Developer Tea

Leading A Team During Difficult Times w/ Venkat Venkataramani (part 1)

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode we sit down with Venkat Venkataramani to talk about his role as a co-founder and CEO of Rockset.In this part 1 of our two part inte...

Exactly How Different Are You From Average?

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We've been talking about making decisions and in today's episode, we're going to focus on the status quo. Something happens to each of us when we thi...

Think About Invisible Things More Often

04 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What we're talking about in today's episode are the invisible events that happen around you. Finding clarity and perspective deals with invisibility,...

Why It's Harder to Accept That You're Wrong if You Have More Experience

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about what it means to be right about something.  ✨ Sponsor: Monday.comThanks to Monday.com for...

Explicitly Choose What You Won't Do

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about things that we choose not to be good at.   ✨ Sponsor: LinodeThank you to long time sponsor and friends of ...

4 Ways Smart People Make Bad Decisions

21 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

✨ Sponsor: Monday.comThanks to Monday.com for supporting the show!Ever dreamt of building an app that impacts the daily lives of hundreds of thousan...

Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 2)

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode of Developer Tea we're joined by Ravs Kaur. Ravs is the CTO at Uplevel and in the next two episodes she joins us to talk about lead...

Leadership & Management w/ Ravs Kaur (part 1)

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode of Developer Tea we're joined by Ravs Kaur. Ravs is the CTO at Uplevel and in the next two episodes she joins us to talk about lead...

Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 2)

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🌎 Richard On The WebGitHubElm in ActionTwitter ✨ Sponsor: LinodeThank you to long time sponsor and friends of the show Linode for sponsoring tod...

Elm in Action: Interview w/ Richard Feldman (part 1)

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🌎 Richard On The WebGitHubElm in ActionTwitter ✨ Sponsor: DeepSourceThanks to DeepSource for supporting the show!DeepSource continuously analyze...

Self Confidence is Accepting Your Weakness

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

✨ Sponsor: LinodeThank you to long time sponsor and friends of the show Linode for sponsoring today's episode!Simplify your cloud infrastructure wit...

Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (part 2)

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🌎 Michael On The WebTwitter Talk Python To Me PodcastTalk Python Training✨ Sponsor: DeepSourceThanks to DeepSource for supporting the show!DeepS...

Interview w/ Michael Kennedy (Part 1)

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🌎 Michael On The WebTwitter Talk Python To Me PodcastTalk Python Training✨ Sponsor: LinodeThank you to long time sponsor and friends of the show...

Interview w/ David Marquet

25 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🌎 David On The WebWebsiteTwitterLeadership is Language 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question th...

Give Up Control, On Purpose

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.co...

Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 2)

16 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🌎 Naomi On the WebAboutThe Quick Python BookTwitterPersonal WebsiteThe Python Software Foundation 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode...

Naomi Ceder Interview - 20 Years with Python (part 1)

14 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🌎 Naomi On the WebAboutThe Quick Python BookTwitterPersonal Website 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss ...

Intention, Action and Result

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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Complexity Is A Scarce Resource

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: imgiximgix is the API for fast, responsive, optimized images. Your images create complex technical challeng...

5 Stages Of Relationships With Mistakes

02 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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How Zero Sum and False Dichotomy Thinking is Distorting Your Decisions

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com....

Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 2)

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

 🌎 Nicole One The WebLa Vie en CodeTwitterLa Vie en Code PodcastCoding Problem Solving Courses 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode a...

Interview w/ Nicole Archambault (part 1)

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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4 Things You Have to Leave Behind as a Beginning Engineer

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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Building Empathy To Focus on Downstream Effects

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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The Unique Advantages of Being a Beginner

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line HeroesCommand Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform t...

Explicit Heuristics and Cheap Tests

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Find. Cheap. Tests.When you face situation with infinite possibilities, it's important to break those options down into easy to digest components. Ho...

The Critical Importance of Labels

05 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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Using Your Brain Without Thinking

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about the limits of our brain and mind shifting strategies to solve problems faster. 📮 Ask a Question If you en...

Interview w/ Aaron Upright (Part 2)

29 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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Interview w/ Aaron Upright

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🌎 Aaron on the webTwitterLinkedInZenhub📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on th...

Are You Really An Exception, Or Are You Inflexible?

22 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Can you operate under a different circumstance and best practice when your job changes? Where can you be flexible in your career and where are the exc...

Future Focused Feedback

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line HeroesCommand Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform t...

Stop Pushing Down Your Emotions

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the discomfort of silence and stillness, and how to face the quiet part of ourselves. Can yo...

Small Problems and Principled Engineering

14 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Command Line HeroesCommand Line Heroes is an original podcast from Red Hat about the people who transform t...

The Stories Your Code Tells

08 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What does your code explain both in the code and outside of it? In today's episode, we're talking about the reason for making  the coding decisions ...

