169: Career Elbows

About this Episode

01:49 - Rein Talks About His Recent Career Transition From Being a Consultant to a Full-Time Employee

03:52 - Jamey Talks About the Decision to Leave Their Job

• Making The Decision To Leave Your Comfort Zone

05:34 - Pros and Cons of Staying for Job Stability and Comfort

• Learned Helplessness
• Being a Part of a System
• Don’t Be The Smartest Person in The Room
• Shared Space

13:20 - Resilience and Regulatory Mechanisms

• Dr. Richard Cook - REdeploy 2019 Talk

15:59 - Interviews

• Watching Interviewers’ Reactions to Challenging Their Questions
• Gerald Weinberg - Secrets of Consulting
• Most of the Things We Do Have No Effect Whatsoever in the Larger System

20:20 - Job Success and Effort

22:22 - Safety and Resilience

• Aviation and Tech
• Kubernetes
• David Woods - Resilience is a Verb

26:05 - Interview Anxiety

• Who You Know
• Group Bias

30:25 - Team Creating/Building

• Assuming Competence
• Consideration of New Team Members
• Dealing With Change After Being Comfortable
• Sidney Dekker - Understanding Human Error

38:04 - Feeling Comfortable in Tech

• Privileges of Being in the Field
• Switching Career Paths

47:20 - Visualize How You Will Feel Working Somewhere

• Analytical vs. Emotional Decision Making

50:08 - No One in Tech is an Expert in Human Performance - Interviewing

• Ask Questions of the Interviewer
• Being the One That Gets to Make the Decision
• Avdi on the Interview Process - We Should be Able to Speak Up

58:25 - Discovering How to Make Better Systems

• Tell More Stories

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