In today's episode, we're going to talk about a couple of strategies to get your ego out of the way so you can argue better. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head ov...
Oct 22, 2018•7 min•Ep. 603
In today's episode, we'll talk about vantage points or thoughts to ponder or lenses that we can look through to view our careers and goals from time to time and get a better grasp on the meaning for what we're doing in development. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat...
Oct 19, 2018•15 min•Ep. 602
You are not the only person who matters in your purpose-driven career. That's what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea. Finding advocates within you team or with your customers with help you move faster in your career. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location. Developer Tea listeners can get a $20 credit and try it o...
Oct 18, 2018•12 min•Ep. 601
It's important to view yourself as more than a part of a story. In today's episode, we're talking about the self-sabotage that comes with algorithms we identify for ourselves and how we can learn from our past when planning for the future. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spect...
Oct 15, 2018•14 min•Ep. 600
In today's episode, we're talking about ways that we intentionally give our attention to things that really don't matter, and how we can easily convince ourselves that a distraction is happening to us, instead of chosen. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean provides an all-in-one cloud platform to help...
Oct 12, 2018•11 min•Ep. 599
Today we have an awesome guest that I met outside of his profession. Today's guest is Trevor Hinesley, who is the CTO of Soundstripe , and in part 2 of this two-part interview with Trevor, we talk about some struggles that go along with being a leader at a company. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean ...
Oct 10, 2018•34 min•Ep. 598
Today we have an awesome guest that I met outside of his profession. Today's guest is Trevor Hinesley, who is the CTO of Soundstripe , and in part 1 of this two-part interview with Trevor, we talk about the path we took to get to a leadership role. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean provides an all-i...
Oct 08, 2018•30 min•Ep. 597
In today's episode, we're going to talk about the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It he...
Oct 05, 2018•13 min•Ep. 596
In today's episode, we're talking about our humanity, combined with deadlines, revenue or other business goals get in the way of how we write our code day to day, but if we recognize the humanity in our code we can work on improving the way we work. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location. Developer Tea listeners can get a $20 credit a...
Oct 03, 2018•18 min•Ep. 595
Today we're talking about how we can still become great developers in craft and yet still find ourselves googling the things we've forgotten. We'll talk about how to get beyond ourselves as being great at something and remind ourselves that we are all continuing to learn and get better. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: .TECH The future of tech is going to be on domain names, but the great thing is that a lot of domains can be found with the .tech extension is still available. If you're look...
Oct 01, 2018•14 min•Ep. 594
In today's episode, we're getting back to the bread and butter of learning and talking about the ways we learn and talk about five different anti-patterns for learning. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location. Developer Tea listeners can get a $20 credit and try it out for free when you visit: linode.com/developertea and use promo code...
Sep 28, 2018•19 min•Ep. 593
In today's episode, we're talking about three anti-partners that you are probably experiencing or creating with your co-workers that you have learned, observed or emulated based on the people around us and specific behaviors that we can avoid to improve our relationships with our co-workers. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversat...
Sep 26, 2018•16 min•Ep. 592
Think about a time when you got great advice. In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're going to talk about the relevance of advice we receive and how we should be listening and following the advice we get today and advice we've gotten in the past. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location. Developer Tea listeners can get a $20 credit a...
Sep 24, 2018•13 min•Ep. 591
Doing good work breaks down when you can't realize your own self-worth. In today's episode, we're talking about decision making. accepting that we'll make mistakes and the ability to take action in the face of uncertainty. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location. Developer Tea listeners can get a $20 credit and try it out for free when...
Sep 21, 2018•12 min•Ep. 590
There are some huge glaring problems when we only look at successful people and try to emulate them. That's what we're going to talk about today, advice from successful people and what to question. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location. Developer Tea listeners can get a $20 credit and try it out for free when you visit: linode.com/de...
Sep 19, 2018•21 min•Ep. 589
In today's episode, we're talking about the idea that shortcuts lead to a faster solution. Typically we make shortcuts in the name of getting a minimum viable product out the door. We'll dig into what these shortcuts can do well and what we can miss is taking a shortcut as developers. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or ...
Sep 17, 2018•11 min•Ep. 588
What are some key things that make up your days? In today's episode, we're talking about purposeful rituals to help us find our career purpose. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support ...
Sep 14, 2018•6 min•Ep. 587
What do you need to be happy? Today we're going to talk about finding the things that we need to make us happy in ourselves and where we can put our efforts to continue making us happy down the road. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. Get a server running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location. Developer Tea listeners can get a $20 credit and try it out for free when you visit: linode.com/...
