600 episodes
Developer Tea Jonathan Cutrell
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4.8 • 384 Ratings
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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 13 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell (@jcutrell), co-founder of Spec and Director of Engineering at PBS. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Twitter: @developertea :: Email: developertea@gmail.com
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What Defines a Senior Developer? - You Won't Use All of Your Knowledge
A senior developer understands that they have to be very selective about how they apply knowledge. Know matter how vast your knowledge may be, you are limited in how you can practically use it in a given circumstance.
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The Pitfall of Control and Antidote of Trust
Your intuition says that control is the ladder you climb to improve your career. But most great leaders tend to do one thing: the opposite of increasing control.
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Working Balance - Confronting Reality with Optimism
In today's episode we explore the duality between confronting difficult realities while maintaining optimism. Specifically, we discuss a critical question: what does it mean to be optimistic?
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What Defines a Senior Developer? - Choosing the Right Granularity Level
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 today's episode, we'll add more detail to the commonly recommended skill of "work breakdown." Sometimes this extremely valuable skill is the opposite of what you really need to practice.
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What Defines a Senior Developer? - Difficult Does Not Equate To Valuable
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 from junior to senior roles.
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What Defines a Senior Developer? - Systematically Communicating Value
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 importance of systematically communicating value to various audiences.
Feel free to incorporate these into your skill matrices, reviews, or job descriptions - I'd love to hear about it if you do!
Customer Reviews
Grab a Cup!
This podcast is just what I was looking to consume in nugget sized portions. It’s a great cup of tea length format with plenty of useful information to help drive you in your career as a developer.
Perfect timing for something this incredible
I just randomly came across this, but it was just at the perfect time and these have me really thinking and for the better. Truly amazing
Every episode gives you something to think about
Jonathan always chooses topics that leave me with something to take away and think about. Taking into account the topics he brings up has helped me see my development approach from different perspectives and I think made me better for it.
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