, 2022
Reframe Play as a Principle
Jun 13, 2022
Interrogating Beliefs and Treasuring Those Who Disagree With You
Jun 08, 2022
Two Forks in the Road On the Path Towards Optimization and Productivity
Jun 06, 2022
Techniques for People Struggling to Define Their Values
Jun 01, 2022
Using Core Tools and Activities for Grounded Productivity
May 31, 2022
Productivity, But Only On Paper
May 25, 2022
The Only Productivity Discussion Worth Having
May 23, 2022
Make Room to Expect the Exceptions
May 20, 2022
You Need Better Inputs to improve Your Options
May 18, 2022
Tradeoffs Of Control Optimized To Serve Your Goals
May 11, 2022
Scheduling Time To Go The Extra Mile
May 09, 2022
Premortems for Personal Goals
May 04, 2022
Compare, Carefully
May 02, 2022
Busting False Coupling and Finding Positive Negotiation Positions
Apr 27, 2022
Making Space for Intuition in Decision-making
Apr 25, 2022
Blueprint for Better Intermediate Decisionmaking
Apr 20, 2022
Finding Perspective On Purpose - Make it Visible, Make it Clear
Apr 18, 2022
The Principle of Isolation
Apr 14, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager - Reiterate and Reflect for Better Communication
Apr 11, 2022
Ambiguous Target Decisions and Noise
Apr 06, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager - The Assumption of Motivation
Apr 04, 2022
The Big Picture Pyramid
Mar 30, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager - Two Questions to Find Guidance If You Don't Have A Manager
Mar 28, 2022
Swizec Teller and the Senior Engineering Mindset, Part Two
Mar 23, 2022
Swizec Teller and the Senior Engineering Mindset, Part One
Mar 21, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager - One-On-One Frameworks: Focus and Fears
Mar 18, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager - Investing in a Healthier Manager-to-Report Relationship
Mar 14, 2022
Better Report, Better Manager Series: Calibration Conversation - 3 Questions to Ask Your Manager ASAP
Mar 11, 2022
No More Status Meetings - A Forcing Function For Better Team Information Flow
Mar 07, 2022
Two Principles To Improve Your Software Design Decisions
Mar 02, 2022
Clearly Define What Your Toolset Can't Do
Feb 28, 2022
When Sense-making and Statistics Collide
Feb 24, 2022
Opportunities of Convergence and the Cost of Divergence
Feb 22, 2022
Viewing Teams Through the Lens of Trust
Feb 17, 2022
3 Habits For Your First 30 Days As A New Engineer On A Team (Corrected Audio)
Feb 14, 2022
Your Media, Your Message
Feb 10, 2022
Two Shifts to Change Our Working Mindset from Static to Dynamic
Feb 08, 2022
Taking Advantage of Uniquely Human Capabilities
Feb 03, 2022
Seek Context to Offset Prediction Errors
Feb 01, 2022
Excessive Cohesion - When We Fill In Gaps to Make Things Make Sense
Jan 27, 2022
Some of My Productivity Mechanisms
Jan 24, 2022
Assimilating Advice - Dealing with Information Overload
Jan 20, 2022
Help, I'm Blocked! Four Common Root Causes for Developers Getting Blocked
Jan 18, 2022
Julian Gutman, CPO at Patreon, Part Two
Jan 12, 2022
Julian Gutman, CPO at Patreon, Part One
Jan 10, 2022
Purpose Oriented Resolutions, Part Two, and 7 Years of Developer Tea!
Jan 05, 2022
Developing Purpose Oriented Resolutions
Jan 03, 2022
Your Only Challenge Is To Focus
Dec 30, 2021
Taking Back Ownership Over Your Priorities
Dec 28, 2021
3 Cognitive Pitfalls of Mental Models
Dec 23, 2021
Using Proactive Decision Tools To Reduce Reactive Decision Error
Dec 20, 2021
Two Perspective-Sharpening Tools For Your New Year's Resolution Making
Dec 17, 2021
Two Tools for Improving Your Closest Relationships
Dec 15, 2021
Welcome Back Interview with Ernie Miller, Head of Engineering at Monograph, Part One (Fixed Audio)
Dec 14, 2021
Input Quadrant - A Tool for Better Retrospectives
Dec 13, 2021
Welcome Back Interview with Ernie Miller, Head of Engineering at Monograph, Part Two
Dec 08, 2021
Welcome Back Interview with Ernie Miller, Head of Engineering at Monograph, Part One
Dec 06, 2021
The Focus IS the Work
Dec 01, 2021
Dealing with Inevitable But Unpredictable Events
Nov 29, 2021
Think in Composition
Nov 24, 2021
Substitute Better Questions
Nov 23, 2021
Focusing On Fundamentals Is Not Repetition, It is Refinement
Nov 18, 2021
Metamodeling and Steering Systems for Self Improvement
Nov 16, 2021
When Pressure Turns To Poison
Nov 11, 2021
Less Confidence, More Bravery
Nov 08, 2021
Habits, Languages, Processes, and Other Behavior Engines
Nov 02, 2021
Mindful Job Search: Myths and Psychology of Interviewing
Oct 27, 2021
Mindful Job Search: Is it really time for me to quit my job?
Oct 25, 2021
Can You Really Pick the Right Tool for Every Job?
Oct 20, 2021
A Statistical Case for Iteration Over Perfect Preparation
Oct 18, 2021
Avoid Unnecessary Prediction
Oct 15, 2021
Give Random a Chance
Oct 13, 2021
Two Illusions of Agreement
Oct 07, 2021
Limit Your Options By Limiting Your Obligations
Oct 04, 2021
Feature Exploitation
Sep 29, 2021
How Averages Can Trick You and Obscure the Truth
Sep 27, 2021
Dominik Zane, Founder of Around - Part Two
Sep 22, 2021
Dominik Zane, Founder of Around - Part One
Sep 20, 2021
Inner and Outer Layers of Context
Sep 16, 2021
Finding the Good in the Negative - Ask, "what do I do about this?"
Sep 13, 2021
Two Razors for More Efficient Decision-making
Sep 09, 2021
Use Your Expectations As a Tool
Sep 06, 2021
Flexibility is a Resource to Gather When You Least Need It
Sep 02, 2021
Deconstructing Purpose
Aug 30, 2021
Two Variations of Confirmation Bias
Aug 25, 2021
How You Shape Your World With Macro and Micro Stories
Aug 23, 2021
Friday Refill: Always Keep Your Tank Full
Aug 20, 2021
The Most Critical Career Mistake You Can Make
Aug 18, 2021
Failure is an Opportunity for Responsibility
Aug 16, 2021
Friday Refill: What Are Your Ideals?
Aug 13, 2021
4 Questions To Understand Your Long Term Career Trajectory
Aug 11, 2021
Joel Beasley from Modern CTO, Part Two
Aug 09, 2021
Friday Refill: Give Tomorrow-You Advice from Today
Aug 06, 2021
Joel Beasley from Modern CTO
Aug 05, 2021
Uncomfortable Silence: What If You Do Nothing?
Aug 03, 2021
Friday Refill: Imaginary Comparisons
Jul 30, 2021
Implicit Hypotheses
Jul 28, 2021
Model Manager - What We Don't Manage
Jul 26, 2021
Friday Refill: Waiting and Replaying
Jul 23, 2021
Reframing Discipline and Elastic Habits
Jul 21, 2021
Model Manager: Human Behavior is the Primary Output of Engineering Processes
Jul 19, 2021
Friday Refill: Focusing On Mastery Will Not Limit Your Options
Jul 16, 2021
Compounding Time In Your Favor
Jul 14, 2021
The Bowl of Mediocrity
Jul 12, 2021
Friday Refill - Stay Mindful During Phases of Execution
Jul 09, 2021
Step One Always Goes On Your Calendar
Jul 08, 2021
The Tension Between Purpose and Mindfulness
Jul 06, 2021
Friday Refill: Intuition Over Memorization
Jul 02, 2021
Local and Global Rationality
Jul 01, 2021
Skill-Building Is Not One Dimensional
Jun 29, 2021
Balancing Entropy and Focus
Jun 23, 2021
Decision-making Skills: Two Types of Probabilistic Thinking
Jun 21, 2021
Using Cognitive Dissonance as a Tool
Jun 16, 2021
Non-Linear Learning and Progress
Jun 14, 2021
Friday Refill - Clarified Intentions and Flexible Goals
Jun 11, 2021
Too Serious to Succeed
Jun 09, 2021
Make Your Obstacles Irrelevant
Jun 07, 2021
Friday Refill: Growth, Uncomfortability, and the Unknown
Jun 04, 2021
Finding Resonance
Jun 02, 2021
Reframe Your Plateaus
May 31, 2021
Friday Refill: Your Baseline Determines Your Leverage
May 28, 2021
Ethan Kross, Author of Chatter - Part Two
May 26, 2021
Ethan Kross, Author of Chatter - Part One
May 24, 2021
Friday Refill: Inviting Growth Into Your Regular Schedule
May 21, 2021
Becoming Your Best Coach - Questioning Your Self
May 19, 2021
Sources of Truth
May 17, 2021
Friday Refill - One Thing at a Time
May 14, 2021
Katy Milkman, Author of How to Change and Host of Choiceology, Part Two
May 12, 2021
(Fixed Audio) Katy Milkman, Author of How to Change and Host of Choiceology, Part One
May 10, 2021
Friday Refill - Seeking a Different Inside View
May 07, 2021
Detaching to Seek an Outside View
May 05, 2021
Conflating Uniqueness with Value
May 03, 2021
Refill Friday - Best Practices and Asking When
Apr 30, 2021
Welcome Back Ali Spittel - Part Two
Apr 29, 2021
Welcome Back Ali Spittel - Part One
Apr 27, 2021
Friday Refill - Complexity Inversion (Fixed)
Apr 23, 2021
Friday Refill - Complexity Inversion
Apr 23, 2021
The Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part Two
Apr 21, 2021
The Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part One
Apr 19, 2021
Introduce Intentional Asymmetry
Apr 16, 2021
Narrative Complexity
Apr 14, 2021
Changing Work Environments and Availability Bias
Apr 12, 2021
Friday Refill: Making Limited Work Look Good on a Resumé
Apr 09, 2021
Minding the Observer Effect as We Transition Together
Apr 08, 2021
Find Your Values in the Dark
Apr 06, 2021
Friday Refill: Seek Leverage and Access
Apr 02, 2021
Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part Two
Mar 31, 2021
Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part One
Mar 29, 2021
Friday Refill - Stop Your Weekend Half-Thinking
Mar 26, 2021
Ban the Heroics On Your Team
Mar 24, 2021
Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition (Corrected)
Mar 23, 2021
Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition
Mar 22, 2021
Friday Refill: How Patience Pays Off
Mar 19, 2021
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part Two
Mar 17, 2021
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part One
Mar 16, 2021
Friday Refills - Stop Predicting Your Priorities
Mar 12, 2021
Superpowered Imagination
Mar 11, 2021
Biases of Attention
Mar 08, 2021
Friday Refill - Divergent and Convergent Meetings
Mar 05, 2021
Clean Up Your Goals
Mar 04, 2021
Lego Problems - Modes of Operation on Component-Driven Problems
Mar 01, 2021
Friday Refill - Anchor Behaviors
Feb 26, 2021
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part Two
Feb 24, 2021
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part One
Feb 22, 2021
Friday Refills - Rest is Not an Optional Luxury
Feb 19, 2021
Post-Pandemic Work and Life as an Engineer - Skills for a Different Future
Feb 17, 2021
Post-Pandemic Life and Work as an Engineer: Back to Normal-ish
Feb 15, 2021
Self Distancing
Feb 12, 2021
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part Two
Feb 10, 2021
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part One
Feb 08, 2021
Friday Refills - Don't Cram the Information Firehose... Filter and Focus!
