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What Will You Say When You Don't know?

How will you handle the pressure of not knowing something?

Published: 6/18/2020
Length: ~12m
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Wishes, Beliefs, and Knowledge

Your actions and beliefs have a strong relation to each other. In today's episode, we're talking about how beliefs are formed.

Published: 6/15/2020
Length: ~7m
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Listener Question from Saul: How Do I Communicate with Non-Technical Decision Makers?

Today, we're answering a listener question from Saul: How do you communicate a technical solution to a non-technical team member? Specifically, when that team member needs to be involved in making a decision that has technical implications?

Published: 6/12/2020
Length: ~12m
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How Questions Influence Pathways to Solutions

When you are solving difficult problems, the questions you ask can help determine the path you go down to solve those problems.

Published: 6/10/2020
Length: ~10m
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4 Points Of Advice For Brand New Developers

At the youngest stage of your career you are most likely to quit. In today's episode, we're providing encouragement to those new developers for when the career decision gets tough.

Published: 6/8/2020
Length: ~15m
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What Does It Take To Change Your Mind?

What does it take to change your mind? Most of us haven't thought about that before and often times, it's hard to remember the last time we changed a belief or significant behavior.

Published: 6/3/2020
Length: ~16m
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Play, Stakes, and Learning

How important is learning in your career? In today's episode, we're talking about the importance of both learning and play in the development of your career.

Published: 6/1/2020
Length: ~10m
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Leveraging Our Emotional Goals

What are you willing to give up for your goals?

Published: 5/27/2020
Length: ~10m
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Mental Models for Finding Balance

What does it mean when we use the term "balance"? In today's episode, we're talking about balance as it relates to decision making.

Published: 5/25/2020
Length: ~14m
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High Certainty, High Value Defaults

What is a useful default and when can they lead you astray?

Published: 5/22/2020
Length: ~13m
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3 Ways to Be a Better PR Author

One of the most frustrating things developers can face is writing a bunch of code, working hard on features and then waiting around for PR reviews. In today's episode, we're talking about how you can submit PRs better so reviews go quickly and smoothly.

Published: 5/20/2020
Length: ~16m
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4 Ways to Be a Better PR Reviewer

What does it mean to collaborate as an engineer with other engineers? In today's episode, we're talking about the pull request process and the lack of attention it seems to get from engineers.

Published: 5/18/2020
Length: ~17m
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What is Code, to Our Evolved Mind?

How does our brain perceive code in our environment and how does our mind make meaning out of our code?

Published: 5/15/2020
Length: ~16m
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Correlation, Causation, Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Correlation is not causation. In today's episode, we're talking about how we get twisted around, thinking data correlation equals causation.

Published: 5/13/2020
Length: ~8m
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Context-Dependent Decisions and Linear Heuristic Mental Models

Which language should you learn? Which book should you read next? In today's episode we're talking about intentional decisions we make and how those decisions can shape our immediate and long-term reality.

Published: 5/12/2020
Length: ~19m
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Productive Self-Sabotage

What causes us to fail? In today's episode we're talking about some of the answers to why we fail.

Published: 5/8/2020
Length: ~15m
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Simple Prioritization Visualization

Today's episode is a visualization exercise. Think about the 10-20 minute tasks that will eventually make up your day.

Published: 5/6/2020
Length: ~10m
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There Is No, "Way We've Always Done It"

In today's episode we're talking about the shape of our restrictions and what we take for granted in our current situations.

Published: 5/4/2020
Length: ~9m
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When To Walk Away From (and come back to) A Problem

In today's episode, we're answering a reviewer question; "When do you walk away from a problem to find the solution?"

Published: 5/1/2020
Length: ~11m
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Default Problem Solving Modes

What is your problem solving strategy in the face of uncertainty?

Published: 4/29/2020
Length: ~9m
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