PODCAST · technology
the Debug Life
by Mitch
Find the courage to be you and community will find you.
Episodes
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#35 Breaking Barriers: Strategies for Building Meaningful Mentorship Relationships
00:00 Introduction 00:54 Why You Need a Mentor 01:44 Network With People in the Tech Industry 02:44 Ask for Help 03:36 Analyze Your Company 04:30 Conclusion A couple of years ago, while I was living in Denver, I wanted to buy a house. And so I started job hunting at some point, NASDAQ headhunted...
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#34 How can I establish boundaries with colleagues or clients who constantly demand my time?
As a young professional tech, the skill to set boundaries at work is essential to maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Here's how to say no to colleagues and managers without compromising the work you get done or how you're perceived. First off, look at everything that is expected of you and...
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#33 Why I Love Meditation And The Science Behind It
Meditation is a practice that involves training the mind to focus and relax in order to achieve a heightened state of awareness, inducing mental and emotional calm. It's a technique to improve mental clarity, increase self-awareness, and reduce stress and anxiety. Someone who is mediating might…
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#32 Create Space In Your Head By Journaling
Journaling is the habit of keeping a record of your thoughts, feelings, insights, and struggles and wins in your life. Whether you decide to write by hand on paper, type on the computer or use an app on your phone, journaling is a fantastic and low-cost option to maintain and improve your mental...
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#31 Impostor Syndrome is Just Another Variation of Shame
Impostor syndrome is the belief many of us hold that we aren't actually as capable or smart as others think we are, no matter how much evidence there is that we're successfully navigating our professional and personal lives. Impostor syndrome isn’t a diagnosis or a medical problem but a pattern…
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#30 Understanding Burnout - How Neuroscience Can Help You Develop a Stronger Default Response
In today's fast-paced and high-stress world, burnout has become a common problem that affects many of us. It can leave you feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and detached from your work or personal life. Today, we'll explore the science behind burnout and how you can use neuroscience to prevent it.
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#29 The Dangers Of Loneliness
Statistics show more than half of young Americans don't feel close to anyone, and that number has doubled since the 1980s. Part of being human is that we all feel lonely at times. Even the most extroverted people have likely felt the urge to connect and experienced sadness from being unable to...
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#28 Multitasking Is A Lie
In today's fast-paced world, the pressure to do more in less time has led to the widespread belief that multitasking is the key to achieving success. However, research has shown that multitasking is nothing more than a myth. Today, we will explore why multitasking is ineffective and discuss the...
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#27 Maintaining a Healthy Dopamine Balance
00:00 What Is Dopamine? 01:15 The Causes of Dopamine Imbalance 02:36 Strategies for Maintaining a Healthy Dopamine Balance Dopamine plays a crucial role in how we perceive pleasure in our lives. However, excessive consumption of processed foods, technology overuse, chronic stress, and inadequate...
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#26 Achieve Big By Focusing Small
Today, we explore the idea that focusing on one thing each day is the key to achieving extraordinary success. Despite our tendency to multitask, success comes from doing the right things in the right sequence, with each action building on the last. We also delve into the concept of the domino...
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A Balanced Life Doesn't Exist
The pursuit of a perfectly balanced life is a common goal, but often an unattainable one. Work-life balance has become an important concern, especially with the rise of technology and the shift towards remote work. Today, we will explore the concept of counterbalancing as a solution. 00:00...
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How To Use Intermittent Fasting to Sculpt a Healthier Body
Intermittent fasting is a diet that focuses on when, rather than what, you eat. Followers of this diet eat only during a specific time period or just one meal a few days a week. Fasting can help your body burn fat more effectively and has been shown to have several potential health benefits.…
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The Effects of Blue Light on Health
While blue light is environmentally friendly, it may not always be so friendly to our health. For example, blue light can affect your sleep and potentially contribute to disease. Until the invention of artificial light, the sun was our only source of light, and once it had set, people spent their...
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How To Find Peace With the Amygdala
00:00 Introduction to the Amygdala 01:35 Emotions and Social Behavior 02:37 The Impact of Stress on the Amygdala 04:43 Strategies for Calming the Amygdala The amygdala is a small, almond-shaped structure of cells located in the temporal lobes on both sides of the brain, just above the hippocampus...
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Why Motivation Is Overrated
Motivation is best described as the process that initiates, guides, and maintains human behavior. It's a condition inside of us that desires a change, either within ourselves or in our environment. At the core of motivation is the energy for persistent goal-directed behavior. When we are…
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Why Failure Hurts Just Like Physical Pain
We often interpret failure as rejection in one way or the other. The brain can perceive rejection as threatening our safety and survival, thus activating mechanisms that make us feel distressed. The brain evolved to keep us alive, and it uses these painful mechanisms to get us to do whatever it...
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Understanding and Identifying Core Values
Core values represent the fundamental beliefs you have about your life. They not only guide your behaviors, decisions, and actions but also bring you a sense of purpose and self-confidence. They serve to remind you what’s important to you and the things you want more of in life. The society we…
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How To Feel and Respond to the Emotions of Others
00:00 What Is Empathy 01:05 Types of Empathy 02:15 The Importance of Empathy 03:16 Lack of Empathy 04:18 Empathetic Conversation 05:58 Empathetic Habits 07:22 Why I Care About Empathy Empathy is the ability to sense other people's emotions and imagine what someone else might think or feel....
