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Jonathan Cutrell

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Announcing - Career Growth Accelerator, Episode Zero - Getting Out of Your Own Way

12/18/2025 • 20 min

This episode kicks off the Career Growth Accelerator series, focused on the specific hurdles faced by mid-to-senior level engineers, managers, and leaders who are looking to move to the next level. Before diving into specific strategies, I’m addressing the fundamental prerequisite for real growth: getting out of your own way. We often block our own progress beca… Play episode

Announcing: The Career Growth Accelerator Series
Problem Definition As A Path for Career Growth
You Know The Hard Thing You Need to Do Next - Here's Why It's Worth Doing …
Career Fundamentals - Avoid Career Traps by Focusing on Primary Paths of I…
Getting to Senior - Taking Ownership Without Leading Projects
Part Two - Bryan McCann, CTO of You.com, on AI, Engineering, Art, and Ever…
Part One - Bryan McCann, CTO of You.com, on AI, Engineering, Art, and Ever…
Going to War with Burnout - Less Hours Isn't Your Only Option
The Good and Bad of Choosing Measurements - Traps and Opportunities of Mea…
Engage in Deliberate Practice to Level Up Your Engineering Leadership Skil…
Shift Your Locus of Control to Take Charge of Your Engineering Career
Resumé Driven Development - Your Career is In Your Hands
Forced and Unforced Errors
View Your Productivity Through the Lens of Values and Priorities
This One Skill Signifies Seniority For Software Engineers
Backup Plans and Risk Reward Curves
Second Order Consequences and Forcing Functions
Don't Try to Solve Hyperobject Problems Once
Behavior Change 101: Trigger, Incentive, and Ability
Goal of the Goal - Using Goals As A Prioritization Clarifying Tool
Your Capacity for Growth Is Dependent on This Factor - Cognitive Load Theo…
Investigating Your Invisible Systems
Perfection Is Fragile, and You Should Avoid It
Your System is Perfectly Designed for Your Current Outcomes
Using LLMs To Expand Your Working Vocabulary
Great Reviews and Terrible Tacos - Sharpening Substitute Questions with Co…
Why Maintenance Matters Now - Construal Level Theory, Marshmallows, and Hy…
Follow This Principle - Establish Your Baselines
Advice on Advice - Taking Everything with a Grain of Salt
Career Advice for Surviving AI Outsourcing
Take Back Your Time - Volatility, Pliability, and Agency and Your Obligati…
Iteration or Target State Planning
Three Principles of Preparedness - Mitigate Risks and Capitalize On Opport…
Did I Get That Right? - A High Leverage Habit that Requires Virtually Zero…
Meta Models - Logarithmic Returns
Dimensional Reframing - Think Along a New Axis
Chesterton's Fence - Why You Should Think Twice Before Rewriting That Proj…
Reframing Areas of Growth to Your Manager
Owning and Requesting Forward-Framed Feedback
Work Modes Using Autonomy and Definition Clarity Quadrant - Manager Framew…
Manager Frameworks and Models - Product Lifecycle Governance
Philosophical Frameworks that Inform Your Decisions (Without You Even Know…
How Can You Prepare for High-Impact Unknown Events?
Misconceptions about Exceptions and Cultural Shifts - Invisible Inertia
Action Orientation and Making Faster Decisions
Match your Action to Intention - Pairing Five Whats with Five Whys
Upgrade Your Resolutions
Ten Years of Developer Tea
Better Low-Information Estimates - Putting the "Scientific" in SWAG

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