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Exactly How Different Are You From Average?

We've been talking about making decisions and in today's episode, we're going to focus on the status quo.

Published: 11/6/2020
Length: ~11m
Think About Invisible Things More Often

As we come new to the close of 2020, we're thinking about a category of information that's hard to think about come naturally.

Published: 11/4/2020
Length: ~16m
Why It's Harder to Accept That You're Wrong if You Have More Experience

What are you most likely to be right about, and how do yo know?

Published: 10/28/2020
Length: ~10m
Explicitly Choose What You Won't Do

We all know things that we want to be better at. In today's episode, we're talking about things that we choose not to be good at.

Published: 10/26/2020
Length: ~12m
4 Ways Smart People Make Bad Decisions

If you're listening to this podcast, you probably aspire to make good decisions. In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're going to talk about 4 ways that smart people can make bad decisions.

Published: 10/21/2020
Length: ~22m
Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 2)

Your culture of leadership and management comes from the top. On today's episode of Developer Tea we're joined by Ravs Kaur. Ravs is the CTO at Uplevel and in the next two episodes she joins us to talk about leadership and management.

Published: 10/19/2020
Length: ~42m
Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 1)

Your culture of leadership and management comes from the top. In today's episode of Developer Tea we're joined by Ravs Kaur. Ravs is the CTO at Uplevel and in the next two episodes she joins us to talk about leadership and management.

Published: 10/14/2020
Length: ~34m
Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 2)

What are the benefits of picking up a new language? In today's episode, we're talking to Richard Feldman about Elm and some of the benefits of using Elm both in your career development and beyond. In this part two of our interview, we cover Richard's personal experiences with programming and writing.

Published: 10/8/2020
Length: ~50m
Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 1)

What are the benefits of picking up a new language? In today's episode, we're talking to Richard Feldman about Elm and some of the benefits of using Elm both in your career development and beyond. In this part 1 of the two part interview with Richard we discuss his journey into programming and in becoming an author.

Published: 10/8/2020
Length: ~40m
Self Confidence is Accepting Your Weakness

We talk about trust all the time on this show. In today's episode, we're talking about trust from the lens of looking at yourself.

Published: 10/5/2020
Length: ~11m
Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (part 2)

Today, we continue the conversation with the host of the Talk Python To Me Podcast, Michael Kennedy. In this part two of our interview with Michael, we cover hard questions for developers and how Michael would approach situations like, low points in his career.

Published: 9/30/2020
Length: ~32m
Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (Part 1)

Today's guest is the host of the Talk Python To Me Podcast, Michael Kennedy. In this part 1 of our two part interview with Michael, we cover how he got started with the Talk Python To Me Podcast and why he started it. Part 2 coming this Wednesday!

Published: 9/28/2020
Length: ~28m
Interview w/ David Marquet

How does your language effect your work and your team? If you're a leader, your language is everything. In today's episode, we sit down with the author of Leadership is Language, David Marquet, about how leadership and language are intertwined and what you can do to share your language to be a positive influence on your team.

Published: 9/25/2020
Length: ~25m
Give Up Control, On Purpose

What if you found out the things you thought were good for you, are actually the opposite. In today's episode, we're talking about the paradox of perception, and how it can be better to let certain things go.

Published: 9/21/2020
Length: ~11m
Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 2)

How will you feel when you're 20 years into the job? In today's episode we talk to the author of the "The Quick Python Book," and Chair Person of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi Ceder. In this Part 2 of our interview with Naomi, we talk about staying consistent for 20 years, and how to keep going when the going gets tough.

Published: 9/16/2020
Length: ~25m
Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 1)

How will you feel when you're 20 years into the job? In today's episode we talk to the author of the "The Quick Python Book," and Chair Person of the Python Software Foundation, Naomi Ceder. In this Part 1 of our interview with Naomi, we talk about how she got started with Python.

Published: 9/14/2020
Length: ~32m
Intention, Action and Result

What do you want? What would you like to accomplish in the next year? These are difficult questions to answer, and in truth, they are too simple. In today's episode of Developer Tea, we dig into questions typically asked of developers during reviews, and how to make broad questions more specific and easier to answer.

Published: 9/10/2020
Length: ~14m
Complexity Is A Scarce Resource

Complexity is often given a bad rap as an engineer. We're always trying to reduce complexity. In today's episode, we're viewing complexity as an expendable resource that helps us make better decisions.

Published: 9/8/2020
Length: ~12m
5 Stages Of Relationships With Mistakes

What is your relationship with mistakes? The thing about mistakes is that they will always happen. In today's episode, we're talking about acceptance of mistakes and how we can behave to deal with mistakes better.

Published: 9/2/2020
Length: ~20m
How Zero Sum and False Dichotomy Thinking is Distorting Your Decisions

Where do you feel most limited? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about cognitive distortions and the effects these make on how we make decisions.

Published: 8/31/2020
Length: ~12m

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