Feb 05, 2021
Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer - Remote Everything?
Feb 03, 2021
Series kickoff - Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer
Feb 01, 2021
Friday Refill: Consider an Alternate Story
Jan 29, 2021
Paying the Tax for Our Decisions
Jan 27, 2021
The Downside to Inaction
Jan 25, 2021
Friday Refill - Ignore Motivation, Focus On Removing Obstacles
Jan 22, 2021
The Bucket Model
Jan 21, 2021
The Shape of Work
Jan 18, 2021
Why We Believe Ourselves (Even When We're Proven Wrong)
Jan 13, 2021
Designing Your Skill Portfolio
Jan 11, 2021
Optionality Sweet Spot
Jan 06, 2021
The Dangers of Measuring Side Effects
Jan 04, 2021
If Actions Speak Louder Than Words, What Are Yours Saying?
Dec 31, 2020
Imagining the End
Dec 28, 2020
Making Things Invisible
Dec 23, 2020
The Paradox of Transcendence
Dec 21, 2020
Misusing Exceptions in Code and in Life
Dec 16, 2020
Refactor Your Labeling Techniques
Dec 14, 2020
Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 2)
Dec 09, 2020
Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 1)
Dec 07, 2020
Teaching in Public w/ Kent C. Dodds (part 2)
Dec 02, 2020
Teaching in Public w/ Kent C. Dodds (part 1)
Nov 30, 2020
Building Products w/ Keith Pitt (part 2)
Nov 25, 2020
Building Products w/ Keith Pitt (part 1)
Nov 23, 2020
Maintainability w/ Robby Russell (part 2)
Nov 18, 2020
Maintainability w/ Robby Russell (part 1)
Nov 16, 2020
Leading A Team During Difficult Times w/ Venkat Venkataramani (part 2)
Nov 11, 2020
Leading A Team During Difficult Times w/ Venkat Venkataramani (part 1)
Nov 09, 2020
Exactly How Different Are You From Average?
Nov 06, 2020
Think About Invisible Things More Often
Nov 04, 2020
Why It's Harder to Accept That You're Wrong if You Have More Experience
Oct 28, 2020
Explicitly Choose What You Won't Do
Oct 26, 2020
4 Ways Smart People Make Bad Decisions
Oct 21, 2020
Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 2)
Oct 19, 2020
Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 1)
Oct 14, 2020
Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 1)
Oct 08, 2020
Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 2)
Oct 08, 2020
Self Confidence is Accepting Your Weakness
Oct 05, 2020
Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (part 2)
Sep 30, 2020
Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (Part 1)
Sep 28, 2020
Interview w/ David Marquet
Sep 25, 2020
Give Up Control, On Purpose
Sep 21, 2020
Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 2)
Sep 16, 2020
Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 1)
Sep 14, 2020
Intention, Action and Result
Sep 10, 2020
Complexity Is A Scarce Resource
Sep 08, 2020
5 Stages Of Relationships With Mistakes
Sep 02, 2020
How Zero Sum and False Dichotomy Thinking is Distorting Your Decisions
Aug 31, 2020
Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 2)
Aug 26, 2020
Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 1)
Aug 24, 2020
4 Things You Have to Leave Behind as a Beginning Engineer
Aug 19, 2020
Building Empathy To Focus on Downstream Effects
Aug 17, 2020
The Unique Advantages of Being a Beginner
Aug 13, 2020
Explicit Heuristics and Cheap Tests
Aug 10, 2020
The Critical Importance of Labels
Aug 05, 2020
Using Your Brain Without Thinking
Aug 04, 2020
Interview w/ Aaron Upright (Part 2)
Jul 29, 2020
Interview w/ Aaron Upright
Jul 28, 2020
Are You Really An Exception, Or Are You Inflexible?
Jul 22, 2020
Future Focused Feedback
Jul 20, 2020
Stop Pushing Down Your Emotions
Jul 17, 2020
Small Problems and Principled Engineering
Jul 14, 2020
The Stories Your Code Tells
Jul 08, 2020
Offensive and Defensive Software Engineering Strategies
Jul 06, 2020
Your Present is Soon Your Past
Jul 01, 2020
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rejecting a Duel Identity
Jun 29, 2020
Uncomfortability, the Ultimate Teacher
Jun 26, 2020
Baseline Happiness and Delayed Achievements
Jun 25, 2020
Finding Underlying Motivations to Stay Resilient In Your Career
Jun 22, 2020
Strategies for Overcoming Mental Blocks
Jun 20, 2020
What Will You Say When You Don't know?
Jun 18, 2020
Wishes, Beliefs, and Knowledge
Jun 15, 2020
Listener Question from Saul: How Do I Communicate with Non-Technical Decision Makers?
Jun 12, 2020
How Questions Influence Pathways to Solutions
Jun 10, 2020
4 Points Of Advice For Brand New Developers
Jun 08, 2020
What Does It Take To Change Your Mind?
Jun 03, 2020
Play, Stakes, and Learning
Jun 01, 2020
Leveraging Our Emotional Goals
May 27, 2020
Mental Models for Finding Balance
May 25, 2020
High Certainty, High Value Defaults
May 22, 2020
3 Ways to Be a Better PR Author
May 20, 2020
4 Ways to Be a Better PR Reviewer
May 18, 2020
What is Code, to Our Evolved Mind?
May 15, 2020
Correlation, Causation, Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
May 13, 2020
Context-Dependent Decisions and Linear Heuristic Mental Models
May 12, 2020
Productive Self-Sabotage
May 08, 2020
Simple Prioritization Visualization
May 06, 2020
There Is No, "Way We've Always Done It"
May 04, 2020
When To Walk Away From (and come back to) A Problem
May 01, 2020
Default Problem Solving Modes
Apr 29, 2020
What Orders Have You Inherited?
Apr 27, 2020
Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 2)
Apr 24, 2020
Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 1)
Apr 22, 2020
Protecting Uncertainty
Apr 20, 2020
Learning Isn't A List of Items Your Can Check Off
Apr 17, 2020
Consider Your Cues
Apr 13, 2020
How Little We Really Know
Apr 11, 2020
Improving Through Bad Ideas and Silly Questions
Apr 08, 2020
Forcing Functions
Apr 06, 2020
Growth, Uncomfortability, and Deliberate Practice
Apr 03, 2020
Practical Steps for Reframing Problems
Apr 01, 2020
Take Advantage of What You Already Have
Mar 30, 2020
Stress and Tolerance
Mar 27, 2020
Architecting Change - Interpolation
Mar 25, 2020
When Do Long-Term Models and Habits Betray You?
Mar 23, 2020
The Overreaction Paradox
Mar 20, 2020
Hidden Environment Inputs - Mindful Remote Work
Mar 18, 2020
Interview w/ Carl Yates Perry (Part 2)
Mar 16, 2020
Interview w/ Carl Yates Perry - Part 1
Mar 13, 2020
Flattening the Cost of Change Curve
Mar 11, 2020
4 Reasons You Will Never Pick the "Right Tool For the Job"
Mar 09, 2020
Four Questions for the Weekend
Mar 07, 2020
Breaking Your Own Rules Accelerates Bad Habit Formation
Mar 04, 2020
Redefine Your Career Search Rules
Mar 02, 2020
Functional Autonomy and Finding Meaning in the Small Things Today
Feb 28, 2020
Your Influence is Catalyzed By What is Influencing You
Feb 26, 2020
Your Time is An Account With An Unknown Balance
Feb 25, 2020
Don't Make the Problem Fit the Model
Feb 21, 2020
Implicit Models and Processes
Feb 19, 2020
Measuring Freedom to Change
Feb 17, 2020
Embracing Confusion
Feb 14, 2020
Thought Experiment - Rejecting Your Intuitive Solution
Feb 12, 2020
You Don't Have to Be a Slave to Self-Improvement
Feb 10, 2020
Getting Stacked Value From your Daily Activities
Feb 07, 2020
Defining Your Reference Points
Feb 05, 2020
Engineering Your Habits Like Interfaces
Feb 03, 2020
Plans Should Be Functions, Not Documents
Jan 31, 2020
What Are your Fundamentals?
