Developer Tea

Jonathan Cutrell

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: [email protected]

  • 18 minutes 10 seconds
    The Top Resumé Mistake I See, Plus the Best Resumé Advice I've Ever Received

    After today's episode, your resumé is going to get better! In this episode I will share the biggest mistake and the best advice I've ever received about building a great resumé. This will take some work from you, but I hope you walk away from this episode feeling like you have the right mindset to improve your resumé drastically, and land more interviews, ultimately leading to better job opportunities for the Developer Tea audience!

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    25 April 2024, 7:00 am
  • 13 minutes 56 seconds
    Prioritization Using Critical Path Thinking

    In today's episode, we talk about the counterintuitive process of prioritizing based on critical path. This is not a novel concept that I've invented, but rather a revisiting of the classic discussion started by Eli Goldratt in his book "The Goal", and later in his book "Critical Path", based on the theory of constraints.

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    23 April 2024, 7:00 am
  • 13 minutes 57 seconds
    Cultural Antidotes - Clarity Isn't Just Honesty

    The most common mistake for any manager is to fail to clarify. This often happens because we mistake our average communications for having perfect clarity, when in fact we most often don't communicate at high levels of clarity. This isn't because we are bad at communication, but rather because our social communications carry less consequence when they aren't precise.

    Clarity is not simply being honest. We'll discuss the importance of clarity in this episode, and your first steps towards achieving clarity above the norm.

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    17 April 2024, 7:00 am
  • 21 minutes 6 seconds
    Demystifying Culture and Values

    What does your culture have to do with your values? In this episode we open up the discussion about a model of thinking for culture and values to understand how they link, and more importantly, when they don't.

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    10 April 2024, 7:00 am
  • 18 minutes 7 seconds
    Principles of Work - Shorten Your Feedback Loops

    Your feedback loops should be short enough that the cost of making a mistake is low enough that the value of the learning in the feedback loop exceeds the magnitude of the cost of a mistake. In other words: shorten your feedback loops to the point that you're no longer afraid to make a mistake.

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    3 April 2024, 7:00 am
  • 12 minutes 45 seconds
    Principles of Work - Be Your Own Advocate

    In this episode we discuss the importance of being your own advocate, and why this is likely the most rational position to hold. The takeaway: At any point, the person advocating the most for you is almost definitely YOU.

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    29 March 2024, 7:00 am
  • 17 minutes 28 seconds
    Practical Application of Information Theory

    In this episode we discuss a practical application of information theory. Information theory is similar to the classic theory of communication, but distinct in important ways; these two theories together are a useful combo for creating a strategy for clarification.

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    27 March 2024, 7:00 am
  • 19 minutes
    Revisiting Core Working Principles - Hyperfixation on Measurements and Communication Degradation

    In today's episode we talk about working principles again. Specifically, we're looking at a problem with measurement fixation, as well as the natural curve of degradation that most communication follows.

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    22 March 2024, 6:50 pm
  • 18 minutes 41 seconds
    Revisiting Core Working Principles - Clarity as a Precursor to Focus and Strategy for Possibilities

    In this episode we are revisiting some of my own personal core principles of working. I'm sharing these with you for you to do whatever you want with them, so please share however you can!

    The principles we discuss today are around the relationship between clarity and focus, and about how most negotiations aren't about feasibility but instead about strategy.

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    20 March 2024, 1:05 pm
  • 23 minutes 34 seconds
    Two Principle Categories To Judge Productivity Advice

    In today's episode we talk about principles of productivity. Most of the advice you receive will fit in the two categories we discuss in this episode. Once you connect with these ideas, you'll be able to use them for your own gain.

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    16 March 2024, 7:00 am
  • 24 minutes 36 seconds
    Cost of Delay Curves and Classes of Service

    In today's episode we discuss the concept of "cost of delay", and explore the fact that cost of delay does not necessarily follow a linear path. When cost of delay has a cliff, or an exponential curve, how do you weigh one opportunity versus another?

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    14 March 2024, 7:00 am
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