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Modeling Decisions as Dynamic Functions

As a developer, part of your job is estimating risk and value. In today's episode we're talking changing our risk and value evaluations from a static process to a functional process.

Published: 4/22/2019
Length: ~16m
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Thinking in Bets w/ Annie Duke (part 2)

What if every decision you made had a bet attached to it? That's

Published: 4/19/2019
Length: ~41m
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Thinking in Bets w/ Annie Duke (part 1)

What if every decision you made had a bet attached to it? That's

Published: 4/17/2019
Length: ~39m
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Uncovering Deeper Motivations and Goals

Take a moment to think about one of your most important goals in life.

Published: 4/15/2019
Length: ~18m
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Ambiguous Goals, Concrete Actions

When you talk about career goals, you often talk about results.

Published: 4/12/2019
Length: ~15m
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Focusing Career Progress

No matter where you are in your career, whether a developer, designer, PM or manager you have aspirations.

Published: 4/10/2019
Length: ~15m
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Fail Mode

Imagine for a moment that you are a hiring manager who needs to determine who is a good addition to a team of developers. You need to make a judgement call. That's what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea

Published: 4/8/2019
Length: ~12m
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Feedback Shouldn't Be Scary

How can a concept mean so many different things for different people? Why does feedback cause to fear for some and productivity to others?

Published: 4/3/2019
Length: ~14m
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Mental Accounting

What do company benefits, birthday presents, and IOUs have in common? That's what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea

Published: 4/1/2019
Length: ~11m
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Headroom

What makes you feel comfortable and safe? In today's episode, we're talking about taking risks.

Published: 3/29/2019
Length: ~9m
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Seek to Understand Rather than Persuade Others Perspectives

Take a moment to do a thought experiment. Remove your thought extractions.

Published: 3/27/2019
Length: ~15m
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Bonus Episode - Soft Skills Engineering Meets Developer Tea

Today is a special episode of Developer Tea, we're airing an episode in which Jonathan was interviewed by the folks at Soft Skills Engineering podcast.

Published: 3/26/2019
Length: ~35m
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Habits and Replacement Behaviors for Interrupting Triggers

What is the one thing you do automatically that you wish you could change?

Published: 3/22/2019
Length: ~9m
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Interview w/ Ali Spittel (part 2)

In part 2 of our interview with Ali we cover what Ali's working on now and things she wishes people would ask her more about.

Published: 3/20/2019
Length: ~28m
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Interview w/ Ali Spittel (part 1)

We all have different experiences coming into development, and today we talk with Ali Spittel, a software engineer at Dev.to, director at Women Who Code - DC and lead instructor at General Assembly.

Published: 3/18/2019
Length: ~29m
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Witness Protection Program

Do you trust yourself to know what you want?

Published: 3/15/2019
Length: ~13m
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Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Getting to Code Quickly and Model Thinking

In today's episode we're talking about two habits that successful software engineers employ when facing a problem.

Published: 3/13/2019
Length: ~14m
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Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Clarity, Brevity and Context

What do you do as a developer?

Published: 3/9/2019
Length: ~14m
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Interview w/ Bryan Helmig - CTO at Zapier (Part 2)

In today's episode, we continue the discussion with Bryan Helmig, CTO of Zapier

Published: 3/6/2019
Length: ~26m
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Interview w/ Bryan Helmig - CTO at Zapier (Part 1)

In today's episode, we talk with CTO and co-founder of Zapier, Bryan Helmig about the different challenges he faced when starting Zapier and the challenges he's facing today.

Published: 3/4/2019
Length: ~24m
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