Best Charles Max Wood Podcasts (2025)

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Playing the Long Game: The Power of Self-Control 34:23

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As a special addition to this week's episode, you can see Katy's full sit-down interview with Angela Duckworth, where they also explore the relationship between self-control and grit. Watch or listen to their conversation on YouTube or Spotify. When your emotions flare or temptation calls, what does it take to hold back? Whether it’s resisting the …

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Bonus: A Sit Down With Katy Milkman & Angela Duckworth 33:36

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In this bonus addition of Choiceology, Katy Milkman sits down with psychologist and Grit author Dr. Angela Duckworth, a leading expert on self-control. She breaks down what science tells us about managing impulses, why willpower by itself falls short, and how simple environmental tweaks and practical strategies can help anyone delay gratification a…

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How Mindset Shapes Success 35:08

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Most of us label ourselves early on as academic (or not), athletic (or not), or talented (or not). But even if you feel like you're lacking in natural talent or ability in certain areas, approaching new skills or challenges with openness, effort, and curiosity can take you farther than you might expect. In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milk…

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Why Starting Over Hurts 37:56

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If you've ever gotten well into a project—maybe a DIY renovation—and then realized that you've taken the wrong approach, you probably know that it's very tempting to just stay the course. Starting all over again would be so painful, even if starting over is clearly the best option. Or maybe you've taken a wrong turn on a hike and only noticed it a …

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Teamwork That Works: What Great Teams Have in Common 42:53

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What makes an effective team? Talent? Skill? Discipline? In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we're looking at some of the more surprising ingredients of successful teams, according to science. Teams where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You'll hear the story of the Kon-Tiki expedition—a harrowing journey across the Pac…

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When It Feels Like Everyone's Watching 36:34

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We've all been there. Maybe you fumbled a line in a presentation. Or tripped on a shoelace. Or suffered a bad hair day. It can feel like the whole world is watching you—and judging you—in those embarrassing moments. But are people paying as much attention to you as you think? In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we explore why we tend …

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How a Single Source of Information Can Seem Like Several 28:36

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You've probably been in situations where multiple friends recommend the same product. It must be great, if everyone is talking about it, right? But then you find out that those friends had all just seen the same product on a popular TV show. What seemed like independent recommendations really came from a single source. In this episode of Choiceolog…

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Coming Soon: A New Season of Choiceology 1:35

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It's a new season of Choiceology, an original podcast from Charles Schwab. New episodes arrive every two weeks, so please follow us in your favorite podcasting app. Important Disclosures The comments, views, and opinions expressed in the podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of Charles Schwab. Data contained h…

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Little Bits of Happiness: With Guests Sally Millington & Ellen Evers 28:27

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Were you the kind of kid who devoured all your Halloween candy in one sitting—or savored it daily until, somehow, it was Easter? And when it comes to bad news, do you prefer it all at once or with some time in between? Turns out, the way we bundle or separate life's highs and lows can influence our happiness. In this episode of Choiceology with Kat…

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Cents & Sensibility: With Guests Melina Palmer & Devin Pope 32:49

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Would you pay more for a car with 29,999 miles than one with 30,000? The answer should be no—it's a negligible difference, after all—but research shows that people often do pay more than they should for cars that are just short of certain odometer thresholds. In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we look at why a price or an age or a te…

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Hooked on Streaks: With Guests Chloë Hamilton & Jackie Silverman 31:27

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Streaks have long been logged in the world of sports. And for tracking habits, like daily writing. But now apps encourage us to keep streaks going for just about anything. Messaging friends, learning new languages, meditating, exercising, you name it. In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we explore the motivational power of streaks. An…

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Obstacle Illusions: With Guests Daniella McCahey & Tom Gilovich 30:41

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First-born children tend to believe that their parents were harder on them than their siblings are willing to grant. Football fans take disproportionate note of the challenging games on their team's schedules. We're wired to interpret our challenges as bigger than our advantages, even if the reality is more balanced. In this episode of Choiceology …

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The Reality Trap: With Guests Ken Adelman & Julia Minson 38:22

