Developer Tea Announcing: The Career Growth Accelerator Series
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Dec 16, 2025 Feeling stuck in your tech career? This podcast dives into the common roadblocks for mid-to-senior level engineers and leaders. It emphasizes the importance of getting out of your own way by tackling ego and self-worth. Listeners learn to diagnose their barriers by questioning what truly holds them back. With practical thought experiments and journaling exercises, it encourages a fundamental shift towards clarity and momentum in your career growth. Tune in for valuable insights and strategies!
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Subscribe If You Feel Career Stalled
- Subscribe to the Career Growth Accelerator if you've stalled in a mid-to-senior engineering role.
- Use the series to tackle roadblocks on the path to senior or people-manager roles.
Separate Worth From Career Outcomes
- Do disconnect your self-worth from your career aspirations to gain clarity.
- Try the distancing thought experiment and focus on diagnosing what happened and why to build momentum.
Ego Blocks Honest Career Diagnosis
- Protecting your ego by blaming external factors prevents honest diagnosis of problems.
- Getting out of your own way is a fundamental prerequisite for other career growth work.