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Developer Tea

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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 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]

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Demystifying Decision-Making - Success is Not Just About Making Good Decisions

September 19, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 8.6 MB

You are not the sum of your decisions. Making better decisions often relies on having a long list of mistakes to learn from. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and careers, join us on the Developer Tea Discord community by visiting https://d...

What You Have In Common With the Smartest Person In the World

September 15, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 8.52 MB

How does the smartest person in the world solve the most complex problems that most mathemeticians can't even understand? The same way you write code and build features at your job. The principles always apply. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Square Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to order creation and tracking, to inventory synchronization. Square’s APIs also integrate with software business owners already use like tax and b...

A Way Out of Overwhelm

September 12, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 9.14 MB

Choose one thing. Only one important thing. Do that over and over. That's your way out of overwhelm. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and careers, join us on the Developer Tea Discord community by visiting https://developertea.com/discord ...

Understand Position and Interest To Make Better Collaborative Decisions

September 09, 2022 07:00 - 7 minutes - 7.17 MB

What people ask for is not the same as why they ask for it. What people want isn't as simple as what they say they want. Understanding the why is critical - the interest is just as important as the position. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their liv...

Future Thinking Is Not Planning For A Single Course of Events

September 05, 2022 07:00 - 7 minutes - 6.77 MB

People often erroneously plan for specific futures. This leads down a pathway to failure most times. This is because the future is rarely what we expect it to be. We can think in terms of multiple possible futures, and prepare for most of them. This leads us towards flexibility and adaptabiity. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Square Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to order creation and tracking, to inventory synchronization. ...

Balancing Decision Frames

August 31, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 8.87 MB

Making good decisions is about tuning context. If you can't determine the context that matters, the decision itself is impossible to measure against. All decisions can be framed within a context with other decisions; choosing those decisions in concert is often the best strategy. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive comm...

Copy of How Feedback Loops Shape Our World (Fixed Audio)

August 31, 2022 01:20 - 8 minutes - 7.94 MB

Feedback loops shape everything around us. We make a change or adjustment, watch for what happens, and repeat. This happens with people in the most unexpected ways. Tuning in to this adjustment loop can help us use it as a tool, rather than reacting to it. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-...

Reframing Every Decision As A Tradeoff

August 29, 2022 07:00 - 5 minutes - 5.19 MB

Every decision is a tradeoff. If you are looking for the "right" decision, you can reframe this to the "optimal decision based on my desired outcome." This could have the effect of aligning your biases to work in your favor. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to i...

Judging Quality of Decisions Instead of Outcomes in Performance Reviews

August 27, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MB

Is your performance review judging the luck or random events of a person's career? What about the times they made the right decision in a bad situation? The outcome may not be desirable every time, even with good decision-making. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working...

How Feedback Loops Shape Our World

August 22, 2022 07:00 - 8 minutes - 7.95 MB

Feedback loops shape everything around us. We make a change or adjustment, watch for what happens, and repeat. This happens with people in the most unexpected ways. Tuning in to this adjustment loop can help us use it as a tool, rather than reacting to it. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-...

Solve Specific Problems by Composing General Solutions

August 19, 2022 17:30 - 5 minutes - 5.14 MB

Almost every complex problem can be broken down and solved. Thinking from the other side - learning general solutions and how to compose those will give you the ability to build against the broken down complex problem. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve...

Common Excuses for Not Setting Goals

August 15, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MB

Today, we'll dismantle a few common excuses often provided for not setting goals. We also briefly discuss the SMART goal-setting framework. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and careers, join us on the Developer Tea Discord community by vis...

Better Process to Match Intentions to Actions

August 12, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

Your time is full of intent, but if you reflect back - how often do you do what you intend? Our actions are usually trying to reach some outcome, but are haphazard and habit-driven. What if we made that outcome explicit, and made our calendars reflect specific processes instead of vague outcomes? 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Square Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to order creation and tracking, to inventory synchronization...

Change Through the Lens of Adjustment and Maintenance

August 10, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes - 9.51 MB

Change is inevitable, but it's not always what we think it will be. Our framework for change should be ready for change we don't expect as much or more than for change we do expect. 📮 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., or on Discord! 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and care...

Built to Change

August 06, 2022 07:00 - 5 minutes - 5.04 MB

The flow of change is inevitable. Are you building with it, or ignoring it in vane? 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and careers, join us on the Developer Tea Discord community by visiting https://developertea.com/discord today! 🧡 Leave a...