Jan 29, 2020
Getting On The Right Level When Solving Problems Collaboratively
Jan 27, 2020
Management Anti-Pattern - Detail Abstraction
Jan 24, 2020
Management Anti-Patterns - False Homogeneity
Jan 22, 2020
Management Anti-Patterns - Implicit Assignment of Responsibility
Jan 20, 2020
Two Biases that Can Affect Your Work and Relationships
Jan 17, 2020
You'll Never Have All of the Information
Jan 16, 2020
Productivity Isn't About How Much You Get done
Jan 13, 2020
3 Guidelines for Happier Work with Designers
Jan 10, 2020
Connecting Tasks to Operating Modes
Jan 09, 2020
Success and Cumulative Advantage
Jan 06, 2020
A Key Misconception About Resolutions
Jan 03, 2020
Holiday Re-Air: Interview w/ Gabriel Weinberg (part 2)
Dec 27, 2019
Holiday Re-Air: Interview w/ Gabriel Weinberg
Dec 23, 2019
Simplifying
Dec 20, 2019
What We Do With a Lack of Information
Dec 18, 2019
Disagreeing Better, On Purpose
Dec 16, 2019
Two More Guidelines for Better Feedback Loops (Part Three)
Dec 13, 2019
Two Guidelines for Better Feedback Loops (Part Two)
Dec 11, 2019
Better Feedback Loops (Part One) - Validation and Cycle Time
Dec 09, 2019
Justifying Feature Work with User Roles and Motivations
Dec 06, 2019
Hypocognition and the Importance of Concepts
Dec 04, 2019
Colliding Titles and Roles
Dec 02, 2019
Managing Requests, Making Commitments
Nov 29, 2019
The Benefit of Our Predecessors
Nov 27, 2019
The Illusion of Balancing Priorities
Nov 25, 2019
Commit To Actions, Measure Outcomes
Nov 22, 2019
Check Your Leverage
Nov 20, 2019
Meetings Can Trick Your Emotions
Nov 18, 2019
Preserving Subcultural Language
Nov 16, 2019
Different Behaviors with the Same Values - Practicing Modes
Nov 13, 2019
How Small Behaviors Cascade into Life-Changing Results
Nov 11, 2019
Focusing On Improving One Value At A Time
Nov 08, 2019
Tracing Chained Motivations
Nov 06, 2019
Productivity In The Face of Ambiguity with Functional Assumptions
Nov 04, 2019
Ask Better Questions
Nov 01, 2019
Interview with Anil Dash (Part 2)
Oct 30, 2019
Interview with Anil Dash (Part 1)
Oct 28, 2019
Seeking a Disconnected Perspective
Oct 25, 2019
Balancing Accountability and Empathy
Oct 23, 2019
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Multiplying Value by Thinking in Systems
Oct 21, 2019
Messages in Object Oriented Programming
Oct 18, 2019
Be Present While Thinking on the Past and Future
Oct 16, 2019
Leverage As A Career Heuristic
Oct 14, 2019
Don't Use Transparency As a Weapon
Oct 11, 2019
Steps to Become a Terrible Developer
Oct 09, 2019
The Ocean of Choice Between Can and Will
Oct 07, 2019
Priming Effects
Oct 04, 2019
Dealing With Overwhelm
Oct 03, 2019
Admitting When You Don't Know
Sep 30, 2019
From Explicit to Implicit: When Our Mental Energy is Wasted
Sep 28, 2019
Implicit to Explicit: Management Systems
Sep 25, 2019
Implicit to Explicit: Perception and Emotions
Sep 23, 2019
Moving Implicit Systems to Be More Explicit
Sep 20, 2019
Progress by Habit, Perception by Exception
Sep 18, 2019
Product Mindset w/ Jessica Hall (Part 2)
Sep 16, 2019
Product Mindset w/ Jessica Hall (Part 1)
Sep 13, 2019
How To Be A Bad Manager
Sep 11, 2019
Imagining a Clearer Reality
Sep 09, 2019
Digging Up Your Purpose
Sep 06, 2019
The Nuances of Behavior and Research
Sep 04, 2019
Advice I Would Have Rejected Ten Years Ago
Sep 03, 2019
Your Purpose is Not a Point in the Future
Aug 30, 2019
Listen To This In You're Feeling Stuck
Aug 28, 2019
Improve Your Team by Rejecting These Bad Assumptions
Aug 26, 2019
Using Pre-Mortems to Find the Opposition to Our Focus
Aug 23, 2019
Taking Advantage of Your Time as a Student
Aug 21, 2019
Beating Boredom in Your Career
Aug 19, 2019
Short Term Decisions, Long Term Mindset
Aug 16, 2019
Beating Dogma And Choosing The Right Tools
Aug 14, 2019
Reaping Rewards by Expecting Success
Aug 12, 2019
Going Beyond Simply Fixing Failures
Aug 09, 2019
How to Engineer More Epiphany Moments in Your Day-to-Day
Aug 05, 2019
3x3 - Misconceptions About Senior Engineers
Aug 02, 2019
3x3 - Relating Better With Difficult Coworkers
Jul 31, 2019
3x3 - Uncovering Hidden Information
Jul 29, 2019
Belief Substitution
Jul 26, 2019
Career Decisions and Penalty Kicks
Jul 24, 2019
How to Affect Organizational Change
Jul 22, 2019
Every Decision is an Opportunity Tradeoff
Jul 19, 2019
The Dangerous Characteristics of 10x Engineers
Jul 17, 2019
You're Not So Important - Why Our Ego Drives Anxiety in the Workspace
Jul 15, 2019
Finding Beginner's Luck Again
Jul 12, 2019
Part 3: An Elegant Puzzle Book Discussion w/ Will Larson
Jul 10, 2019
Part 2: An Elegant Puzzle Book Discussion w/ Will Larson
Jul 08, 2019
Part 1: An Elegant Puzzle Book Discussion w/ Will Larson
Jul 05, 2019
What You Feed Will Grow
Jul 03, 2019
Mid-Year Resolutions
Jul 01, 2019
How Do I Choose a Starting Point for Best Practice?
Jun 30, 2019
Reversing Adversarial Dynamics in Interviews
Jun 26, 2019
Accelerate Your Career with Pattern Matching
Jun 24, 2019
Individual Contributor Career Growth w/ Matt Klein (part 2)
Jun 21, 2019
Individual Contributor Career Growth w/ Matt Klein (part 1)
Jun 19, 2019
The Connection Between Imagination, Confidence and Performance
Jun 17, 2019
How Can Two Rational People Disagree?
Jun 12, 2019
Test Driven Meetings - Measuring Outputs and Side Effects
Jun 10, 2019
3 Assumptions That Can Hurt Your Job Search
Jun 03, 2019
Mental Models w/ Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo (part 2)
May 31, 2019
Mental Models w/ Gabriel Weinberg (part 1)
May 29, 2019
Great Code is Marked by Flexibility
May 27, 2019
Crafting Your Work By Your Strengths
May 24, 2019
Make Your Problems Smaller
May 22, 2019
Three Things I Wish I Learned Earlier in My Career As A Software Developer
May 20, 2019
3 Red Flags that You're Heading for Burnout
May 17, 2019
3 Principles for Your Job Search
May 15, 2019
Mental Simulations - Information (A)Symmetry
May 13, 2019
Mental Simulations - Persona Perspectives
May 10, 2019
Metal Simulations - Artificial Constraints
May 08, 2019
The Fear : Value Connection
May 06, 2019
What Kind of Decisions Are You Optimizing For?
May 03, 2019
Contingencies and Planning for Failure
May 01, 2019
Three Career-Changing Perspective Shifts When Preparing to Start A New Job
Apr 29, 2019
Uncovering Your Unconscious With Flagged Behaviors
Apr 26, 2019
Meetings - Good, Bad, Or Just Complex?
