Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFinding Leverage by Escaping Functional Fixedness
Episode 1191
Finding leverage is difficult to do, but a lot of the reason for this is that we allow ourselves to fall into well-traveled cognitive pathways. If we…
2 years, 3 months ago
Is it Actually Important to Question Assumptions?
Episode 1190
In today's episode, we discuss turtles, resolutions, and why your beliefs and what you see as fact is probably worth questioning anyway.
📮 Ask a Quest…
2 years, 4 months ago
9 Years - Persistence by Reducing Expectation
Episode 1189
Today Marks 9 Years of Developer Tea.
Thank you all for your support, and your friendship. I wish you all well on your journey, and may you find clari…
2 years, 4 months ago
Good Plans, Bad Plans, and Road Trips
Episode 1188
What characterizes good plans from bad ones? And how can you make your plans better on average? In this episode we discuss how to better organize you…
2 years, 5 months ago
Negative and Positive Lollapalooza Effects
Episode 1187
The "lollapalooza" effect (coined by Charlie Munger) occurs when multiple other effects have a compounded outcome that tends to create an extreme sit…
2 years, 5 months ago
Fresh Eyes - How Anchoring Bias, Bandwagon Effect, Status Quo Bias, and Uniqueness Bias Interact When Joining New Groups
Episode 1186
When you are newly joining a team, you have a huge opportunity to do something that no one on the team has: to find your "weathervane." The pressure …
2 years, 5 months ago
The Dark Side of Optimism Bias
Episode 1185
Most people believe good things will happen by default.
Not to be the bearer of bad news, but there's a downside to this endless optimism. You cannot …
2 years, 5 months ago
Backlog Psychology - Breaking Out of the Habit Trap
Episode 1184
Your team's process for managing a backlog is probably growing stale because you are running on habit rather than procedure.
Break out of procedure an…
2 years, 6 months ago
Availability Heuristic and Substituting Hard Questions
Episode 1183
What is it about our present situation that changes our perspective? In today's episode we talk about the availability bias and why our present reali…
2 years, 6 months ago
Spend Your Time Intentionally Through Expectation Mapping
Episode 1182
What do you expect of yourself? Are you spending your time in ways that align with those expectations?
In this episode, I provide you a simple framewo…
2 years, 6 months ago