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With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you’ll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: developertea@gmail.com
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What is it about our present situation that changes our perspective? In today's episode we talk about the availability bias and why our present reality looms so large in our decisionmaking.
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What do you expect of yourself? Are you spending your time in ways that align with those expectations?
In this episode, I provide you a simple framework as a starting lens for getting a better idea of how you are spending your time in relation to who cares the most about those investments. You'll walk away with a new lens on how to evaluate your most precious resource: time.
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Almost every conversation you have will start with a question.
Have you stopped to listen closely? Questions are extremely meaningful and deeply human. Paying close attention to questions is a skill that will put you head and shoulders above the average engineer or manager.
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How often does reality match your expectations exactly? Sure, you may guess in the ball park, but usually there are errors in our expectations.
In today's episode, I talk about a simple shift in thinking that will help improve your expectations for your work.
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In this episode we continue a little mini-series called "Backlog psychology."
How do you get better at anything? (Hopefully you said "practice" almost instinctively.) What does good practice look like?
Your team has an opportunity to practice every meeting and every day. But if your days look different from one to the next, how will you ever have the opportunity to actually do that practice?
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In this episode we continue the mini-series "Backlog psychology."
Would you rather have $5 now or $50 next week? The answer to this question, though it seems logically obvious which is better, does not always produce the same response. The required incentive to convince someone to wait tends to follow an exponential curve upward.
This is not just true with money, but for any benefit and incentive: monetary, social, emotional, physical, etc.
What does this mean for our backlogs? What about our daily habits?
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In this episode we kick off a little mini-series called "Backlog psychology."
You've heard you should "limit your work in progress" - why? What makes more work in progress more difficult to handle?
Cognitive load isn't just about multi-tasking in the moment - it's also about limiting your open tasks.
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Your retros may feel like deadends where complaints go to die. If you're running retros and treating it only as an avenue for emotional support rather than continuous improvement, today's episode is for you.
Retros are for improving iteratively over time. That can only happen if your outcomes are aligned to that iterative mindset. Two simple adjustments can help drive that improvement.
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Count the cost of learning. When you choose a path towards a goal, it's absolutely critical to optimize for the cost of learning. Often, with software, it is easier to learn by a series of smaller steps, even if they start out as random, rather than take on the major risk of a large step possibly going the wrong direction. This isn't always true; sometimes, the cost of learning is *greater* with small steps. Determining which is true in your situation can make or break your plans.
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Decisions are made in many ways, but one important type of decisionmaking tool is the "rule." This is something you follow without any cognitive processing.
But, we eventually develop rules as a part of habit-building. These are "implicit" rules - they aren't necessarily something you have set as a rule, but they are followed as if they were.
These are worth interrogating, and perhaps replacing with more explicit rules.
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