Deconstructing Status Meetings

August 03, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

What if status meant something different? Your status meeting overload is probably a symptom of a more important problem: you're not sure what you're measuring against. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Square Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to order creation and tracking, to inventory synchronization. Square’s APIs also integrate with software business owners already use like tax and bookings. so business owners can have an int...

Lower Cognitive Load - Pick Your Tools, Then Do Your Work

July 27, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 8.76 MB

Lower cognitive load by picking your tools, and then using them. Avoid the constant evaluation of tooling; it's an intuitive response to the amazing leverage you experienced when you first picked up the tools you have, but now your highest leverage activity is focus. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engi...

Lower Cognitive Load - Primary Activities, Modes, and Cues

July 25, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MB

Lower cognitive load by looking at your primary activities and modes, and creating cues that help you shortcut to those modes. This importantly gives you a better signal and a spike in cognitive load when something comes up that doesn't match your primary activities and modes. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive communi...

Lower Cognitive Load - Limit Everything In Progress

July 22, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.5 MB

Cognitive load will destroy your productivity. In this mini-series, we talk about ways to reduce your cognitive load. In this episode we talk about limiting work, and everything else, in progress. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and caree...

Lower Cognitive Load - Principle of Least Surprise

July 20, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 8.81 MB

Cognitive load will destroy your productivity. In this mini-series, we talk about ways to reduce your cognitive load. In this episode we talk about the unexpected effects of surprise on cognitive load, and what you can do about this in your work. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers ...

Applying Systems Thinking for Better Thoughts

July 13, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

The systems that play a role in producing your thoughts are a huge leverage opportunity in your work and life. If you pause and examine those systems through a lens of systems-thinking, you are likely to identify opportunities for improvement, even if only as a byproduct of that investigation. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Square Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to order creation and tracking, to inventory synchronization. Sq...

Outside View or Anecdote? The Right Answer is Both

July 11, 2022 07:00 - 8 minutes - 7.72 MB

If you only look at your experience, you fall prey to anecdotal evidence and a whole host of other biases. But, we should be learning through iteration and empiricism. So how can we? Seek the outside view, without abandoning your experience. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by the Developer Tea Discord Community Learn and grow with a dedicated group of developers who are always moving forward. Completely free, no catches. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me ...

Protect Transparency On Your Team

July 08, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 11 MB

Your organizational efficiency is directly related to how you manage information, and information is lost when your organization is chronically lacking transparency. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by the Developer Tea Discord Community Learn and grow with a dedicated group of developers who are always moving forward. Completely free, no catches. 📮 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: developert...

Meeting Red Flags - Problems In Your Meetings That Signal Issues In Your Culture

July 07, 2022 07:00 - 15 minutes - 17.3 MB

Once you have the right meetings with the right people, it's time to look at the content of the meeting itself. In this episode we discuss possible red flags that may show up in your meetings, and what kinds of problems these flags may signal. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Square Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to order creation and tracking, to inventory synchronization. Square’s APIs also integrate with software business ...

Better Meetings: Who Is the Audience?

June 30, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 10.8 MB

Defining your audience is critical to a good meeting. If you haven't defined your audience... who is the meeting even for? 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and careers, join us on the Developer Tea Discord community by visiting https://dev...

Better Meetings - What Kind of Meeting, What Kind of Goal?

June 27, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutes - 13.7 MB

Better meetings are not a myth, but it starts with deconstructing how you got to where you are today. A hectic calendar and meetings showing up like popcorn. What can you do to improve this? Managers and individual contributors can start by focusing on what the goal of the meeting is. If the goal of the meeting is to solve a problem, that's a yellow flag. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: LaunchDarkly This episode is brought to you by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly enables development a...

Your Career Growth Doesn't Just Depend On Your Competency

June 23, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutes - 13 MB

Competency is not the only way you can grow your career. If that was the case, then every engineering manager would be technically more proficient than their reports, and I can guarantee (from many experiences) this is not only not the case - it's not even the norm. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: LaunchDarkly This episode is brought to you by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly enables development and operations teams to deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn't ready to be release...

Two Questions Focused On Unearthing Hidden Information In Yourself

June 21, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutes - 13 MB

Sometimes a small question can change the course of your career. It doesn't have to be complicated, and it doesn't have to be detailed. A well placed question might unearth information you didn't realize was in you. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: LaunchDarkly This episode is brought to you by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly enables development and operations teams to deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn't ready to be released to users. Innovate faster, deploy fearlessly, and ...

