Terry is a family man, a Managing Director at Phase2 Technology, and an overall okay dude. We chatted about dealing with nerves before public speaking/presentations, scheduling your friendships, companies that have it together vs. companies that don't, and teachable skills vs. ingrained talents (thanks for having my back on this one Terry).

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Jace just wants you to leave him alone.

After a discussion about mental resets and the urge to always be productive, Critter whines for a long time about how work is stressful. Womp womp.

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Jace just wants you to leave him alone.

Lauren is a Solutions Architect at Contentful who has had the misfortune of being Jace's former manager. We talked about moving on from coding, creating goals vs. habits, why clients are or aren't the worst, and lots more. 

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Jace just wants you to leave him alone.

Jace has decided to go full caveman and eat only chicken, rice, and broccoli. Critter talks about coming back from vacation and the related stress imbalance. And finally, Critter picks Jace's brain about about Magic: The Gathering for the last 20 minutes. 

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Jace just wants you to leave him alone.

Nancy is a mom of four boys and she's way too good for Critter. This episode is mostly giggling and inside jokes, plus Jace probing for embarrassing Critter stories. Also, the audio sucks at some points due to putting two people on one mic.

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Jace just wants you to leave him alone.

We try to figure out what to put in our brag books, which is tough, because what are we even good at? Also, Critter questions the value in self evaluations and Jace keeps stubbing his toe because wearing shoes inside is disrespectful.

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Jace just wants you to leave him alone.

Alex Reece is a friend and manager at Streamlit (https://streamlit.io/). He joins us to talk about work politics and how much someone in the IC career path has to care about either of them. We also got into the path people take into management vs. staying in engineering forever, and Critter takes every opportunity to whine about imposter syndrome along the way.

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Jace just wants you to leave him alone.

Critter tries to think of a funny name for the bully inside his head, Jace did stupid stuff with fireworks when he was a kid, and we both argue about whether we should prep for our guests, because that's a conversation that our listeners definitely care about. 

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Jace just wants you to leave him alone.

Clove is a nerdy, trans, blue-haired product manager who has worked with both of us dinguses in the past. They joined us to talk to us about coming out as trans, gotchas with QA teams, where we want our careers to go long term, and other stuffs.

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Jace just wants you to leave him alone.

Critter whines about how apparently exposure therapy doesn't work with public speaking, and being a tech lead has made Jace anxious due to his annoying trust issues. 

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Jace just wants you to leave him alone.