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Poisoning Retrospectives With Hindsight Bias

We recommend structured retrospectives. Identify things that went well and things that didn't go so well during a project or given week.

Published: 2/4/2019
Length: ~12m
When Best Practices Backfire - The Peltzman Effect

Today, we're talking about risk compensation.

Published: 1/30/2019
Length: ~16m
Replace Your Implicit Questions to Break Out of Incrementalism

Most of the changes you make as a developer are incremental. That's what we're talking about in today's episode.

Published: 1/28/2019
Length: ~21m
Self-Awareness and Intellectual Honesty

When was the last time you lied?

Published: 1/25/2019
Length: ~15m
Treating Your Brain as More Than a Machine

In today's episode, we're talking about missed opportunities.

Published: 1/23/2019
Length: ~14m
Improving Confidence and Neutralizing Threats Through Detached Perception

In today's episode, we're talking about responding to situations

Published: 1/21/2019
Length: ~19m
High-Churn Code Should Be Your Cleanest Code

What code do you believe should be the cleanest?

Published: 1/18/2019
Length: ~8m
Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 2)

In today's episode of Developer Tea we're continuing the discussion on challenging our mental models.

Published: 1/16/2019
Length: ~19m
Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 1)

Improvement is not a simple concept but usually comes from experience. In today's episode, we're talking about improvement based on questioning what kind of information you should be seeking.

Published: 1/14/2019
Length: ~21m
Adding tests to a big untested codebase - Where do I start?

Where do you start when you're adding tests to an untested codebase? That's what we're talking about in today's episode of developer tea.

Published: 1/11/2019
Length: ~11m
5 Tips for Improving Your Principles of Experimentation

In today's episode, we're talking about variables to inspect when encountering different problems. At the end of the episode, you'll get 5 tips to add to your toolkit to use when you can use in approach to various problems.

Published: 1/9/2019
Length: ~19m
Visualize Your Goals in Details

One of this year's goals may be to become a healthy developer. In today's episode, we're giving a few tips to keep you on a path to maintaining a healthy lifestyle as a developer.

Published: 1/7/2019
Length: ~22m
Expectations vs. Reality

What are you learning today? In today's episode, we're talking about movement in our careers and how our tools can be progressing or limiting our options and how to self-correct. We're also announcing the Tea Break Challenge!

Published: 1/4/2019
Length: ~15m
Interview w/ Ben Orenstein (pt. 2)

You might remember today's guest back in episode 19 & 20. Today, we talk about new projects with the guest of the show, Ben Orenstein. During part 2 of this two-part episode, we dig into financial opportunities and I challenge you, while you're listening to this episode is to consider the lessons you've learned in 2018 and continue to grow in 2019.

Published: 1/2/2019
Length: ~36m
Interview w/ Ben Orenstein (Part 1)

You might remember today's guest back in episode 19 & 20. Today, we talk about new projects with the guest of the show, Ben Orenstein. During part 1 of this two-part episode, we dig into different opportunities in learning and I challenge you, while you're listening to this episode is to consider the lessons you've learned in 2018 and continue to grow in 2019.

Published: 12/31/2018
Length: ~45m
Interview w/ Michael Chan (pt. 2)

Today's episode of developer Tea is a personal episode with Michael Chan and today we're digging into faith, life and difficult situations. I challenge you as you're listening to part 1 of this week's two-part episode is to ask yourself how you would answer these same questions. Check out more about Michael Chan via his Twitter profile: @chantastic

Published: 12/28/2018
Length: ~54m
Interview w/ Michael Chan (pt. 1)

Today's episode of developer Tea is a personal episode with Michael Chan and today we're digging into faith, life and difficult situations. I challenge you as you're listening to part 1 of this week's two-part episode is to ask yourself how you would answer these same questions. Check out more about Michael Chan via his Twitter profile: @chantastic

Published: 12/27/2018
Length: ~62m
Why Rules Apply Especially to Exceptions

In today's episode, we're talking about a different way of looking at rules and perhaps come to a different conclusion on rules and understanding how and when rules apply.

Published: 12/14/2018
Length: ~17m
3 Practical Steps for Avoiding Narrative Biases

One of our brain's main jobs is to predict our safety and survival, and stories are one of the best ways to pass down a framework to predict the future based on past experiences. In today's episode, we're talking about the power of narrative and ways to break out of story-driven thinking.

Published: 12/12/2018
Length: ~23m
Proof of Complexity and Seeking Simplicity

Today we're talking about the reality that the work we're doing as developers is complex and those complexities interact with each other. In today's episode, we're talking about ways to chase simplicity when working on complex problems.

Published: 12/10/2018
Length: ~18m

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