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Clean Up Your Goals

Published: Invalid DateTime
Length: ~22m
Lego Problems - Modes of Operation on Component-Driven Problems

Published: Invalid DateTime
Length: ~20m
Friday Refill - Anchor Behaviors

When you feel a sense of chaos has overwhelmed your week, it can be tempting to want to check out for the weekend. But in today's episode we discuss a tool I've used to combat this sense of aimlessness.

Published: 2/26/2021
Length: ~7m
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part Two

Quincy Larson might be responsible for at least one very important part of your career: the beginning. That's because Quincy is the founder of freeCodeCamp, a non-profit teaching millions of people to code. In this and the last episode we talk all about what it means to be a beginner.

Published: 2/24/2021
Length: ~41m
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part One

Quincy Larson might be responsible for at least one very important part of your career: the beginning. That's because Quincy is the founder of freeCodeCamp, a non-profit teaching millions of people to code. In this and the next episode we talk all about what it means to be a beginner.

Published: 2/22/2021
Length: ~37m
Friday Refills - Rest is Not an Optional Luxury

Your obligations are usually the result of your systemic choices. You have no choice but to rest and recover. Choose to affirm your choices instead of living under the illusion that those choices were imposed on you.

Published: 2/19/2021
Length: ~7m
Post-Pandemic Work and Life as an Engineer - Skills for a Different Future

In today's discussion, we will look at what it will take to prepare for the changes we will see as we transition out of the worldwide pandemic, and into a post-pandemic world.

Published: 2/17/2021
Length: ~30m
Post-Pandemic Life and Work as an Engineer: Back to Normal-ish

In today's episode we continue our discussion about what life will be like when the pandemic ends... whenever that will be. Will we go back to normal? How can we think about "normal" when so much has changed?

Published: 2/15/2021
Length: ~24m
Self Distancing

Your own internal voice may need to back off a little bit. Distancing from our self-talk and imagining a distant future (or distant present) might be one important way to reduce negative self-talk and improve decision making.

Published: 2/12/2021
Length: ~6m
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part Two

Jonas Downey is the design lead at Basecamp. In this interview we discuss the ethics of designing and building constraints into your product that change human behavior.

Published: 2/10/2021
Length: ~38m
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part One

Jonas Downey is the design lead at Basecamp. In this interview we discuss the ethics of designing and building constraints into your product that change human behavior.

Published: 2/8/2021
Length: ~41m
Friday Refills - Don't Cram the Information Firehose... Filter and Focus!

We are not well adapted to focus and filter information. For the majority of human history, the information available was virtually all relevant. But now, we have an overload of information. Our first reaction is to believe we need to know it all to succeed... But we immediately run into a problem: there's vastly more than we can ever handle. So we resort to silly brain tricks to convince ourselves and others that we either know it all, or that most information isn't important. We can do better.

Published: 2/5/2021
Length: ~7m
Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer - Remote Everything?

In this episode, we continue series of episodes about how COVID has and will continue to affect our lives and jobs as software engineers. We'll talk about where we will work, and how COVID has changed the question all together.

Published: 2/3/2021
Length: ~12m
Series kickoff - Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer

In this episode, we kick off a series of episodes about how COVID has and will continue to affect our lives and jobs as software engineers.

Published: 2/1/2021
Length: ~13m
Friday Refill: Consider an Alternate Story

Much of our lives are determined by our internal voices. These voices tell us a story that is hard to imagine differently. But it's an important skill to consider an alternate story.

Published: 1/29/2021
Length: ~8m
Paying the Tax for Our Decisions

Every episode has its downside. In this episode we talk about a mental model called the "Strategy Tax", and how it applies beyond business strategy.

Published: 1/27/2021
Length: ~17m
The Downside to Inaction

We underestimate the knowledge we have. (Interestingly, we also *over*-estimate the knowledge we have, just a different type of knowledge.) We also underestimate the knowledge we don't have. We overestimate the downside to failure, and we underestimate the downside to inaction. We are afraid of failure, but perhaps we should be more afraid of inaction.

Published: 1/25/2021
Length: ~24m
Friday Refill - Ignore Motivation, Focus On Removing Obstacles

Our first Friday Refill! Ignore motivation. Remove obstacles. Motivation is not your fuel. You already have enough motivation. Don’t add more. Focus on removing the small distractions, things that will add resistance. Tilt the scales.

Published: 1/22/2021
Length: ~8m
The Bucket Model

Discrete and continuous data are all around us. In today's episode, we talk about a specific model of thinking that combines discrete and continuous. We'll also talk a little bit about non-linear curves and how they fit into this model.

Published: 1/21/2021
Length: ~20m
The Shape of Work

In today's episode, we talk about how much of our behavior is shaped by the invisible assumptions we make about our constraints, abilities, and context.

Published: 1/18/2021
Length: ~27m

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