Asking a Taboo Question

June 15, 2022 07:00 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MB

In today's episode, I give you one question that is considered taboo (for some unknown reason) often in the workplace: What Do You Want? Amazingly, this diverse question is at the root of some of the most important conversations you'll have in your career. You are, after all, a human working with other humans - each with their own unique desires. 📮 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...

Reframe Play as a Principle

June 13, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 10.9 MB

Play isn't just for kids. In today's episode we'll reframe what play means, and why it's a principle for great work and lifelong learning. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Square Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to order creation and tracking, to inventory synchronization. Square’s APIs also integrate with software business owners already use like tax and bookings. so business owners can have an integrated software stack that em...

Interrogating Beliefs and Treasuring Those Who Disagree With You

June 08, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutes - 18.4 MB

When you find something that is counterintuitive, it's possible that it will create immense value to whatever problem you are trying to solve. Seek to interrogate your beliefs to build better explanations for what is true, and find those who disagree with you at an intuitive level. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: LaunchDarkly This episode is brought to you by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly enables development and operations teams to deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn't read...

Two Forks in the Road On the Path Towards Optimization and Productivity

June 06, 2022 07:00 - 17 minutes - 20.3 MB

Productivity is about working towards your goals, and optimization is about sharpening those efforts more directly. We talk about two forks in the road when you choose the types of optimization you'll deploy in your career and personal life. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: LaunchDarkly This episode is brought to you by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly enables development and operations teams to deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn't ready to be released to users. Innovate fast...

Techniques for People Struggling to Define Their Values

June 01, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutes - 15.8 MB

Determining your values doesn't have to be an extremely serious or permanent exercise. Start at the simplest place you can, and iterate. Your values are as evolving and changing as you are - keep them held lightly. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Square Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to order creation and tracking, to inventory synchronization. Square’s APIs also integrate with software business owners already use like tax an...

Using Core Tools and Activities for Grounded Productivity

May 31, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutes - 15.2 MB

If you feel like everything is spinning around you and it's difficult to remain productive, you aren't alone. In this episode we talk about core tools and activities, and why it's so important to spend the majority of your time working in your core. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: LaunchDarkly This episode is brought to you by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly enables development and operations teams to deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn't ready to be released to users. Innova...

Productivity, But Only On Paper

May 25, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutes - 15.3 MB

Productivity measurements often show nothing of value at all. Today we'll discuss how complexity (or "story") points may actually show exactly the opposite of productivity. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Instabug Building and maintaining mobile applications is not simple. Through comprehensive bug and crash reports, performance monitoring and real time user feedback, Instabug gives you the visibility you need to build top quality apps. Go to Instabug.com and get the visibility you...

The Only Productivity Discussion Worth Having

May 23, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutes - 18.6 MB

Productivity is meaningless without a goal, and no activity is banned from being considered productive. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Instabug Building and maintaining mobile applications is not simple. Through comprehensive bug and crash reports, performance monitoring and real time user feedback, Instabug gives you the visibility you need to build top quality apps. Go to Instabug.com and get the visibility you need to start delivering superior app performance and better user ex...

Make Room to Expect the Exceptions

May 20, 2022 07:00 - 6 minutes - 7.42 MB

On the whole, exceptions are not exceptional. Each one may be unpredictable or rare, but they happen very regularly. How are you prepared to handle those exceptions? Make space today for the principle of headroom. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve thei...

You Need Better Inputs to improve Your Options

May 18, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes - 12.4 MB

The quality of your options is determined by the quality of your inputs. If your decisions have no good options, consider what the source of those options is. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Instabug Building and maintaining mobile applications is not simple. Through comprehensive bug and crash reports, performance monitoring and real time user feedback, Instabug gives you the visibility you need to build top quality apps. Go to Instabug.com and get the visibility you need to start...

Tradeoffs Of Control Optimized To Serve Your Goals

May 11, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes - 12.4 MB

The background noise in today's episode wasn't just a mistake, it was a choice. A tradeoff. Tradeoffs represent a decision of control and energy. You will make them every day, but towards what goal? When you make a tradeoff and decide where to put your energy, you are necessarily deciding not to put it elsewhere. So, do so with purpose and intention. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: LaunchDarkly This episode is brought to you by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly enables development and op...

Scheduling Time To Go The Extra Mile

May 09, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes - 12.4 MB

What was the last time you prepared for a meeting? I'm not talking about the times when you were forced to prepare. I mean, when was the last time you put thought and effort into a meeting that most people just show up to? In this episode, we talk about simple ways to go the extra mile. Also, this involves no extra work on your part. 📮 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. 📮 Join th...

