Apply Little's Law To What You Can Control
Little's Law explains, in a given queuing system, what the relationships of throughput within that system are. We can garner insights both for our work, and for our own lives, by recognizing how these...
3 Feb 202412min
Finding Leverage by Escaping Functional Fixedness
Finding leverage is difficult to do, but a lot of the reason for this is that we allow ourselves to fall into well-traveled cognitive pathways. If we reject the solution domain-set that comes to mind ...
26 Jan 202412min
Is it Actually Important to Question Assumptions?
In today's episode, we discuss turtles, resolutions, and why your beliefs and what you see as fact is probably worth questioning anyway.📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me t...
16 Jan 20249min
9 Years - Persistence by Reducing Expectation
Today Marks 9 Years of Developer Tea.Thank you all for your support, and your friendship. I wish you all well on your journey, and may you find clarity, perspective, and purpose. (Don't worry, we aren...
5 Jan 202418min
Good Plans, Bad Plans, and Road Trips
What characterizes good plans from bad ones? And how can you make your plans better on average? In this episode we discuss how to better organize your intentions and processes to yield better plans.🎙...
15 Dec 202319min
Negative and Positive Lollapalooza Effects
The "lollapalooza" effect (coined by Charlie Munger) occurs when multiple other effects have a compounded outcome that tends to create an extreme situation.In this episode, we discuss lollapalooza eff...
9 Dec 202322min
Fresh Eyes - How Anchoring Bias, Bandwagon Effect, Status Quo Bias, and Uniqueness Bias Interact When Joining New Groups
When you are newly joining a team, you have a huge opportunity to do something that no one on the team has: to find your "weathervane." The pressure pushing against you to adopt the beliefs of the tea...
1 Dec 202316min
The Dark Side of Optimism Bias
Most people believe good things will happen by default.Not to be the bearer of bad news, but there's a downside to this endless optimism. You cannot will good things to happen, and when you don't prep...
27 Nov 202314min