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Signs You May Be Self Medicating and What to Do About It
00:00 What Is Self-Medication 00:58 My Self-Medication Story 01:55 Reasons for Self-Medication 02:29 Types of Self-Medication 03:28 Signs of Self-Medication 05:14 Dangers of Self-Medication 06:13 Awareness and Self-Medication 07:24 Beliefs and Self-Medication 08:30 Alternatives to Self-Medication...
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How to Build Confidence by Overcoming Fear and Self Doubt
True confidence isn't characterized by the absence of fear but rather by having a positive relationship with it. Any time you step out of your comfort zone or take a risk, you will feel fear. That's not weakness because fear isn't your enemy; it's a powerful source of energy you can tap into for...
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The Ultimate Guide to Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Studies have shown that over half of the American population believes doing their taxes is easier than figuring out how to eat healthily and over ten billion donuts are consumed in the US every year. At least one in four people eat some type of fast food on a daily basis, and only three out of…
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How to Sleep Better and Why It Matters
00:00 Introduction 00:46 Why Sleep Matters 02:19 Mental Health and Sleep 02:51 Physical Health and Sleep 03:21 Weight Management and Sleep 04:04 Cognitive Function and Sleep 04:51 How to Sleep Better We all have the inherent intuition that sleep is essential to our well-being, but many of us are...
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How to Focus and Get Sh*t Done
Focusing your efforts and doing the work isn't easy. You have to create time within your busy schedule to pursue something that will challenge you mentally, emotionally, and maybe even physically. You already spend so much of your energy working for a paycheck. In comparison, setting and…
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The Ultimate Guide to Physical Fitness
00:00 Creating Your Vision 02:03 The Biggest Myths and Mistakes 03:40 The Constants of Muscle Growth 04:47 The Science and Facts of Fat Loss 05:55 The Training Formula 07:21 The Workout Plan Before you start lifting weights or start counting calories, you must have a specific and tangible goal in...
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The Benefits of Exercise on Mental Health
Exercising isn't only about endurance and aesthetics. Admittedly, it can improve our physiques, sex lives, and dating opportunities, but that's usually not what keeps active people motivated. Those who regularly exercise do so because it gives them an incredible sense of well-being. I exercise...
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How to Practice Positive Self Talk
The human brain is the most powerful biochemical computer known to mankind. It is shaped by thought, speech, and behavior. Do you do everything you can to feed it positivity, or do you frequently notice yourself getting caught up in negative thought patterns? Self-talk is your internal dialogue…
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How to Become Comfortable Socializing
“Everyone wears metaphorical masks during their lives. We all have different faces we show to work colleagues, or friends, or family. Sometimes we wear so many masks, we forget who we are underneath it all, but you have to find the courage to drop all the bullshit and reveal your true self.” ―...
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How to Prevent and Recover From Burnout
Burnout is a state of physical, mental, or emotional exhaustion caused by excessive stress and overwork. While it isn't an official medical condition, burnout has a significant impact on your productivity, creativity, relationships, and quality of life. Burnout doesn't simply show up out of...
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How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome
Have you ever felt like you're not good enough to do the job you've been hired to do, and that your boss may discover you as a fraud at any moment? Perhaps you've felt like like you're only pretending to be an adult who's capable of making major financial decisions or raising another human being,...
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How to Overcome Loneliness With a Morning Routine
00:00 Introduction 01:03 The origin of my morning routine 01:46 My realization 02:27 Why do you get out of bed? 03:07 Debugging the snooze 04:35 Constructing the routine 04:54 Journaling 05:20 Meditation 05:41 Affirmations 06:17 Exercise 06:49 Reading 07:17 Sample Routine Growing up, you were...
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How to Deal With Anxiety and Depression
My therapist once told me: "Anxiety, depression, and ADD are all riding in the same car. It is my job to determine which one is in the driver's seat and treat you accordingly." Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental health conditions and are easily confused. While there is some...
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The Difference Between Loneliness and Solitude
00:00 Introduction 00:32 How the Difference Shows in My Life 01:26 A Quick Word on Burnouts 02:36 An Objective Perspective on Solitude 03:30 Solitude as a Superpower 03:57 Leveraging Solitude 04:24 What Is Deep Work? 05:14 Styles of Deep Work 06:30 Disciplines of Execution 07:12 Putting It All...
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How to Avoid Loneliness Working from Home
00:00 Introduction 00:25 Uncaught Dangers 01:48 The Loneliness Pandemic 02:45 What to do 03:20 Making Adjacent Friends 04:49 Put Your Phone Down 05:40 Join a Group or Class 06:56 Do's and Don'ts for Starting Friendships If you're a software developer (or engineer, for that matter), chances are...
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Does technology such as social media cause loneliness?
If you've ever felt like you're spending too much time staring at screens and not enough interacting with people in real life, I can tell you that you're not alone. A recent study found that excessive social media use can lead to withdrawal from real-life relationships and as a result…
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Can loneliness kill you?
Loneliness is a topic that is often left unspoken. In our society, men opening up about their feelings is seen as weakness, and thus many feel ashamed to talk about it. But what if loneliness could actually harm us? What if we're not talking about it enough? Studies have shown that it can…
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