Apr 24, 2019
Modeling Decisions as Dynamic Functions
Apr 22, 2019
Thinking in Bets w/ Annie Duke (part 2)
Apr 19, 2019
Thinking in Bets w/ Annie Duke (part 1)
Apr 17, 2019
Uncovering Deeper Motivations and Goals
Apr 15, 2019
Ambiguous Goals, Concrete Actions
Apr 12, 2019
Focusing Career Progress
Apr 10, 2019
Fail Mode
Apr 08, 2019
Feedback Shouldn't Be Scary
Apr 03, 2019
Mental Accounting
Apr 01, 2019
Headroom
Mar 29, 2019
Seek to Understand Rather than Persuade Others Perspectives
Mar 27, 2019
Bonus Episode - Soft Skills Engineering Meets Developer Tea
Mar 26, 2019
Habits and Replacement Behaviors for Interrupting Triggers
Mar 22, 2019
Interview w/ Ali Spittel (part 2)
Mar 20, 2019
Interview w/ Ali Spittel (part 1)
Mar 18, 2019
Witness Protection Program
Mar 15, 2019
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Getting to Code Quickly and Model Thinking
Mar 13, 2019
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Clarity, Brevity and Context
Mar 09, 2019
Interview w/ Bryan Helmig - CTO at Zapier (Part 2)
Mar 06, 2019
Interview w/ Bryan Helmig - CTO at Zapier (Part 1)
Mar 04, 2019
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Seeking Feedback
Mar 01, 2019
Stress Response and Anger as a Secondary Emotion
Feb 27, 2019
Problem Solving Intuitions - Additive, Subtractive and Reorganizational Thinking
Feb 25, 2019
Starting Your Work Day with Autonomy
Feb 22, 2019
Making Decisions - Fighting Fear and Time Warping
Feb 20, 2019
How We Construct Software, Part 4b: Code and Communication
Feb 19, 2019
How We Construct Software, Part 4a: Code and Communication
Feb 15, 2019
How We Construct Software - Part Three (Decision Variance)
Feb 13, 2019
How We Construct Software - Part Two (Beliefs and Models)
Feb 11, 2019
How We Construct Software - Part 1 (Substitute Questions)
Feb 08, 2019
Beating Procrastination
Feb 06, 2019
Poisoning Retrospectives With Hindsight Bias
Feb 04, 2019
When Best Practices Backfire - The Peltzman Effect
Jan 30, 2019
Replace Your Implicit Questions to Break Out of Incrementalism
Jan 28, 2019
Self-Awareness and Intellectual Honesty
Jan 25, 2019
Treating Your Brain as More Than a Machine
Jan 23, 2019
Improving Confidence and Neutralizing Threats Through Detached Perception
Jan 21, 2019
High-Churn Code Should Be Your Cleanest Code
Jan 18, 2019
Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 2)
Jan 16, 2019
Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 1)
Jan 14, 2019
Adding tests to a big untested codebase - Where do I start?
Jan 11, 2019
5 Tips for Improving Your Principles of Experimentation
Jan 09, 2019
Visualize Your Goals in Details
Jan 07, 2019
Expectations vs. Reality
Jan 04, 2019
Interview w/ Ben Orenstein (pt. 2)
Jan 02, 2019
Interview w/ Ben Orenstein (Part 1)
Dec 31, 2018
Interview w/ Michael Chan (pt. 2)
Dec 28, 2018
Interview w/ Michael Chan (pt. 1)
Dec 27, 2018
Why Rules Apply Especially to Exceptions
Dec 14, 2018
3 Practical Steps for Avoiding Narrative Biases
Dec 12, 2018
Proof of Complexity and Seeking Simplicity
Dec 10, 2018
The Zen Developer - What Are You Pushing On?
Dec 07, 2018
Bad Bugs - Avoiding Burnout When Solving Elusive Problems
Dec 05, 2018
Practical Tips for Minding the Details
Dec 03, 2018
Practicing Non-Attachment as a Developer
Nov 30, 2018
A Discussion On Falsehoods Developers Believe
Nov 28, 2018
Three Overconfidence Smells
Nov 26, 2018
A Challenge Towards Gratitude
Nov 23, 2018
Observing Your Stress Responses
Nov 21, 2018
How Relative Comparisons Affect Our Decisions
Nov 19, 2018
Interview w/ Julian Shapiro (part 2)
Nov 16, 2018
Interview w/ Julian Shapiro (part 1)
Nov 14, 2018
Inhibition, Fear, and Two Mindsets for Moving Forward in the Face of Uncertainty
Nov 12, 2018
Make Programming Principles More Useful with These 3 New Angles
Nov 09, 2018
Could We All Be Right? Event vs. Construct Theories
Nov 07, 2018
3 Rules for Designing Lasting Habits
Nov 06, 2018
Exit Points - Where Productivity Turns Into Procrastination
Nov 05, 2018
3 Counterintuitive Rules of Communication with Co-workers
Nov 02, 2018
3 Considerations of Symmetry in Code
Oct 31, 2018
Learning React - Part 2 (Three lessons from the perpetual path)
Oct 30, 2018
Learning React - Part 1 (More than just tooling)
Oct 29, 2018
How to Argue Better
Oct 22, 2018
Three Perspective Shifts for Philosophical Engineering
Oct 19, 2018
Harmony Over Perfection
Oct 18, 2018
Backwards Reasoning
Oct 15, 2018
Elected Distractions
Oct 12, 2018
Interview w/ Trevor Hinesley (Part 2)
Oct 10, 2018
Interview w/ Trevor Hinesley (Part 1)
Oct 08, 2018
Exploring the Dreyfus Model
Oct 05, 2018
How Code Evolves Through Human Influence
Oct 03, 2018
Why Great Developer Still Google Their Errors
Oct 01, 2018
5 Learning Anti-Patterns
Sep 28, 2018
Three Co-Worker Anti-Patterns
Sep 26, 2018
When (Not) To Listen To Advice
Sep 24, 2018
The Truth About Self-Consciousness & Likeability
Sep 21, 2018
Advice and Survivorship
Sep 19, 2018
Evaluating the Downside of Shortcuts
Sep 17, 2018
Purposeful Mini-Rituals
Sep 14, 2018
Change Yourself Instead of the World
Sep 12, 2018
Facing Fears Instead of Supporting Them
Sep 10, 2018
The Advantage Inexperienced Developers Have
Sep 07, 2018
Magnitude of Our Beliefs
Sep 05, 2018
What Exactly Is Bias, Anyway?
Sep 03, 2018
2 Ways to Use Explicit Systems
Aug 31, 2018
Suffering, Fear and Safety
Aug 29, 2018
3 Ways to Simplify and Avoid Ego Depletion
Aug 27, 2018
Power of Expectations
Aug 24, 2018
Interview with Daniel Pink (Part 2)
Aug 22, 2018
Interview w/ Daniel Pink (Part 1)
Aug 20, 2018
Accepting Change by Focusing on Continuity
Aug 17, 2018
Appreciating Jerry Weinberg
Aug 15, 2018
Asymmetry and the Halo Effect
Aug 13, 2018
Fixing Remote Work Communication
Aug 10, 2018
Accepting Irrationality
Aug 08, 2018
Fluidity of Time
Aug 06, 2018
Primitive Obsessions
Aug 03, 2018
Future Features (Are Futile)
Aug 01, 2018
Evidence is Not Proof
Jul 30, 2018
Fixing Overconfidence with Probabilities
Jul 27, 2018
Replacing Implicit Questions
Jul 25, 2018
Underestimating the Effects of Gratitude
Jul 23, 2018
Smaller Purpose
Jul 20, 2018
Problem Chains
Jul 18, 2018
Rollercoasters of Emotions
Jul 16, 2018
Astrology and The Barnum Effect
Jul 13, 2018
A Bug Story - How Narrative Bias Creates Blind Spots
Jul 11, 2018
A Research-Backed Argument for Empathy
Jul 09, 2018
A Problem Solving Paradox
Jul 06, 2018
Attentional Bias & Cognitive Expectations aka "It Was Right In Front Of You The Whole Time"
Jul 04, 2018
No Good Options
Jul 02, 2018
Choice Frameworking
Jun 29, 2018
Three Ways To Avoid Choice Paralysis
Jun 27, 2018
Internal Dialogues and Barriers to Change
Jun 25, 2018
Coding In The Moment
Jun 22, 2018
We Become What We Get Used To
Jun 20, 2018
Breaking Out of Incremental Thinking
Jun 18, 2018
Interview w/ Andrew Ofstad from Airtable (part 2)
Jun 13, 2018
Interview w/ Andrew Ofstad from Airtable (part 1)
Jun 11, 2018
Treating Time Seriously
Jun 08, 2018
What You Get Wrong About Productivity - A Humanist Approach
Jun 06, 2018
Debugging With Isolation & Modularity
Jun 04, 2018
Future Thinking & Imagination Barriers
Jun 01, 2018
Interview w/ Jon Yablonski (Part 2)
May 30, 2018
Interview w/ Jon Yablonski (Part 1)
May 28, 2018
Obligations and the Consequence of Assumptions
May 25, 2018
Motivation Batching
May 23, 2018
3 Habits of Learning Developers
May 21, 2018
Write the Code You Wish You Had
May 18, 2018
Problem Solving Series #4: Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
May 16, 2018
Problem Solving Series #3: Perspective Shifts
May 14, 2018
Problem Solving Series #2: Reframing
May 11, 2018
Avoiding Dogmatic Protocol
May 09, 2018
Problem Solving Series #1: Starting By Making It Worse
May 07, 2018
Secondary Tools
May 04, 2018
Randomizing live w/ Max Hawkins (Part 2)
May 02, 2018
Interview w/ Max Hawkins (Part 1)
Apr 30, 2018
Subtractive Thinking
Apr 27, 2018
Fear, Change & Instincts
Apr 25, 2018
Zero Dead Ends - Why Complaining Can Hold You Back
Apr 23, 2018
2 Reasons Your Habits Aren't Sticking
Apr 20, 2018
3 Ways to Better Cultivate Coworker Connections
Apr 18, 2018
4 Code Smells (And How to Fix Them)
Apr 16, 2018
4 Principles of Great Learners
Apr 13, 2018
Slow Down on Your Quest for Happiness
Apr 11, 2018
Fixing Fear: A Heuristic for Maintainable Code
Apr 09, 2018
Creating Consensus, Defeating Bias and Getting Better
Apr 06, 2018
Broken Brains Take On Statistics
Apr 04, 2018
More Misunderstood Truths About Statistics
Apr 02, 2018
Misunderstood Truths About Statistics (Part 1)
Mar 30, 2018
Why Most People Fail at Fixing Operations
Mar 28, 2018
2 Structured Thinking Methods For Problem Solving
Mar 26, 2018
3x3: Three Habits for Mental Hygiene
Mar 23, 2018
3x3: Three Questions to Help You Uncover Your Short Term Purpose
Mar 21, 2018
3X3: Three Questions To Get Unstuck On Big Problems
Mar 19, 2018
Setting Better Problem Solving Parameters
Mar 16, 2018
3 Problems Every Developer Will Face
Mar 14, 2018
Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Learn More Intentionally
Mar 12, 2018
Better 1-on-1s With This Simple Question
Mar 09, 2018
How Our Tools Shape Us
Mar 07, 2018
Delayed Pain
Mar 05, 2018
Improvisational Problem Solving Based on Characteristics
Mar 02, 2018
Accepting The Unexpected
Feb 28, 2018
Asking "Dumb" Questions
Feb 26, 2018
The Importance of Mental Models
Feb 23, 2018
Actions As Objects
Feb 21, 2018
What Are You Creating?
