Today's guest, Gabriel Weinberg , the CEO of DuckDuckGo uses connections to help steer the company. What we're talking about today with Gabriel are mental models for building a team and business. In part 1 of this interview, we dive into Gabriel's recent book, Super Thinking . This is a big book of mental models. Don't miss part two of this interview, airing on Friday, December 27th. Get in touch If you have questions about today's episode, want to start a conversation about today's topic or jus...
Dec 23, 2019•36 min•Ep. 775
This is the last episode of the 2019 year, and like most people spending time with family and preparing for the upcoming year, we're thinking about goals. In today's episode we're talking about resolutions, planning and focus in the new year. 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: Flywheel Local by Flywheel is the #1 local WordPress development tool designed to make building, testing, and launching WordPress sites a total breeze! It’s time to revolutionize your workflow and download Local by Flywheel for free...
Dec 20, 2019•19 min•Ep. 774
What exactly does it mean to forget? In today's episode we're talking about perspective. Most of what we experience in our day-to-day will eventually be forgotten and there isn't a clear definition of what it means to remember or forget things. We'll dig into the detail of moments that we forget and those details that cause memories to stick. Understanding how we can make more memorable decisions when designing our code structure and what we can do when we have a lack of code decision informatio...
Dec 18, 2019•17 min•Ep. 773
Imagine you're running a team. As a manager, you're setting up the processes and expectations among your team. What are the organizational responsibility, ceremonies and disciplines? In today's episode, we're talking about setting expectations and specifically how we can plan better for when disagreement happens. 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: Flywheel Local by Flywheel is the #1 local WordPress development tool designed to make building, testing, and launching WordPress sites a total breeze! It’s tim...
Dec 16, 2019•16 min•Ep. 772
Developers tend to create process for themselves and a shared process with a team, but what defines whether or not a process is useful? In today's episode, we're talking about feedback loop processes and the reality of their usefulness. 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: GiveWell Giving is hard. When you donate, how do you know what a charity can actually accomplish with your money? Givewell, is solving that problem by connecting your money with charities that will see the direct impact of your dollars sp...
Dec 13, 2019•20 min•Ep. 771
Take a moment and imagine three or four days ago. Replay a mundane event, like your commute. Imagine each movement and turn you need to make to arrive where you need to go. In the last episode we talked about feedback loops and in today's episode, we're talking about how that feedback loop can lead to automatic response systems and how to build better feedback loops that encourage continuous learning. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTun...
Dec 11, 2019•16 min•Ep. 770
We are embarking on the end of the decade. January 1st, 2020 marks a new decade and this means a lot of people are reflecting on the past decade. Specifically on their own individual improvements. In today's episode, we're focusing on self-improvement, specifically focusing on the idea of a feedback loop and how we can use them to explicitly change and improve. 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: GiveWell Giving is hard. When you donate, how do you know what a charity can actually accomplish with your mone...
Dec 09, 2019•16 min•Ep. 769
In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about wasting time on features we hope are useful, but turn out not to be. We can't control for every single variable, so how can we better predict the usefulness of a feature before building it? How do we justify the work that we do? 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: Flywheel Local by Flywheel is the #1 local WordPress development tool designed to make building, testing, and launching WordPress sites a total breeze! It’s time to revolutionize your workf...
Dec 06, 2019•10 min•Ep. 768
Imagine for a moment that you don't have a concept for what a podcast is. In today's episode, we're talking about shared concepts and the ideas that come out of a group of people who share the same concepts to meet a common goal. If you couldn't put a name to your experience, how can you communicate it? 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: GiveWell Giving is hard. When you donate, how do you know what a charity can actually accomplish with your money? Givewell, is solving that problem by connecting your mon...
Dec 04, 2019•12 min•Ep. 767
Titles for developers are meant to quickly describe our function we play on a team and allow us to set expectations. Where this can go wrong is when we struggle to understand what a title means. In today's episode, we're talking about problems that can occur when roles are unclear on a development team and how to solve these common problems. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other developers discover th...
