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Developer TeaThe Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part TwoIn 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 MindsetJulia's websiteRationally Speaking, Julia's podcast✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarklyToday's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature management platform, empowering your teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, you can deploy faster, reduce risk, and rest easy.📮 Ask a QuestionIf you...
2021-04-2148 minDeveloper TeaThe Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part OneIn 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 MindsetJulia's websiteRationally Speaking, Julia's podcast✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarklyToday's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature management platform, empowering your teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, you can deploy faster, reduce risk, and rest easy.📮 Ask a QuestionIf you...
2021-04-1936 minDeveloper TeaNarrative ComplexityIn 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: LaunchDarklyToday's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature management platform, empowering your teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, you can deploy faster, reduce risk, and rest easy.📮 Ask a QuestionIf yo...
2021-04-1417 minDeveloper TeaChanging Work Environments and Availability BiasHuge 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 also see peoples' behaviors and thought patterns will also change. We'll talk about how this bias works in today's episode.✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarklyToday's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature management platform, empowering your teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, you can deploy faster, reduce risk, and rest easy.📮 Ask a QuestionIf yo...
2021-04-1217 minDeveloper TeaDan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part OneToday'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 occurrence. We talk in depth about designing constraints and opinions into products with the long term in mind. Don't miss the next episode - subscribe today!✨ Sponsor: SquareSquare's Terminal API makes payments easy, whether in person, in-app, or both. Process payments on every platform imaginable. Get started today at https://developertea.com/square📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discu...
2021-03-2939 minDeveloper TeaBan the Heroics On Your TeamHeroes appear when something has gone wrong. What does a team look like with no heroics?✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarklyToday's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature management platform, empowering your teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, you can deploy faster, reduce risk, and rest easy.📮 Ask a QuestionIf 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...
2021-03-2417 minDeveloper TeaTwo 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 develop a healthy caution towards intuition, as it can create a brittle framework for thinking. In this episode, we discuss both sides of this.✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarklyToday's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature management platform, empowering your teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, you can deploy faster, reduce risk, and rest easy...
2021-03-2319 minDeveloper TeaTwo Blessings and Two Curses of IntuitionYou 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 thinking. In this episode, we discuss both sides of this.✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarklyToday's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature management platform, empowering your teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, you can deploy faster, reduce risk, and rest easy.📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to disc...
2021-03-2219 minDeveloper TeaGeoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part TwoGeoff Schmidt joins me to discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and how the responsibilities are shifting and roles are changing to give more leverage and better separation of concerns between client side and service architectures.✨ Sponsor: RedhatGet access to Redhat's exclusive developer resources. Head over to https://developers.redhat.com/about to join for free today!📮 Ask a QuestionIf 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 t...
2021-03-1727 minDeveloper TeaGeoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part OneGeoff Schmidt joins me to discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and how the responsibilities are shifting and roles are changing to give more leverage and better separation of concerns between client side and service architectures.✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarklyToday's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature management platform, empowering your teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, you can deploy faster, reduce risk, and rest easy.📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a quest...
2021-03-1635 minDeveloper TeaClean Up Your GoalsIn 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 what makes you different from others is the hardest part.✨ Sponsor: SquareBuild 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://developertea.com/square today!📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to...
2021-03-0422 minDeveloper TeaLego Problems - Modes of Operation on Component-Driven ProblemsThere 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 problem solving.✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarklyToday's episode is sponsored by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly is today’s leading feature management platform, empowering your teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, you can deploy faster, reduce risk, and rest easy.📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on...
2021-03-0119 minDeveloper TeaQuincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part TwoQuincy 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 non-profit teaching millions of people to code.In this and the last episode we talk all about what it means to be a beginner.✨ Sponsor: SquareSquare's Terminal API makes payments easy, whether in person, in-app, or both. Process payments on every platform imaginable. Get started today at https://developertea.com/square📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to...