Feb 19, 2018
Thinking, Acting & Marshmallows
Feb 16, 2018
Olympics, Statistics & Raising Your Average Performance
Feb 14, 2018
Project-Oriented Mindset
Feb 12, 2018
Research Bias (Part 3)
Feb 09, 2018
Research Bias (Part 2)
Feb 07, 2018
Research Bias (Part 1)
Feb 05, 2018
The Detriments of Social Comparisons
Feb 02, 2018
Your Brain Might Betray You
Jan 31, 2018
Your Brain is Non-Linear
Jan 29, 2018
3 Times When More Code Means Better Code
Jan 26, 2018
Our Imagined Fictions
Jan 24, 2018
Bringing Your Whole Self to Work
Jan 22, 2018
How Can We Be Wrong...Without Knowing It?
Jan 19, 2018
Your Angle of Approach in Problem Solving
Jan 17, 2018
The Perception Principle
Jan 15, 2018
Deconstructing The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Jan 12, 2018
Interview w/ Chris Shinkle (Part 2)
Jan 10, 2018
Interview w/ Chris Shinkle (Part 1)
Jan 08, 2018
Finding Perspective in 2018
Jan 05, 2018
Re-Air: The Anatomy of Change
Jan 03, 2018
Setting The Course For 2018
Dec 29, 2017
2017 Year End Recap
Dec 27, 2017
Data Science w/ Elena Grewal (Part 2)
Dec 20, 2017
Data Science w/ Elena Grewal (Part 1)
Dec 18, 2017
3X3: Anti-Resolutions To Kick Off Your 2018
Dec 15, 2017
3X3: Questions that Could Change the Way You Think
Dec 13, 2017
3X3: Fallacies to Avoid as a Developer
Dec 11, 2017
Interview with Joshua Aziz (Part 2)
Dec 08, 2017
Interview with Joshua Aziz (Part 1)
Dec 06, 2017
The Power of A Question
Dec 04, 2017
Practical Advice for Changing Your Habits
Dec 01, 2017
How A Text Message Can Trigger Behavior Change
Nov 29, 2017
Inspiring Stories From Listeners - Basil's Story
Nov 27, 2017
Interview Week: First Impressions
Nov 24, 2017
Interview Week: Characteristics of Growth Oriented Questions
Nov 22, 2017
Interview Week: Heather Asks a Question About Dev Ops
Nov 20, 2017
"Mindful Distractions" - Focus Week Listener Question
Nov 17, 2017
Focus Week: 3 Focus Factors
Nov 15, 2017
Focus Week: Deconstructing Distractions
Nov 13, 2017
3x3: Morning Routine Tasks Every Developer Should Do
Nov 10, 2017
3x3: 3 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Resumé In Just 10 Minutes
Nov 08, 2017
3x3: The 3 Things you Shouldn't Be Doing As A Developer
Nov 06, 2017
The Future (and Past) of Legal for Developers w/Gary Nissenbaum (part 2)
Nov 03, 2017
The Future (and Past) of Legal for Developers w/Gary Nissenbaum (part 1)
Nov 01, 2017
Interviewer's Wishes with Jason Vasquez (Part 2)
Oct 30, 2017
Working Environment and Secondary Skills w/ Jason Vasquez (Part 1)
Oct 27, 2017
Your Interview is Tomorrow? Here's Some Last Minute Advice
Oct 25, 2017
How To Navigate Communication Problems - Listener Question from Enrico
Oct 23, 2017
Interview w/ Kristen Gallagher (Part 2)
Oct 20, 2017
Interview w/ Kristen Gallagher (Part 1)
Oct 18, 2017
The Most Important Part of My Day (Part 2)
Oct 16, 2017
The Most Important Part of My Day (Part 1)
Oct 13, 2017
Interview with Mark Engelberg (Part 2)
Oct 11, 2017
Puzzle Games with Mark Engelberg (Part 1)
Oct 09, 2017
The 3 Steps in the Cycle of Technological Abstraction
Oct 06, 2017
DCR: Traits of Being A Great Developer (Recap)
Oct 04, 2017
DCR - Bravery
Oct 02, 2017
DCR: Ownership Level Responsibility
Sep 29, 2017
DCR: Open Minded Curiosity
Sep 27, 2017
DCR: Growth Mindset
Sep 25, 2017
DCR: Traits of a Great Developer - Communications Model (Deep Dive)
Sep 22, 2017
DCR: Traits of a Great Developer - Communications Expert
Sep 20, 2017
DCR: Traits of a Great Developer - Expanding Perspective
Sep 18, 2017
DCR: Traits of a Great Developer - Grit of a Scientist
Sep 15, 2017
DCR: Traits of A Great Developer - Humility
Sep 13, 2017
Introspection - Part 2 - Why & Why Not
Sep 11, 2017
Introspection - Part 1 - Finding What You're Best At
Sep 08, 2017
Interview w/ Rachel Nabors (Part 2)
Sep 06, 2017
Interview w/ Rachel Nabors (Part 1)
Sep 04, 2017
Mystery Voices
Sep 01, 2017
Planning Series: Scaling and Detailing of Features
Aug 30, 2017
Learning Environment
Aug 28, 2017
Tips For Students (Re-Air)
Aug 25, 2017
Listener Question: Michael Asks About Dev Bootcamps
Aug 23, 2017
No More Launches
Aug 21, 2017
Thinking in Intervals (Re-Air)
Aug 18, 2017
Minimum Viable Prioritization (Re-Air)
Aug 16, 2017
Plato's Cave and Defeating Biases
Aug 14, 2017
Interview with Kevin Kelly (Part 2)
Aug 11, 2017
Interview with Kevin Kelly (Part 1)
Aug 09, 2017
Interview with Chris Ferdinandi (Part 2)
Aug 07, 2017
Interview with Chris Ferdinandi (Part 1)
Aug 04, 2017
3 Lessons of Productivity
Aug 02, 2017
Idea Portfolio
Jul 31, 2017
Listener Question: Simon Asks About Over-Positivity
Jul 28, 2017
Iterative Learning
Jul 26, 2017
Strong Opinions Weakly Held
Jul 24, 2017
Aesthetic Aha
Jul 21, 2017
Listener Question: Daw Chih asks About Over Execution
Jul 19, 2017
The Value of The Third Option
Jul 17, 2017
Turbulence (Re-Airing)
Jul 14, 2017
Don't Throw It Over the Wall
Jul 12, 2017
Interview with David Hoffeld (part 2)
Jul 10, 2017
Interview with David Hoffeld (part 1)
Jul 07, 2017
Listener Question: Andy Asks About His Degree in Mechatronics
Jul 05, 2017
The Messaging Paradigm (re-air)
Jul 03, 2017
Baby Announcement
Jun 28, 2017
Atomic Words
Jun 19, 2017
Spiral Learning
Jun 16, 2017
Listener Question: Joel Asks About Remote Work As A Junior Developer
Jun 14, 2017
Interview with Tom Eich (part 2)
Jun 12, 2017
Interview with Tom Eich (part 1)
Jun 10, 2017
Creating New Understanding Through Synonyms
Jun 07, 2017
Failure Rates, Machine Learning, and You
Jun 05, 2017
Anonymous Listener Question: Cowboy Coders
Jun 02, 2017
Law Of Conservation of Uncertainty (Part 2)
May 31, 2017
Law Of Conservation of Uncertainty (Part 1)
May 29, 2017
Squares Conference (feat. Marcus Morrison)
May 26, 2017
Squares Conference (Will Riley)
May 24, 2017
Squares Conference (feat. Noah Labhart)
May 22, 2017
Squares Conference (feat. Anne Grundhoefer)
May 19, 2017
Squares Conference (feat. Alex Zub) Part 2
May 17, 2017
Squares Conference (feat. Alex Zub) Part 1
May 15, 2017
Squares Conference (feat. Aaron Irizarry)
May 12, 2017
Squares Conference (feat. Aaron D. Campbell)
May 10, 2017
Job Descriptions vs. Job Realities
May 08, 2017
Listener Question: David asks About How to Answer Tooling Questions
May 05, 2017
Feedback Loops - The Smallest Unit of Learning
May 03, 2017
Interview with Chris Albon (Part 3 of 3)
May 01, 2017
Interview with Chris Albon (Part 2 of 3)
Apr 28, 2017
Interview with Chris Albon (Part 1 of 3)
Apr 26, 2017
Building Your Intuition
Apr 24, 2017
You Can't Control Random
Apr 21, 2017
Interview with Ben Halpern (@ThePracticalDev, Part 2)
Apr 19, 2017
Interview with Ben Halpern (@ThePracticalDev, Part 1)
Apr 17, 2017
A Simple Shift for Your Email Inbox Strategy
Apr 14, 2017
Listener Question: How Do I stand Out as a Job Applicant?
