Developer Tea

The difference between speed and acceleration is vast. When driving at a consistent speed, you often don't notice how quickly you're going, but when you accelerate, you feel it immediately. In today's episode, we're talking about the feeling of falling behind when you stop accelerating or learning as quickly as a developer and start to steadily travel down your career. We'll talk about specific sc...

How do you react to stressful situations? In today's episode we're talking about expectations versus the realities of how we respond to new stress in our daily lives and a concept that could help redirect actions to help you better manage how you respond to and handle stress. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It h...

Most change we experience in our world is unpredictable and uncontrollable. So if change is happening all around us, constantly, how can we maintain homeostasis? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about different ways to view change and better accept change that you're not particularly excited about. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head...

The idea of having long-term mental models and habits that you've built over time is the route to lasting change. However, sometimes our lasting habits can become so ingrained in our day-to-day that they can limit us in personal and professional growth. In today's episode, we're talking about cases when our habits are standing in our way of growth and what we can do about it. 🧡 Leave a Review If...

We can't anticipate everything that is going to happen as developers and sometimes we over-prepare for any events that could happen as a developer. In today's episode, we're talking about when overreaction is appropriate and when it can get in the way of a more nimble and simple response. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a...

In today's episode, we're talking about coping with remote work and how to be mindful during social distancing. We'll cover the different effects remote work can have on your work and home life and focus on the environmental changes when opting into a remote work environment. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It h...

What is your mindset? In this second part of our discussion with Carl Yates Perry, we're talking about healthy developer mindsets and how to identify a healthy team mindset and how your team mindset can affect your own growth. Carl Yates Perry On The Web Twitter 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other dev...

Carl Yates Perry leads Square's developer business but made a few tough career decisions to get there. In today's part 1 of this 2-part conversation with Carl Yates Perry, we're digging into his career trajectory and how he knew when it was time to make the next career change. Carl Yates Perry On The Web Twitter 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head ove...

In today's episode we're digging into the C2 wiki interview with Bill Venners, which focuses on flattening the cost of change over time so that cost becomes more constant. C2.com Bill Venner's interview 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matter...

Tools are not a solution to a problem, but people are. In today's episode, we're talking about how choosing the right tool for the job can limit us to uncovering a better solution to the problems we're trying to solve. How can we choose a tool best suited for the operator doing the job? 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a re...

Happy Saturday! In today's episode, we're asking four questions that cause us to pause and reflect in order to answer. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you. 🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge This is a daily challenge designed...

Whenever you take action, there will be feedback. Today we're talking about when to break your own rules and solve a problem. There are functional reasons to break rules, but what are the possible long-term repercussions of our decisions and how can we regulate our incentives to break rules better? 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes an...

Searching for a job is hard for both the people looking for a new job and a company looking for the perfect candidate to fill a position. In today's episode, we're talking about a different way to approach your next job search. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other developers discover the show and keep...

Think about the mundane tasks that you're going through today. In today's episode we're talking about finding joy in even the small things that we do on a daily or weekly basis. How are the small things we do, connected to a larger goal? 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other developers discover the show...

Studies show strong-willed friends, greatly influence your choices. In today's episode, we're talking about the experiences and relationships that influence our personal drive and behavior. The things that influence you are the things that teach you, and the people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors and reactions through learned habits. How does the team you'er on influence your c...

Today we're talking about time as a resource of abundance. We'll cover self-care as an investment, work as something that you can enjoy more consistently and free-time as something you can learn and grow from. Today's challenge will be to enjoy your life, no matter where you're at. 🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a b...

A model is not the pure picture of the truth. If we think about road maps as we use them today, they are almost always slightly out of date. In what way can a map be useful as they relate to developers? In today's episode, we're talking about how we can easily abuse a model by changing a problem to fit a model that a team relies on and the repercussions of broken models in our code and our career...

We often hear the term, "process", and this carries a lot of baggage. It's easy to believe that processes are one concept that we apply to something we do. In today's episode, we're talking about implicit processes that we follow without realizing it. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other deve...

The freedom we want to create as managers is the freedom to disagree and solve problems towards a goal. In today's episode we're talking about freedom and autonomy among a team and offering different ways managers can provide as much freedom and autonomy as possible to their team. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review !...

What does it mean to be confused? In today's episode, we're talking about confusion and how we manage and learn from points of professional confusion. We'd dig into the perception of confusion in the workplace and offer tips to embrace confusion both in ourselves and with our co-workers. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a r...

Take a problem that you expect to face - one that you haven't solved yet or taken action on but have an ideal of how you would take action. Today's thought experiment is to imagine rejecting your proposed solution and forced to think of an alternative solution. What exactly are you solving? 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave...

When we allow surrounding cultures to drive our goals, we fall back to the systems and goals that the people around us have created. Where do our goals come from and how does it make our lives dysfunctional? 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what m...

The amount of time in a day is the same but the amount of margin you have in your day can vary. In today's episode, we're talking about some heuristics for choosing the best activities for your time and value output. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused...

When was the last time you asked a question in a meeting? Questions are an invitation to collaboration, especially in our jobs as developers. In today's episode we're talking about the questions we've been asked that change the way we think. This episode will challenge you to be vulnerable and ask more questions for the sake of your code and professional growth. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoyin...

In today's episode we're talking about the idea of interfaces as some kind of expected way to interact with our code and how to take that frame of mind to our day-to-day lives. Being explicit about what we need to make our days successful can be rare but it might make sense to imagine each day as it's own function and the outputs that you want for each day. What kind of outputs do you want to happ...