Offensive and Defensive Software Engineering Strategies

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In code we are trying to construct, but we often leave out the consumers, machines and co-workers who are using the code we're writing.  How can we t...

Your Present is Soon Your Past

01 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the concept of time. We'll linger on the idea that moments have a timeline: future, present, ...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rejecting a Duel Identity

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Just like many of the other distortions that our brains trick us into believing, the idea that we have two selves, good and bad, hides away our comple...

Uncomfortability, the Ultimate Teacher

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about an environment of learning that you can create on your own. How can we create an environment that puts us in ...

Baseline Happiness and Delayed Achievements

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you think about most achievements awarded, they are handed out over a period of time when the dues are paid and effort put in. In today's episode,...

Finding Underlying Motivations to Stay Resilient In Your Career

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Aside from the fact that we're making a living being engineers, what is it that keeps us coming back into work every day? At some point in your caree...

Strategies for Overcoming Mental Blocks

20 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do when you hit a mental block and don't know how to solve a problem? Today we'll dig into what we can do about this blocked scenario and...

What Will You Say When You Don't know?

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're  talking to early engineers and challenging all new engineers to think about how they will handle the pressure of not knowi...

Wishes, Beliefs, and Knowledge

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this short episode, we're digging into the relationship between our belief and knowledge and how we form our beliefs based on knowledge.  🎟Upc...

Listener Question from Saul: How Do I Communicate with Non-Technical Decision Makers?

12 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we dive into Saul's question by recounting past experience and providing tools to approach this situation at a human level and fro...

How Questions Influence Pathways to Solutions

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode we're talking about problems and how we involve questions into our day-to-day tasks as developers. We'll cover question framing te...

4 Points Of Advice For Brand New Developers

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

 As someone who was a self-taught developer, I have an affinity for people eager to become a developer. In today's episode, we'll offer four differe...

What Does It Take To Change Your Mind?

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Changing our minds on a belief or issue that we stand by is not easy and as humans but is required of us to grow as people and as professionals.In thi...

Play, Stakes, and Learning

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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Leveraging Our Emotional Goals

27 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about goals and what we tend to give up in order to reach those goals. We'll cover how to define goals, and how to ...

Mental Models for Finding Balance

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about balance as it relates to decision making. We'll dig into two models of thinking that can help us understand th...

High Certainty, High Value Defaults

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A useful default is an action you can take on a regular basis that you expect to provide some level of utility. In today's episode, we're talking abou...

3 Ways to Be a Better PR Author

20 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How can you write a pull request that's productive? in today's episode, we're talking about how to be a better PR author by offering three guidelines ...

4 Ways to Be a Better PR Reviewer

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to collaborate as an engineer with other engineers? In today's episode, we're talking about the pull request process and the lack of...

What is Code, to Our Evolved Mind?

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How do our brains and our minds perceive code? In today's episode, we're talking about what code is to our mind vs. our brain? 🙏 Today's Episode is...

Correlation, Causation, Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

13 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When you think correlation and causation you might think of graphs and research. As one data point changes another data point also changes. In today's...

Context-Dependent Decisions and Linear Heuristic Mental Models

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What effect does your value system have on your personal and professional growth? In today's episode, we're talking about context dependent decision m...

Productive Self-Sabotage

08 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We often don't know about all of the failures that exist, but what causes failure? The path to success is filled with failures along the way. In today...

Simple Prioritization Visualization

06 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're doing a visualization exercise. Grab a piece of paper and pen or pencil and get ready to think about what you did today. 🧡...

There Is No, "Way We've Always Done It"

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The average engineer hears this over and over, "question your assumptions." In today's episode, we're identifying assumptions that make base...

When To Walk Away From (and come back to) A Problem

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When do you walk away from a problem to find the solution? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're answering this question submitted from a listene...

Default Problem Solving Modes

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What are your default problem solving strategies? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about the things we do on a regular basis and how...

What Orders Have You Inherited?

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What makes up the orders that we follow? In today's episode, we're talking about truths about the world based on our pre-determined perceptions. We di...

Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 2)

24 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we conclude the conversation with Dan Heath, author of a new book , Upstream. In this part 2 of the interview, Dan talks about qua...

Upstream w/ Dan Heath (Part 1)

22 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we sit down with Dan Heath, author of a new book , Upstream. In this part 1 of the conversation with Dan, we discuss preventative ...

Protecting Uncertainty

20 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

At some point our knowledge runs out, but even more perplexing is the ability to look forward in time. In today's episode, we're talking about uncerta...

Learning Isn't A List of Items Your Can Check Off

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If you had to define learning to an engineer, you'd probably mention some type of fact memorization and functions to perform a task. In today's episod...

Consider Your Cues

13 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For the sake of this episode we're calling habits the effort it takes to do something with intuition. In today's episode, we're talking about how to b...

