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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 we think about "normal" when so much has changed? ✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarkly LaunchDarkly is the leading feature flag management tool for the modern era of software engineering. If you are tired of nail-biting deployment all-nighters, check ou...

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 important way to reduce negative self-talk and improve decision making. Mentioned in this episode: Chatter

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 behavior. ✨ Sponsor: Redhat Get access to Redhat's exclusive developer resources. Head over to https://developers.redhat.com/about  to join for free today! 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a questio...

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 behavior. ✨ Sponsor: Square Build a custom point of sale that connects to Square Terminal, an all-in-one credit card device built by Square for contactless and card payments.  Start building with Square Terminal API by visiting https://deve...

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 have an overload of information. Our first reaction is to believe we need to know it all to succeed... But we immediately run into a problem: there's vastly more than we can ever handle. So we resort to silly brain tricks to convince oursel...

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 where we will work, and how COVID has changed the question all together. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com/contact. If you would lik...

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 you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com/contact. If you would like to join the new experimental DIscord group, reach out at developertea.com/contact, dev...

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 consider an alternate story.

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: Developer Tea Interview with Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg) - https://developertea.com/episodes/e140196f-6a26-4ff3-8f21-3848e53080ef ✨ Sponsor: ListenNotes.com With over 91 million episodes, Listen Notes is my new favorite way to find podcasts....

We underestimate the knowledge we have. (Interestingly, we also *over*-estimate the knowledge we have, just a different type of knowledge.) We also underestimate the knowledge we don't have. We overestimate the downside to failure, and we underestimate the downside to inaction. We are afraid of failure, but perhaps we should be more afraid of inaction. ✨ Sponsor: ListenNotes.com With over 91 mill...

Our first Friday Refill! Ignore motivation. Remove obstacles. Motivation is not your fuel. You already have enough motivation. Don’t add more. Focus on removing the small distractions, things that will add resistance. Tilt the scales.

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 also talk a little bit about non-linear curves and how they fit into this model. ✨ Sponsor: ListenNotes.com With over 91 million episodes, Listen Notes is my new favorite way to find podcasts. Whether I'm researching an author or trying to fin...

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. ✨ Sponsor: ListenNotes.com With over 91 million episodes, Listen Notes is my new favorite way to find podcasts. Whether I'm researching an author or trying to find something in a niche topic, Listen Notes has the search engine to make it happen....

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 reasons why believing you are right is easier than questioning yourself. ✨ Sponsor: ListenNotes.com With over 91 million episodes, Listen Notes is my new favorite way to find podcasts. Whether I'm researching an author or trying to find something...

🌎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 skills are more than just a portfolio. They also require an integrated approach; one skill modifies another. Focus on stacking your skills to make your learning and growth much higher leverage. 🔔Today's Sponsor: Red Hat The Red Hat Developer pr...

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 discrete number of options, but how much latitude there is in a given decision-making process. A few thoughts we consider: Are options always good? How often do we think about *all* of our options? Is there a way to trend towards having only goo...

You want to measure what matters. But your measurements might change what matters.   Understanding that anything that is measured might modify behaviors, it's important to then understand what should be targeted. How can we incentivize the right actions that produce the side effects we want, rather than incentivizing direct manipulation of those side effects?

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 Thank you to long time sponsor and friends of the show Linode for sponsoring today's episode! Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier. Lis...

It's hard to construct with deconstruction in mind. It's difficult to imagine designing for final shutdown. In this episode, we talk about the importance of transformation and change, and the ultimate reality of everything: it all ends, at some point. If we want to build better software and lead better lives, we should build with open eyes about the end.   Today, we also celebrate the shutdown of...

🌎 Things slowly fade to invisibility over time. Our conscious thinking is optimized to remove as much as possible. The more we can accomplish without hard thinking, the easier it is on our brains. As a side effect, much of the reality of our lives becomes invisible to us. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Retool Build internal tools, remarkably fast. Connect to anything w/ an API. Drag-and...

Becoming enlightened may not mean rising above everything. Instead, maybe it means zooming in. It's easy to believe that as we continue to get older, we care less and less about the details, and we care more about the "big picture." Interestingly, if you study individuals with high levels of excellence and experience, they tend to care deeply about the details and notice things others ma...

🌎 Exceptions are Unusual Exceptions are, by definition, unusual. An exception is something we wouldn't expect - out of the norm. Yet, we often craft much of our behavior around an abundance of perceived exceptions. In this episode, we talk about how this is a problem in code and in life, and a way to look at things differently. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Retool Build internal tools,...

In today's episode, I hope to challenge you to reconsider how you label your world. 🌎 Fix your labels Labeling Theory A game-theory math-oriented perspective on heuristics Some more on heuristics and bias   ✨ Sponsor: New Relic Thank you to   New Relic for sponsoring today's episode! Make managing and analysis of complex digital architectures work for you. Check them out at   NewRelic.com to bec...

Today, we're continuing the discussion of learning in public with guest, Shawn Swyx Wang .  Swyx is best known for being the Reactjs subreddit mod, and recently released the book, "The Coding Career Handbook".  In this part 2 with Swyx, we focus in on productivity, strategy and tactics of senior vs. junior engineers and what beginning engineers can do to level up in their career. 🌎 Swyx on the We...

This week, we continue the discussion of learning in public with guest, Shawn Swyx Wang .  Swyx is best known for being the Reactjs subreddit mod, and recently released the book, "The Coding Career Handbook".  In this part 1 with Swyx, we discuss his background and how he got started in engineering.  🌎 Swyx on the Web Swyx Twitter  Swyx Personal Website Swyx on GitHub The Coding Career Handbook ...