Developer Tea
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 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: [email protected]
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 1268
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part Two
Geoff Schmidt joins me to discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and how the responsibilities are shifting and roles are changing to give more leverage and better separation of concerns between client side and ser…
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part One
Geoff Schmidt joins me to discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and how the responsibilities are shifting and roles are changing to give more leverage and better separation of concerns between client side and ser…
Friday Refills - Stop Predicting Your Priorities
We spend a lot of energy trying to predict our lives and priorities. This is mostly wasted - instead, we should spend our time understanding our values and planning to make margin for the principles …
Superpowered Imagination
Much of our attention and effort is used trying to remove human influence and finding "raw" truth. Today, I want to ask you to do the opposite of that.
✨ Sponsor: Linode
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Biases of Attention
There is far more information that we ignore than what we pay attention to. This selective attention is important to understand as both a necessary skill and a potential pitfall.
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Friday Refill - Divergent and Convergent Meetings
We seek agreement by default. It feels good. But is it what we really want? What we really need?
Clean Up Your Goals
In today's episode we talk about good key results and objectives, and how to clean up your goals. Having a goal is not enough and knowing your principles and what makes you different from others is t…
Lego Problems - Modes of Operation on Component-Driven Problems
There are only so many ways you can manipulate LEGO. In today's episode we talk about those fundamental transformation steps and how they apply to your daily problem solving.
✨ Sponsor: LaunchDarkly
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Friday Refill - Anchor Behaviors
When you feel a sense of chaos has overwhelmed your week, it can be tempting to want to check out for the weekend. But in today's episode we discuss a tool I've used to combat this sense of aimlessne…
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part Two
Quincy Larson might be responsible for at least one very important part of your career: the beginning. That's because Quincy is the founder of freeCodeCamp, a non-profit teaching millions of people t…
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part One
Quincy Larson might be responsible for at least one very important part of your career: the beginning. That's because Quincy is the founder of freeCodeCamp, a non-profit teaching millions of people t…
Friday Refills - Rest is Not an Optional Luxury
Your obligations are usually the result of your systemic choices. You have no choice but to rest and recover. Choose to affirm your choices instead of living under the illusion that those choices wer…
Post-Pandemic Work and Life as an Engineer - Skills for a Different Future
In today's discussion, we will look at what it will take to prepare for the changes we will see as we transition out of the worldwide pandemic, and into a post-pandemic world.
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Post-Pandemic Life and Work as an Engineer: Back to Normal-ish
In today's episode we continue our discussion about what life will be like when the pandemic ends... whenever that will be. Will we go back to normal? How can we think about "normal" when so much has…
Self Distancing
Your own internal voice may need to back off a little bit. Distancing from our self-talk and imagining a distant future (or distant present) might be one important way to reduce negative self-talk an…
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part Two
Jonas Downey is the design lead at Basecamp. In this interview we discuss the ethics of designing and building constraints into your product that change human behavior.
✨ Sponsor: Redhat
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Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part One
Jonas Downey is the design lead at Basecamp. In this interview we discuss the ethics of designing and building constraints into your product that change human behavior.
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Friday Refills - Don't Cram the Information Firehose... Filter and Focus!
We are not well adapted to focus and filter information. For the majority of human history, the information available was virtually all relevant.
But now, we have an overload of information. Our firs…
Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer - Remote Everything?
In this episode, we continue series of episodes about how COVID has and will continue to affect our lives and jobs as software engineers. We'll talk about where we will work, and how COVID has change…
Series kickoff - Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer
In this episode, we kick off a series of episodes about how COVID has and will continue to affect our lives and jobs as software engineers.
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