Input Quadrant - A Tool for Better Retrospectives

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You Don't Learn Helplessness - You Learn Control

In 1967, a study on shock avoidance gave us "learned helplessness," and for nearly fifty years that was the prevailing explanation for why people give up. Then the original authors published a follow-up with brain scan data showing they had it backwards. We don't learn to be help ...  Show more

Why Reducing Complexity Is A Sign of Seniority

As you grow as an engineer, something counterintuitive happens: the systems you build get simpler, not more complex. In this episode, I explore why senior engineers tend to collapse abstractions, accept certain risks, and reduce the surface area they're responsible for — and what ...  Show more

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