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Developer Tea

Jonathan Cutrellwww.developertea.com
Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 13 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell (@jcutrell), co-founder of Spec and Director of Engineering at PBS. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Twitter: @developertea :: Email: [email protected]

Episodes

4 Things You Have to Leave Behind as a Beginning Engineer

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Aug 19, 202014 minEp. 865

Building Empathy To Focus on Downstream Effects

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Aug 17, 202011 minEp. 864

The Unique Advantages of Being a Beginner

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Aug 13, 202016 minEp. 863

Explicit Heuristics and Cheap Tests

Find. Cheap. Tests. When you face situation with infinite possibilities, it's important to break those options down into easy to digest components. How can you better validate your direction as early as possible and cheap? 📮 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. 🧡 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 o...

Aug 10, 202012 minEp. 862

The Critical Importance of Labels

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Aug 05, 202012 minEp. 861

Using Your Brain Without Thinking

In today's episode, we're talking about the limits of our brain and mind shifting strategies to solve problems faster. 📮 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. 🧡 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....

Aug 04, 202011 minEp. 860

Interview w/ Aaron Upright (Part 2)

🎧 Part 1 Interview w/ Aaron Upright Part 1 🌎 Aaron on the web Twitter LinkedIn Zenhub 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season was released on July 14th, in which Author Clive Thompson joins host Saron Yitbarek to share his insights from over 200 interviews with coders for his latest book. This 3-episode mini-season will cover: the many pa...

Jul 29, 202030 minEp. 859

Interview w/ Aaron Upright

🌎 Aaron on the web Twitter LinkedIn Zenhub 📮 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. 🧡 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....

Jul 28, 202031 minEp. 858

Are You Really An Exception, Or Are You Inflexible?

Can you operate under a different circumstance and best practice when your job changes? Where can you be flexible in your career and where are the exceptions? 📮 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. 🧡 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 ma...

Jul 22, 20206 minEp. 857

Future Focused Feedback

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Jul 20, 202013 minEp. 856

Stop Pushing Down Your Emotions

In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the discomfort of silence and stillness, and how to face the quiet part of ourselves. Can you stay still without any distractions today for 1 minute and just listen to your own thoughts? 📮 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. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave ...

Jul 17, 20208 minEp. 855

Small Problems and Principled Engineering

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Jul 14, 20209 minEp. 854

The Stories Your Code Tells

What does your code explain both in the code and outside of it? In today's episode, we're talking about the reason for making the coding decisions that we choose to make. 📮 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. 🧡 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 focuse...

Jul 08, 20206 minEp. 853

Offensive and Defensive Software Engineering Strategies

In code we are trying to construct, but we often leave out the consumers, machines and co-workers who are using the code we're writing. How can we think in terms of human realities in our code? 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 credit for listeners of Deve...

Jul 06, 202010 minEp. 852

Your Present is Soon Your Past

In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the concept of time. We'll linger on the idea that moments have a timeline: future, present, and past. How do our moment timelines help us become better developers and coworkers? 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line Heroes Command Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform technology from the command line up. A new season releases on July 14th, in which Author Clive Thompson joins host S...

Jul 01, 202011 minEp. 851

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rejecting a Duel Identity

Just like many of the other distortions that our brains trick us into believing, the idea that we have two selves, good and bad, hides away our complex ego. In today's episode, we're talking about ego and how to get outside of our self-perception when we make a mistake in order to grow and learn. 📮 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. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want...

Jun 29, 20206 minEp. 850

Uncomfortability, the Ultimate Teacher

In today's episode, we're talking about an environment of learning that you can create on your own. How can we create an environment that puts us in a state of discomfort in order to keep us growing? 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 credit for listeners o...

Jun 26, 202012 minEp. 849

Baseline Happiness and Delayed Achievements

If you think about most achievements awarded, they are handed out over a period of time when the dues are paid and effort put in. In today's episode, we're talking about pictures of achievement and taking a moment to reflect on what it means to live a full and satisfying life as a developer. 🧡 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. ...

