What was the last time you felt 100% certain about a conclusion you made? In today's episode, we're talking about conclusions and how we come to them. Today's episode will challenge you to ask more questions before landing on conclusions

In today's episode, we're talking about how we view our co-workers around us and our perceptions of ourselves.

What questions are you answering right now? On today's episode we're talking about the power of questions, and more specifically the implicit questions that you're asking in your day.

In today's episode, we're talking about the people who you're thankful for or impressed by and letting others know that we appreciate them with zero expectation.

Part of the point of Developer Tea is to help driven developers connect to their career purposes. In today's episode, we're going to talk about finding purpose in smaller ways.

Today we're talking about problems we face every day as developers, and we face problems every day in a lifecycle -- meaning our problems are almost never atomic.

It's important that we remember ourselves as humans with emotions and recognize how our emotions affect our behavior and decisions.

In today's episode, we talk about astrology's methodology can be very persuasive and similarities in perceptions of code.

Our brains are lazy, but if a story makes sense, that can be more persuasive than raw data and often picked up more readily than data.

In today's episode, we're talking about empathy and why everyone needs it.

In today's episode, we're talking about the paradox that happens when we get caught up seeking the perfect code. How do we address this and get past our own assumptions?

It's important to understand yourself. Most importantly, it's important to understand how your brain works. What are the things that stick with you and why do those things stick with you?

We've been talking about choice on the past few episodes of Developer Tea and today we're going to continue down that road in today's episode. Today we're talking about how we navigate our careers when we feel like there are no good options out there for us, and how to remain optimistic.

In today's episode, we're talking about pros and cons lists based on what we're focusing on, either positive or negative and on the weight of our overall goals.

Choices shape our careers, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about decision making and how we can evaluate decisions to move forward instead of letting decisions stop us.

Today we're talking about changes that we want to make both for ourselves and in our careers. To help guide this conversation, we'll be looking at a few motivational quotes from [Kent Beck](https://twitter.com/KentBeck?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor). Kent is an author, speaker, and developer who's on a mission to help geeks feel safe in the world.

The way we develop is impacted by the way we view the world around us. In today's episode, we're talking about the concept of mindfulness and recognizing that the past is out of our reach while the future fluctuates. This uncertainty can impact the way we view our work as developers, and how we can observe this to manage our mental energy.

In today's episode, we're talking about how you get used to something over time. More specifically we talk about how our normalcies are created.

In today's episode, we're talking about breaking the habit of incremental progress. How can we step away from solving the problems that are right in front of us and dig deeper into the core of a problem?

On this show, we often talk about breaking a problem down into smaller tasks, and in today's episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with [Andrew Ofstad](https://twitter.com/aofstad?lang=en), who a co-founder of Airtable. Airtable is the future of data management, specifically spreadsheet data management, and in part two of this two-part episode, we discuss some of the learnings Andrew has discovered along his journey into Airtable.