Dec 02, 2019•11 min•Ep. 766
Requests are tied to expectations. In today's episode, we're talking about managing overload of requests and managing expectations so we can focus on our goals and have better working relationships with ourselves and our coworkers. 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: GiveWell Giving is hard. When you donate, how do you know what a charity can actually accomplish with your money? Givewell, is solving that problem by connecting your money with charities that will see the direct impact of your dollars spent. ...
Nov 29, 2019•11 min•Ep. 765
If you were born one year earlier, something would likely have changed in your life. In today's episode, we're taking a moment to express a bit of gratitude for the environment that we grew up in, and the people who helped us build our careers today. What lessons we can learn from the people who developed before us? 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: Abstract Visit www.abstract.com and sign your team up for a 14-day free trial. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content ...
Nov 27, 2019•9 min•Ep. 764
If a team agrees to a set of goals and values, then our priorities should align, yet it too often falls on individuals to negotiate their priorities with the team. In today's episode we'll ask the question; how do teams decide priorities? Should we allow individuals to negotiate their priorities or should this fall on the team to determine together what each individual's priority should be in working toward a common goal? 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: Abstract Visit www.abstract.com and sign your tea...
Nov 25, 2019•11 min•Ep. 763
How do we end up in a place where our responsibilities and commitments outrun our cognitive ability to fulfill them? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we'll talk about the responsibilities we choose to take on and how to identify commitments that can overwhelm us and discuss a way to take back control of your day and succeed in the commitments we agree to. 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: Abstract Visit www.abstract.com and sign your team up for a 14-day free trial. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoyi...
Nov 22, 2019•10 min•Ep. 762
Your words have power. They can influence the people around you. Your words matter. In today's episode, we're talking about what our words mean to our fellow team mates and how we can use our words to leverage our influence and provide clarity in what we say to represent ourselves and our fellow co-workers. 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: Abstract Visit www.abstract.com and sign your team up for a 14-day free trial. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over...
Nov 20, 2019•12 min•Ep. 761
Meetings are often times the only chance to have a face-to-face conversations with your co-workers and can occasionally end in good feelings that only fade as the week goes on. In today's episode, we're talking about the value of meetings, understanding the work and what needs to be done in order to keep the work moving forward. How can we avoid the false sense of positivity that can occur after meetings and how can we engage in the right kinds of meetings? 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: Abstract Visi...
Nov 18, 2019•11 min•Ep. 760
Vocabulary is the basis of language and unique cultural meaning. Developers share a common code and have created their own vocabulary and language over time. In today's episode, we're talking about how sub-cultural language is established at a company level and how that language development can either help or hurt a new employee's experience. 🙏Thanks to our Sponsor: Infinite Red Intrigued by AI but not sure where to start? Sign up for AI Demystified, a free five-day mini-course. You’ll learn im...
Nov 16, 2019•12 min•Ep. 759
Hopefully the last episode about modifier functions and behaviors helped spark and idea of how you might change small behaviors and cascade that into bigger behaviors. Like leaving your phone outside of your room before you go to bed, leading to better sleep and during the day, better focus. In today's episode, we're taking the ideas of changing small behaviors and zooming out to look at the roles we play in our lives and how we can evaluate the roles we play to lead to positive daily behaviors....
Nov 13, 2019•11 min•Ep. 758
Context is a big deal in the job of a developer. In today's episode, we're applying a zoomed out model of thinking to everyday behavior to make us better developers, co-workers and leaders. 🙏Thank You To Our Sponsor: Vettery Vettery is an online hiring marketplace that's changing the way people hire and get hired. Make a free profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers today. Listeners of Developer Tea will get an extra $300 bonus when you accept a job through...
Nov 11, 2019•11 min•Ep. 757
If you were to list your values today, it's likely that the list is not simple. There's a lot to understand when we try to explain what we think and our place in the world as we see it. In today's episode, we're talking about how we can practice our values and stay focused without overanalyzing every detail. 🙏Thank You To Our Sponsor: Vettery Vettery is an online hiring marketplace that's changing the way people hire and get hired. Make a free profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring ...
