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Check Your Leverage

Everybody's words have influence on the people around them. In today's episode, we're going to talk about how our words can give us leverage as a professional and fellow team mate.

Published: 11/20/2019
Length: ~12m
Meetings Can Trick Your Emotions

How can we avoid the false sense of positivity that can occur after meetings and how can we engage in the right kinds of meetings?

Published: 11/18/2019
Length: ~11m
Preserving Subcultural Language

Today, we're talking about how your companies sub-cultural language and how that relates to clarity in knowledge transfer.

Published: 11/16/2019
Length: ~12m
Different Behaviors with the Same Values - Practicing Modes

In the last episode, we talked about modifier functions. In today's episode, we're talking about modes and paradigms in the form of everyday goals and processes.

Published: 11/13/2019
Length: ~11m
How Small Behaviors Cascade into Life-Changing Results

Context is a big deal in the job of a developer. In today's episode, we're applying a zoomed out model of thinking to everyday behavior to make us better developers, co-workers and leaders.

Published: 11/11/2019
Length: ~11m
Focusing On Improving One Value At A Time

In today's episode, we're talking about how we can practice values and stay focused without overanalyzing every detail.

Published: 11/8/2019
Length: ~12m
Tracing Chained Motivations

What causes us to do the things we do? In today's episode, we're discussing the complexity of motivations and identifying the chains of motivations in our actions as developers.

Published: 11/6/2019
Length: ~12m
Productivity In The Face of Ambiguity with Functional Assumptions

A senior engineer will often answer every question starting with "It Depends..." In today's episode, we're talking about context and decision making beyond, "It Depends".

Published: 11/4/2019
Length: ~11m
Ask Better Questions

What do your questions create? Every question we ask as a developer or manager has an impact on the person or people we are asking. In today's episode, we're talking about shifting question asking from the way we intuitively ask to a new way.

Published: 11/1/2019
Length: ~12m
Interview with Anil Dash (Part 2)

Today we air part 2 of our interview with Anil Glitch, CEO of Glitch.

Published: 10/30/2019
Length: ~31m
Interview with Anil Dash (Part 1)

In this part 1 of our two part interview with Anil Dash, CEO of Glitch we talk about how Glitch got its start, and whiteboard interview processes.

Published: 10/28/2019
Length: ~33m
Seeking a Disconnected Perspective

In today's episode, we're going to use a visualization to understand our perspective.

Published: 10/25/2019
Length: ~10m
Balancing Accountability and Empathy

Accountability can have a profound impact on your willingness to follow through with commitments. In today's episode we're talking about what it means to have accountability.

Published: 10/23/2019
Length: ~10m
Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Multiplying Value by Thinking in Systems

Habits of Successful Software Engineers is a series here at Developer Tea and today we'll continue those skills with an episode on system thinking.

Published: 10/21/2019
Length: ~11m
Messages in Object Oriented Programming

A lot of the work of a developer and determining how things come together, comes down to the developers themselves.

Published: 10/18/2019
Length: ~6m
Be Present While Thinking on the Past and Future

In today's episode we're talking about intentionally thinking about the future and reflecting on the past.

Published: 10/16/2019
Length: ~13m
Leverage As A Career Heuristic

In today's episode, we're talking about a specific heuristic to drive your career growth.

Published: 10/14/2019
Length: ~15m
Don't Use Transparency As a Weapon

In today's episode we're talking about a behavior that's gained a lot of traction lately and that's being radically candid with your co-workers.

Published: 10/11/2019
Length: ~12m
Steps to Become a Terrible Developer

What does it mean to be a bad developer? That's what we're talking about on today's episode of Developer Tea

Published: 10/9/2019
Length: ~12m
The Ocean of Choice Between Can and Will

When we think about what we can do, the possibilities are virtually infinite, but what we will do is a completely different story.

Published: 10/7/2019
Length: ~13m

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