Jun 25, 20209 minEp. 848

Finding Underlying Motivations to Stay Resilient In Your Career

Aside from the fact that we're making a living being engineers, what is it that keeps us coming back into work every day? At some point in your career, the initial things that brought you into engineering will shift, and when those things change, what is left? What keeps you going? Today, we talk about what motivations drive us and how to keep our motivations relevant when the career changes. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and le...

Jun 22, 20208 minEp. 847

Strategies for Overcoming Mental Blocks

What do you do when you hit a mental block and don't know how to solve a problem? Today we'll dig into what we can do about this blocked scenario and how can we better deal with negative emotions that follow. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 credit for li...

Jun 20, 202010 minEp. 846

What Will You Say When You Don't know?

In today's episode, we're talking to early engineers and challenging all new engineers to think about how they will handle the pressure of not knowing the answer to a question asked by a co-worker. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start showcasing your product today at https://zebranding.com/...

Jun 18, 202012 minEp. 845

Wishes, Beliefs, and Knowledge

In this short episode, we're digging into the relationship between our belief and knowledge and how we form our beliefs based on knowledge. 🎟Upcoming Events Wanna get your hands on the hottest #JavaScript tech? Reserve a spot at #JSNationLive happening on June 18-19 , and see speakers / instructors like Tobias Koppers (Webpack), Orta Therox (TypeScript), Minko Gechev (Angular), Matteo Collina (Node.js) and many others. Check them out and reserve your FREE spot at live.jsnation.com Visit: linode...

Jun 15, 20207 minEp. 844

Listener Question from Saul: How Do I Communicate with Non-Technical Decision Makers?

In today's episode, we dive into Saul's question by recounting past experience and providing tools to approach this situation at a human level and from your employers expectation. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop a message over at: developertea.com. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, su...

Jun 12, 202012 minEp. 843

How Questions Influence Pathways to Solutions

In today's episode we're talking about problems and how we involve questions into our day-to-day tasks as developers. We'll cover question framing techniques and practices to boost collaboration with your co-workers on problem solving. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start showcasing your product today at https://zebranding.com/ 🎟Upcoming Events Wanna get your hands on the h...

Jun 10, 202010 minEp. 842

4 Points Of Advice For Brand New Developers

As someone who was a self-taught developer, I have an affinity for people eager to become a developer. In today's episode, we'll offer four different pain points that you're likely to experience in your career and give tips on how to use those moments to continue your growth and develop your skills. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start showcasing your product today at https:...

Jun 08, 202015 minEp. 841

What Does It Take To Change Your Mind?

Changing our minds on a belief or issue that we stand by is not easy and as humans but is required of us to grow as people and as professionals. In this episode of Developer Tea, we're walking through three different visualizations to help us better understand and become more comfortable with when and why we decide to change our minds. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start sh...

Jun 03, 202016 minEp. 840

Play, Stakes, and Learning

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Jun 01, 202010 minEp. 839

Leveraging Our Emotional Goals

In today's episode, we're talking about goals and what we tend to give up in order to reach those goals. We'll cover how to define goals, and how to keep going toward your goals when motivations run thin. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: ZeBrand Setting up your brand with ZeBrand only takes 5 minutes and you’ll have instant access to your assets to start showcasing your product today at https://zebranding.com/ 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content ...

May 27, 202010 minEp. 838

Mental Models for Finding Balance

In today's episode, we're talking about balance as it relates to decision making. We'll dig into two models of thinking that can help us understand the nuance of balance as it relates to daily decisions. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To You By: HeadSpin With HeadSpin, you only need one platform for testing, monitoring, and analytics across applications, devices, and networks. Check them out at headspin.io 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to ...

May 25, 202014 minEp. 837

High Certainty, High Value Defaults

A useful default is an action you can take on a regular basis that you expect to provide some level of utility. In today's episode, we're talking about the fine line between useful default behaviors and when those behaviors can lead you astray and become more of a distraction from an overall goal. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take yo...

May 22, 202013 minEp. 836