Nov 08, 2019•12 min•Ep. 755
What causes us to do the things we do? In today's episode, we're discussing the complexity of motivations and identifying the chains of motivations in our actions as developers. How can our chained motivations help us consider the motivations of our co-workers around us and how can we choose better actions to better reinforce positive behavior? 🙏Thank you to today's sponsor: Flatiron Learn UX/UI design flatironschool.com/developertea in 24 weeks and discover our global community on campus or on...
Nov 06, 2019•12 min•Ep. 756
Senior engineers will often answer questions by peers starting with, "It Depends." In today's episode, we're talking about getting beyond the "It Depends" answer by challenging us to asking questions as they regard to context. How can we provide more context and help fellow developers make decisions in the face of uncertainty? 🙏Thank You To Our Sponsor: Vettery Vettery is an online hiring marketplace that's changing the way people hire and get hired. Make a free profile, nam...
Nov 04, 2019•11 min•Ep. 754
We've talked a lot about questions on this show. Questions are a powerful tool for developers and our collaboration. In today's episode, we're talking about questions as they lay the path to where our conversations lead us. How can we ask better questions? 🙏Thank You To Our Sponsor: Vettery Vettery is an online hiring marketplace that's changing the way people hire and get hired. Make a free profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers today. Listeners of Devel...
Nov 01, 2019•12 min•Ep. 753
Anil is the CEO of Glitch, an activist, writer and host of the podcast, Function. In today's episode, we sit down with Anil to talk about animating motivations, community building and career goals. ##👋Anil On the Web Twitter Website Podcast 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review ! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you. 🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge This is a d...
Oct 30, 2019•31 min•Ep. 752
Anil is the CEO of Glitch. He's an activist, writer and host of the podcast, Function. In today's episode, we sit down with Anil to talk about the origin story of Glitch and the journey to making cool things for and with the developer community and thoughts on the whiteboard interview process. 👋Anil On the Web Twitter Website Podcast 🙏Thank you to today's sponsor: Flatiron Learn UX/UI design flatironschool.com/developertea in 24 weeks and discover our global community on campus or online and g...
Oct 28, 2019•33 min•Ep. 751
Finding perspective is a key component of this show and in today's episode, we're going to explore a visualization of perspective to help us get a more zoomed out perspective for our day-to-day work. 🙏Thank You To Our Sponsor: Vettery Vettery is an online hiring marketplace that's changing the way people hire and get hired. Make a free profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers today. Listeners of Developer Tea will get an extra $300 bonus when you accept a j...
Oct 25, 2019•10 min•Ep. 750
Accountability provides an observable access to the things you're committing to following through on. Whatever your commitment is, having accountability means someone else has some visibility into what you're doing and what you said you would do. In today's episode, we're talking about effective accountability and accomplishing the things we set out to do and identifying the gaps that cause us to miss the things we set out to do. 🙏Thank You To Our Sponsor: Vettery Vettery is an online hiring ma...
Oct 23, 2019•10 min•Ep. 749
Most of what we do as developers is solve problems. In today's episode, we're talking about the skill of problem solving and working out hard problems in more detail. We'll talk through the nuance difference between multiplying their value and simply adding value. 🙏Thank you to today's sponsor: Flatiron Learn UX/UI design flatironschool.com/developertea in 24 weeks and discover our global community on campus or online and go back to school with Flatiron School! flatironschool.com/developertea !...
Oct 21, 2019•11 min•Ep. 748
In today's episode we're talking about a misconception that many developers carry about object oriented programming. We'll keep the episode short today but in today's episode we'll talk about object orientated programming as a message. 👋 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 Spectr...
Oct 18, 2019•6 min•Ep. 747
If you're living like the average developer, you have a lot of things coming up. Events, plans and holidays to name a few. We're looking forward based on our calendar and benchmarking what we've done in the past based on what we accomplished according to meetings and events on our calendars. In today's episode, we're talking about intentionally thinking about the future and reflecting on the past and identify when we're missing out on things happening in the present moment. 👋 Get in touch If yo...
Oct 16, 2019•13 min•Ep. 746
