Thought Experiment - Rejecting Your Intuitive Solution
Take a problem that you expect to face - one that you haven't solved yet or taken action on but have an ideal of how you would take action. Today's thought experiment is to imagine rejecting your prop...
12 Feb 20206min
You Don't Have to Be a Slave to Self-Improvement
When we allow surrounding cultures to drive our goals, we fall back to the systems and goals that the people around us have created. Where do our goals come from and how does it make our lives dysfunc...
10 Feb 202012min
Getting Stacked Value From your Daily Activities
The amount of time in a day is the same but the amount of margin you have in your day can vary. In today's episode, we're talking about some heuristics for choosing the best activities for your time a...
7 Feb 202012min
Defining Your Reference Points
When was the last time you asked a question in a meeting? Questions are an invitation to collaboration, especially in our jobs as developers. In today's episode we're talking about the questions we've...
5 Feb 202010min
Engineering Your Habits Like Interfaces
In today's episode we're talking about the idea of interfaces as some kind of expected way to interact with our code and how to take that frame of mind to our day-to-day lives. Being explicit about wh...
3 Feb 20208min
Plans Should Be Functions, Not Documents
We expect things to go one way, but often, they go in another way. In today's episode, we're talking about plans and how to stay agile when the plans we make, don't necessarily go the way we expect. T...
31 Jan 202014min
What Are your Fundamentals?
One of the biggest mistakes you can make as a developer is to overcomplicate whatever you're doing. This comes all the way down to every line of code you write. In today's episode, we're talking about...
29 Jan 20207min
Getting On The Right Level When Solving Problems Collaboratively
Often as a developer you'll find yourself either too far in the weeds of solving a problem or too far up in the clouds. In today's episode, we're talking about the levels in which we choose to contri...
27 Jan 20208min
