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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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Habits of Successful Software Engineers - Seeking Feedback

In today's episode, we're talking about the habits of successful engineers.

Published: 3/1/2019
Length: ~15m
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Stress Response and Anger as a Secondary Emotion

In today's episode, we're going to talk about the different stages of stress and how we can better manage our influence in the job when we're experiencing a stressful situation.

Published: 2/27/2019
Length: ~16m
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Problem Solving Intuitions - Additive, Subtractive and Reorganizational Thinking

In today's episode, we're talking about solving problems by subtraction vs. additive solutions.

Published: 2/25/2019
Length: ~11m
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Starting Your Work Day with Autonomy

One of the most valuable things you've got is the first part of your working day. In today's episode, we're talking about the best use of those first hours in your day.

Published: 2/22/2019
Length: ~9m
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Making Decisions - Fighting Fear and Time Warping

One of the barriers to connecting with your career purpose is fear. In today's episode, we're going to talk about working toward your goals knowing that fear will be there with you.

Published: 2/20/2019
Length: ~12m
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How We Construct Software, Part 4b: Code and Communication

In today's episode, we dive into the rest of the communication model we started discussing in the previous episode in this series.

Published: 2/19/2019
Length: ~22m
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How We Construct Software, Part 4a: Code and Communication

In part four of our discussion on how we construct software, we're discussing a theory of communication, and how it applies to code. This is a two-part episode (A and B) - subscribe so you don't miss the second half!

Published: 2/15/2019
Length: ~23m
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How We Construct Software - Part Three (Decision Variance)

In today's episode, we discuss factors that lead to decision variance when constructing software.

Published: 2/13/2019
Length: ~16m
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How We Construct Software - Part Two (Beliefs and Models)

In today's episode, we're going to talk a little bit about belief.

Published: 2/11/2019
Length: ~17m
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How We Construct Software - Part 1 (Substitute Questions)

In this special series on Developer Tea we're talking about the different ways that software information flows.

Published: 2/8/2019
Length: ~14m
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Beating Procrastination

In today's episode, we're talking about specific reasons why we may be running into procrastination in our jobs.

Published: 2/6/2019
Length: ~10m
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Poisoning Retrospectives With Hindsight Bias

We recommend structured retrospectives. Identify things that went well and things that didn't go so well during a project or given week.

Published: 2/4/2019
Length: ~12m
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When Best Practices Backfire - The Peltzman Effect

Today, we're talking about risk compensation.

Published: 1/30/2019
Length: ~16m
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Replace Your Implicit Questions to Break Out of Incrementalism

Most of the changes you make as a developer are incremental. That's what we're talking about in today's episode.

Published: 1/28/2019
Length: ~21m
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