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Inverted Thinking As a Strategy To Combat Bias
Talking To Yourself for Better One-On-Ones
Interview Prep: Two Counterintuitive Tips
The Top Resumé Mistake I See, Plus the Best Resumé Advice I've Ever Received
Prioritization Using Critical Path Thinking
Cultural Antidotes - Clarity Isn't Just Honesty
Demystifying Culture and Values
Principles of Work - Shorten Your Feedback Loops
Principles of Work - Be Your Own Advocate
Practical Application of Information Theory
Revisiting Core Working Principles - Hyperfixation on Measurements and Communication Degradation
Revisiting Core Working Principles - Clarity as a Precursor to Focus and Strategy for Possibilities
Two Principle Categories To Judge Productivity Advice
Cost of Delay Curves and Classes of Service
Taking Personal Accountability for Systematic Failures
Stat Series: What Statistical Measure Are You Overusing? (And What to Do About It), Part Two
Stat Series: What Statistical Measure Are You Overusing? (And What to Do About It), Part One
Treat Your Time as A Product You Own
Von Restorff Isolation Effect and a Backfiring of Process
Perform a Career Premortem
Delegation, Ownership, Responsibility, and Agency
Apply Little's Law To What You Can Control
Finding Leverage by Escaping Functional Fixedness
Is it Actually Important to Question Assumptions?
9 Years - Persistence by Reducing Expectation
Good Plans, Bad Plans, and Road Trips
Negative and Positive Lollapalooza Effects
Fresh Eyes - How Anchoring Bias, Bandwagon Effect, Status Quo Bias, and Uniqueness Bias Interact When Joining New Groups
The Dark Side of Optimism Bias
Backlog Psychology - Breaking Out of the Habit Trap
Availability Heuristic and Substituting Hard Questions
Spend Your Time Intentionally Through Expectation Mapping
What is the Real Question? How To Be An Exceptional Listener
Backlog Psychology - Fix Your Broken Expectations
Backlog Psychology - Practice Requires Rhythmic Predictability
Backlog Psychology - Hyperbolic Discounting, Tech Debt, and Hacking Your Habits
Backlog Psychology - The Ziegarnik Effect - Why Limiting Work In Progress Protects Your Cognitive Load
Two Tips for Better Retros - Add Specificity, Respect Uncertainty
One Big Step Versus A Small Random Step
Interrogate Your Decision Making Rules
Schedule Carving
Long Term Scoreboard for Short Term Games
Slow Down and Start With One Goal
Using the Accountability Triangle When Diagnosing A Failure
Career Growth Starts With Improving Your Clarity
Tech Lag Over Tech Debt
Good Negotiation is About Collaborative Problem Solving
Tools To Deal With Layoff Anxiety
System Design - Limiting the Responsibilities Of A Given Actor
Focus on Process Orientation for Goal Setting
How to Give Better Feedback - My Single Biggest Piece of Advice to Increase the Effectiveness of Your Feedback
Planning is About Creating Clarity, Not Certainty
Process is Primarily for Managing Critical Moments
Taking Advantage of Hedonic Adaptation
Weber's Law and Contextual Framing
What Defines a Senior Developer? - You Won't Use All of Your Knowledge
The Pitfall of Control and Antidote of Trust
Working Balance - Confronting Reality with Optimism
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Choosing the Right Granularity Level
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Difficult Does Not Equate To Valuable
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Systematically Communicating Value
What Defines a Senior Developer? - Dynamic vs Static Understanding of Situations
Long Game, Short Game
The Rate of Change for Change Itself
Protecting Flow State - Setting Your Session Feedback And Goal
Protecting Flow State - Plan Now, Pause Later
Golden Advice - Always Leave Margin For Extra
Your Purpose is A Projection of Your Complex Identity
Demystifying Purpose by Focusing On Your Purpose For Today
Reframing Deficiencies as Strengths
Management Model of Ability and Will Applied to Self
Beginner Confidence
Comparing Cost Curves and Second Order Thinking
Spectrum of Buy-In For Behavior Change
Your Learning Investment Portfolio
Celebrating 8 Years - Plus, What it Feels Like to Be Wrong
Using Strategy, Tactics, and Operations to Achieve Intentions
Resolve To Make Important Asks In The New Year
Complexity As A Depreciating Asset
Your Biggest Opportunity is In Your Daily Influence
Get Acquainted With What Holds You Back
How Ordering Your Events in A Day Can Matter
Don't Fear AI Taking the Coding Jobs (Fixed Audio)
Don't Fear AI Taking the Coding Jobs
Focus On Activities With Asymmetrical Upside
Misjudging Others Attention On Us
An Outsider Exercise in Gratitude
You Know The Right Decision, Now Reduce The Friction
Using Observational Techniques to Find Your Personal Values
Avoid Defining Success Outside Your Locus of Control
The Toxic Laziness of Overwork Culture
Start With Precise Communication
The Error of Discounting the Unexpected
Looking at What Wasn't Done
Success is Born From Luck and Action
Build Environments That Produce Habits
Design Your Low Stakes Environment As A Mirror of Your High Stakes Environment
Better Goals - Deriving Values from Personal Investment and Risk Tolerance
Better Goals - Finding Cohesion Between Your Long and Short Term Goals
Better Goals - Two Guidelines for Better Outcomes