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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 developer at @Clearbit. 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: developertea@gmail.com
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September 13, 2019
If you've worried about your job becoming automated or your looking for ways to grow into you next role, this episode with Jessica Hall is for you.
September 11, 2019
In today's episode, we're looking at the things we want to do in order to become a bad manager and uncover the "why" behind bad manager's behaviors.
September 9, 2019
In today's episode, we talk about the difficulty of imagining an alternate reality, and how that affects our decision making for the future.
Today's episode is sponsored by Barclays.
Barclays is hiring! At Barclays, developers are always developing. Find your next role at https://home.barclays/developers today.
September 6, 2019
In today's episode, we discuss the difficulty of finding your personal purpose, and the tension we can all feel when we can't put our finger on our purpose.
September 4, 2019
The science of motivation is tricky. We know some of the things we want but don't know how to get them.
September 3, 2019
Something difficult to accept is the fact that you will probably change.
August 30, 2019
Different ways to think about finding purpose.
August 28, 2019
If you're feeling stuck right now, this is the episode for you.
August 26, 2019
Today we're focusing on self-improvements as a team.
August 21, 2019
School will be starting soon and in today's episode we're talking specifically to students.
August 16, 2019
Today we're talking about thinking long term.
August 14, 2019
The stereotype that developers are highly opinionated.
August 9, 2019
Failure is a fundamental part of improvement.
August 5, 2019
Where do great ideas come from?
August 2, 2019
You just got your first job as an engineer. What exactly does it mean to be a senior engineer?
July 31, 2019
Whether we like to admit it or not we've all dealt with a difficult coworker.
July 29, 2019
This week, we go back to an older format - 3x3. This week we'll give three different techniques for different challenges we're faced with as developers today, we're talking about Uncovering Hidden Information
July 24, 2019
Imagine that you aren't a software developer and instead a goalie. How would you defend a penalty kick?
July 22, 2019
Perhaps one of the most undervalued skills of developers to to affect change.
July 19, 2019
Our fear of missing out is usually a fear of missing out on a specific opportunity.
July 17, 2019
You've probably seen the stereotypical hacker type. Someone who stays up late, drinking energy drinks endlessly and working in the dark. In today's episode we're uncovering core features of the 10x engineer stereotype and why this could be viewed as unhealthy.
July 15, 2019
Today, we're talking about managing anxiety in the workspace.
July 12, 2019
In your career, you've probably experienced beginner's luck. Today, we'll put ourselves in a beginners shoes and get an understanding of why beginner's luck exists.
July 10, 2019
Will is an engineering manager at Stripe, and he recently published a book titled, An elegant puzzle.
July 8, 2019
Will is an engineering manager at Stripe, and he recently published a book titled, An elegant puzzle.
July 5, 2019
Will is an engineering manager at Stripe, and he recently published a book titled, An elegant puzzle.
July 3, 2019
In today's episode, we're discussing young developers and mentoring. This episode is all about clarity.
July 1, 2019
What are your goals for the rest of your year? That's what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea
June 30, 2019
It's important to have a foundation for best practice but where does it come from?
June 26, 2019
Whether you have a job or interviewing for someone to take a job, we are looking for others to provide us feedback.
June 24, 2019
How many sinks are in your house? You have the information to access this information, and in this episode we can walk through challenges we face.
June 21, 2019
In today's episode we're chatting again with Matt Klein.
June 19, 2019
What does a long career as an individual contributor look like? The answer isn't always clear cut, especially if you're give the option of becoming a manager. Today, we'll talk to Matt Klein about how he approaches that.
June 17, 2019
What do you expect from yourself? Today, we're talking about personal expectations.
June 12, 2019
We talk about how difficult it is to find a method to produce the results you want.
June 10, 2019
Take a moment and open your calendar. Look across the last week or two and look at the different meetings you had. Today, we're talking about meaningful meetings.
June 7, 2019
This is part 2 of the interview with Lambda School's CTO - Ben Nelson.
June 5, 2019
This is part 1 of a two part interview with Lambda School's CTO - Ben Nelson.
June 3, 2019
What should we care about when looking for a job?
May 31, 2019
One of the most amazing things about the human brain and it's ability to make connections. We talk with DuckDuckGo CEO, Gabriel Weinberg about just that in part 2 of this interview.
May 29, 2019
One of the most amazing things about the human brain and it's ability to make connections. We talk with DuckDuckGo CEO, Gabriel Weinberg about just that in part 1 of this interview.
May 27, 2019
There is no one right way to write software. In today's episode we're talking about code that does what you want it to.
May 24, 2019
You are better off focusing on strengths and becoming an expert than improving your weaknesses to a level of mediocrity.
May 22, 2019
Make your problems small enough to fit in your head, then compose your solutions.
May 20, 2019
Three things I wish I knew starting out as a software developer.
May 17, 2019
Listening requires that you have space. Burnout is a real effect and in today's episode we're talking about how to watch out for burnout.
May 15, 2019
There's a difficult road in front of anyone who is on a job search. Occasionally, opportunities will land in your lap, but more often, it's a constant review of scanning job descriptions and applications.
