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Test Driven Meetings - Measuring Outputs and Side Effects

Take a moment and open your calendar. Look across the last week or two and look at the different meetings you had. Today, we're talking about meaningful meetings.

Published: 6/10/2019
Length: ~15m
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3 Assumptions That Can Hurt Your Job Search

What should we care about when looking for a job?

Published: 6/3/2019
Length: ~16m
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Mental Models w/ Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo (part 2)

One of the most amazing things about the human brain and it's ability to make connections. We talk with DuckDuckGo CEO, Gabriel Weinberg about just that in part 2 of this interview.

Published: 5/31/2019
Length: ~36m
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Mental Models w/ Gabriel Weinberg (part 1)

One of the most amazing things about the human brain and it's ability to make connections. We talk with DuckDuckGo CEO, Gabriel Weinberg about just that in part 1 of this interview.

Published: 5/29/2019
Length: ~37m
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Great Code is Marked by Flexibility

There is no one right way to write software. In today's episode we're talking about code that does what you want it to.

Published: 5/27/2019
Length: ~9m
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Crafting Your Work By Your Strengths

You are better off focusing on strengths and becoming an expert than improving your weaknesses to a level of mediocrity.

Published: 5/24/2019
Length: ~13m
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Make Your Problems Smaller

Make your problems small enough to fit in your head, then compose your solutions.

Published: 5/22/2019
Length: ~14m
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Three Things I Wish I Learned Earlier in My Career As A Software Developer

Three things I wish I knew starting out as a software developer.

Published: 5/20/2019
Length: ~15m
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3 Red Flags that You're Heading for Burnout

Listening requires that you have space. Burnout is a real effect and in today's episode we're talking about how to watch out for burnout.

Published: 5/17/2019
Length: ~14m
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3 Principles for Your Job Search

There's a difficult road in front of anyone who is on a job search. Occasionally, opportunities will land in your lap, but more often, it's a constant review of scanning job descriptions and applications.

Published: 5/15/2019
Length: ~21m
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Mental Simulations - Information (A)Symmetry

In our last episode we talked about big decisions. In today's episode, we're talking about uncovering new options that you didn't think existed.

Published: 5/13/2019
Length: ~10m
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Mental Simulations - Persona Perspectives

Our experience as humans is a difficult one to wrap our minds around. Often what we see clearly from the outside looking in is obscured from the inside looking out.

Published: 5/10/2019
Length: ~10m
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Metal Simulations - Artificial Constraints

Think back to a moment when your mind shifted at a fundamental level. Today, we're talking about mental simulations and artificial constraints

Published: 5/8/2019
Length: ~19m
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The Fear : Value Connection

What do you value? Values aren't always easy to find. In today's episode, we talk about using the lens of fear to understand our values better.

Published: 5/6/2019
Length: ~15m
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What Kind of Decisions Are You Optimizing For?

What Kind of Decisions Are You Optimizing For? In today's episode, we focus on the individual contributor level and managerial level.

Published: 5/3/2019
Length: ~22m
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Contingencies and Planning for Failure

Most of the time, even when we're succeeding the steps we take on a daily basis are failures. Failure is what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea

Published: 5/1/2019
Length: ~16m
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Three Career-Changing Perspective Shifts When Preparing to Start A New Job

New jobs are exciting, but it can also be challenging. In today's episode we're talking about the perspective of starting a new job.

Published: 4/29/2019
Length: ~12m
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Uncovering Your Unconscious With Flagged Behaviors

Nobody choses to do things against our interest. In today's episode, we're talking about decisions we face on a daily basis.

Published: 4/26/2019
Length: ~15m
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Meetings - Good, Bad, Or Just Complex?

I want you to think back to the last meeting you had....did you feel like it was a waste of time?

Published: 4/24/2019
Length: ~14m
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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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