Apr 12, 2017
Listener Question: Jonathan Bocarra Asks About Content Generation and Baby Preparation
Apr 10, 2017
How to Hire Well, Even When Limited by Company Policies
Apr 07, 2017
Ep. 365 - Practical Ways to Jumpstart Brainstorming
Apr 05, 2017
Listener Question: Kan Asks About Creating Reliable Behavioral Systems
Apr 03, 2017
This Mistake Could Be Killing Your Resumé
Mar 31, 2017
Why You Should Evaluate How You're Spending Your Mental Energy
Mar 29, 2017
One Super Simple Tactic to Regain Your Time
Mar 27, 2017
Using Substitute Questions to Gain a Better Perspective
Mar 24, 2017
Interview with Brad Frost (@brad_frost, part 2)
Mar 22, 2017
Interview with Brad Frost (@brad_frost, part 1)
Mar 20, 2017
Listener Question: Can I Lead Remotely? (part 2)
Mar 17, 2017
Listener Question: Can I Lead Remotely? (part 1)
Mar 15, 2017
Interview with Dain Miller (@dainmiller, part 3 of 3)
Mar 13, 2017
Interview with Dain Miller (@dainmiller, part 2 of 3)
Mar 10, 2017
Interview with Dain Miller (@dainmiller, part 1 of 3)
Mar 08, 2017
Don't Trust Your Friends
Mar 06, 2017
Not So Trivial: Things That Can Kill Your Focus
Mar 03, 2017
How the First Guideline Changes Your Behavior Drastically
Mar 01, 2017
Folklore In Your Code
Feb 27, 2017
System Vs. Will Power
Feb 24, 2017
Interview with Laurence Bradford (@learncodewithme), Part Two
Feb 22, 2017
Interview with Laurence Bradford (@learncodewithme), Part One
Feb 20, 2017
What it Means to Rush
Feb 17, 2017
Listener Question: Harshitha Asks About Startups Vs. Personal Projects
Feb 15, 2017
Create an Effective Communication Protocol With these Rules
Feb 13, 2017
Three Insights About Heuristics That Can Supercharge Your Decisionmaking
Feb 10, 2017
Code Review Excuses
Feb 08, 2017
Interview with Lauren Cutrell (part 2)
Feb 06, 2017
Interview with Lauren Cutrell (part 1)
Feb 03, 2017
The Einstellung Effect
Feb 01, 2017
Interview with Kalid Azad (part 3 of 3)
Jan 30, 2017
Interview with Kalid Azad (part 2 of 3)
Jan 27, 2017
Interview with Kalid Azad (part 1 of 3)
Jan 25, 2017
Listener Question: Johannes Asks About Getting Hired in the United States
Jan 23, 2017
3 Questions Your Should Be Asking Before Starting A Project
Jan 20, 2017
Interview w/ Wes Bos (part 2)
Jan 18, 2017
Interview w/ Wes Bos (Part 1)
Jan 16, 2017
Prototyping A Pilot Project
Jan 13, 2017
Finding Your Perspective
Jan 11, 2017
Understand Your Environment
Jan 09, 2017
Async Code & Promises
Jan 06, 2017
2 Years of Tea
Jan 04, 2017
The Anatomy of Change
Jan 02, 2017
Interview with Josh Muccio (Part 2)
Dec 30, 2016
Interview with Josh Muccio (Part 1)
Dec 28, 2016
How Time Affects Decisions
Dec 19, 2016
Avoiding, "I Told You So"
Dec 16, 2016
Listener Question: Alex Asks About Getting Back Into The Game
Dec 14, 2016
Lessons From The Lab
Dec 12, 2016
Listener Question: John Wood Asks About Looking for Development Jobs
Dec 09, 2016
Two Anti-Patterns To Avoid
Dec 07, 2016
3 Commitments for 2017
Dec 05, 2016
Listener Question: Cody Asks About Developer Speed
Dec 02, 2016
Listener Question: Josh Asks About Getting A Raise
Nov 28, 2016
Patrick Asks About What to Do When You Live in a Tech-Company Wasteland
Nov 21, 2016
Empathy + Celebrating 5 Million Listens
Nov 18, 2016
DCR Step 9: Replace Yourself
Nov 16, 2016
DCR Step 8: Do Your Job Better Than Anyone Else
Nov 14, 2016
DCR: Step 7 - Interviewing
Nov 11, 2016
Listener Question: Donovan Asks About Analysis Paralysis
Nov 09, 2016
DCR: Step 6 - Going Public
Nov 07, 2016
Listener Question: Charissa Asks About Handling a Stressful Situation
Nov 04, 2016
Developer Career Roadmap Step 5: Cross Train (part 2)
Nov 02, 2016
Developer Career Roadmap, Step 5: Cross Train
Oct 31, 2016
DCR: Step 4 - Internships
Oct 28, 2016
Interview with David Rael (Part 2)
Oct 26, 2016
Interview with Dave Rael (Part 1)
Oct 24, 2016
DCR-Step 3: Skill Set Development (Part 2)
Oct 21, 2016
DCR - Step 3: Learning About Companies (Part 1)
Oct 19, 2016
DCR Step Two: Picking a Base Language
Oct 17, 2016
Dev Career Roadmap, Step One: Create a Time Budget
Oct 14, 2016
Announcing Developer Career Roadmap
Oct 12, 2016
Getting Over Language Barriers
Oct 10, 2016
Anti-Advice
Oct 07, 2016
Listener Question: Kevin asks About College
Oct 05, 2016
Listener Question: Matt asks, What To Do About Job Boredom?
Oct 03, 2016
Listener Question: Amanda asks about Building Resumés and Cover Letters
Sep 30, 2016
Listener Question: Abigail asks about Interview Attire
Sep 28, 2016
Thinking About Logic Paths
Sep 26, 2016
Lighter Objects for Better REST Apps
Sep 23, 2016
Listener Question: Naren Asks About Realistic Working Hours
Sep 21, 2016
Listener Question: Lars Asks About How To Work With Difficult Developers
Sep 19, 2016
The O-Word
Sep 16, 2016
Re-Air: Listener Question: Mujthaba Asks About What To Do When You Don't Know
Sep 14, 2016
The Truth About Old Code
Sep 12, 2016
Picking the Right Side Project
Sep 09, 2016
Listener Question: Mujthaba Asks About What To Do When You Don't Know
Sep 07, 2016
3 Refactoring Techniques You Can Employ In Under 5 Minutes
Sep 05, 2016
Deliberate Practice: Part 2
Sep 02, 2016
Deliberate Practice: Part 1
Aug 31, 2016
Tips for Students
Aug 29, 2016
3 Things Aspiring Developers Should Be Doing Today
Aug 26, 2016
Digging Up Your Job Description
Aug 24, 2016
3 Concrete Ways to Be a Better Co-worker
Aug 22, 2016
Poison Series: #02 - Indecision
Aug 19, 2016
Poison Series: #01 - Cynicism
Aug 17, 2016
My Top Productivity Practice
Aug 15, 2016
Getting Fast First
Aug 12, 2016
Finding Invisible Levers
Aug 10, 2016
Listener Question: Daman asks about Part Two
Aug 08, 2016
Listener Question: Sahar's Second Question On the Show! Sahar asks, "Is it ok to ask for a trial period as a candidate?"
Aug 05, 2016
Simple Machines
Aug 03, 2016
Putting Process in its Place
Aug 01, 2016
Effective Simulations
Jul 29, 2016
Listener Question: Michael Asks About Qualifications for Career Changes
Jul 27, 2016
The Business of Good Code
Jul 25, 2016
Listener Question: Brett Asks About How to Identify When You're Being Set Up For Failure
Jul 22, 2016
Working on Saturdays
Jul 20, 2016
Reddit CS Career Questions
Jul 18, 2016
Listener Question: Am I Too Old for a Career in Tech?
Jul 14, 2016
Two Common Questions from Early Career Developers
Jul 13, 2016
Three Habits of Great Learners
Jul 11, 2016
Listener Question: Marc Asks About Testing Private Methods
Jul 08, 2016
Part 2: Interview with Rita Rovira
Jul 07, 2016
Part 1: Interview with Rita Rovira
Jul 05, 2016
Listener Jack Asks About Applying New Knowledge
Jul 01, 2016
Question: How Do You Job Hunt During Internships?
Jun 29, 2016
Listener Question: Brad Asks About Leadership
Jun 27, 2016
The Tone of Code
Jun 24, 2016
Air, Fuel & Ignition
Jun 22, 2016
Listener Question: Jona Asks About Designer Developers
Jun 20, 2016
Picturing the Perfect Client
Jun 17, 2016
Reddit User Question: Parag0n asks about Architecting Projects
Jun 15, 2016
The Great Developer Mindset: Getting Acquainted with Failure
Jun 13, 2016
Leading People to Meeting Victories
Jun 10, 2016
Answering Listener Questions: Jean Michel asks about avoiding bike shedding
Jun 08, 2016
Great Developer Mindset: Redefining Complete
Jun 06, 2016
Answering Listener Questions: Ajay asks about learning project ideas
Jun 03, 2016
Defeating The Interview Lull
Jun 01, 2016
The Work / Life Equation
May 30, 2016
The Great Developer Mindset - Demystifying Code
May 27, 2016
Interview with Tony Hillerson (Part 2)
May 25, 2016
Interview with Tony Hillerson (@thillerson, Part 1)
May 23, 2016
The Assumption of Impossible
May 20, 2016
Flexible Decision Terms
May 18, 2016
Live with Ismael Burciaga (@burciaga) at @SquaresConference
May 16, 2016
Live @SquaresConference with Andi Graham (@andigrahambsd)
May 13, 2016
Live @SquaresConference Interview w/ @KimBost: Part 2
May 11, 2016
Live @SquaresConference Interview w/ Kim Bost: Part 1
May 09, 2016
Key Moments in Client Relationships
May 06, 2016
Listener Question: John asks "How Do I Transition from Mid to Senior Level Development?"
