How do you decide whether that shiny new frontend framework or that highly performant, memory-safe backend language is really going to solve your problems? Join our guest Eric Justusson, as we talk about how to leverage quick experiments, tracer bullets, greenfield projects, and hackathons to responsibly evaluate the benefits and costs of onboarding new tech for your team. 
Picks &amp; Plugs
<ul><li>Eric
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://news.ycombinator.com/'>Hacker News</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Random engineering idioms:
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://themainthread.podbean.com/p/episode-05-transcript/'>Yak Shaving</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://levelup.gitconnected.com/bikeshedding-in-software-development-b800fa97ddcd'>Bike Shedding</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://qarea.com/blog/what-is-a-spike-in-software-development'>Spike</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.masterycoding.com/blog/rubber-duck-debugging-history-and-benefits'>Rubber Duck Debugging</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming'>Cargo Culting</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://hackernoon.com/idioms-you-should-know-for-software-development-ea221363235d'>Others</a></li>
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<li>Alex
<ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><a href='https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Object-Oriented-Addison-Wesley-Professional-ebook/dp/B000SEIBB8'>Design Patterns</a>, Gang of Four</li>
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<li>Brian Ogilvie
<ul><li><a href='https://unidragon.com/collections/mandala-puzzles'>Unidragon Puzzles</a></li>
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Episode 7: Community Building

Discussions around how to grow your software engineering career from mid-senior to Staff level. Brian Ogilvie and Alex Gaiser interview top engineers and senior leaders from Big Tech and Mid-size companies to get to the bottom of what makes an effective Staff-level engineer.