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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Priming Effects

Imagine you're at your home and it's late at night, watching a thriller with a lot of jump-scares that that startle you.

Published: 10/4/2019
Length: ~8m
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Dealing With Overwhelm

You have a lot to do and sometimes it feels like life can't get any more stressful, until it does. So what do you do when faces with overwhelm?

Published: 10/3/2019
Length: ~13m
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Admitting When You Don't Know

A lot of bad advice is given when experiencing a bad interview. In today's episode we're going to talk about how to handle bad interviews in a positive way.

Published: 9/30/2019
Length: ~9m
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From Explicit to Implicit: When Our Mental Energy is Wasted

In today's episode we talk about moving some wasteful processes and systems from explicit to implicit. Today's episode is sponsored by Bluemedora. Upgrade your monitoring platform with BindPlane and unlock insights from all your on-prem, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud technologies. Get started today at https://bluemedora.com/tea

Published: 9/28/2019
Length: ~10m
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Implicit to Explicit: Management Systems

In the last couple of episodes we've been talking about how to move certain implicit systems to become more explicit. Personal ways of thinking and mechanisms that help us get through our day by going into auto-pilot. Today we're talking about implicit systems that managers use and how we can develop more explicit systems.

Published: 9/25/2019
Length: ~10m
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Implicit to Explicit: Perception and Emotions

This week we continue to discuss the implicit processes that our brains make and how we can make those processes more explicit. In today's episode we're talking about implicit emotions.

Published: 9/23/2019
Length: ~11m
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Moving Implicit Systems to Be More Explicit

In the next few episodes we'll be diving into the auto-pilot systems and the implicit decisions that we make and how they can effect our growth as developers.

Published: 9/20/2019
Length: ~14m
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