Episode 3: The Cake Analogy

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This episode is a tasty one. Today’s guest introduced me to an analogy that illustrates beautifully the progressively growing scope and responsibilities of an engineer from Junior to Senior to Staff and beyond. I love this analogy so much that I invited him onto the show to share it with you. So get out your aprons, prep your mixers, and welcome our guest Andrew Preece, as we whip up: "The Cake Analogy."

Picks & Plugs

• Andrew
  • Radical Candor, by Kim Scott
  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High, by Grenny, Patterson, McMillan, Switzler, and Gregory
  • Linux and the Unix Philosophy, by Mike Gancarz
  • The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter
• Alex
  • Grokking Algorithms, by Aditya Bhargava
  • The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman
  • A Philosophy of Software Design, by John K. Ousterhout
  • The Pragmatic Programmer, by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
• Brian
  • The First Rule of Prioritization: No Snacking (blog)

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Transcript

Episode 3 Transcript