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Post-Pandemic Life and Work as an Engineer: Back to Normal-ish
Self Distancing
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part Two
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part One
Friday Refills - Don't Cram the Information Firehose... Filter and Focus!
Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer - Remote Everything?
Series kickoff - Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer
Friday Refill: Consider an Alternate Story
Paying the Tax for Our Decisions
The Downside to Inaction
Friday Refill - Ignore Motivation, Focus On Removing Obstacles
The Bucket Model
The Shape of Work
Why We Believe Ourselves (Even When We're Proven Wrong)
Designing Your Skill Portfolio
Optionality Sweet Spot
The Dangers of Measuring Side Effects
If Actions Speak Louder Than Words, What Are Yours Saying?
Imagining the End
Making Things Invisible
The Paradox of Transcendence
Misusing Exceptions in Code and in Life
Refactor Your Labeling Techniques
Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 2)
Learning in Public w/ Shawn Swyx Wang (part 1)
Teaching in Public w/ Kent C. Dodds (part 2)
Teaching in Public w/ Kent C. Dodds (part 1)
Building Products w/ Keith Pitt (part 2)
Building Products w/ Keith Pitt (part 1)
Maintainability w/ Robby Russell (part 2)
Maintainability w/ Robby Russell (part 1)
Leading A Team During Difficult Times w/ Venkat Venkataramani (part 2)
Leading A Team During Difficult Times w/ Venkat Venkataramani (part 1)
Exactly How Different Are You From Average?
Think About Invisible Things More Often
Why It's Harder to Accept That You're Wrong if You Have More Experience
Explicitly Choose What You Won't Do
4 Ways Smart People Make Bad Decisions
Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 2)
Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 1)
Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 2)
Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 1)
Self Confidence is Accepting Your Weakness
Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (part 2)
Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (Part 1)
Interview w/ David Marquet
Give Up Control, On Purpose
Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 2)
Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 1)
Intention, Action and Result
Complexity Is A Scarce Resource
5 Stages Of Relationships With Mistakes
How Zero Sum and False Dichotomy Thinking is Distorting Your Decisions
Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 2)
Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 1)
4 Things You Have to Leave Behind as a Beginning Engineer
Building Empathy To Focus on Downstream Effects
The Unique Advantages of Being a Beginner
Explicit Heuristics and Cheap Tests
The Critical Importance of Labels
Using Your Brain Without Thinking
Interview w/ Aaron Upright (Part 2)
Interview w/ Aaron Upright
Are You Really An Exception, Or Are You Inflexible?
Future Focused Feedback
Stop Pushing Down Your Emotions
Small Problems and Principled Engineering
The Stories Your Code Tells
Offensive and Defensive Software Engineering Strategies
Your Present is Soon Your Past
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rejecting a Duel Identity
Uncomfortability, the Ultimate Teacher
Baseline Happiness and Delayed Achievements
Finding Underlying Motivations to Stay Resilient In Your Career
Strategies for Overcoming Mental Blocks
What Will You Say When You Don't know?
Wishes, Beliefs, and Knowledge
Listener Question from Saul: How Do I Communicate with Non-Technical Decision Makers?
How Questions Influence Pathways to Solutions
4 Points Of Advice For Brand New Developers
What Does It Take To Change Your Mind?
Play, Stakes, and Learning
Leveraging Our Emotional Goals
Mental Models for Finding Balance
High Certainty, High Value Defaults
3 Ways to Be a Better PR Author
4 Ways to Be a Better PR Reviewer
What is Code, to Our Evolved Mind?
Correlation, Causation, Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
Context-Dependent Decisions and Linear Heuristic Mental Models
Productive Self-Sabotage
Simple Prioritization Visualization
There Is No, "Way We've Always Done It"
When To Walk Away From (and come back to) A Problem
Default Problem Solving Modes
What Orders Have You Inherited?
Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 2)
Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 1)
Protecting Uncertainty
Learning Isn't A List of Items Your Can Check Off