Developer Tea
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Great Reviews and Terrible Tacos - Sharpening Substitute Questions with Counterfactuals
Why Maintenance Matters Now - Construal Level Theory, Marshmallows, and Hyperbolic Discounting
Follow This Principle - Establish Your Baselines
Advice on Advice - Taking Everything with a Grain of Salt
Career Advice for Surviving AI Outsourcing
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
Ten Years of Developer Tea
Better Low-Information Estimates - Putting the "Scientific" in SWAG
Agency - How The On Over In Model Can Help You Grow Your Career
Using ChatGPT for Career Experience Simulations - LLMs and Direct Simulations for Faster Career E...
Coaching Yourself: Career Coaching Personas for Everyday Engineers, Part Three - Shoulder Socrates
Coaching Yourself: Career Coaching Personas for Everyday Engineers, Part Two - The Overoptimizer
Coaching Yourself: Career Coaching Personas for Everyday Engineers, Part One - The Available Manager
The Highest Leverage Work You Do - Footing the Ladder