Developer Tea

Goal of the Goal - Using Goals As A Prioritization Clarifying Tool

Your Capacity for Growth Is Dependent on This Factor - Cognitive Load Theory

Investigating Your Invisible Systems

Perfection Is Fragile, and You Should Avoid It

Your System is Perfectly Designed for Your Current Outcomes

Using LLMs To Expand Your Working Vocabulary

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 Experience Gains

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

Prioritization is the Ultimate Skill

Career Growth Comes From Finding Low Hanging Fruit in the Gaps

How Culture Might Eat Your Values For Breakfast

The Tricky Parts of Merit Cycles

Limiting Factors - The Hidden Focus That Matters the Most

Improve Your Chances In Your Engineering Job Search Using the Scientific Method with Brian Pulliam

Improve Your Chances In Your Engineering Job Search Using the Scientific Method with Brian Pulliam

Focus On Outcomes By Resetting Your Base

Portraying Confidence in the Face of the Unknown

Now, Next, Later, Never - A Simple Daily Framework for Managing Information and Prioritization

Bias to Action As A Skill

Managing Using Core Indicators of Team Outcomes

Inverted Thinking As a Strategy To Combat Bias

Talking To Yourself for Better One-On-Ones