Developer Tea

Follow This Principle - Establish Your Baselines

Advice on Advice - Taking Everything with a Grain of Salt

In this episode of Developer Tea, the speaker reflects on a past experience of narrowly avoiding a layoff and how it shaped their perspective on career advice. The speaker emphasizes that while feedback from superiors and peers is valuable, it's not always reliable or indicative of future outcomes. Listeners are encour...

Career Advice for Surviving AI Outsourcing

The podcast episode addresses the anxieties of engineers and managers facing potential job displacement due to technological advancements and industry shifts. The speaker, using his wife's recent job loss as a relatable example, advises listeners to shift their focus from acquiring new skills to cultivating ownership ...

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