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How History Can Inform a Dynamic Understanding of Technological Revolutions Mirroring this Moment In Software Engineering

Fundamentals Will Help You Survive the Constant Acceleration of Software Engineering

You Don't Learn Helplessness - You Learn Control

Why Reducing Complexity Is A Sign of Seniority

A Pragmatic Definition for Accountability

Using Substition to Make Decisions Simpler

Your Single Most Important Tool for Managing the Uneven Downsides of Risk

Why Can't You Go Faster With AI? Focus on the Friction to Find Out

Software Engineering Principles That Still Hold Up in an Agentic World - Old Lessons Made New

Principles Oriented Thinking as a Durable Skill in an AI First World

What the Science Actually Says About Effective Feedback

Rebuilding Your Mental Models In the Midst Of an AI Tech Revolution

Practice Isn't Enough for Senior Engineers - Adaptation Is a Key Skill in an AI-First Industry

Senior Skills to Maintain Employment Through the AI Wave

You're Wrong All the Time, But All You Need Are Better Explanations

AI-Proofing Your Skillset - High-Meaning, High-Specifity Vocabulary is the Path to Growth

Building Real Skills During the AI Boom - No, Not That Kind of Skill

Chaos Doesn't Have to Win - Maintaining Order in the Midst of AI Change

Mourning the Loss of Coding, Senior Tooling Mindset, and Shaping Your Environment

Useful Illusions and Exploiting Heuristics

Decision Making is Your New Core Skill, So it's Critical to Avoid These Two Traps of Collaborative Decision-Making

What's Brewing, Edition 1 - What Jonathan is Learning, Using, and Thinking

From Software Engineer to Agent Manager - How Work is Changing in A New Software Development Paradigm

AI Moves the Bottleneck - Are You Ready for What That Means For Your Career?

Listener Question - Abdul Asks About How to Balance Career Strategy Between Money, Meaning, and Skill Transitions

AI-Era Employability and Job Security for Software Engineers - Mental Models for Finding a Competitive Advantage Without Selling Out

Why Getting Paid Stole Your Drive and How to Get Into the Flow Again (Career Growth Accelerator)

The Meta-Habit of High Performers: How Outer Loops Unlock Growth (Career Growth Accelerator)

Career Growth Accelerator - Promotion Roadblocks and Knocking it Out of the Park During Performance Review Season

Career Growth Roadmap - De-risking Your Career By Understanding Your Vulnerabilities

Career Growth Accelerator - Assessing Yourself - Using a Nine-Block to Map Your Skill, Potential, and Energy Investment

Career Growth Accelerator: Going from Autopilot to Purpose

Announcing - Career Growth Accelerator, Episode Zero - Getting Out of Your Own Way

Announcing: The Career Growth Accelerator Series

Problem Definition As A Path for Career Growth

You Know The Hard Thing You Need to Do Next - Here's Why It's Worth Doing Now

Career Fundamentals - Avoid Career Traps by Focusing on Primary Paths of Improvement

Getting to Senior - Taking Ownership Without Leading Projects

Part Two - Bryan McCann, CTO of You.com, on AI, Engineering, Art, and Everything In Between

Part One - Bryan McCann, CTO of You.com, on AI, Engineering, Art, and Everything In Between

Going to War with Burnout - Less Hours Isn't Your Only Option

The Good and Bad of Choosing Measurements - Traps and Opportunities of Measuring What Matters

Engage in Deliberate Practice to Level Up Your Engineering Leadership Skills

Shift Your Locus of Control to Take Charge of Your Engineering Career

Resumé Driven Development - Your Career is In Your Hands

Forced and Unforced Errors

View Your Productivity Through the Lens of Values and Priorities

This One Skill Signifies Seniority For Software Engineers

Backup Plans and Risk Reward Curves

Second Order Consequences and Forcing Functions

Don't Try to Solve Hyperobject Problems Once

Behavior Change 101: Trigger, Incentive, and Ability

Goal of the Goal - Using Goals As A Prioritization Clarifying Tool

Your Capacity for Growth Is Dependent on This Factor - Cognitive Load Theory

Investigating Your Invisible Systems

Perfection Is Fragile, and You Should Avoid It

Your System is Perfectly Designed for Your Current Outcomes

Using LLMs To Expand Your Working Vocabulary

Great Reviews and Terrible Tacos - Sharpening Substitute Questions with Counterfactuals

Why Maintenance Matters Now - Construal Level Theory, Marshmallows, and Hyperbolic Discounting

Follow This Principle - Establish Your Baselines

Advice on Advice - Taking Everything with a Grain of Salt

Career Advice for Surviving AI Outsourcing

Take Back Your Time - Volatility, Pliability, and Agency and Your Obligations.mp3

Iteration or Target State Planning

Three Principles of Preparedness - Mitigate Risks and Capitalize On Opportunities

Did I Get That Right? - A High Leverage Habit that Requires Virtually Zero Skill

Meta Models - Logarithmic Returns

Dimensional Reframing - Think Along a New Axis

Chesterton's Fence - Why You Should Think Twice Before Rewriting That Project

Reframing Areas of Growth to Your Manager

Owning and Requesting Forward-Framed Feedback

Work Modes Using Autonomy and Definition Clarity Quadrant - Manager Frameworks and Tools Series

Manager Frameworks and Models - Product Lifecycle Governance

Philosophical Frameworks that Inform Your Decisions (Without You Even Knowing It)

How Can You Prepare for High-Impact Unknown Events?

Misconceptions about Exceptions and Cultural Shifts - Invisible Inertia

Action Orientation and Making Faster Decisions

Match your Action to Intention - Pairing Five Whats with Five Whys

Upgrade Your Resolutions

Ten Years of Developer Tea

Better Low-Information Estimates - Putting the "Scientific" in SWAG

Agency - How The On Over In Model Can Help You Grow Your Career

Using ChatGPT for Career Experience Simulations - LLMs and Direct Simulations for Faster Career Experience Gains

Coaching Yourself: Career Coaching Personas for Everyday Engineers, Part Three - Shoulder Socrates

Coaching Yourself: Career Coaching Personas for Everyday Engineers, Part Two - The Overoptimizer

Coaching Yourself: Career Coaching Personas for Everyday Engineers, Part One - The Available Manager

The Highest Leverage Work You Do - Footing the Ladder

Prioritization is the Ultimate Skill

Career Growth Comes From Finding Low Hanging Fruit in the Gaps

How Culture Might Eat Your Values For Breakfast

The Tricky Parts of Merit Cycles

Limiting Factors - The Hidden Focus That Matters the Most

Improve Your Chances In Your Engineering Job Search Using the Scientific Method with Brian Pulliam

Improve Your Chances In Your Engineering Job Search Using the Scientific Method with Brian Pulliam

Focus On Outcomes By Resetting Your Base

Portraying Confidence in the Face of the Unknown

Now, Next, Later, Never - A Simple Daily Framework for Managing Information and Prioritization

Bias to Action As A Skill

Managing Using Core Indicators of Team Outcomes