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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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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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