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Friday Refill: Making Limited Work Look Good on a Resumé

How do you make work look good on your resumé when you feel like you haven't done anything impressive? Only the people who work with you know the value of what you did, so how can you communicate that in a bullet point?

Published: 4/9/2021
Length: ~15m
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Minding the Observer Effect as We Transition Together

As we transition together through strange periods (whether at large scale like the present moment, or at a smaller scale within your organization or culture), the way we look at each other changes. This observation shift brings behavior change - that's what we're talking about in today's episode.

Published: 4/8/2021
Length: ~15m
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Find Your Values in the Dark

Uncomfortable places may feel dark, but they often carry the most illuminating lessons. In today's episode we discuss using these darker moments as a compass to find your values.

Published: 4/6/2021
Length: ~11m
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Friday Refill: Seek Leverage and Access

Look at your calendar. What doors are opening? What exponential gains are you building? Leverage and access are the key to building your career long term.

Published: 4/2/2021
Length: ~10m
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Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part Two

Today's guest is Dan Pupius, CEO and co-founder of Range. Dan cares deeply about creating products that make healthy and sustainable workplaces a common occurrence. We talk in depth about designing constraints and opinions into products with the long term in mind.

Published: 3/31/2021
Length: ~35m
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Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part One

Today's guest is Dan Pupius, CEO and co-founder of Range. Dan cares deeply about creating products that make healthy and sustainable workplaces a common occurrence. We talk in depth about designing constraints and opinions into products with the long term in mind. Don't miss the next episode - subscribe today!

Published: 3/29/2021
Length: ~39m
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Friday Refill - Stop Your Weekend Half-Thinking

We're all guilty of it - not letting that thing go that happened at work on Friday. But by giving it only partial energy over the weekend, we are likely not going to improve how we deal with it on Monday, and we degrade our rest and recovery time over the weekend. How do you deal with this? Consciously choose to stop.

Published: 3/26/2021
Length: ~6m
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Ban the Heroics On Your Team

Heroes appear when something has gone wrong. What does a team look like with no heroics?

Published: 3/24/2021
Length: ~18m
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Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition (Corrected)

Hey folks - this is the corrected version of yesterday's episode. Apologies for the error! You need intuition to build incredible skill. But it's important to develop a healthy caution towards intuition, as it can create a brittle framework for thinking. In this episode, we discuss both sides of this.

Published: 3/23/2021
Length: ~19m
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Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition

You need intuition to build incredible skill. But it's important to develop a healthy caution towards intuition, as it can create a brittle framework for thinking. In this episode, we discuss both sides of this.

Published: 3/22/2021
Length: ~19m
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Friday Refill: How Patience Pays Off

Patience is more than a virtue. Patience is a signal that you understand the importance of gratitude and the vanity of rushing or attempting to control what you cannot. In this Friday refill, we'll discuss some of the mechanics of patience and how it relates to other parts of our lives.

Published: 3/19/2021
Length: ~14m
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Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part Two

Geoff Schmidt joins me to discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and how the responsibilities are shifting and roles are changing to give more leverage and better separation of concerns between client side and service architectures.

Published: 3/17/2021
Length: ~27m
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Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part One

Geoff Schmidt joins me to discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and how the responsibilities are shifting and roles are changing to give more leverage and better separation of concerns between client side and service architectures.

Published: 3/16/2021
Length: ~36m
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Friday Refills - Stop Predicting Your Priorities

We spend a lot of energy trying to predict our lives and priorities. This is mostly wasted - instead, we should spend our time understanding our values and planning to make margin for the principles in our lives.

Published: 3/12/2021
Length: ~14m
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Superpowered Imagination

Much of our attention and effort is used trying to remove human influence and finding "raw" truth. Today, I want to ask you to do the opposite of that.

Published: 3/11/2021
Length: ~14m
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Biases of Attention

There is far more information that we ignore than what we pay attention to. This selective attention is important to understand as both a necessary skill and a potential pitfall.

Published: 3/8/2021
Length: ~20m
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Friday Refill - Divergent and Convergent Meetings

We seek agreement by default. It feels good. But is it what we really want? What we really need?

Published: 3/5/2021
Length: ~7m
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Clean Up Your Goals

In today's episode we talk about good key results and objectives, and how to clean up your goals. Having a goal is not enough and knowing your principles and what makes you different from others is the hardest part.

Published: 3/4/2021
Length: ~22m
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Lego Problems - Modes of Operation on Component-Driven Problems

There are only so many ways you can manipulate LEGO. In today's episode we talk about those fundamental transformation steps and how they apply to your daily problem solving.

Published: 3/1/2021
Length: ~20m
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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
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