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Interview w/ Julian Shapiro (part 2)

In today's episode, we're joined again by Julian Shapiro and in the second part of a two-part episode. In this episode, Julian talks about how his past experiences building projects lead him down the Marketing path he walks today.

Published: 11/16/2018
Length: ~42m
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Interview w/ Julian Shapiro (part 1)

In today's episode we're joined by Julian Shapiro and in this first part of a two-part episode, Julian talks about building Velocity. js and what he learned while building that project. Be sure to subscribe in whatever podcast app you use so you don't miss out on part-two, coming out this Friday.

Published: 11/14/2018
Length: ~37m
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Inhibition, Fear, and Two Mindsets for Moving Forward in the Face of Uncertainty

Fear can often keep us from moving forward and in today's episode, we're talking about different techniques to keep us moving into uncertainty one step at a time.

Published: 11/12/2018
Length: ~14m
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Make Programming Principles More Useful with These 3 New Angles

One of the ways you can do better work and uncover more about the world around you are through different patterns of thinking and angles that usually come from rules we've learned. In today's episode, we're focusing on rules and how we can approach a new rule from three different angles.

Published: 11/9/2018
Length: ~18m
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Could We All Be Right? Event vs. Construct Theories

When was the last time another developer said something that you disagreed with? In today's episode, we're talking about theories. How someone can be wrong but more often how we can all be right.

Published: 11/7/2018
Length: ~12m
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3 Rules for Designing Lasting Habits

In today's episode, we're talking about three rules or practices to live by when building healthy and sustainable habits.

Published: 11/6/2018
Length: ~28m
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Exit Points - Where Productivity Turns Into Procrastination

It's November now and we're closing in on the end of the year. As we look past the year and forward toward the future, we reflect and observe. Most of the days past were filled with things we could have done or what we could have done differently. On today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about habits and how we can build good habits.

Published: 11/5/2018
Length: ~21m
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3 Counterintuitive Rules of Communication with Co-workers

In today's episode, we're talking about communication with co-workers and how we can improve those interactions.

Published: 11/2/2018
Length: ~17m
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3 Considerations of Symmetry in Code

In today's episode, we're going to define symmetry in code and identify three things to consider when identifying what tradeoffs we're making in our work.

Published: 10/31/2018
Length: ~17m
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Learning React - Part 2 (Three lessons from the perpetual path)

Today's episode we're talking about three specific lessons that I've learned while working in React, and the hope is that this episode to help you consider how a tool can help you learn a concept.

Published: 10/30/2018
Length: ~22m
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Learning React - Part 1 (More than just tooling)

Usually, on this show, we talk about ideas or research, but in today's episode, we're talking about my personal experience learning React and how we can apply an experience of learning in your career as you're using it.

Published: 10/29/2018
Length: ~21m
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How to Argue Better

In today's episode, we're going to talk about a couple of strategies to get your ego out of the way so you can empathize with another person's opinion and argue better.

Published: 10/22/2018
Length: ~7m
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Three Perspective Shifts for Philosophical Engineering

In today's episode, we'll talk about vantage points or thoughts to ponder or lenses that we can look through to view our careers and goals from time to time and get a better grasp on the meaning for what we're doing in development.

Published: 10/19/2018
Length: ~15m
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Harmony Over Perfection

You are not the only person who matters in your purpose-driven career. That's what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea. Finding advocates within you team or with your customers with help you move faster in your career.

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

It's important to view yourself as more than a part of a story. In today's episode, we're talking about the self-sabotage that comes with algorithms we identify for ourselves and how we can learn from our past when planning for the future.

Published: 10/15/2018
Length: ~14m
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Elected Distractions

In today's episode, we're talking about ways that we intentionally give our attention to things that really don't matter, and how we can easily convince ourselves that a distraction is happening to us, instead of chosen.

Published: 10/12/2018
Length: ~11m
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Interview w/ Trevor Hinesley (Part 2)

Today we have an awesome guest that I met outside of his profession. Today's guest is Trevor Hinesley, who is the CTO of Soundstripe and in part 2 of this two-part interview with Trevor, we talk about some struggles that go along with being a leader at a company.

Published: 10/10/2018
Length: ~34m
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Interview w/ Trevor Hinesley (Part 1)

Today we have an awesome guest that I met outside of his profession. Today's guest is Trevor Hinesley, who is the CTO of Soundstripe, and in part 1 of this two-part interview with Trevor, we talk about the path we took to get to a leadership role.

Published: 10/8/2018
Length: ~30m
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Exploring the Dreyfus Model

In today's episode, we're going to talk about the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition.

Published: 10/5/2018
Length: ~13m
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How Code Evolves Through Human Influence

Working with code that's been directed by humans can be intimidating. We come to the table with our emotions, bias, opinions and experiences and approach writing code from one day to the next. In today's episode, we're talking about our humanity, combined with deadlines, revenue or other business goals get in the way of how we write our code day to day, but if we recognize the humanity in our code we can work on improving the way we work.

Published: 10/3/2018
Length: ~18m
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