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Apr 1
Useful Illusions and Exploiting Heuristics
When Good Thinking Becomes Overthinking: Discover why the pursuit of perfect analysis often undermines good decision-making. Loading every caveat, every exception, and every alternative into your working memory doesn't produce better outcomes — it produces paralysis. Heuristics a ... Show More
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Decision Making is Your New Core Skill, So it's Critical to Avoid These Two Traps of Collaborative Decision-Making
The Bottleneck Is Moving: Borrowing from traditional manufacturing theory, the coding step used to define your team's total throughput. AI tooling hasn't incrementally improved that bottleneck — it has drastically shrunk it, which means the constraint is now upstream in product d ... Show More
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What's Brewing, Edition 1 - What Jonathan is Learning, Using, and Thinking
The Power of Physical Checklists: Inspired by aviation, Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto, and Daniel Kahneman's Noise, I've been experimenting with printed, physical checklists for repetitive tasks — from producing this show to running one-on-ones. The rigor of writing prec ... Show More
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Q&A #5: How to be a Great Senior Software Engineer & More with Patrick Akil
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165: WARNING - Your Memory is Worse Than You Think
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Why Taking Life Less Seriously Could Be the Productivity Boost You Need
The art of making work not suck; how playing helps you stress less (and achieve more). In today’s episode, we challenge the architecture of adulthood, built brick by brick with “shoulds”. Using stories of ancient ancestors and modern cubicles, we’ll ask: Why do we surrender to se ... Show More
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Episode 208 - Why most new developers struggle: The missing skills you need
In this episode of Front End Happy Hour, Ryan Burgess, Jem Young, Brian Holt, and Dan DiGangi dive deep into the challenges faced by junior developers as they embark on their coding journeys. From the importance of curiosity and continuous learning to the often overlooked non-tec ... Show More
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1223: William H. Macy | What Shameless Taught Him About Being Shameless
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5 tips to stop waiting for opportunities
The awkward thing about finding our calling. Is that our calling isn’t out there looking for us. It's easy to be stuck in mediocrity waiting for the perfect moment or for that ambiguous feeling that we are totally ready and blessed with pre-ordained approval to start our ideas. T ... Show More
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Career Confidential: A Job Interview Is a Conversation Between Two WHAT??
Welcome to a special “Career Confidential” episode of Becoming You! Listen in this week as host Suzy Welch, aided and abetted by her no-holds-barred colleague and mentee, Dustin Liu, turns the pod’s spotlight on job success—particularly, winning the interview game. But that’s not ... Show More
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Off Track: Hard personal truths can be unlocked if we don’t judge the book by its cover! (Zeina Khoury episode review)
<p>Welcome to a special bonus episode of Luca’s Insight Track. In this 'Off Track' edition, I talk about the insights I learned from my latest episode with Zeina Khoury. I reflect on the speed at which we pass judgment on others and the dangers of relying on first impressions. Th ... Show More
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BDTP. The Impact Mindset with Connor Joyce
Today we have another episode of Better Done Than Perfect. Listen in as we talk to Connor Joyce, senior user researcher at Microsoft and author of Bridging Intention to Impact. You'll learn why you need to ask if your product is really working, the five success metrics for produc ... Show More
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How to Stay Relevant in Tech (25+ Years of Lessons)
Worried about staying relevant as AI and new tools keep changing tech? The answer isn't chasing every new framework, it's treating your career like an engineering problem you can solve.In this episode, we cover:Why staying relevant isn't about the tools (and what it's really abou ... Show More
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The traits that define a senior engineer are not catalogued perfectly in one spot. But, nevertheless, we'll try to cover some of the most important traits and habits of a senior engineer.
In this episode, we'll discuss the fact that difficulty does not equate to value, and hazard a guess as to why we can easily confuse this, especially as we begin to grow f ... Show More
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<p>New episodes every Wednesday with our host <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-akil">🎙Patrick Akil ... Show More
<p dir="ltr">Engineering managers have high IQ, and great memories. But, has your memory trapped you in the comfort zone of "I already know that..." ???</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">Listen now and don't forget it!</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">=============== ... Show More
<p><strong>Acting is weird, brutal work. <em>Fargo</em> star William H. Macy breaks down why desperation makes great art — and how he finally learned to act at age 60.</strong></p><p><strong>Full show notes and resources can be found here: </strong><a href="https://jordanharbinge ... Show More
