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Developer Tea
Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: developertea@gmail.com
Episodes
Developer TeaYou'll Never Have All of the Information
Today, we're talking about gathering information as part of the developer's job. We'll dive into what it means to use the information we have to translate or…
Developer TeaProductivity Isn't About How Much You Get done
Productivity is an endless hill. How can you increase the output of you or your team as an engineer? In today's episode, we're zooming out to explore how…
Developer Tea3 Guidelines for Happier Work with Designers
Clarity is hard to find when things are ambiguous. In today's episode, we're talking about solutions in uncharted territories and coming to conclusions from…
Developer TeaConnecting Tasks to Operating Modes
The work that you do and actions you take have outcomes. In today's episode, we're talking about finding better outputs through the actions and effort that we…
Developer TeaSuccess and Cumulative Advantage
What are the common systems of successful people? In today's episode, we're talking about the common systems of successful people, and how we could incorporate…
Developer TeaA Key Misconception About Resolutions
Happy New Year to everyone listening to this show! In today's episode we're focusing on automating as much of our daily life as we can and one misconception of…
Developer TeaHoliday Re-Air: Interview w/ Gabriel Weinberg (part 2)
Today's guest, Gabriel Weinberg, the CEO of DuckDuckGo uses connections to help steer the company. What we're talking about today with Gabriel are mental…
Developer TeaHoliday Re-Air: Interview w/ Gabriel Weinberg
Today's guest, Gabriel Weinberg, the CEO of DuckDuckGo uses connections to help steer the company. What we're talking about today with Gabriel are mental…
Developer TeaSimplifying
This is the last episode of the 2019 year, and like most people spending time with family and preparing for the upcoming year, we're thinking about goals. In…
Developer TeaWhat We Do With a Lack of Information
What exactly does it mean to forget? In today's episode we're talking about perspective. Most of what we experience in our day-to-day will eventually be…
Developer TeaDisagreeing Better, On Purpose
Imagine you're running a team. As a manager, you're setting up the processes and expectations among your team. What are the organizational responsibility…
Developer TeaTwo More Guidelines for Better Feedback Loops (Part Three)
Developers tend to create process for themselves and a shared process with a team, but what defines whether or not a process is useful? In today's episode…
Developer TeaTwo Guidelines for Better Feedback Loops (Part Two)
Take a moment and imagine three or four days ago. Replay a mundane event, like your commute. Imagine each movement and turn you need to make to arrive where…
Developer TeaBetter Feedback Loops (Part One) - Validation and Cycle Time
We are embarking on the end of the decade. January 1st, 2020 marks a new decade and this means a lot of people are reflecting on the past decade. Specifically…
Developer TeaJustifying Feature Work with User Roles and Motivations
In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about wasting time on features we hope are useful, but turn out not to be. We can't control for every single…
Developer TeaHypocognition and the Importance of Concepts
Imagine for a moment that you don't have a concept for what a podcast is. In today's episode, we're talking about shared concepts and the ideas that come out…
Developer TeaColliding Titles and Roles
Titles for developers are meant to quickly describe our function we play on a team and allow us to set expectations. Where this can go wrong is when we…
Developer TeaManaging Requests, Making Commitments
Requests are tied to expectations. In today's episode, we're talking about managing overload of requests and managing expectations so we can focus on our goals…
Developer TeaThe Benefit of Our Predecessors
If you were born one year earlier, something would likely have changed in your life. In today's episode, we're taking a moment to express a bit of gratitude…
Developer TeaThe Illusion of Balancing Priorities
If a team agrees to a set of goals and values, then our priorities should align, yet it too often falls on individuals to negotiate their priorities with the…
Developer TeaCommit To Actions, Measure Outcomes
How do we end up in a place where our responsibilities and commitments outrun our cognitive ability to fulfill them? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we'll…
Developer TeaCheck Your Leverage
Your words have power. They can influence the people around you. Your words matter. In today's episode, we're talking about what our words mean to our fellow…
Developer TeaMeetings Can Trick Your Emotions
Meetings are often times the only chance to have a face-to-face conversations with your co-workers and can occasionally end in good feelings that only fade as…
Developer TeaPreserving Subcultural Language
Vocabulary is the basis of language and unique cultural meaning. Developers share a common code and have created their own vocabulary and language over time…
Developer TeaDifferent Behaviors with the Same Values - Practicing Modes
Hopefully the last episode about modifier functions and behaviors helped spark and idea of how you might change small behaviors and cascade that into bigger…
Developer TeaHow Small Behaviors Cascade into Life-Changing Results
Context is a big deal in the job of a developer. In today's episode, we're applying a zoomed out model of thinking to everyday behavior to make us better…
Developer TeaFocusing On Improving One Value At A Time
If you were to list your values today, it's likely that the list is not simple. There's a lot to understand when we try to explain what we think and our place…
Developer TeaTracing Chained Motivations
What causes us to do the things we do? In today's episode, we're discussing the complexity of motivations and identifying the chains of motivations in our…
Developer TeaProductivity In The Face of Ambiguity with Functional Assumptions
Senior engineers will often answer questions by peers starting with, "It Depends." In today's episode, we're talking about getting beyond the "It Depends"…
Developer TeaAsk Better Questions
