Developer Tea

The podcast explores the concept of expectation and how it influences our perception of reality. It discusses the importance of practice in creating stability and the impact of binary bias on our expectations. It also delves into the concept of backlog psychology, where individuals place all their expectations on one outcome. The podcast emphasizes the importance of considering a range of outcomes and leaning towards higher estimations to align expectations with multiple possibilities.

This podcast explores the significance of practice in improving skills and achieving mastery. It highlights the importance of repetitive tasks and consistency for engineers to adapt and make small adjustments over time. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for consistency and rhythm in meetings to improve team productivity.

This podcast explores the concept of hyperbolic discounting and its impact on decision-making, work environments, and estimating time. It discusses how humans prioritize immediate gains over long-term benefits, leading to shortcuts and optimistic estimates, which can result in trouble later on. The podcast also emphasizes the importance of designing effective immediate value incentives to overcome barriers and achieve long-term goals.

This episode explores the benefits of limiting work in progress and the concept of cognitive load. They discuss psychologist Blooma Zygarnik's research on incomplete tasks and their impact on remembering.

Learn two specific ways to enhance retrospective outcomes: specificity and respecting uncertainty. Avoid generic improvement statements and treat outcomes as experiments. Make specific adjustments based on hypotheses and accept and adapt to uncertainty by running experiments, measuring outcomes, and making adjustments accordingly.

Count the cost of learning. Optimize for the cost of learning when choosing a path towards a goal. Sometimes it's easier to learn by smaller steps. Determine the cost of learning in your situation. Continuous learning is crucial in decision-making and goal achievement.

Discover the importance of analyzing decision-making rules and the impact of implicit and explicit rules. Learn how to challenge and replace implicit rules with more explicit ones.

Are you stuck trying to prioritize your long list of things you need to do? Maybe you're trying to establish a habitual routine or areas of investment in your schedule, budget, or decisionmaking.Figure out what you need to avoid first. This creates the opportunities you need to say yes.📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com.📮 Join the DiscordIf you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and careers, join us on the Developer Tea Discord community by visiting https://developertea.com/discord today!🧡 Leave a ReviewIf 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.

Are you measuring the wrong thing for your short term game? If so, you probably continuously change directions and are never sure if anything you do is working. It's time to rethink your scoreboard.📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com.📮 Join the DiscordIf you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and careers, join us on the Developer Tea Discord community by visiting https://developertea.com/discord today!🧡 Leave a ReviewIf 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.

Your career doesn't have to take off without your approval. Slow down, and make sure you actually have goals you are setting. Control your own destiny by aligning your plan to your actual goal, or vice versa.📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com.📮 Join the DiscordIf you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and careers, join us on the Developer Tea Discord community by visiting https://developertea.com/discord today!🧡 Leave a ReviewIf 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.