Premortems for Personal Goals

May 04, 2022 07:00 - 8 minutes - 9.48 MB

Premortems aren't just a tool for teams launching projects. You can use these for your personal goals as well. What are the things most likely to stop you from achieving your goals today, this month, this year, or by the end of your career? 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welco...

Compare, Carefully

May 02, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutes - 15.5 MB

Comparison is a powerful tool that humans are exceedingly good at wielding. However, as with any powerful tool, it can easily be misused to damaging effect. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Square Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to order creation and tracking, to inventory synchronization. Square’s APIs also integrate with software business owners already use like tax and bookings. so business owners can have an integrated soft...

Busting False Coupling and Finding Positive Negotiation Positions

April 27, 2022 07:00 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB

In this episode, we'll discuss the importance of breaking false ties in a negotiation scenario. This happens more often than we realize, and the best way to do this is by breaking down the problem of "what is important" to each side in a negotiation. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: LaunchDarkly This episode is brought to you by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly enables development and operations teams to deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn't ready to be released to users. Innov...

Making Space for Intuition in Decision-making

April 25, 2022 07:00 - 8 minutes - 7.51 MB

Decision-making shouldn't just be about algorithms. It also shouldn't be just about intuition. Incorporating both is required to make the best decisions for your career. 📮 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. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and careers, join us on the Develope...

Blueprint for Better Intermediate Decisionmaking

April 20, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 8.53 MB

Most decisions that are worth considering longer than a moment fall into the category of "intermediate decisions" we discuss in today's episode. These decisions require more than the quick snap judgments we all make, but shouldn't take significant deliberation or extended study to make. These decisions are the primary fuel for your career. 📮 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. 📮 Jo...

Finding Perspective On Purpose - Make it Visible, Make it Clear

April 18, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 8.67 MB

In today's episode we talk about finding perspective and purpose through the lens of two principles and one bonus exercise. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: LaunchDarkly This episode is brought to you by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly enables development and operations teams to deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn't ready to be released to users. Innovate faster, deploy fearlessly, and make each release a masterpiece. Get started at LaunchDarkly.com today! 📮 Ask a Question I...

The Principle of Isolation

April 14, 2022 07:00 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MB

In today's episode, we discuss the principle of isolation. We use isolation in decisionmaking regularly! Now, let's learn how to harness it. You can only optimize what you isolate. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Square Square has APIs for almost every aspect of running a business from employee management, to order creation and tracking, to inventory synchronization. Square’s APIs also integrate with software business owners already use like tax and bookings. so business owners ca...

Better Report, Better Manager - Reiterate and Reflect for Better Communication

April 11, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 9.07 MB

Communication is hard. Like most things, we try to oversimplify it by turning "understanding" into a black and white, binary state. Communication and understanding is, however, a spectrum. Singular messages are low resolution, and it's our job when communicating with each other to increase the resolution of our communication. We talk about a simple framework for doing just that in today's episode. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you...

Ambiguous Target Decisions and Noise

April 06, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MB

In today's episode we discuss two types of decision evaluations, and a brief explanation of noise in decisionmaking. You're making judgment calls every day - are they good? How do you know? 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: LaunchDarkly This episode is brought to you by LaunchDarkly. LaunchDarkly enables development and operations teams to deploy code at any time, even if a feature isn't ready to be released to users. Innovate faster, deploy fearlessly, and make each release a maste...

Better Report, Better Manager - The Assumption of Motivation

April 04, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes - 9.52 MB

We all have some kind of motivation. But in error, we assume we know the motivations of others, and we also assume that our future selves will act in alignment with well-intentioned motivations. Both of these assumptions can lead us to poor decisions about our career. For managers, that assumption can lead you to making decisions for others that are suboptimal to their goals. In this episode we talk about the importance of alignment and clarity for those motivations. 🙏 Today's Episode is B...

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Ben Orenstein
6 Episodes
Kalid Azad
5 Episodes
Gabriel Weinberg
4 Episodes
Ali Spittel
3 Episodes
Wes Bos
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Will Larson
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Anil Dash
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Annie Duke
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Christopher Schmitt
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Daniel Pink
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David Hemphill
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Jason Snell
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Kenneth Reitz
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Kevin Kelly
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Pamela Vickers
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Rachel Smith
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Rita Rovira
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Sam Lambert
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Scott Jehl
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Andi Graham
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Andrea Goulet
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Kent Beck
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