No More Status Meetings - A Forcing Function For Better Team Information Flow
Your status meetings are an old holdover from less useful business practices. Do away with status meetings, and instead get to the core of your discussion faster.🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you b...
7 Mar 202214min
Two Principles To Improve Your Software Design Decisions
In today's episode we discuss two principles that will help you make better software design decisions. Talk about these principles and how they apply with your manager, teammates, mentors, or other en...
2 Mar 202211min
Clearly Define What Your Toolset Can't Do
Defining what your tools, teams, processes, and even you yourself are good at is hard, and often we stray past the boundaries of focus that would keep us performing to an optimal degree.In this episod...
28 Feb 20229min
When Sense-making and Statistics Collide
Our ability to make sense out of things is powerful. When we hear "90% of the way there", our brain fills in the gaps and often stretches that to mean "basically 100%." However, this is a cognitive er...
24 Feb 202211min
Opportunities of Convergence and the Cost of Divergence
Opportunity comes in moments of convergence. Loss is measured in divergence. Pay attention to what is converging now - this is how you take advantage of opportunities and reduce your cost from diverge...
22 Feb 202212min
Viewing Teams Through the Lens of Trust
Everything we do in our teams is based on trust. Trust, however, is a limited resource. We should spend it wisely.🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: SquareSquare has APIs for almost every aspect...
17 Feb 202215min
3 Habits For Your First 30 Days As A New Engineer On A Team (Corrected Audio)
You're a new engineer - what should you start doing in your first 30 days? In this episode, we talk about 3 behaviors you might be resisting, but that you should actually embrace in order to improve y...
14 Feb 202217min
Your Media, Your Message
In the mid 20th century, Marshall Mcluhan brought philosophy into the spotlight with his claim that the "medium is the message." We discuss the meaningfulness of this, and apply it to our work as engi...
10 Feb 202211min