We've talked a lot about questions on this show. Questions are a powerful tool for developers and our collaboration. In today's episode, we're talking about…
Developer TeaInterview with Anil Dash (Part 2)
Anil is the CEO of Glitch, an activist, writer and host of the podcast, Function. In today's episode, we sit down with Anil to talk about animating…
Developer TeaInterview with Anil Dash (Part 1)
Anil is the CEO of Glitch. He's an activist, writer and host of the podcast, Function. In today's episode, we sit down with Anil to talk about the origin story…
Developer TeaSeeking a Disconnected Perspective
Finding perspective is a key component of this show and in today's episode, we're going to explore a visualization of perspective to help us get a more zoomed…
Developer TeaBalancing Accountability and Empathy
Accountability provides an observable access to the things you're committing to following through on. Whatever your commitment is, having accountability means…
Developer TeaHabits of Successful Software Engineers - Multiplying Value by Thinking in Systems
Most of what we do as developers is solve problems. In today's episode, we're talking about the skill of problem solving and working out hard problems in more…
Developer TeaMessages in Object Oriented Programming
In today's episode we're talking about a misconception that many developers carry about object oriented programming. We'll keep the episode short today but in…
Developer TeaBe Present While Thinking on the Past and Future
If you're living like the average developer, you have a lot of things coming up. Events, plans and holidays to name a few. We're looking forward based on our…
Developer TeaLeverage As A Career Heuristic
How do you set your goals? In the context of a company and as an individual contributor. In today's episode, we're talking about sustainability as a heuristic…
Developer TeaDon't Use Transparency As a Weapon
In today's episode we're talking about a behavior that's gained a lot of traction lately and that's being candid with people. We're going to talk about why…
Developer TeaSteps to Become a Terrible Developer
What does it mean to be a bad developer? In today's episode, we'll focus on the actions that won't get you fired but while continuing to keep your job these…
Developer TeaThe Ocean of Choice Between Can and Will
Understanding the difference between can do and will do, might be the key to understanding the affordance of possibilities especially when it comes to…
Developer TeaPriming Effects
Today, we're talking about priming. Specifically in this episode we'll cover our reactions and responses to the things that happen to us on a day-to-day basis…
Developer TeaDealing With Overwhelm
Life gets overwhelming. In today's episode we'll talk about facing overwhelm and how can we focus on the things that matter the most and avoid crippling our…
Developer TeaAdmitting When You Don't Know
A lot of bad advice is given on ways to manage being in a bad interview as the interviewee. In this environment the interviewer is waiting for you to fail or…
Developer TeaFrom Explicit to Implicit: When Our Mental Energy is Wasted
In today's episode we talk about moving some wasteful processes and systems from explicit to implicit. Today's episode is sponsored by Bluemedora. Upgrade your…
Developer TeaImplicit to Explicit: Management Systems
In our last episode we talked about taking implicit or automatic processes and making them more explicit, bringing them to a slower thought process. If you're…
Developer TeaImplicit to Explicit: Perception and Emotions
In our last episode we talked about taking implicit or automatic processes and making them more explicit, bringing them to a slower thought process. In today's…
Developer TeaMoving Implicit Systems to Be More Explicit
Auto-pilot systems that we use to help us make decisions can be incredibly useful and in the worst of times these can take away from our ultimate goals. In…
Developer TeaProgress by Habit, Perception by Exception
In today's episode, we're talking about the relationship between our perception of habits and how those effect the outlook on our careers. How does our…
Developer TeaProduct Mindset w/ Jessica Hall (Part 2)
Today's episode we're joined by Jessica Hall, Co-Author of the book Product Mindsetand in this part two of our two part interview with Jessica we dive deeper…
Developer TeaProduct Mindset w/ Jessica Hall (Part 1)
Today's episode we're joined by Jessica Hall, Co-Author of the book Product Mindsetand in this part one of our two part interview with Jessica we talk about…
Developer TeaHow To Be A Bad Manager
In today's episode, we're talking about bad managers but instead of outlining the things to avoid as a manager, we are looking at the things we want to do in…
Developer TeaImagining a Clearer Reality
Today, we discuss the difficulty of imagining an alternate reality, and how that affects our decision making for the future. This episode is sponsored by…
Developer TeaDigging Up Your Purpose
In today's episode, we discuss the difficulty of finding your personal purpose, and the tension we can all feel when we can't put our finger on our purpose…
Developer TeaThe Nuances of Behavior and Research
In today's episode we're talking about behavior changes. Specifically motivations and how tricky it is to find the things we need to accomplish the goals we're…
Developer TeaAdvice I Would Have Rejected Ten Years Ago
We can all expect to change daily, monthly and yearly. In today's episode, we're going through an exercise to identify changes we've experienced in our lives…
Developer TeaYour Purpose is Not a Point in the Future
One of the most common topics for this show is the topic of finding purpose as a driven developer. In today's episode, we're talking about a different way to…
Developer TeaListen To This In You're Feeling Stuck
The feeling of being stuck is hard and emotionally draining. In today's episode, we're providing strategies to help you get unstuck when you find yourself in…
Developer TeaImprove Your Team by Rejecting These Bad Assumptions
We talk a lot about setting ourselves up for personal success. In today's episode, we're focusing on the philosophies of self-improvements as they would relate…
Developer TeaUsing Pre-Mortems to Find the Opposition to Our Focus
In today's episode, we're talking about why we lose focus and how we can get back into a focus state when it's lost. Get in touch If you have questions about…