Sep 12, 2018•13 min•Ep. 586
In today's episode, we're talking about uncovering internal fears and how we can face them, instead of avoiding them. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean provides an all-in-one cloud platform to help developers and their teams save time while running and scaling their applications. Build your next app...
Sep 10, 2018•11 min•Ep. 585
In today's episode, we're going to talk about how the experiences you have influence your behaviors and the pros and cons of being experiences vs. experiencing something for the first time. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.chat/specfm/developer-tea 🧡 Leave a Review If...
Sep 07, 2018•12 min•Ep. 584
In today's episode, we're talking about our development beliefs and how we can prepare ourselves if those development beliefs are challenged and change. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean provides an all-in-one cloud platform to help developers and their teams save time while running and scaling thei...
Sep 05, 2018•11 min•Ep. 583
We talk about bias on this show quite a bit but haven't talked about what biases are. In today's episode, we're going to identify different types of biases and give you some tools to respond when you notice yourself reacting to bias. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know if you found this episode valuable I encourage you to join the conversation or start your own on our community platform Spectrum.ch...
Sep 03, 2018•9 min•Ep. 582
Today we're talking about intentionally defined systems to help us do our jobs better, so we can do our work smarter in the long term. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean provides an all-in-one cloud platform to help developers and their teams save time while running and scaling their applications. Bu...
Aug 31, 2018•11 min•Ep. 581
It's the middle of the week and if you're like most people, you go into auto-pilot to get from the beginning of your day to the end of your day. In today's episode, we're reflecting on how we acted yesterday and exploring our opportunities ahead of us. Thanks to Breaker for sponsoring today's episode! Breaker just came out with a new option to subscribe without sponsor messages to the developer tea podcast. Developer Tea will continue to offer free sponsor included episodes but we've also partne...
Aug 29, 2018•15 min•Ep. 580
In today's episode, we're going to talk about different tactics and times of day to make tough vs. easy decisions during your day. Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Digital Ocean DigitalOcean is the easiest cloud platform to run and scale your applications. From effortless administration tools to robust compute, storage, and networking services, DigitalOcean provides an all-in-one cloud platform to help developers and their teams save time while running and scaling their applications. Build ...
Aug 27, 2018•19 min•Ep. 579
What do you expect to happen today? Maybe it's in your career or if you're job searching, maybe it's an expectation in your email inbox, but what do you expect to improve on personally, today? In today's episode, we're going to talk about our will and actions on a day-to-day basis. Thanks to Breaker for sponsoring today's episode! Breaker just came out with a new option to subscribe without sponsor messages to the developer tea podcast. Developer Tea will continue to offer free sponsor included ...
Aug 24, 2018•10 min•Ep. 576
Today we are thrilled to have Daniel Pink on the show, Daniel has four New York Time Best Sellers and Daniel has a wide variety of experience including being a chief speechwriter for Al Gore in the 90s, and has one of the 10 most watched talks on TED talks. In part 2 of our interview, we're going to talk about Daniel's recent work he's done and what he's excited about in his latest research and dig into his newest book, "When" The scientific secrets of perfect timing. Today's Episode is Brought ...
Aug 22, 2018•23 min•Ep. 578
Today we are thrilled to have Daniel Pink on the show, Daniel has four New York Time Best Sellers and Daniel has a wide variety of experience including being a chief speechwriter for Al Gore in the 90s, and has one of the 10 most watched talks on TED talks. In part 1 of today's interview, we're going to talk about Daniel's experiences and writings and dive right into what Daniel wishes more people would ask him about. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conv...
Aug 20, 2018•22 min•Ep. 577
Today I have some personal news to share, in addition to talking about life changes and accepting the fear that comes with change. Thanks to Breaker for sponsoring today's episode! Breaker just came out with a new option to subscribe without sponsor messages to the developer tea podcast. Developer Tea will continue to offer free sponsor included episodes but we've also partnered with Breaker to offer our listeners an avenue to subscribe for a low monthly rate of $4.99/month to listen to the epis...
Aug 17, 2018•11 min•Ep. 575
The world of computer science lost a legend last week when Jerry Weinberg passed away on August 7th, 2018. Author of "The Psychology of Computer Programming" as well as "Introduction to General Systems Thinking and quite a few other books, Jerry left us with a better understanding of what it means to be a developer. Today's episode is a tribute to Jerry's work. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or just want to let us know i...
Aug 15, 2018•9 min•Ep. 574
