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A weekly podcast covering the latest essential UK technology news and how it impacts our teams. Hosted by Sanjay Purswani, Neil Studd and Gwen Diagram.
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Season 2 wrap-up, going on hiatus!
Hello dear audience! In the wrap-up to a shorter season 2 we explain what's been going on and why we haven't been able to meet up and record as frequently. We're going on hiatus for a while and hope to be back later in the year!
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Thinking about quitting Tech?
Ever had one of those days, weeks or years? Have you thought, even briefly, about giving up the tech life and pursuing another career dream? Spurred on by a recent Reddit discussion, Sanj, Gwen and Neil look into the reasons why people might occasionally be tempted, and share their own half-baked alternate career plans. Learn which of your hosts was once a trainee electrician, who'd love to be a mile-high dentist, who took a crash-course in pub ownership, and who just wants to be paid to be on the beach.
In the stand-up, everyone's still hiring, everyone's waiting for shiny new toys to arrive, and two of our crew go cold turkey on caffeine (one more deliberately than the other).
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Start
01:06 The Stand-Up
08:58 This Week's Epic
24:45 The Wash-Up
LINKS DISCUSSED THIS WEEK:
Kia EV6
Sticker Mule
Reddit: Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber/electrician/brickie?
Lisa Crispin: I'm independent!
Touchstone
The Guardian: 'Relentless calls and constant abuse': why Britain's vets are in crisis
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Not Asking For Pay Rises?
With inflation skyrocketing and energy bills about to go through the roof, the governer of the Bank of England has this week warned against workers asking for substantial pay rises, asking everybody to deal with the "pain" of the rising cost-of-living, whilst simultaneously taking home over £500,000 a year. We get deep into when and how we should ask for a pay rise, whether cost-of-living increases should be a given, how companies can better support employees during tough financial times, and Sanj declares some strong feelings which may lead to our Patreon earnings being diverted into legal fees.
In the wonderful world of our stand-up section, we've got busy hiring times, scary talks, Xbox dev kits and EV research. Plus, the world's shortest news quiz!
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Start
01:16 The Stand-Up
08:20 This Week's Epic
23:26 The Wash-Up
LINKS DISCUSSED THIS WEEK:
Lara Hogan - Resilient Management
Humans Plus Tech podcast
Ecologi
TechTree
YouTube: Uncharted movie trailer
BBC News: Charles met Queen two days before testing positive
BBC News: Don't ask for a big pay rise, warns Bank of England boss
Money Saving Expert: What is the Energy Price Cap?
The Guardian: Bank of England boss urged to shadow care worker for a day amid low pay row
The Guardian: The definition of levelling down: the Bank of England calling for wage 'restraint'
Bloomberg: Boris Johnson Rebukes Bank of England’s Bailey Over Wages Remark
LinkedIn: CEO of RSL Renewables covering staff energy bills
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Handling Incidents and Outages
What do we tell people when things go wrong in our organisations? This week, there have been a couple of write-ups of recent high-profile outages at Roblox and Mozilla, which - when paired with the well-documented outage at Facebook that we discussed last season - gives us a fascinating glimpse into other companies' incident processes, on-call rotas and war rooms. Sanj, Gwen and Neil share their surprising love of being knee-deep in an incident, bringing some of their own recent experiences to the podcast.
In our workplace updates, there's lots of hiring, lots of shipping new features, everybody tries to coax Sanj into management, and Neil totally isn't doing any money laundering.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Start
01:28 The Stand-Up
06:48 Social Engineering
08:25 This Week's Epic
25:44 The Wash-Up
LINKS DISCUSSED THIS WEEK:
Elucidat careers page
YouTube: Ozark Season 1 Trailer
LeadDev
Glean careers page
Greg McKeown - Effortless
Facebook Engineering: Update about the October 4th outage
Roblox Return to Service 10/28-10/31 2021
Mozilla Hacks: Retrospective and Technical Details on the recent Firefox Outage
Vox: Pokémon Go launched in 26 countries, and then its servers crashed
Down Detector
Down For Everyone Or Just Me
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Building Behaviours Over Setting Goals
It's that time of year where everybody's talking about goal-setting, but are goals the correct form of measurement? This week, the TTW crew are talking about goals and habits, and their experiences with how effective they are at modifying behaviours. Naturally, this leads to a number of conversational rabbit-holes (even in our new shortened format), so expect to hear tales of driving lessons, toothbrush etiquette and Ted Lasso.
Plus we give our weekly workplace updates, which includes conference chat, one of the biggest first-world problems ever, and praise for one of Neil's favourite TV shows.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Start
01:23 The Stand-Up
06:57 This Week's Epic
23:33 The Wash-Up
LINKS DISCUSSED THIS WEEK:
The Independent: Storm Malik: Met Office issues severe weather warning for Scotland and northern England
Agile on the Beach
LeadDev Together
YouTube: Parasite Trailer
YouTube: Mr Robot Season 1 Trailer
IGN: Steam Deck Gets an Official Release Date, First Units to Ship in February
Sticker Mule
FS Blog: Habits vs Goals
YouTube: Conquer Driving: Why smart goals don't work on driving lessons
GoodToKnow: Can you exercise with Covid?
Shawn Achor: The Happiness Advantage
TED Talks: Shawn Achor - The happy secret to better work
Freedom
Netflix: The Social Dilemma
The Times: Outcry over energy-sucking Facebook data centre that threatens Dutch green targets
Get Money Rich: Robert Kiyosaki's "Pay Yourself First" idea
MindTools: Daniel Pink's Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose Framework
Entrepeneurial Operating System (EOS)
James Clear: How Long Does it Actually Take to Form a New Habit? (Backed by Science)
YouTube: Ted Lasso Season 1 Trailer
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When Open Source Goes Wrong
We're back for our second season! We're starting off with a dicussion about how we use open source software in our workplaces, after a couple of major recent scares and outages. How do you keep track of what you're incorporating into your software, and how can we make sure that authors are rewarded for their efforts?
Plus, we update you on everything that's happened over our Christmas break: find out who caught COVID, who completed Red Dead Redemption 2, who's been won over by Microsoft Teams, and who's been donating to Wikipedia.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Start
01:11 The Stand-Up
11:00 This Week's Epic
25:20 The Wash-Up
LINKS DISCUSSED THIS WEEK:
Martin Fowler: Strangler Pattern
Google Support: Pixel 6 Pro rattling noise from camera
Entrepreneurial Operating System
Scaling Leaders
Herman Miller
TechCrunch: Open source developers, who work for free, are discovering they have power
Reddit: Author of Faker.js deletes the entire repo
Lawfare: What's the Deal with the Log4Shell Security Nightmare?
The Register: Open source isn't the security problem – misusing it is
Buy Me A Coffee
GitHub: Danny Dainton - Newman Reporter HTMLExtra
Tech Times: Developer Gets Suspended After Intentionally Sabotaging GitHub and Other Open-Source Libraries
NBC New York: New Details in Case of Man Charged After NYC Fire, Potential Bomb-Making Materials Found
Google AMP
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