
Design Lead at Basecamp, Jonas Downey - Part One
Jonas Downey is the design lead at Basecamp. In this interview we discuss the ethics of designing and building constraints into your product that change human behavior.✨ Sponsor: SquareBuild a custom ...
8 Feb 202141min

Friday Refills - Don't Cram the Information Firehose... Filter and Focus!
We are not well adapted to focus and filter information. For the majority of human history, the information available was virtually all relevant. But now, we have an overload of information. Our first...
5 Feb 20217min

Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer - Remote Everything?
In this episode, we continue series of episodes about how COVID has and will continue to affect our lives and jobs as software engineers. We'll talk about where we will work, and how COVID has changed...
3 Feb 202111min

Series kickoff - Post-Pandemic: Work and Life as an Engineer
In this episode, we kick off a series of episodes about how COVID has and will continue to affect our lives and jobs as software engineers.📮 Ask a QuestionIf you enjoyed this episode and would like m...
1 Feb 202113min

Friday Refill: Consider an Alternate Story
Much of our lives are determined by our internal voices. These voices tell us a story that is hard to imagine differently. But it's an important skill to consider an alternate story.
29 Jan 20217min

Paying the Tax for Our Decisions
Every episode has its downside. In this episode we talk about a mental model called the "Strategy Tax", and how it applies beyond business strategy.Mentioned: Developer Tea Interview with Gabriel Wein...
27 Jan 202117min

The Downside to Inaction
We underestimate the knowledge we have. (Interestingly, we also *over*-estimate the knowledge we have, just a different type of knowledge.) We also underestimate the knowledge we don't have.We overest...
25 Jan 202124min

Friday Refill - Ignore Motivation, Focus On Removing Obstacles
Our first Friday Refill!Ignore motivation. Remove obstacles.Motivation is not your fuel. You already have enough motivation. Don’t add more. Focus on removing the small distractions, things that will ...
22 Jan 20217min



