May 04, 2016
Improving Views
May 02, 2016
Maintaining Realationships with Your Colleagues
Apr 29, 2016
Part 2: Performance Budget for Optimization
Apr 27, 2016
Part 1: Performance Budget for Optimization
Apr 25, 2016
Proactive Client Communication
Apr 22, 2016
Refactoring Based on Code Responsibility
Apr 20, 2016
Abstract Mental Models
Apr 18, 2016
Part Two: Chris Castiglione (@castig)
Apr 15, 2016
Part One: Chris Castiglione (@castig)
Apr 13, 2016
Two Incredibly Important Mindsets for Becoming a Great Debugger
Apr 08, 2016
Interval Thinking
Apr 06, 2016
Minimum Viable Prioritization
Apr 04, 2016
Foolishly Generous
Apr 01, 2016
Listener Question: Matt Gale Asks About Onboarding New Team Memebers
Mar 30, 2016
🎉 3 Million Listens! 🎉
Mar 28, 2016
Experienced Developers and Impostor Syndrome
Mar 25, 2016
Part Two: Interview with Sam Lambert (@isamlambert)
Mar 23, 2016
Part One: Interview with Sam Lambert (@isamlambert)
Mar 21, 2016
Listener Question: Simon Asks About Assimilating into A New Company Culture
Mar 18, 2016
Part Two: Interview with Kalid Azad @betterexplained
Mar 16, 2016
Part One: Interview with Kalid Azad (@betterexplained)
Mar 14, 2016
Crafting The Interview Process
Mar 11, 2016
Part Two: Interview with Rachel Smith
Mar 09, 2016
Part One: Interview with Rachel Smith
Mar 07, 2016
Part Two: Interview With Kenneth Reitz (@kennethreitz)
Mar 04, 2016
Part One: Interview With Kenneth Reitz (@kennethreitz)
Mar 02, 2016
Episode 200!
Feb 29, 2016
Thinking Hats
Feb 26, 2016
Part Two: Interview w/ Jason Snell
Feb 24, 2016
Part One: Interview w/ Jason Snell
Feb 22, 2016
Client Relationships: Meeting Preparation Tips
Feb 19, 2016
Part Two: Interview with David Hemphill
Feb 17, 2016
Part One: Interview with David Hemphill
Feb 15, 2016
Building and Maintaining Client Relationships: Active Listening
Feb 12, 2016
Part Two: Simon St. Laurent
Feb 10, 2016
Part One: Simon St. Laurent
Feb 08, 2016
Turbulence
Feb 05, 2016
Part 2: Una Kravets (@Una)
Feb 03, 2016
Part 1: Una Kravets (@Una)
Feb 01, 2016
Crucial Steps for Interview Preparation
Jan 29, 2016
Part 2 - Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors)
Jan 27, 2016
Part 1 - Rachel Nabors (@rachelnabors)
Jan 25, 2016
Sunk Cost Fallacy and 3 Traps to Avoid
Jan 22, 2016
Learning On The Job
Jan 20, 2016
Comparison Conundrums
Jan 18, 2016
Features You Don't Need (At Least For Now)
Jan 15, 2016
Developer Tea Gear: From My Room to Your Ears
Jan 13, 2016
Cognitive Biases That Can Kill Your Product
Jan 11, 2016
Listener Question: Felix Asks, "How do I gain the experience needed for the job I want?"
Jan 08, 2016
Celebrating One Year of Developer Tea
Jan 06, 2016
Three Tips For Practicing Focus
Jan 04, 2016
Making Your Resolutions Stick
Jan 01, 2016
Part Two: Interview with Marcelo Somers & John Gully
Dec 30, 2015
Part One: Interview with Marcelo Somers (@marcelosomers) & John Gully (@johngully)
Dec 28, 2015
Bonus Episode: Season's Greetings
Dec 25, 2015
When Documentation Is A Bad Thing
Dec 23, 2015
Part Two: Interview with Christopher Schmitt (@teleject)
Dec 21, 2015
Part One: Interview With Christopher Schmitt (@teleject)
Dec 18, 2015
Opinions: Ally or Enemy
Dec 16, 2015
Talking about User Experience and Education w/ Jessica Ivins (@jessicaivins) - Part Two
Dec 14, 2015
Talking about User Experience and Education with Jessica Ivins (@jessicaivins) - Part One
Dec 11, 2015
Listener Question: Matt Hirsch asks, "Does it make more sense to spend a lot of money on extensive resources or spend less on short courses to learn code?"
Dec 09, 2015
Making The Most Of Your Off Time
Dec 07, 2015
The Voice Inside Your Head
Dec 04, 2015
7 Networking Tips for Developers
Dec 02, 2015
Part Two: The Great Framework Debate
Nov 30, 2015
Part One: The Great Framework Debate
Nov 27, 2015
Turkey & Tea
Nov 26, 2015
Listener Question: Jean-Michel Asks, "How Do You Know When It's Time To Lead A Team That Has No Leader?"
Nov 25, 2015
Listener Question: Mark asks, "What's Happening to the Ruby Developer Community?"
Nov 23, 2015
Makers Versus Menders with Andrea Goulet (@andreagoulet)
Nov 20, 2015
Thinking Small
Nov 18, 2015
Focus, Fear, and Missing Out: Picking Tools Without Anxiety
Nov 16, 2015
The Frontend at Whiteboard
Nov 13, 2015
How To Make Small Things A Big Deal, Plus: Celebrating 2 Million Listens!
Nov 11, 2015
Getting The Most Out Of A Conference
Nov 09, 2015
Code Without Fear
Nov 06, 2015
Listener Question: Sean asks, "Where Can I Find Well Written Code?"
Nov 04, 2015
How do I manage a project that feels too big for one person to handle?
Nov 02, 2015
Leave It Better Than The Way You Found It
Oct 30, 2015
Listener Question: Jake Schwartz (@jakehschwartz_) asks, "How do I suggest improvements to someone else's codebase without offending them?"
Oct 28, 2015
Part Two: Paul Straw & Sean Washington (@paulstraw & @seanwashington)
Oct 26, 2015
Part One: Paul Straw & Sean Washington (@paulstraw & @seanwashington) talk about focus, JavaScript frameworks, and rites of passage
Oct 23, 2015
Not to Do List: How Warren Buffett Keeps His Priorities Straight
Oct 21, 2015
Solving The X/Y Problem
Oct 19, 2015
9 Questions You Should Always Ask During An Interview
Oct 16, 2015
Developing Soft Skills & Cultivating Relationships
Oct 14, 2015
Feature Runways
Oct 12, 2015
Managing Questions
Oct 09, 2015
Listener Question: Crispin asks, "What's the threshold from executing to mastering?"
Oct 07, 2015
Constant State of Alert
Oct 05, 2015
Part Two: Gregg Pollack & Carlos Souza
Oct 02, 2015
Part One: Gregg Pollack & Carlos Souza (@caike and @greggpollack)
Sep 30, 2015
Destigmatizing Failure
Sep 28, 2015
Fixing the Broken Hiring Process: It's All About Context
Sep 25, 2015
Part Two: Cap Watkins (@cap)
Sep 23, 2015
Part One: Cap Watkins (@cap)
Sep 21, 2015
False Dichotomies
Sep 18, 2015
Automation: Creating Higher Order Functionality and Building an Automatic Schedule
Sep 16, 2015
Interview with Eric Elliott: On JavaScript, Writing, and Creating High Velocity Development Teams
Sep 14, 2015
Subjective vs. Concrete Decisions
Sep 11, 2015
Listener Pubudu Asks How to Avoid Procrastination and Boredom, and Find Renewed Energy for Work
Sep 09, 2015
Listener Question: Sahar asks, "How do I get more out of my day?"
Sep 07, 2015
The Messaging Paradigm: Building Programs Around the Concept of Messengers and Receivers
Sep 04, 2015
Closures, Private & Methods
Sep 02, 2015
The Best Tool vs. The Right Tool: Don't Forsake Personality When Picking Frameworks or Languages
Aug 31, 2015
Decorator vs. Facade Patterns & Knowing When To Use Them
Aug 28, 2015
Listener Question: Simon asks, "How do I switch mindset from personal project to day job?"
Aug 26, 2015
Rejecting the DRY Principle
Aug 24, 2015
Time vs. Value: Billing for Features
Aug 21, 2015
The Twelve-Factor App, Part 2: Dependencies & Config
Aug 19, 2015
The Twelve-Factor App, Part 1: Codebase
Aug 17, 2015
Mutable States, Refactory Tips & Reasonable Code Techniques
Aug 15, 2015
Reading the Manual
Aug 12, 2015
Intentional Problem Solving: How To Work It Out, Without Google
Aug 10, 2015
Listener Question: Dhruv Asks, "What should a beginner like me work on?"
Aug 07, 2015
The Power of the Minute & Engineering Memorable Experiences
Aug 05, 2015
Single Responsibility Principle: A Class Should Have One, and Only One Reason to Change
Aug 03, 2015
Listener Question: Janus asks, As a Designer, when should I let someone else do the code heavy lifting?
