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Four Questions for the Weekend

Questions are the most powerful tool you can use to clarify situations and solve problems. Today, we're talking about finding different sources for questions that require you to pause and think.

Published: 3/7/2020
Length: ~15m
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Breaking Your Own Rules Accelerates Bad Habit Formation

This episode is about quality over quantity when it comes to finding a solution to a problem. When is it right to take time and do something right vs. moving fast?

Published: 3/4/2020
Length: ~14m
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Redefine Your Career Search Rules

In today's episode, we're talking about changing your approach to looking for a job.

Published: 3/2/2020
Length: ~11m
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Functional Autonomy and Finding Meaning in the Small Things Today

The actions that you take today are not representative of who you are. In today's episode, we're talking about enjoying the small things and finding meaning in even the smallest tasks.

Published: 2/28/2020
Length: ~9m
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Your Influence is Catalyzed By What is Influencing You

It's easy to look at our daily lives to evaluate what we're doing as individuals. In today's episode, we're getting introspective and talking about our influence from another person's perspective.

Published: 2/26/2020
Length: ~5m
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Your Time is An Account With An Unknown Balance

Each day you're living a piece of your life and if you were to think of time as a currency that is always flowing out. You have an account and that account has a certain amount of time in it but you don't know how much you have in that account. In today's episode we're talking time as a limited account.

Published: 2/25/2020
Length: ~13m
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Don't Make the Problem Fit the Model

One of the most critical skills is the ability to map information and relate it to other information. In today's episode, we're talking about mapping models that go wrong and how forcing a concept into the wrong model can cause major problems in software and your career as a developer.

Published: 2/21/2020
Length: ~12m
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Implicit Models and Processes

What actions have you taken in the last hour? In today's episode we're talking about the simple fact that everything we do is governed by some sort of process.

Published: 2/19/2020
Length: ~8m
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Measuring Freedom to Change

Why is it so hard for managers to create freedom and autonomy for their teams in a modern work environment? Today, we'll talk about how we can offer more autonomy to our team as well as bring value to the company.

Published: 2/17/2020
Length: ~11m
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Embracing Confusion

What does it mean to be confused? What is happening in our brains and what is happening in reality? In today's episode, we're digging into confusion and the role of perception in the work you do.

Published: 2/14/2020
Length: ~7m
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Thought Experiment - Rejecting Your Intuitive Solution

Today we've got a thought experiment with the goal of flexing your lateral thinking muscles.

Published: 2/12/2020
Length: ~6m
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You Don't Have to Be a Slave to Self-Improvement

Why do you think you need to be great? In today's episode, we're getting clear on why we're motivated to reach our goals as developers and why we can so easily get caught in a trap of working in one particular area when we should be focusing on a bigger picture.

Published: 2/10/2020
Length: ~13m
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Getting Stacked Value From your Daily Activities

What makes something worth doing? How do you decide what activities are worth doing?

Published: 2/7/2020
Length: ~13m
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Defining Your Reference Points

What was the last question someone asked you that changed the way you think today?

Published: 2/5/2020
Length: ~10m
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Engineering Your Habits Like Interfaces

What are the outcomes that you expect in your day-to-day life? That's what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea

Published: 2/3/2020
Length: ~9m
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Plans Should Be Functions, Not Documents

The plans we make shape our lives. In today's episode, we're talking about the things we actively choose to do with our time and the process of planning that plays into our futures.

Published: 1/31/2020
Length: ~15m
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What Are your Fundamentals?

One of the things you notice when observing great writers or coaches is that they've got a simplicity in their work. In today's episode we discuss the relationships between simplicity, complexity and value.

Published: 1/29/2020
Length: ~7m
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Getting On The Right Level When Solving Problems Collaboratively

In today's episode we're talking about getting too much in the weeds vs. being too far removed. We'll talk about the pros and cons of each and offer suggestions to get out of the weeds and get down from the clouds.

Published: 1/27/2020
Length: ~9m
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Management Anti-Pattern - Detail Abstraction

If you're standing in a building or riding in a vehicle, look around and think about some of the details around you. Who's job is it to manage the details?

Published: 1/24/2020
Length: ~11m
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Management Anti-Patterns - False Homogeneity

What are you focused on today? Focus is perhaps the one superpower that's common in successful people. In today's episode, we're talking about a management anti-pattern that totally destroys focus and provide a solution to get focus back.

Published: 1/22/2020
Length: ~13m
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