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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
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Becoming Your Best Coach - Questioning Your Self
You have the greatest potential to coach yourself. But first, you need to understand the ground rules, and build your coaching skills. We start that journey in…
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Sources of Truth
How do you determine what is valid, authoritative, useful, and true in your daily decisions and actions? What are your "sources of truth"? ✨ Sponsor: Voyage…
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Friday Refill - One Thing at a Time
Ben Franklin used a system of improvement that we can learn from. The idea is simple: focus on one thing at a time.
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Katy Milkman, Author of How to Change and Host of Choiceology, Part Two
On today's episode, I interview a personal hero of mine in the podcasting world, Katy Milkman. Katy is the host of Choiceology, a podcast about why and how we…
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(Fixed Audio) Katy Milkman, Author of How to Change and Host of Choiceology, Part One
The previous episode's audio had a bit of a hiccup - this one is fixed. Sorry about that! On today's episode, I interview a personal hero of mine in the…
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Friday Refill - Seeking a Different Inside View
Our inside view is not on the outside of others' inside views. In order to think empathetically, we need to develop skepticism about our own perspectives.
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Detaching to Seek an Outside View
Our inside view is made up of invisible, inescapable walls. Can we simulate an outside view? ✨ Sponsor: Voyage Voyage is a tool built by and for developers…
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Conflating Uniqueness with Value
Uniqueness is not inherently valuable. Our heuristic brains interpret uniqueness as worth paying attention to and possibly valuable, and for that reason we…
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Refill Friday - Best Practices and Asking When
Best practices feel universally and always applicable, but like anything, best practices require context.
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Welcome Back Ali Spittel - Part Two
In today's episode, we welcome back to the show Ali Spittel! Ali is a developer advocate at AWS Amplify. So, naturally in this episode, we discuss topics…
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Welcome Back Ali Spittel - Part One
In today's episode, we welcome back to the show Ali Spittel! Ali is a developer advocate at AWS Amplify. So, naturally in this episode, we discuss topics…
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Friday Refill - Complexity Inversion (Fixed)
It's easy to imagine we are more complex and others are more simple than is true. Often, we see ourselves as having nuance, while others are characterized once…
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Friday Refill - Complexity Inversion
It's easy to imagine we are more complex and others are more simple than is true. Often, we see ourselves as having nuance, while others are characterized once…
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The Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part Two
In today's episode, I have the joy of interviewing Julia Galef. Julia and I talk about updating your beliefs, the difficulty of fighting our biases, seeking…
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The Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part One
In today's episode, I have the joy of interviewing Julia Galef. Julia and I talk about updating your beliefs, the difficulty of fighting our biases, seeking…
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Introduce Intentional Asymmetry
Friday refill - happy Friday! We have a drive to balance everything. Move back towards the middle, maintain status quo. But usually, balance is wasteful and an…
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Narrative Complexity
In today's episode we run a thought experiment. What happens when a story changes? Can we ever get back "on track"? History is complex. Predicting history gets…
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Changing Work Environments and Availability Bias
Huge transitions are happening for most people right now. As this occurs, our environments will change. Partially as a result of the availability bias, we'll…
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Friday Refill: Making Limited Work Look Good on a Resumé
How do you make work look good on your resumé when you feel like you haven't done anything impressive? Only the people who work with you know the value of what…
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Minding the Observer Effect as We Transition Together
As we transition together through strange periods (whether at large scale like the present moment, or at a smaller scale within your organization or culture)…
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Find Your Values in the Dark
Uncomfortable places may feel dark, but they often carry the most illuminating lessons. In today's episode we discuss using these darker moments as a compass…
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Friday Refill: Seek Leverage and Access
Look at your calendar. What doors are opening? What exponential gains are you building? Leverage and access are the key to building your career long term.
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Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part Two
Today's guest is Dan Pupius, CEO and co-founder of Range. Dan cares deeply about creating products that make healthy and sustainable workplaces a common…
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Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part One
Today's guest is Dan Pupius, CEO and co-founder of Range. Dan cares deeply about creating products that make healthy and sustainable workplaces a common…
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Friday Refill - Stop Your Weekend Half-Thinking
We're all guilty of it - not letting that thing go that happened at work on Friday. But by giving it only partial energy over the weekend, we are likely not…
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Ban the Heroics On Your Team
Heroes appear when something has gone wrong. What does a team look like with no heroics? ✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarkly Today's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly…
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Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition (Corrected)
Hey folks - this is the corrected version of yesterday's episode. Apologies for the error! You need intuition to build incredible skill. But it's important to…
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Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition
You need intuition to build incredible skill. But it's important to develop a healthy caution towards intuition, as it can create a brittle framework for…
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Friday Refill: How Patience Pays Off
Patience is more than a virtue. Patience is a signal that you understand the importance of gratitude and the vanity of rushing or attempting to control what…
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Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part Two
Geoff Schmidt joins me to discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and how the responsibilities are shifting and roles are changing to give more leverage and better separation…
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Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part One
Geoff Schmidt joins me to discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and how the responsibilities are shifting and roles are changing to give more leverage and better separation…
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Friday Refills - Stop Predicting Your Priorities
We spend a lot of energy trying to predict our lives and priorities. This is mostly wasted - instead, we should spend our time understanding our values and…
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Superpowered Imagination
Much of our attention and effort is used trying to remove human influence and finding "raw" truth. Today, I want to ask you to do the opposite of that. ✨…
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Biases of Attention
There is far more information that we ignore than what we pay attention to. This selective attention is important to understand as both a necessary skill and a…
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Friday Refill - Divergent and Convergent Meetings
We seek agreement by default. It feels good. But is it what we really want? What we really need?
