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]
How do our brains and our minds perceive code?
In today's episode, we're talking about what code is to our mind vs. our brain?
Whether you’re working on…
When you think correlation and causation you might think of graphs and research. As one data point changes another data point also changes.
In today's episode, we're talking about controlling variabl…
What effect does your value system have on your personal and professional growth?
In today's episode, we're talking about context dependent decision making and how your current state of mind can infl…
We often don't know about all of the failures that exist, but what causes failure?
The path to success is filled with failures along the way. In today's episode, we're challenging you to take a step …
In today's episode, we're doing a visualization exercise. Grab a piece of paper and pen or pencil and get ready to think about what you did today.
If you're enjoying the show and wan…
The average engineer hears this over and over, "question your assumptions." In today's episode, we're identifying assumptions that make based on our behaviors in various situations.
How can we avoid …
When do you walk away from a problem to find the solution?
In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're answering this question submitted from a listener.
What are your default problem solving strategies?
In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the things we do on a regular basis and how our default behaviors shape the way we approach …
What makes up the orders that we follow?
In today's episode, we're talking about truths about the world based on our pre-determined perceptions. We dig into how our predispositions inform our decisio…
In today's episode, we conclude the conversation with Dan Heath, author of a new book , Upstream.
In this part 2 of the interview, Dan talks about quality of leadership and giving more praise to thos…
In today's episode, we sit down with Dan Heath, author of a new book , Upstream. In this part 1 of the conversation with Dan, we discuss preventative work over reactive work among teams.
At some point our knowledge runs out, but even more perplexing is the ability to look forward in time. In today's episode, we're talking about uncertainty that teams experience and how that uncertain…
If you had to define learning to an engineer, you'd probably mention some type of fact memorization and functions to perform a task. In today's episode, we're talking about information gathering and …
For the sake of this episode we're calling habits the effort it takes to do something with intuition. In today's episode, we're talking about how to break out of old habits and learn new habits when …
What are some things you don't know about?
In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about uncertainty, lack of knowledge, lack of clarity, and pushing past the feeling of guilt when we thin…
Why are bad ideas important and why are silly questions needed? Very likely you've been in a meeting welcoming any question, good or bad.
In today's episode, we're talking about being vulnerable in m…
In today's episode, we're talking about the model of forcing functions or the choice that requires us to move in a specific direction.
We'll talk about difference constraints that we can apply to our…
What exactly is deliberate practice and how does it apply to intensionally putting yourself in a state of discomfort? That's what we're talking about in today's episode of Developer Tea.
In today's e…
In today's episode we're talking about the words we use to describe a problem we're working on. We'll discuss how our words frame problems faced and how we can broaden our ability to effectively comm…
The difference between speed and acceleration is vast. When driving at a consistent speed, you often don't notice how quickly you're going, but when you accelerate, you feel it immediately.
In today'…