2021-02-2441 minDeveloper TeaQuincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part OneQuincy 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 non-profit teaching millions of people to code.In this and the next episode we talk all about what it means to be a beginner.✨ Sponsor: SquareSquare's Terminal API makes payments easy, whether in person, in-app, or both. Process payments on every platform imaginable. Get started today at https://developertea.com/square📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to...
2021-02-2237 minDeveloper TeaPost-Pandemic Work and Life as an Engineer - Skills for a Different FutureIn 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 post-pandemic world.✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarklyLaunchDarkly 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 out https://launchdarkly.com to start your boring deployments today!📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it ov...
2021-02-1729 minDeveloper TeaPost-Pandemic Life and Work as an Engineer: Back to Normal-ishIn 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: LaunchDarklyLaunchDarkly 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 out https://launchdarkly.com to start your boring deployments today!📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you h...
2021-02-1523 minDeveloper TeaDesign Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part TwoJonas 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: RedhatGet access to Redhat's exclusive developer resources. Head over to https://developers.redhat.com/about to join for free today!📮 Ask a QuestionIf 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...
2021-02-1038 minDeveloper TeaDesign Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part OneJonas 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: SquareBuild 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://developertea.com/square today!📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it ove...
2021-02-0841 minDeveloper TeaPost-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 where we will work, and how COVID has changed the question all together.📮 Ask a QuestionIf 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, developertea@gmail.com, or @developertea on Twitter.
2021-02-0311 minDeveloper TeaSeries kickoff - Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an EngineerIn 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 QuestionIf 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, developertea@gmail.com, or @developertea on Twitter.🧡 Leave a ReviewIf you're enjoying the show and want to sup...
2021-02-0113 minDeveloper TeaPaying the Tax for Our DecisionsEvery 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.comWith 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. Search for almost anything, for free, rig...
2021-01-2717 minDeveloper TeaThe Downside to InactionWe 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.comWith 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 se...
2021-01-2524 minDeveloper TeaThe Bucket ModelDiscrete 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.comWith 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. Search for almost anything, for free, right now! Head over to ListenNotes.com...
2021-01-2120 min
Developer TeaWhen To Walk Away From (and come back to) A ProblemWhen do you walk away from a problem to find the solution?
In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're answering this question submitted from a listener.
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2020-05-0111 min
💻 codingListener Question: Joel Asks About Remote Work As A Junior Developer Podcast: Developer Tea (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Listener Question: Joel Asks About Remote Work As A Junior DeveloperPub date: 2017-06-14In today's episode we answer a listener question from Joel who writes in: What do you do when there are no jobs in your area and you're a developer with a family?
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2020-02-1320 min💻 codingListener Question: Joel Asks About Remote Work As A Junior Developer Podcast: Developer Tea (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Listener Question: Joel Asks About Remote Work As A Junior DeveloperPub date: 2017-06-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn today's episode we answer a listener question from Joel who writes in: What do you do when there are no jobs in your area and you're a developer with a family?
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2020-02-1320 min
Developer TeaIterative LearningIn today's episode, we discuss the importance of applying iteration to learning.
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2017-07-2621 min
Developer TeaThe Value of The Third OptionIn today's episode, we talk about how important a third option can be in decisionmaking processes.
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2017-07-1717 min
Developer TeaDon't Throw It Over the WallIn today's episode, we talk about a specific type of collaboration, and a pitfall most development and design teams end up falling into.
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2017-07-1210 min
Developer TeaListener Question: Andy Asks About His Degree in MechatronicsIs a degree in mechatronics worth it? (Also, what is mechatronics?) We'll talk about this listener question in today's episode.
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2017-07-0519 min
Developer TeaSpiral LearningIn today's episode, we talk about "Spiral Learning."
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2017-06-1610 min
Developer TeaListener Question: Joel Asks About Remote Work As A Junior DeveloperIn today's episode we answer a listener question from Joel who writes in: What do you do when there are no jobs in your area and you're a developer with a family?
Today's episode is sponsored by Rollbar
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2017-06-1420 min
Developer TeaListener Question: Abigail asks about Interview AttireIn today's question, Abigail asks about appropriate interview attire! Ask your question at developertea@gmail.com.
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2016-09-2811 min