How Little We Really Know

11 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What are some things you don't know about? In today's episode of Developer Tea, we're talking about uncertainty, lack of knowledge, lack of clarity, a...

Improving Through Bad Ideas and Silly Questions

08 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Why are bad ideas important and why are silly questions needed? Very likely you've been in a meeting welcoming any question, good or bad. In today's e...

Forcing Functions

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about the model of forcing functions or the choice that requires us to move in a specific direction. We'll talk abou...

Growth, Uncomfortability, and Deliberate Practice

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What exactly is deliberate practice and how does it apply to intensionally putting yourself in a state of discomfort? That's what we're talking about ...

Practical Steps for Reframing Problems

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode we're talking about the words we use to describe a problem we're working on. We'll discuss how our words frame problems faced and h...

Take Advantage of What You Already Have

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The difference between speed and acceleration is vast. When driving at a consistent speed, you often don't notice how quickly you're going, but when y...

Stress and Tolerance

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How do you react to stressful situations? In today's episode we're talking about expectations versus the realities of how we respond to new stress in ...

Architecting Change - Interpolation

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Most change we experience in our world is unpredictable and uncontrollable. So if change is happening all around us, constantly, how can we maintain h...

When Do Long-Term Models and Habits Betray You?

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The idea of having long-term mental models and habits that you've built over time is the route to lasting change. However, sometimes our lasting habit...

The Overreaction Paradox

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We can't anticipate everything that is going to happen as developers and sometimes we over-prepare for any events that could happen as a developer. In...

Hidden Environment Inputs - Mindful Remote Work

18 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode, we're talking about coping with remote work and how to be mindful during social distancing. We'll cover the different effects remo...

Interview w/ Carl Yates Perry (Part 2)

16 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is your mindset? In this second part of our discussion with Carl Yates Perry, we're talking about healthy developer mindsets and how to identify ...

Interview w/ Carl Yates Perry - Part 1

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Carl Yates Perry leads Square's developer business but made a few tough career decisions to get there. In today's part 1 of this 2-part conversation w...

Flattening the Cost of Change Curve

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode we're digging into the C2 wiki interview with Bill Venners, which focuses on flattening the cost of change over time so that cost b...

4 Reasons You Will Never Pick the "Right Tool For the Job"

09 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tools are not a solution to a problem, but people are. In today's episode, we're talking about how choosing the right tool for the job can limit us to...

Four Questions for the Weekend

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Saturday! In today's episode, we're asking four questions that cause us to pause and reflect in order to answer. 🧡 Leave a Review If you're e...

Breaking Your Own Rules Accelerates Bad Habit Formation

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Whenever you take action, there will be feedback. Today we're talking about when to break your own rules and solve a problem. There are functional rea...

Redefine Your Career Search Rules

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Searching for a job is hard for both the people looking for a new job and a company looking for the perfect candidate to fill a position. In today's ...

Functional Autonomy and Finding Meaning in the Small Things Today

28 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Think about the mundane tasks that you're going through today. In today's episode we're talking about finding joy in even the small things that we do ...

Your Influence is Catalyzed By What is Influencing You

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Studies show strong-willed friends, greatly influence your choices. In today's episode, we're talking about the experiences and relationships that inf...

Your Time is An Account With An Unknown Balance

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today we're talking about time as a resource of abundance. We'll cover self-care as an investment, work as something that you can enjoy more consisten...

Don't Make the Problem Fit the Model

21 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A model is not the pure picture of the truth. If we think about road maps as we use them today, they are almost always slightly out of date. In what ...

Implicit Models and Processes

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We often hear the term, "process", and this carries a lot of baggage. It's easy to believe that processes are one concept that we apply to s...

Measuring Freedom to Change

17 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The freedom we want to create as managers is the freedom to disagree and solve problems towards a goal. In today's episode we're talking about freedo...

Embracing Confusion

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to be confused? In today's episode, we're talking about confusion and how we manage and learn from points of professional confusion....

Thought Experiment - Rejecting Your Intuitive Solution

12 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Take a problem that you expect to face - one that you haven't solved yet or taken action on but have an ideal of how you would take action. Today's th...

You Don't Have to Be a Slave to Self-Improvement

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When we allow surrounding cultures to drive our goals, we fall back to the systems and goals that the people around us have created. Where do our goal...

Getting Stacked Value From your Daily Activities

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The amount of time in a day is the same but the amount of margin you have in your day can vary. In today's episode, we're talking about some heuristic...

Defining Your Reference Points

05 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

When was the last time you asked a question in a meeting? Questions are an invitation to collaboration, especially in our jobs as developers. In today...

Engineering Your Habits Like Interfaces

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode we're talking about the idea of interfaces as some kind of expected way to interact with our code and how to take that frame of min...

Plans Should Be Functions, Not Documents

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We expect things to go one way, but often, they go in another way. In today's episode, we're talking about plans and how to stay agile when the plans ...