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169: Career Elbows
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
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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