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hard first, easy later

by Samuel Barney

A semi-daily podcast focused on the planning & execution of patterns as it relates to personal development / workplace productivity.

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Episodes

  1. Software Engineering "Best Practices"

    Who should decide what tools & patterns we should be using?

  2. Dopamine

    Replace endorphin mentions with serotonin, lol.

  3. Coding interviews are broken, the myth.

    Let's examine the myth around coding interviews evaluating algorithms vs day-to-day language/stack specific patterns.

  4. Challenge Execution Patterns

    Peers & Stakeholders deserve to be challenged and offered an alternative solution.

  5. Identity

    Actions inline with our Identity.

  6. Continuity

    Do you really want to be average?

  7. The toxic co-worker!

    Can taking the hard road & building up your team members instead of jumping ship result in better overall team performance & synergistic harmonistic winningisticness?!

  8. Performance Reviews

    A concise talk on preparing for performance reviews & how it affects the career path.

  9. Horrible Bosses

    How to deal with a micromanager / low performing leader.

  10. Recognition Patterns for Teams

    Some insights based on studies from Carol Dweck(Stanford) & Dr. Jooa Julia Lee(Harvard) among other unnamed studies into recognition & praise affect on the mindset of children to adult.

  11. Team Leadership

    Talent development in teams can be accelerated using a bottom-up leadership approach, giving even partial decision making of specific verticals to team members.

  12. Stakeholder Intent

    Communicate with Stakeholder(s) to better define a project's intent / outcome, which in turn will result in a better user experience.

  13. The Tinker Challenge

    Spend 5-10 non-standard work hours towards tinkering with new technologies/patterns that potentially can benefit your org.

  14. Greenfield Development

    Development process & overall team dynamics for increased team effective velocity.

  15. Objectives and key results (OKR)

    A pattern for living a purpose-driven life full of quantifiable micro & macro wins.

  16. One secret to becoming a high performer!

    A concise touch on the building block attribute that can lead to building a high-performance state of mind.

  17. Happiness in the Workplace

    How feeling happy at work in short bursts, impacts our collaboration & productivity.

  18. Entitlement

    A brief touch on thoughts for rewards/appreciation/entitlements in the workplace & how it relates on a personal level.

  19. Teamwork makes the dream work!

    High-performance team experiences & how to effectively operate inside a highly performant team.

  20. Obsession

  21. Ownership

    Thoughts on Ownership in personal & work life. This episode sites a recent study "The effect of admitting fault versus shifting blame on expectations for others to do the same".

  22. Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

  23. User Experience Assessment (UXA)

    UXA / UXE initial thoughts for software development teams in 2020.

  24. Productivity (pt. 2)

  25. Productivity

  26. Milestones

    Milestone planning & execution shallow dive.

  27. Mentality

    Working deep for long hours will give you more than short bursts with the aid of parental controlled computer screens, in my opinion.

  28. Subject Matter Expert (SME)

    Sometimes an open mind can lead to interesting & innovative solutions.

  29. Test Driven Development (TDD)

  30. Proactive

  31. Technical Leadership

  32. Performance

  33. Abstractions

  34. Fighting Average

  35. The Last Minute Deadline!

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A semi-daily podcast focused on the planning & execution of patterns as it relates to personal development / workplace productivity.

HOSTED BY

Samuel Barney

Produced by Sam

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A semi-daily podcast focused on the planning & execution of patterns as it relates to personal development / workplace productivity.

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