May 13, 2019
In our last episode we talked about big decisions. In today's episode, we're talking about uncovering new options that you didn't think existed.
May 10, 2019
Our experience as humans is a difficult one to wrap our minds around. Often what we see clearly from the outside looking in is obscured from the inside looking out.
May 8, 2019
Think back to a moment when your mind shifted at a fundamental level. Today, we're talking about mental simulations and artificial constraints
May 6, 2019
What do you value? Values aren't always easy to find. In today's episode, we talk about using the lens of fear to understand our values better.
May 3, 2019
What Kind of Decisions Are You Optimizing For? In today's episode, we focus on the individual contributor level and managerial level.
May 1, 2019
Most of the time, even when we're succeeding the steps we take on a daily basis are failures. Failure is what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea
April 29, 2019
New jobs are exciting, but it can also be challenging. In today's episode we're talking about the perspective of starting a new job.
April 26, 2019
Nobody choses to do things against our interest. In today's episode, we're talking about decisions we face on a daily basis.
April 24, 2019
I want you to think back to the last meeting you had....did you feel like it was a waste of time?
April 22, 2019
As a developer, part of your job is estimating risk and value. In today's episode we're talking changing our risk and value evaluations from a static process to a functional process.
April 19, 2019
What if every decision you made had a bet attached to it? That's
April 17, 2019
What if every decision you made had a bet attached to it? That's
April 15, 2019
Take a moment to think about one of your most important goals in life.
April 12, 2019
When you talk about career goals, you often talk about results.
April 10, 2019
No matter where you are in your career, whether a developer, designer, PM or manager you have aspirations.
April 8, 2019
Imagine for a moment that you are a hiring manager who needs to determine who is a good addition to a team of developers. You need to make a judgement call. That's what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea
April 3, 2019
How can a concept mean so many different things for different people? Why does feedback cause to fear for some and productivity to others?
April 1, 2019
What do company benefits, birthday presents, and IOUs have in common? That's what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea
March 29, 2019
What makes you feel comfortable and safe? In today's episode, we're talking about taking risks.
March 27, 2019
Take a moment to do a thought experiment. Remove your thought extractions.
March 26, 2019
Today is a special episode of Developer Tea, we're airing an episode in which Jonathan was interviewed by the folks at Soft Skills Engineering podcast.
March 22, 2019
What is the one thing you do automatically that you wish you could change?
March 20, 2019
In part 2 of our interview with Ali we cover what Ali's working on now and things she wishes people would ask her more about.
March 18, 2019
We all have different experiences coming into development, and today we talk with Ali Spittel, a software engineer at Dev.to, director at Women Who Code - DC and lead instructor at General Assembly.
March 13, 2019
In today's episode we're talking about two habits that successful software engineers employ when facing a problem.
March 9, 2019
What do you do as a developer?
March 6, 2019
In today's episode, we continue the discussion with Bryan Helmig, CTO of Zapier
March 4, 2019
In today's episode, we talk with CTO and co-founder of Zapier, Bryan Helmig about the different challenges he faced when starting Zapier and the challenges he's facing today.
March 1, 2019
In today's episode, we're talking about the habits of successful engineers.
February 27, 2019
In today's episode, we're going to talk about the different stages of stress and how we can better manage our influence in the job when we're experiencing a stressful situation.
February 25, 2019
In today's episode, we're talking about solving problems by subtraction vs. additive solutions.
February 22, 2019
One of the most valuable things you've got is the first part of your working day. In today's episode, we're talking about the best use of those first hours in your day.
February 20, 2019
One of the barriers to connecting with your career purpose is fear. In today's episode, we're going to talk about working toward your goals knowing that fear will be there with you.
February 19, 2019
In today's episode, we dive into the rest of the communication model we started discussing in the previous episode in this series.
February 15, 2019
In part four of our discussion on how we construct software, we're discussing a theory of communication, and how it applies to code. This is a two-part episode (A and B) - subscribe so you don't miss the second half!
February 13, 2019
In today's episode, we discuss factors that lead to decision variance when constructing software.
February 11, 2019
In today's episode, we're going to talk a little bit about belief.
February 8, 2019
In this special series on Developer Tea we're talking about the different ways that software information flows.
February 6, 2019
In today's episode, we're talking about specific reasons why we may be running into procrastination in our jobs.
February 4, 2019
We recommend structured retrospectives. Identify things that went well and things that didn't go so well during a project or given week.
January 30, 2019
Today, we're talking about risk compensation.
January 28, 2019
Most of the changes you make as a developer are incremental. That's what we're talking about in today's episode.
January 23, 2019
In today's episode, we're talking about missed opportunities.
January 21, 2019
In today's episode, we're talking about responding to situations
January 18, 2019
What code do you believe should be the cleanest?
January 16, 2019
In today's episode of Developer Tea we're continuing the discussion on challenging our mental models.
January 14, 2019
Improvement is not a simple concept but usually comes from experience. In today's episode, we're talking about improvement based on questioning what kind of information you should be seeking.
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