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Clean Up Your Goals
In today's episode we talk about good key results and objectives, and how to clean up your goals. Having a goal is not enough and knowing your principles and…
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Lego Problems - Modes of Operation on Component-Driven Problems
There are only so many ways you can manipulate LEGO. In today's episode we talk about those fundamental transformation steps and how they apply to your daily…
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Friday Refill - Anchor Behaviors
When you feel a sense of chaos has overwhelmed your week, it can be tempting to want to check out for the weekend. But in today's episode we discuss a tool…
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Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part Two
Quincy Larson might be responsible for at least one very important part of your career: the beginning. That's because Quincy is the founder of freeCodeCamp, a…
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Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part One
Quincy Larson might be responsible for at least one very important part of your career: the beginning. That's because Quincy is the founder of freeCodeCamp, a…
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Friday Refills - Rest is Not an Optional Luxury
Your obligations are usually the result of your systemic choices. You have no choice but to rest and recover. Choose to affirm your choices instead of living…
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Post-Pandemic Work and Life as an Engineer - Skills for a Different Future
In today's discussion, we will look at what it will take to prepare for the changes we will see as we transition out of the worldwide pandemic, and into a…
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Post-Pandemic Life and Work as an Engineer: Back to Normal-ish
In today's episode we continue our discussion about what life will be like when the pandemic ends... whenever that will be. Will we go back to normal? How can…
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Self Distancing
Your own internal voice may need to back off a little bit. Distancing from our self-talk and imagining a distant future (or distant present) might be one…
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Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part Two
Jonas Downey is the design lead at Basecamp. In this interview we discuss the ethics of designing and building constraints into your product that change human…
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Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part One
Jonas Downey is the design lead at Basecamp. In this interview we discuss the ethics of designing and building constraints into your product that change human…
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Friday Refills - Don't Cram the Information Firehose... Filter and Focus!
We are not well adapted to focus and filter information. For the majority of human history, the information available was virtually all relevant. But now, we…
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Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer - Remote Everything?
In this episode, we continue series of episodes about how COVID has and will continue to affect our lives and jobs as software engineers. We'll talk about…
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Series kickoff - Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer
In this episode, we kick off a series of episodes about how COVID has and will continue to affect our lives and jobs as software engineers. 📮 Ask a Question If…
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Friday Refill: Consider an Alternate Story
Much of our lives are determined by our internal voices. These voices tell us a story that is hard to imagine differently. But it's an important skill to…
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Paying the Tax for Our Decisions
Every episode has its downside. In this episode we talk about a mental model called the "Strategy Tax", and how it applies beyond business strategy. Mentioned…
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The Downside to Inaction
We underestimate the knowledge we have. (Interestingly, we also *over*-estimate the knowledge we have, just a different type of knowledge.) We also…
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Friday Refill - Ignore Motivation, Focus On Removing Obstacles
Our first Friday Refill! Ignore motivation. Remove obstacles. Motivation is not your fuel. You already have enough motivation. Don’t add more. Focus on…
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The Bucket Model
Discrete and continuous data are all around us. In today's episode, we talk about a specific model of thinking that combines discrete and continuous. We'll…
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The Shape of Work
In today's episode, we talk about how much of our behavior is shaped by the invisible assumptions we make about our constraints, abilities, and context. ✨…
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Why We Believe Ourselves (Even When We're Proven Wrong)
Why do we believe we are right, even when it's easy to see we're wrong? There are psychological reasons, and there are basic biological and even logical…
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Designing Your Skill Portfolio
🌎Design your skills together, as a portfolio. Portfolios benefit from diversity and risk management. You can think about your skills in the same way. But…
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Optionality Sweet Spot
Today, we talk about options. The word "optionality" typically refers to the amount of flexible agency a person has in a given scenario; not necessarily a…
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The Dangers of Measuring Side Effects
You want to measure what matters. But your measurements might change what matters. Understanding that anything that is measured might modify behaviors, it's…
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If Actions Speak Louder Than Words, What Are Yours Saying?
Your actions speak louder than words. You already know that. But have you asked yourself what your actions are saying about who you are? ✨ Sponsor: Linode…