Developer Tea

Your obstacles are not a test of pride or an opportunity to prove yourself. They are in your way. There's more than one way to deal with this - so why do we so often choose a difficult path? Perhaps it is pride, or maybe we like testing our fortitude. But if you care less about proving yourself and more about accomplishing your goals, you need to look at obstacles with more nuance. In this episode...

Growth and comfort rarely mix. But there's more to growth than getting uncomfortable. Different kinds of growth produce different kinds of uncomfortability; which types are you seeking?

What specific components of your situation have an outsized effect on you? What resonates in a given scenario? This mental model will help us understand and come to accept why sometimes things just "click." ✨ Sponsor: Remote Works (Podcast) The way we work has changed forever. In each episode of Remote Works, Host Melanie Green, tells an insightful story about how people and companies are adaptin...

You've hit a plateau - now what? Today we'll discuss two models for reframing your plateaus; perhaps you haven't hit the wall you think you've hit. ✨ Sponsor: Square Payment acceptance can be one of the most painful parts of building a web app for a business. When implementing checkout, you want it to be simple to build, secure, and slick to use. Square’s new Web Payment SDK raises the bar in pay...

In today's episode, we talk about how your baseline perceptions and assumptions are the building blocks of your leverage. ✨ Sponsor: Remote Works (Podcast) The way we work has changed forever. In each episode of Remote Works, Host Melanie Green, tells an insightful story about how people and companies are adapting. Check out Remote Works wherever you get your podcasts! 📮 Ask a Question  If you e...

Ethan Kross joins me today to talk about the importance of our inner voices. In his new book, Chatter, Ethan outlines how our inner voices affect us and how we can shape them as a helpful tool. Chatter on Amazon ✨ Sponsor: Square Payment acceptance can be one of the most painful parts of building a web app for a business. When implementing checkout, you want it to be simple to build, secure, and...

Ethan Kross joins me today to talk about the importance of our inner voices. In his new book, Chatter, Ethan outlines how our inner voices affect us and how we can shape them as a helpful tool. Chatter on Amazon ✨ Sponsor: Remote Works (Podcast) The way we work has changed forever. In each episode of Remote Works, Host Melanie Green, tells an insightful story about how people and companies are ad...

Humans have the unique ability to intentionally practice and better ourselves. What makes you grow? Are you inviting those triggers and contexts into your regular schedule? How are you making time for growth? Join the Developer Tea Discord community here: https://developertea.com/discord

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 this episode. ✨ Sponsor: Voyage Voyage is a tool built by and for developers. Voyage saves hours of your time by automating staging environments of your full-stack app for each pull request; and it includes feedback tools with each deploym...

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 Voyage is a tool built by and for developers. Voyage saves hours of your time by automating staging environments of your full-stack app for each pull request; and it includes feedback tools with each deployment so you don't have to juggle ema...

Ben Franklin used a system of improvement that we can learn from. The idea is simple: focus on one thing at a time.

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 make the choices we make. Katy also just released a brand new book, How To Change - be sure to check out both of these incredible resources! Choiceology on Schwab.com How To Change on Amazon ✨ Sponsor: Voyage Voyage is a tool built by and f...

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 podcasting world, Katy Milkman. Katy is the host of Choiceology, a podcast about why and how we make the choices we make. Katy also just released a brand new book, How To Change - be sure to check out both of these incredible resources! Choiceolo...

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.

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. Voyage saves hours of your time by automating staging environments of your full-stack app for each pull request; and it includes feedback tools with each deployment so you don't have to juggle emails, slack messages, and excel spreadsheets fr...

Uniqueness is not inherently valuable. Our heuristic brains interpret uniqueness as worth paying attention to and possibly valuable, and for that reason we tend to over-index on protecting that value by resisting things that make us less unique. But this can lead to inefficiency or an inaccurate picture of what actually generates value for your venture. ✨ Sponsor: Voyage Voyage is a tool built by...

Best practices feel universally and always applicable, but like anything, best practices require context.

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 around what it means to be a developer advocate! Ali has a passion for making code accessible and fun, and you'll hear that in this episode. ✨ Sponsor: Linode Thank you to long time sponsor and friends of the show Linode for sponsoring today's e...

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 around what it means to be a developer advocate! Ali has a passion for making code accessible and fun, and you'll hear that in this and the next episode. ✨ Sponsor: Linode Thank you to long time sponsor and friends of the show Linode for sponsor...

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 and that characterization may never be updated. In this episode we'll talk about this inversion, and how to push back on it.

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 and that characterization may never be updated. In this episode we'll talk about this inversion, and how to push back on it.

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 truth, and her new book, The Scout Mindset. Buy Julia's book, The Scout Mindset Julia's website Rationally Speaking, Julia's podcast ✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarkly Today's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature...

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 truth, and her new book, The Scout Mindset. Buy Julia's book, The Scout Mindset Julia's website Rationally Speaking, Julia's podcast ✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarkly Today's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature...

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 illusion.

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 more and more complex the further away we try to predict. We should be careful with our predictions. ✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarkly Today's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature management platform, empower...