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Mindful Job Search: Myths and Psychology of Interviewing
Mindful Job Search: Is it really time for me to quit my job?
Can You Really Pick the Right Tool for Every Job?
A Statistical Case for Iteration Over Perfect Preparation
Avoid Unnecessary Prediction
Give Random a Chance
Two Illusions of Agreement
Limit Your Options By Limiting Your Obligations
Feature Exploitation
How Averages Can Trick You and Obscure the Truth
Dominik Zane, Founder of Around - Part Two
Dominik Zane, Founder of Around - Part One
Inner and Outer Layers of Context
Finding the Good in the Negative - Ask, "what do I do about this?"
Two Razors for More Efficient Decision-making
Use Your Expectations As a Tool
Flexibility is a Resource to Gather When You Least Need It
Deconstructing Purpose
Two Variations of Confirmation Bias
How You Shape Your World With Macro and Micro Stories
Friday Refill: Always Keep Your Tank Full
The Most Critical Career Mistake You Can Make
Failure is an Opportunity for Responsibility
Friday Refill: What Are Your Ideals?
4 Questions To Understand Your Long Term Career Trajectory
Joel Beasley from Modern CTO, Part Two
Friday Refill: Give Tomorrow-You Advice from Today
Joel Beasley from Modern CTO
Uncomfortable Silence: What If You Do Nothing?
Friday Refill: Imaginary Comparisons
Implicit Hypotheses
Model Manager - What We Don't Manage
Friday Refill: Waiting and Replaying
Reframing Discipline and Elastic Habits
Model Manager: Human Behavior is the Primary Output of Engineering Processes
Friday Refill: Focusing On Mastery Will Not Limit Your Options
Compounding Time In Your Favor
The Bowl of Mediocrity
Friday Refill - Stay Mindful During Phases of Execution
Step One Always Goes On Your Calendar
The Tension Between Purpose and Mindfulness
Friday Refill: Intuition Over Memorization
Local and Global Rationality
Skill-Building Is Not One Dimensional
Balancing Entropy and Focus
Decision-making Skills: Two Types of Probabilistic Thinking
Using Cognitive Dissonance as a Tool
Non-Linear Learning and Progress
Friday Refill - Clarified Intentions and Flexible Goals
Too Serious to Succeed
Make Your Obstacles Irrelevant
Friday Refill: Growth, Uncomfortability, and the Unknown
Finding Resonance
Reframe Your Plateaus
Friday Refill: Your Baseline Determines Your Leverage
Ethan Kross, Author of Chatter - Part Two
Ethan Kross, Author of Chatter - Part One
Friday Refill: Inviting Growth Into Your Regular Schedule
Becoming Your Best Coach - Questioning Your Self
Sources of Truth
Friday Refill - One Thing at a Time
Katy Milkman, Author of How to Change and Host of Choiceology, Part Two
(Fixed Audio) Katy Milkman, Author of How to Change and Host of Choiceology, Part One
Friday Refill - Seeking a Different Inside View
Detaching to Seek an Outside View
Conflating Uniqueness with Value
Refill Friday - Best Practices and Asking When
Welcome Back Ali Spittel - Part Two
Welcome Back Ali Spittel - Part One
Friday Refill - Complexity Inversion (Fixed)
Friday Refill - Complexity Inversion
The Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part Two
The Scout Mindset with Julia Galef, Part One
Introduce Intentional Asymmetry
Narrative Complexity
Changing Work Environments and Availability Bias
Friday Refill: Making Limited Work Look Good on a Resumé
Minding the Observer Effect as We Transition Together
Find Your Values in the Dark
Friday Refill: Seek Leverage and Access
Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part Two
Dan Pupius, CEO and Co-Founder of Range, Part One
Friday Refill - Stop Your Weekend Half-Thinking
Ban the Heroics On Your Team
Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition (Corrected)
Two Blessings and Two Curses of Intuition
Friday Refill: How Patience Pays Off
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part Two
Geoff Schmidt, CEO and Co-founder of Apollo GraphQL, Part One
Friday Refills - Stop Predicting Your Priorities
Superpowered Imagination
Biases of Attention
Friday Refill - Divergent and Convergent Meetings
Clean Up Your Goals
Lego Problems - Modes of Operation on Component-Driven Problems
Friday Refill - Anchor Behaviors
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part Two
Quincy Larson, Founder of freeCodeCamp - Part One
Friday Refills - Rest is Not an Optional Luxury
Post-Pandemic Work and Life as an Engineer - Skills for a Different Future