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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]

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
17 minutes
Episodes
1268
Years Active
2015 - 2025
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Stress Response and Anger as a Secondary Emotion

Stress Response and Anger as a Secondary Emotion

In today's episode, we're talking about response tactics to stressful situations as we experience them in our day-to-day work environment.

🙏 Thanks to today's sponsor: Sentry

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00:15:57  |   Wed 27 Feb 2019
Problem Solving Intuitions - Additive, Subtractive and Reorganizational Thinking

Problem Solving Intuitions - Additive, Subtractive and Reorganizational Thinking

Take a moment to imagine a problem that you're currently facing. Take a minute to think about ways that you might solve this problem. In today's episode, we're going to take a minute to think about w…

00:11:15  |   Mon 25 Feb 2019
Starting Your Work Day with Autonomy

Starting Your Work Day with Autonomy

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 and taking advantage of the ana…

00:09:13  |   Fri 22 Feb 2019
Making Decisions - Fighting Fear and Time Warping

Making Decisions - Fighting Fear and Time Warping

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.

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00:12:08  |   Wed 20 Feb 2019
How We Construct Software, Part 4b: Code and Communication

How We Construct Software, Part 4b: Code and Communication

In today's episode, we dive into the rest of the communication model we started discussing in the previous episode in this series.

🙏 Thanks to today's sponsor: Sentry

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00:21:32  |   Tue 19 Feb 2019
How We Construct Software, Part 4a: Code and Communication

How We Construct Software, Part 4a: Code and Communication

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…

00:23:19  |   Fri 15 Feb 2019
How We Construct Software - Part Three (Decision Variance)

How We Construct Software - Part Three (Decision Variance)

Giving someone a broad software problem is a little like asking them to plant a tree. In today's episode, we talk about how different mental effects can cause variance in decision-making for complex …

00:16:11  |   Wed 13 Feb 2019
How We Construct Software - Part Two (Beliefs and Models)

How We Construct Software - Part Two (Beliefs and Models)

In today's episode, we're going to talk a little bit about belief. Often this word is used and abused as something more than it is. In today's episode we're going to reinvigorate your appreciation f…

00:17:18  |   Mon 11 Feb 2019
How We Construct Software - Part 1 (Substitute Questions)

How We Construct Software - Part 1 (Substitute Questions)

In this special series on Developer Tea we're talking about the different ways that software information flows, and how that informs our decisions when constructing our software

Today's Episode is Br…

00:14:14  |   Fri 08 Feb 2019
Beating Procrastination

Beating Procrastination

The things that seem to cause procrastination is value. Either in the outcome of the work or in the future state getting in the way of the tasks at hand. That's what we're talking about in today's ep…

00:10:21  |   Wed 06 Feb 2019
Poisoning Retrospectives With Hindsight Bias

Poisoning Retrospectives With Hindsight Bias

We recommend structured retrospectives. Identify things that went well and things that didn't go so well during a project or given week. Today, we're going to talk about recognizing our own faults w…

00:12:09  |   Mon 04 Feb 2019
When Best Practices Backfire - The Peltzman Effect

When Best Practices Backfire - The Peltzman Effect

We write tests for our code because it gives us another angle to understand the code and ends up being more efficient for most types of projects. It also has an effect on the way we actually write th…

00:16:00  |   Wed 30 Jan 2019
Replace Your Implicit Questions to Break Out of Incrementalism

Replace Your Implicit Questions to Break Out of Incrementalism

In today's episode, we're talking about a different kind of change. Instead of updating beliefs incrementally we're going to look at ways to approach change at a scaled level both in your work and in…

00:21:24  |   Mon 28 Jan 2019
Self-Awareness and Intellectual Honesty

Self-Awareness and Intellectual Honesty

In today's episode, we're talking about lying. The kind of lying that is often unintentional and very rarely condemned.

Thanks to today's sponsor: Clubhouse.io

Clubhouse is the first project manageme…

00:15:19  |   Fri 25 Jan 2019
Treating Your Brain as More Than a Machine

Treating Your Brain as More Than a Machine

We've talked about how treating yourself like a machine and others around you like a machine is a bad idea. Today, we're talking about our missed opportunities. More importantly those moments we chos…

00:14:22  |   Wed 23 Jan 2019
Improving Confidence and Neutralizing Threats Through Detached Perception

Improving Confidence and Neutralizing Threats Through Detached Perception

What drives us to respond to situations like being behind on a project? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about over-working and investigating why we've decided to overwork ourselves…

00:18:41  |   Mon 21 Jan 2019
High-Churn Code Should Be Your Cleanest Code

High-Churn Code Should Be Your Cleanest Code

In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the different types of code and different approaches to developing good code hygiene.

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If you have questions about today's episode…

00:08:13  |   Fri 18 Jan 2019
Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 2)

Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 2)

In today's episode of Developer Tea we're continuing the discussion on challenging our mental models and talking about criticality and coding standards.

Thanks to today's sponsor: Sentry

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00:18:58  |   Wed 16 Jan 2019
Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 1)

Mental Models - Lenses for Thinking and Decisions (Part 1)

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.

Thanks …

00:21:00  |   Mon 14 Jan 2019
Adding tests to a big untested codebase - Where do I start?

Adding tests to a big untested codebase - Where do I start?

Where do you start when you're adding tests to an untested codebase? That's what we're talking about in today's episode of developer tea.

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If you have questions about today's episode, wan…

00:10:49  |   Fri 11 Jan 2019
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