Jul 31, 2015
How to Play to Your Strengths
Jul 29, 2015
The Disposability of Computing Resources & Fixing Future Bug Anxiety
Jul 27, 2015
Anchoring Your Estimations: How to Keep Clients Happy
Jul 24, 2015
Why You Should Refactor Your Software
Jul 22, 2015
Listener Question: What's The Difference Between a Junior and Senior Developer?
Jul 20, 2015
Patrick Hill: Hobby Life vs. Work Life
Jul 17, 2015
Grant Ingersoll: The Numbers Don't Lie
Jul 15, 2015
Episode 100!
Jul 13, 2015
Daily routines and controlling impulsive behaviors
Jul 10, 2015
Your Brain: On IKEA as a cognitive bias
Jul 08, 2015
Useful Laziness
Jul 06, 2015
Estimation and shifting focus from absolute to relative
Jul 03, 2015
Russ Taylor, Part Two: Bulletproof Vest
Jul 01, 2015
Russ Taylor, Part One: Continuous Integration
Jun 30, 2015
Don't Delay, Say No
Jun 26, 2015
Mackenzie Child, Part Two: Design Background, Developer Skill
Jun 24, 2015
Mackenzie Child, Part One: Concrete Goals
Jun 22, 2015
Benefits of Knowledge: Teaching to Learn
Jun 19, 2015
Listener Question: How to Separate Your Social Media Identities
Jun 17, 2015
Internship Tips
Jun 16, 2015
1 Million
Jun 15, 2015
Answering Front-End Interview Questions: Call vs. Apply and Integrating Multiple Stylesheets
Jun 12, 2015
Beyond The Skillset
Jun 11, 2015
Part Two: Brianna and Andrew Norcross Talk About Entrepreneurship, Learning a Language, and Defending Wordpress
Jun 10, 2015
Part One: Brianna and Andrew Norcross Talk About Working Together, Living Together, Balance, and Rebellion
Jun 08, 2015
Inspiration Episode: Kent Beck Day!
Jun 05, 2015
Media Consumption Diet
Jun 02, 2015
Discovering Formalization: The Proper Place for Theory
Jun 01, 2015
Listener Question: How Do I Start Mentoring? 2 Tips To Make A Mentorship Effective for the Mentor AND the Mentee
May 29, 2015
Inspiration Episode: Creating Effective Metaphors + Developer Tea Gets Nominated for "Best Podcast of the Year" in the Net Awards!
May 27, 2015
4 Tips for Creating a Great Developer Resume
May 25, 2015
Travis Neilson, Part Two: Engaging Your Audience, Creating Conversations, Becoming a Publisher, and Viciously Yucky Comments on YouTube
May 22, 2015
Travis Neilson, Part One: Evergreen Content and the Pluses and Minuses of YouTube vs Podcasting
May 21, 2015
Healthy Difficulty: Dealing With Frustration and Confusion
May 20, 2015
Three Methods to Improve Your Memorization and Learning Ability, Starting Today
May 18, 2015
My Thoughts (and Stolen Quotes) About Originality, Creating from Nothing, and the Authenticity of Synthesis
May 15, 2015
Interview with Daniel Rapp, Creator of the Doppler JavaScript Library
May 14, 2015
Listener Question from Summit: How To Hunt for a Different Job While Already Employed Without Exhausting Yourself or Burning Bridges
May 13, 2015
Creating Obvious Systems: Why Mental Models Justify Simplicity, and When to Utilize Surprise and Delight
May 11, 2015
Answering Listener Questions: Matt asks about the feasibility of finding remote work, online education, and the order of learning
May 08, 2015
Inspiration Episode: Brian Eno Teaches Us To Limit Our Options
May 07, 2015
Scott Belsky, Part Two
May 06, 2015
Scott Belsky, Part One
May 04, 2015
Answering Front-end Developer Interview Questions: Explaining the Importance of Standards for the Web
May 01, 2015
Answering Listener Questions: Devin, a Non-Developer, Asks About Grasping Things That Go Over His Head, and Finding Starting Points
Apr 30, 2015
Hampton Catlin, Part Two: Speedy Sass with libsass, Wordset.org and Open-Sourcing Our Words
Apr 29, 2015
Hampton Catlin, Part One: Sass, the W3C, and (not) Being Data-Driven
Apr 27, 2015
Weekly Inspiration - Happiness and Doing Our Best Work: 3 Practical Steps to Getting The Right Things Done and Finding Focus State Faster
Apr 24, 2015
Part Two: Culture and Connecting to Our Work with Pamela Vickers
Apr 23, 2015
Part One: Culture and Connecting to Our Work with Pamela Vickers
Apr 22, 2015
Answering Listener Questions - Clyde Asks About Learning to Code while on the Road
Apr 20, 2015
Part 2: Ben Lesh on Reactive Programming at Netflix, Massive Data, and the Threadsafe Future
Apr 17, 2015
Part 1: Ben Lesh on Reactive Programming at Netflix, Massive Data, and the Threadsafe Future
Apr 15, 2015
How We Spend Our Days, How We Spend Our Lives, and One Way To Get a Better Grasp On Time
Apr 14, 2015
Taking Best Practices and Advice with a Grain of Salt
Apr 13, 2015
Ernie Miller and Human Development, Part Two (at Ancient City Ruby)
Apr 10, 2015
Estimating Sandwiches: Why the Gut Doesn't Work, and How Small Is Better
Apr 09, 2015
Ernie Miller and Human Development, Part One (at Ancient City Ruby)
Apr 08, 2015
Inspiration Episode #6: 4 Tips for Starting from Ground Zero, and Celebrating 500k listens!
Apr 06, 2015
32: Rebecca Murphey on Scoutfiles, Hardware Hacking, and Chickens
Apr 03, 2015
32: Rebecca Murphey on Third-party JavaScript Distribution at BazaarVoice
Apr 02, 2015
Special News Episode: Spartan, ES8, and Apple Watch Retro
Apr 01, 2015
31: Listener Question from Jessica - "What exactly is a full-stack developer anyway?"
Mar 30, 2015
30: Dan Denney, Part Two: Sending 1,000,000 HTML Emails for Code School and Memories from Front-End Design Conference
Mar 27, 2015
Inspiration Episode #5: Software Is Not a Printing Press
Mar 26, 2015
30: Dan Denney, Part One: Sending 1,000,000 HTML Emails for Code School and Memories from Front-End Design Conference
Mar 25, 2015
29: Listener Questions - Eric Asks How to Keep Up with Dev News, and When (and Why) Should I Get a Masters Degree
Mar 23, 2015
28: Richard Schneeman, Part Two - How to Start Contributing to Open Source, and Testing Refrigerators
Mar 20, 2015
28: Richard Schneeman, Part One - How to Start Contributing to Open Source, and Testing Refrigerators
Mar 18, 2015
Inspiration Episode #4: Learning Like Children through Play
Mar 17, 2015
27: Ensuring Professionalism - Rules I Practice
Mar 16, 2015
26: To Generalize, or to Specialize, that is the Question... Part Two
Mar 13, 2015
Inspiration Episode #3: The Day the Beatles Were Rejected
Mar 12, 2015
26: To Generalize, or to Specialize, that is the Question... Part One
Mar 11, 2015
25: "What Should I Build?" - 5 Tips for Better Idea Generation
Mar 09, 2015
24: Scott Jehl on Responsible Responsive Design and Progressive Enhancement, Part Two
Mar 06, 2015
Inspiration Episode #2: Coding for Humans
Mar 05, 2015
24: Scott Jehl on Responsible Responsive Design and Progressive Enhancement, Part One
Mar 04, 2015
23: When to Adopt New Technology: A Simple Value-based Rubric
Mar 02, 2015
22: Why Should Developers Build Their Own "Brand"?
Feb 27, 2015
Bonus Weekly Inspiration #1: Functionality Versus Elegance
Feb 24, 2015
20: Thoughts on Unicorns: Answering a Listener Question
Feb 23, 2015
19: Ben Orenstein from Thoughtbot, Part Two
Feb 20, 2015
19: Ben Orenstein from Thoughtbot, Part One
Feb 18, 2015
18: Listener Questions
Feb 16, 2015
17: Volt and Isomorphism with Ryan Stout, part two
Feb 13, 2015
17: Volt and Isomorphism with Ryan Stout, part one
Feb 11, 2015
16: Stigmas, Stereotypes, and Pizza
Feb 09, 2015
Bonus Episode: Thank you for a GREAT first month!
Feb 07, 2015
15: Code Kata - A Practice Arena for Becoming a Better Programmer
Feb 06, 2015
14: Daniel Kao - Self Control: Cutting Sugar for a Year, and Starting a Career in Something You Have No Experience in, On Purpose
Feb 04, 2015
13: Flexibility
Feb 02, 2015
12: Chris Coyier, Part Two - Getting Good At Pretty Much Anything
Jan 30, 2015
12: Chris Coyier, Part One - The Lifecycle of the Web and the Non-Evil of Doing Business
Jan 28, 2015
11: Justin Weiss - choosing Rails, guest hosting on Ruby Tapas, and enjoying Ruby
Jan 26, 2015
10: Approaching Programmatic Problems
Jan 23, 2015
9: Stuff I'm using these days, edition one
Jan 21, 2015
8: The Hardest Parts of Computer Science
Jan 19, 2015
7: Part two - The $150,000 Question About Design School
Jan 16, 2015
7: Part one - An Underground Cohort of Design Professors, with Kody Dahl and Nick Morrison
Jan 14, 2015
6: Feelback vs. Feedback
Jan 12, 2015
5: Addictions
Jan 09, 2015
4: Learning about Learning
Jan 08, 2015
3: Prototypes
Jan 06, 2015
2: Focus
Jan 05, 2015
1: Introductions, formalities, etc
Jan 05, 2015