There is far more information that we ignore than what we pay attention to. This selective attention is important to understand as both a necessary skill and a potential pitfall. ✨ 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. Listeners of Developer Tea can now enjoy $100 in free credit! ...
Mar 08, 2021•20 min•Ep. 925
We seek agreement by default. It feels good. But is it what we really want? What we really need?
Mar 05, 2021•7 min•Ep. 926
In 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: 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://developertea.com/square today! 📮 Ask a Question If you enj...
Mar 04, 2021•22 min•Ep. 924
There 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: LaunchDarkly Today'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. 📮 As...
Mar 01, 2021•20 min•Ep. 923
When you feel a sense of chaos has overwhelmed your week, it can be tempting to want to check out for the weekend. But in today's episode we discuss a tool I've used to combat this sense of aimlessness.
Feb 26, 2021•7 min•Ep. 922
Quincy 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: Square Square'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 Question...
Feb 24, 2021•41 min•Ep. 921
Quincy 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: Square Square'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 Question...
Feb 22, 2021•37 min•Ep. 920
Your obligations are usually the result of your systemic choices. You have no choice but to rest and recover. Choose to affirm your choices instead of living under the illusion that those choices were imposed on you.
Feb 19, 2021•7 min•Ep. 919
In 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: 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 out https://launchdarkly.com to start your boring deployments today! 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to ...
Feb 17, 2021•30 min•Ep. 918
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 out https://launchdarkly.com to start your boring deployments today! 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed t...
Feb 15, 2021•24 min•Ep. 917
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
Feb 12, 2021•6 min•Ep. 916
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 question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com/contact. If you would like to join the ...
Feb 10, 2021•38 min•Ep. 915
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://developertea.com/square today! 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss ...
Feb 08, 2021•41 min•Ep. 914
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 ourselves and others that we either know it all, or that most information isn't important. We can do better....
Feb 05, 2021•7 min
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 like to join the new experimental DIscord group, reach out at developertea.com/contact, developertea@gm...
Feb 03, 2021•12 min•Ep. 913
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, [email protected], or @developertea on Twitter. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and ...
Feb 01, 2021•13 min•Ep. 912
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.
Jan 29, 2021•8 min
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. Whether I'm researching an author or trying to find something in a niche topic, Listen Notes has the ...
Jan 27, 2021•17 min•Ep. 911
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 million episodes, Listen Notes is my new favorite way to find podcasts. Whether I'm researching an author...
Jan 25, 2021•24 min•Ep. 910
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.
Jan 22, 2021•8 min
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 find something in a niche topic, Listen Notes has the search engine to make it happen. Search for almost...
Jan 21, 2021•20 min•Ep. 909
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. Search for almost anything, for free, right now! Head over to ListenNotes.com 📮 Ask a Question If yo...
Jan 18, 2021•27 min•Ep. 908
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 in a niche topic, Listen Notes has the search engine to make it happen. Search for almost anything, ...
Jan 13, 2021•18 min•Ep. 907
🌎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 program brings developers together to learn from each other and create more extraordinary things, fast...
Jan 11, 2021•21 min•Ep. 906
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 good options? And, most importantly, how can we strike the right balance between time invested and opti...
Jan 06, 2021•21 min•Ep. 905
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?
Jan 04, 2021•21 min•Ep. 904
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. Listeners of Developer Tea can now enjoy $100 in free credit! You can find all the details at linode.com...
Dec 31, 2020•26 min•Ep. 903
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 Spec.fm, the podcast network Developer Tea has been a part of for over 5 years! ✨ Sponsor: Linode Than...
Dec 28, 2020•15 min•Ep. 902
🌎 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-drop React components. Write JS anywhere. Check them out over at https://retool.com/devtea 📮 Ask a...
Dec 23, 2020•21 min•Ep. 901
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 may not. This expansion of the current moment is the paradox of transcendence - only once we care deep...
Dec 21, 2020•9 min•Ep. 900
