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Building Empathy To Focus on Downstream Effects

What happens next? This is a question that developers should be asking more frequently. If you're trying to develop a stronger sense of intuition, this episode is for you.

Published: 8/17/2020
Length: ~11m
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The Unique Advantages of Being a Beginner

Humans are no strangers to being beginners. In today's episode of Developer Tea we're talking about the unique advantages we have in beginning something and how to take advantage of that opportunity.

Published: 8/13/2020
Length: ~16m
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Explicit Heuristics and Cheap Tests

In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about how we operate as developers. How do you determine what tools or rules you apply to problems you're solving as a developer?

Published: 8/10/2020
Length: ~12m
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The Critical Importance of Labels

What exactly is a label? What is a name? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the impact of naming or labeling our work as developers. We'll talk about why it is important to label well and why use a well through naming structure makes all the difference in our work.

Published: 8/5/2020
Length: ~12m
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Using Your Brain Without Thinking

What does it mean to "use" your brain, and how is that different than simply thinking? As developers we engage in thinking all the time, but how can we use our brains better when solving problems?

Published: 8/4/2020
Length: ~11m
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Interview w/ Aaron Upright (Part 2)

In today's interview with Aaron Upright, cofounder of Zenhub, we talk about being forgiving to ourselves as developers.

Published: 7/29/2020
Length: ~30m
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Interview w/ Aaron Upright

Aaron Upright is a cofounder of Zenhub and in this part 1 of the interview with Aaron we talk about his background, how he got going with Zenhub and what he's working on today.

Published: 7/28/2020
Length: ~31m
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Are You Really An Exception, Or Are You Inflexible?

We've been told all our lives that we're unique. In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the difference between being unique and being an exception.

Published: 7/22/2020
Length: ~6m
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Future Focused Feedback

One of the most important things you'll do as an engineer is participate in feedback sessions. In good feedback sessions things look very different than they do in bad feedback sessions. In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about feedback and how to build a good feedback mechanism.

Published: 7/20/2020
Length: ~13m
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Stop Pushing Down Your Emotions

If you could pause everything right now, what would you feel the need to do?

Published: 7/17/2020
Length: ~8m
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Small Problems and Principled Engineering

Breaking big problems down into smaller, easier to tackle problems and in today's episode we talk about exactly why breaking down problems into small forms is effective.

Published: 7/14/2020
Length: ~9m
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The Stories Your Code Tells

What is the story of your code?

Published: 7/8/2020
Length: ~6m
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Offensive and Defensive Software Engineering Strategies

Most of the time when we're writing code, we think about what the code is meant to do for us, we think of it as an offensive response to what we're solving, but what if we think of our code as a defensive strategy?

Published: 7/6/2020
Length: ~10m
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Your Present is Soon Your Past

Your perspective is centered on now. It's very hard to imagine that the now, will soon be considered the past.

Published: 7/1/2020
Length: ~11m
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rejecting a Duel Identity

It's easy to imagine a duel system. A duel sense of identity - The impulsive side of us and the thoughtful side and it can change the way we think about how we work as engineers.

Published: 6/29/2020
Length: ~6m
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Uncomfortability, the Ultimate Teacher

Think back to the times you learned your most important lessons. What exactly was the teacher?

Published: 6/26/2020
Length: ~12m
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Baseline Happiness and Delayed Achievements

When do you expect to achieve your goals? When do you expect to have the feeling that you have arrived?

Published: 6/25/2020
Length: ~9m
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Finding Underlying Motivations to Stay Resilient In Your Career

What is it about engineering that you love? What keeps you coming back to work? In today's episode, we're talking about why we continue to be engineers.

Published: 6/22/2020
Length: ~8m
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Strategies for Overcoming Mental Blocks

In today's episode, we're continuing the conversation from our last episode and talking about what you can do once you admit that you don't know an answer to a question as a developer.

Published: 6/20/2020
Length: ~10m
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What Will You Say When You Don't know?

How will you handle the pressure of not knowing something?

Published: 6/18/2020
Length: ~12m
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