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Purposeful Mini-Rituals

What are some key things that make up your days? In today's episode, we're talking about purposeful rituals to help us find our career purpose.

Published: 9/14/2018
Length: ~6m
Change Yourself Instead of the World

What do you need to be happy? Today we're going to talk about finding the things that we need to make us happy in ourselves and where we can put our efforts to continue making us happy down the road.

Published: 9/12/2018
Length: ~13m
Facing Fears Instead of Supporting Them

In today's episode, we're talking about uncovering internal fears and how we can face them, instead of avoiding them.

Published: 9/10/2018
Length: ~11m
The Advantage Inexperienced Developers Have

In today's episode, we're going to talk about how the experiences you have influence your behaviors and the pros and cons of being experiences vs. experiencing something for the first time.

Published: 9/7/2018
Length: ~12m
Magnitude of Our Beliefs

In today's episode, we're talking about our development beliefs and how we can prepare ourselves if those development beliefs are challenged and change.

Published: 9/5/2018
Length: ~11m
What Exactly Is Bias, Anyway?

We talk about bias on this show quite a bit but haven't talked about what biases are. In today's episode, we're going to identify different types of biases and give you some tools to respond when you notice yourself reacting to bias.

Published: 9/3/2018
Length: ~9m
2 Ways to Use Explicit Systems

Today we're talking about intentionally defined systems to help us do our jobs better, so we can do our work smarter in the long term.

Published: 8/31/2018
Length: ~11m
Suffering, Fear and Safety

In today's episode, we're reflecting on how we acted yesterday and exploring our opportunities ahead of us.

Published: 8/29/2018
Length: ~15m
3 Ways to Simplify and Avoid Ego Depletion

In today's episode, we're going to talk about different tactics and times of day to make tough vs. easy decisions during your day.

Published: 8/27/2018
Length: ~19m
Power of Expectations

What do you expect to happen today? Maybe it's in your career or if you're job searching, maybe it's an expectation in your email inbox, but what do you expect to improve on personally, today? In today's episode, we're going to talk about our will and actions on a day-to-day basis.

Published: 8/24/2018
Length: ~10m
Interview with Daniel Pink (Part 2)

Today we are thrilled to have [Daniel Pink](https://twitter.com/DanielPink?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) on the show, Daniel has four New York Time Best Sellers and Daniel has a wide variety of experience including being a chief speechwriter for Al Gore in the 90s, and has one of the 10 most watched talks on TED talks. In part 2 of our interview, we're going to talk about Daniel's recent work he's done and what he's excited about in his latest research and dig into his newest book, "When" The scientific secrets of perfect timing.

Published: 8/22/2018
Length: ~23m
Interview w/ Daniel Pink (Part 1)

Today we are thrilled to have Daniel Pink on the show, Daniel has four New York Time Best Sellers and Daniel has a wide variety of experience including being a chief speechwriter for Al Gore in the 90s, and has one of the 10 most watched talks on TED talks. In part 1 of today's interview, we're going to talk about Daniel's experiences and writings and dive right into what Daniel wishes more people would ask him about.

Published: 8/20/2018
Length: ~22m
Accepting Change by Focusing on Continuity

Today I have some personal news to share, in addition to talking about life changes and accepting the fear that comes with change.

Published: 8/17/2018
Length: ~11m
Appreciating Jerry Weinberg

The world of computer science lost a legend last week when Jerry Weinberg passed away on August 7th, 2018. Author of "The Psychology of Computer Programming" as well as "Introduction to General Systems Thinking and quite a few other books, Jerry left us with a better understanding of what it means to be a developer. Today's episode is a tribute to Jerry's work.

Published: 8/15/2018
Length: ~9m
Asymmetry and the Halo Effect

Something that's interesting about instruments is the asymmetry of the job of each hand for skilled musicians. That's what we're going to be talking about in today's episode, the idea of asymmetry that developers experience.

Published: 8/13/2018
Length: ~16m
Fixing Remote Work Communication

As a developer, you've probably encountered an offer to pursue remote work. More and more people are working in a nomadic state as opposed to in an office. So it makes sense to do some studying around remote work and the tradeoffs between remote and in-office work.

Published: 8/10/2018
Length: ~18m
Accepting Irrationality

When was the last time the opposite of what you expected occurred? In today's episode, we're going to talk about why we can experience something entirely different than we were initially expecting.

Published: 8/8/2018
Length: ~15m
Fluidity of Time

One of our most popular episodes on the show was on a subject that's tough to talk about. The subject was time and time management, and that's what we're going to talk about in today's episode - the plasticity and difficulty that time presents.

Published: 8/6/2018
Length: ~17m
Primitive Obsessions

Today, we're talking about doing good work and writing better code, and this episode will ask you to question what good code is. We'll be exploring that through the lens of the code smell called Primitive Obsession.

Published: 8/3/2018
Length: ~10m
Future Features (Are Futile)

What code do you need today? Today's episode is all about business objectives that get translated into our code.

Published: 8/1/2018
Length: ~11m

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