

Developer Tea
Jonathan Cutrell
Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence.
With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: developertea@gmail.com
With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: developertea@gmail.com
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Feb 28, 2020 • 9min
Functional Autonomy and Finding Meaning in the Small Things Today
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 on a daily or weekly basis. How are the small things we do, connected to a larger goal?
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🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge
This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you can have a positive impact on the people around you. Check it out and give it a try at https://www.teabreakchallenge.com/.
🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode
Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 credit for listeners of Developer Tea.
Visit: linode.com/developertea and use promo code developertea2020
P.s. They're also hiring! Visit https://www.linode.com/careers to see what careers are available to you.

Feb 26, 2020 • 5min
Your Influence is Catalyzed By What is Influencing You
Studies show strong-willed friends, greatly influence your choices.
In today's episode, we're talking about the experiences and relationships that influence our personal drive and behavior. The things that influence you are the things that teach you, and the people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors and reactions through learned habits.
How does the team you'er on influence your career development?
🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge
This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you can have a positive impact on the people around you. Check it out and give it a try at https://www.teabreakchallenge.com/.
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If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.

Feb 25, 2020 • 13min
Your Time is An Account With An Unknown Balance
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 consistently and free-time as something you can learn and grow from.
Today's challenge will be to enjoy your life, no matter where you're at.
🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge
This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you can have a positive impact on the people around you. Check it out and give it a try at https://www.teabreakchallenge.com/.
🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Oxylabs
Scraping data is tough, but there's one company dedicated to making that better. Oxylabs is a web data gathering service provider that is now introducing a significantly improved data gathering solution -- Next-Generation Residential Proxies.
Visit oxylabs.io/developertea to find out more about the services and apply for a free trial of Next-Generation Residential Proxies.

Feb 21, 2020 • 12min
Don't Make the Problem Fit the Model
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 way can a map be useful as they relate to developers?
In today's episode, we're talking about how we can easily abuse a model by changing a problem to fit a model that a team relies on and the repercussions of broken models in our code and our career as software developers.
🧡 Leave a Review
If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge
This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you can have a positive impact on the people around you. Check it out and give it a try at https://www.teabreakchallenge.com/.
🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode
Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 credit for listeners of Developer Tea.
Visit: linode.com/developertea and use promo code developertea2020
P.s. They're also hiring! Visit https://www.linode.com/careers to see what careers are available to you.

Feb 19, 2020 • 8min
Implicit Models and Processes
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 something we do. In today's episode, we're talking about implicit processes that we follow without realizing it.
🧡 Leave a Review
If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge
This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you can have a positive impact on the people around you. Check it out and give it a try at https://www.teabreakchallenge.com/.

Feb 17, 2020 • 11min
Measuring Freedom to Change
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 freedom and autonomy among a team and offering different ways managers can provide as much freedom and autonomy as possible to their team.
🧡 Leave a Review
If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge
This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you can have a positive impact on the people around you. Check it out and give it a try at https://www.teabreakchallenge.com/.
🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Oxylabs
Scraping data is tough, but there's one company dedicated to making that better. Oxylabs is a web data gathering service provider that is now introducing a significantly improved data gathering solution -- Next-Generation Residential Proxies.
Visit oxylabs.io/developertea to find out more about the services and apply for a free trial of Next-Generation Residential Proxies.

Feb 14, 2020 • 7min
Embracing Confusion
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. We'd dig into the perception of confusion in the workplace and offer tips to embrace confusion both in ourselves and with our co-workers.
🧡 Leave a Review
If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge
This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you can have a positive impact on the people around you. Check it out and give it a try at https://www.teabreakchallenge.com/.
🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode
Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 credit for listeners of Developer Tea.
Visit: linode.com/developertea and use promo code developertea2020
P.s. They're also hiring! Visit https://www.linode.com/careers to see what careers are available to you.

Feb 12, 2020 • 6min
Thought Experiment - Rejecting Your Intuitive Solution
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 thought experiment is to imagine rejecting your proposed solution and forced to think of an alternative solution.
What exactly are you solving?
🧡 Leave a Review
If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge
This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you can have a positive impact on the people around you. Check it out and give it a try at https://www.teabreakchallenge.com/.

Feb 10, 2020 • 13min
You Don't Have to Be a Slave to Self-Improvement
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 goals come from and how does it make our lives dysfunctional?
🧡 Leave a Review
If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge
This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you can have a positive impact on the people around you. Check it out and give it a try at https://www.teabreakchallenge.com/.
🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Oxylabs
Scraping data is tough, but there's one company dedicated to making that better. Oxylabs is a web data gathering service provider that is now introducing a significantly improved data gathering solution -- Next-Generation Residential Proxies.
Visit oxylabs.io/developertea to find out more about the services and apply for a free trial of Next-Generation Residential Proxies.

Feb 7, 2020 • 13min
Getting Stacked Value From your Daily Activities
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 heuristics for choosing the best activities for your time and value output.
🧡 Leave a Review
If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.
🍵 Subscribe to the Tea Break Challenge
This is a daily challenge designed help you become more self-aware and be a better developer so you can have a positive impact on the people around you. Check it out and give it a try at https://www.teabreakchallenge.com/.
🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Linode
Whether you’re working on a personal project or managing your enterprise’s infrastructure, Linode has the pricing, support, and scale you need to take your project to the next level. Get started on Linode today with a special $20 credit for listeners of Developer Tea.
Visit: linode.com/developertea and use promo code developertea2020
P.s. They're also hiring! Visit https://www.linode.com/careers to see what careers are available to you.