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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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Why Great Developer Still Google Their Errors

Today we're talking about how we can still become great developers in craft and yet still find ourselves googling the things we've forgotten. We'll talk about how to get beyond ourselves as being great at something and remind ourselves that we are all continuing to learn and get better.

Published: 10/1/2018
Length: ~14m
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5 Learning Anti-Patterns

In today's episode, we're getting back to the bread and butter of learning and talking about the ways we learn and talk about five different anti-patterns for learning.

Published: 9/28/2018
Length: ~19m
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Three Co-Worker Anti-Patterns

In today's episode, we're talking about three anti-partners that you are probably experiencing or creating with your co-workers that you have learned, observed or emulated based on the people around us and specific behaviors that we can avoid to improve our relationships with our co-workers.

Published: 9/26/2018
Length: ~16m
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When (Not) To Listen To Advice

Think about a time when you got great advice. In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're going to talk about the relevance of advice we receive and how we should be listening and following the advice we get today and advice we've gotten in the past.

Published: 9/24/2018
Length: ~13m
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The Truth About Self-Consciousness & Likeability

Doing good work breaks down when you can't realize your own self-worth. In today's episode, we're talking about decision making. accepting that we'll make mistakes and the ability to take action in the face of uncertainty.

Published: 9/21/2018
Length: ~12m
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Advice and Survivorship

There are some huge glaring problems when we only look at successful people and try to emulate them. That's what we're going to talk about today, advice from successful people and what to question.

Published: 9/19/2018
Length: ~21m
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Evaluating the Downside of Shortcuts

In today's episode, we're talking about the idea that shortcuts lead to a faster solution. Typically we make shortcuts in the name of getting a minimum viable product out the door. We'll dig into what these shortcuts can do well and what we can miss is taking a shortcut as developers.

Published: 9/17/2018
Length: ~11m
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Purposeful Mini-Rituals

What are some key things that make up your days? In today's episode, we're talking about purposeful rituals to help us find our career purpose.

Published: 9/14/2018
Length: ~6m
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Change Yourself Instead of the World

What do you need to be happy? Today we're going to talk about finding the things that we need to make us happy in ourselves and where we can put our efforts to continue making us happy down the road.

Published: 9/12/2018
Length: ~13m
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Facing Fears Instead of Supporting Them

In today's episode, we're talking about uncovering internal fears and how we can face them, instead of avoiding them.

Published: 9/10/2018
Length: ~11m
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