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How Can You Prepare for High-Impact Unknown Events?This episode includes practical techniques to prepare for the unexpected by identifying vulnerabilities and building resilience, using the "curse question" and the "assumption audit" to help you turn potential problems into strategic advantages. • Uncover how to use a "curse question" to expose vulnerabilities you didn't know you had, by imagining realistic negative scenarios and what could go wrong. • Learn how to move beyond resilience to antifragility, turning unexpected events into opportunities for growth and strategic advantage, by making them benefitial rather than harmful. • Discover why your medium-confidence assumptions might be the most dangerous and how an "assumption audit" can help you rate them and their potential impact if they are wrong, to help you better understand your weaknesses. • Explore why preparing for a range of possibilities, including black swan events, is more effective than trying to predict specific outcomes, and how to spot opportunities in the unexpected. • Learn why focusing on areas of fragility and identifying risks can be more useful than focusing on trying to avoid negative events altogether. • Understand that counterfactuals can help you challenge your assumptions and create more robust plans. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Wix Studio Devs, if you think website builders mean limited control—think again. With Wix Studio’s developer-first ecosystem you can spend less time on tedious tasks and more on the functionalities that matters most: ● Develop online in a VS Code-based IDE or locally via GitHub. ● Extend and replace a suite of powerful business solutions ● And ship faster with Wix Studio’s AI code assistant All of that, wrapped up in auto-maintained infrastructure for total peace of mind. Work in a developer-first ecosystem. Go to wixstudio.com 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 📮 Join the Discord If you want to be a part of a supportive community of engineers (non-engineers welcome!) working to improve their lives and careers, join us on the Developer Tea Discord community by visiting https://developertea.com/discord today! 🧡 Leave a Review If you're enjoying the show and want to support the content head over to iTunes and leave a review! It helps other developers discover the show and keep us focused on what matters to you.

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Philosophical Frameworks that Inform Your Decisions (Without You Even Knowing It)This episode explores philosophical frameworks—ontology, teleology, and dynamism—to inform decision-making in uncertain situations, providing practical advice for applying these concepts in your professional and personal life. • Understand how ontology, teleology, and dynamism can help you navigate conversations • about future actions for teams, companies, families, or yourself. Ontology focuses on a thing's intrinsic characteristics, teleology on its purpose or outcome, and dynamism on the changing environment. • Learn how these philosophical frameworks address the uncertainty of the future and provide tools for making intentional decisions. The episode connects these concepts to practical advice, especially for engineering managers, demonstrating their relevance to your career. • Explore how ontology identifies a thing's characteristics in isolation • , while teleology considers its purpose or outcome. Discover how dynamism identifies changes in the environment and intent, providing a contextual understanding. • Consider how dynamism can recognize the need to change a team's role • due to external factors, like AI, which contrasts with the potentially static views of ontology and teleology. • Understand that 'should' implies value in decision-making • , with choices leaning towards desirable or undesirable outcomes. The episode explores how to define the criteria for 'should' in various contexts. • Realise the importance of adapting your thinking to new realities • , which is crucial in decision-making. 🙏 Today's Episode is Brought To you by: Wix Studio Wix Studio's developer-first ecosystem allows you to focus on crucial functionalities by reducing time spent on tedious tasks. • Develop online in a VS Code-based IDE or locally via GitHub. • Extend and replace a suite of powerful business solutions. • Use Wix Studio’s AI code assistant to ship faster. Work within a developer-first ecosystem by visiting wixstudio.com. 📮 Ask a Question If you enjoyed this episode and would like me to discuss a question that you have on the show, drop it over at: developertea.com. 📮 Join the Discord To join a supportive community of engineers, visit the Developer Tea Discord community at https://developertea.com/discord. 🧡 Leave a Review Support the show by leaving a review on iTunes to help other developers discover the podcast.

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