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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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