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language is important, very

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important factors we have podcast

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is 100%

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language here so

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matter what we talked about on this show is

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framing things based on the

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language you use and

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today's episode no different than that my

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name's is trying to get trailer listening to team

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and

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in today's i want to help you

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demystify and hopefully help

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you gain a better grasp better handle

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fine decisions

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would you think about this word decide

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try to assign some

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kind of feeling to this word some

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people decide brings

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up an image of

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the you know a a

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boss

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the business person that they considered to be

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more decisive than they are

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some people decide will

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make you feel anxious because you

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may have a decision that you are

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the trying to make

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the and on the show even we

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have talked over and over

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about making good decisions it decisions indeed

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a critical skill for anyone

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not just software engineers

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for anyone

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making good decisions

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makes a big difference in your

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career he makes a big difference in your life

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but

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if we turn

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making decisions the

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into some kind of mystical

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art then we'd missed

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the point to

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decide the is simply

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the choose between options here's

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what happens though the in our brains we

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make a decision we

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attach ourselves to

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that decision we

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did this both you ourselves

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the and we imagine that others

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do that to as as well in other words

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people will attach the value

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for example

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that we bring to the group

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your social group to our bring groups

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to are working group

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or company they catch we

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we imagine that the attach the value that we bring

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to the decisions that we make and

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the reason for this is because making

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good decisions ultimately is

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a survival skill the

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going have an advantage somebody

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makes good decisions and socially speaking

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they are considered more worthy

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of being a leader the

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and for a lot of

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human history we attach

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decisions to outcomes was talks

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about this on the show quite a bit as well so

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making a good decision the

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only kind of way to

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judge the had for most of human history

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did you make a good decision well let's look at what

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happened after you did that since

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it's a simple association you

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do something the and something

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occurs we may

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winner by in error

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or not

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hi those things together of

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course this is only a correlation

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hopefully if you're making good enough

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decisions you have high positive

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correlation between good decisions and

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good outcomes though the have

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bitten you too badly that

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very possible that you had

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low correlation between

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your this between a is so especially

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specific decisions and a specific

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outcome and you may

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have experienced some follow from this

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and so it's very easy then back

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to this this core concept

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that we should demystify decisions

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the very easy to attach or worse

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or ego the catch

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are you know a sense of

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of intelligence

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the value the you

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the decisions we make

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when you make a choice you're

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catching your value to not only

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that choice but also the outcome that

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occurs as results of that think

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about this in how you think

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about your work you think

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about how you imagine

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that the decisions that you've made are ultimately

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going to be them the kind of touchstone milestones

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in your career you going to look back and think

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about those specific points along the path

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it maybe you have one of those in front of you right

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now but making

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good decisions the

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not about attaching the outcome

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to your identity to your value to your

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worth instead making

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good decisions as about using

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an option using an option

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amongst many options through

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a reasonable process that's

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it you're looking

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to reduce risk between your options

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okay you can use information

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to do that you're looking to

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choose the option that's going to deliver

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fastest well you may not know

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exactly which options going to going

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to fastest let's ask

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you this question

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there anyone in the world

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who does know the future is

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there anyone in the world who can look at the options

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are you haven't front of you and somehow

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i have more inside than you do

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the maybe some variation maybe somebody

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who has experienced a very similar problem

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that as and you haven't

5:46

before they may have some insight to share

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this share this we should talk

5:51

about our problems and collaborate with other people

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maybe they do actually help us make slightly

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better decisions but given

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the and the amount of uncertainty between

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two people the decision might

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as well be the role of dice and

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so choosing an option in

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that situation has nothing to do

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with you have good intuition

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there's nothing to have intuition about

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instead if you're using principles to

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make decisions to inform you

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what characteristics are of those options

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you are being decisive definitively

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one other thing to unravel about decisions

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that we very often imagine

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the decisions are like a permanent mark

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on our record

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that somehow we're going to be graded

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the all decisions will be weighed equally

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this is a silly notion we

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need to get rid of it because when

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we make we make that turns out

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was not a good decision it's

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critically important the we recognize

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that the next decision is more

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important this

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isn't just lip service this is how

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we learn if you make

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a decision the outcome

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is it what you preferred what do you

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do next no one is counting

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the number of decisions people

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make in order to become successful

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no one is counting the number of failures

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that people have before they have

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a massive success the

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only people that tend to counters are

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the people themselves easy

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the be highly aware of the

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bad decision that you made yesterday but

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it's also far too easy

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to allow that you

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inhibit you from making decisions today

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whether that's because of confidence or because

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of focus the sliding

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is simply picking an option and

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when you pick an option that isn't ideal

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the back use another option

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figure out this maybe there are more options

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that you haven't seen yet this

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is how you continue to make better

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decisions and how you and of use

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your bad decisions to your own advantage

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the class of people are typically not the

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ones who just have a higher

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than one ratio of good decisions

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to bad decisions the usually

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the ones that make a lot

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of decisions they continue

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trying the more exposure

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you get to a decision

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making the more exposure you get to various

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options the more background

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you have whenever you see those options again

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you can see patterns much better than

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you can see the future thanks

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much for listening to episode of you enjoyed this or

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if you have disagreements within,

8:41

i'd love to hear them now, , a a bunch

8:43

of ways you can do that you can lever a and itunes,

8:45

this is great way to help engineers,

8:47

find show and decide if they want

8:49

to listen to it as well you can also

8:52

the developer tea discord to me come and talked

8:54

to me directly telepathy.com

8:56

discord, it's

8:58

not just being there there's a ton other engineers

9:00

who are are looking grow in

9:03

their careers they have different perspectives are

9:05

certainly far more have

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a perspective than just mine in

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that groups of go and check that out developer

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t dot com slash peace corps

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makes it much for listening and until next year