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Is it ever possible to see the world objectively, as it is? Turn on the news, open social media, engage with that family member at Thanksgiving, and it appears to some the answer is yes. But what if our biggest blind spot is thinking we don't have a blind spot? In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we look at how we can easily be fooled…

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A Numbers Game: With Guests Linda Chang & Stephen M. Colbert 29:37

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Workplaces often rely on numerical ratings for performance reviews. Election debates focus on poll numbers and approval ratings. Your watch counts your steps in a day. Numbers increasingly influence our decisions. In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we look at our very human tendency to fixate on digits even when words or graphs repre…

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Angular Elements, Annex & Storybook with Brad McAlister - AiA 439 51:33

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In this episode of Adventures in Angular, Brad McAlister joins our regular panelists: Alyssa, Chris, and Brooks! Brad walks us through his work of transitioning into an Annex Monorepo and how working with Angular Elements in conjunction has been going. Brad also breaks down what StoryBook is and how it has helped him in his workflows. Picks Alyssa …

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How to Get a 60% Performance Gains with Push Pipe featuring Michael Hladky - AiA 438 52:23

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Michael Hladky joins the adventure to discuss how he's gotten a 60% performance increase using push pipe and related techniques. Many developers can get by without this technology, but Michael explains how to pull the push pipe into your code and what that looks like compared to Zone.js and the default stack in Angular. Links New possibilities with…

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Matchmaking NGXS and Firebase with Joaquin Cid - AiA 437 55:07

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Joaquin Cid is an Argentinian developer who has built a plugin for NGXS state library that allows developers to connect to Firebase and have their queries automatically import into NGXS. Further, it also allows them to define actions that will update their datastore when triggered. The new Adventures in Angular panel dives into the ins and outs of …

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Practical Applications of RxJS in Angular Development - AiA 436 23:50

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In today's episode, Lucas is joined by Jason Akbar, a full-stack software engineer who’s got a knack for front-end development. He recently penned some intriguing articles on Medium about RxJS operators. He will reveal what motivated him to write about RxJS operators, especially focusing on the top 17 operators that every Angular developer should k…

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Azure Cognitive Services with Ankit Sharma - AiA 435 36:53

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Ankit Sharma, an Angular GDE and author, joins us in this episode of Adventures in Angular to talk about using Azure cognitive services with Angular. Links https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/cognitive-services https://tic-tac-toe-d9068.firebaseapp.com/ https://bookcart.azurewebsites.net/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/cognitive-…

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Power Up Angular with RXjs with Armen Vardanyan - AiA 434 57:09

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Armen Vardanyan is an Armenian Angular developer who works extensively with both angular and RXjs. He walks Chuck through the ins and outs of how he uses RXjs to expand the functionality of his Angular applications and how to think about observables in general. Picks Armen- Frank Herbert's Dune Saga 6-Book Boxed Set Charles- The Way of Kings: The S…

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Getting your Components to Communicate with Ravi Veliyat - AiA 433 50:48

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Ravi Veliyat helps train people in many web technologies, Angular being one of them. The panel discusses the various ways you can get your components to communicate, from inputs and outputs all the way up to NgRx. Ravi walks through the different options, with great examples that will keep you on the edge of your headphones. Links You might not nee…

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Managing and Capturing Errors in Angular ft. Philipp Kief - AiA 432 54:08

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Philipp Kief is a German developer who walks through how to manage and capture errors in your Angular application and how to display them to users. He discusses how he standardized error handlers in his applications and what he does to make sure that they get logged someplace. Links Angular Component Extractor Philipp Kief - Medium Philipp Kief Twi…

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Web Components for Cross Framework Development with Nishu Goel - AiA 431 44:55

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Nishu Goel joins the Adventure to talk about how Web Components can be used in Angular applications and how to use them to share functionality across multiple applications written in different frameworks. We also dive into how web components are used and compatibility across browsers. Links Angular elements overview manfredsteyer/ngx-build-plus Web…

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Profiling Angular Apps with Gil Fink - AiA 430 44:34

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The illustrious and well-regarded Gil Fink joins the Adventures in Angular panel to talk about profiling your Angular apps. Profiling consists of finding bottlenecks, and memory leaks among other problems within your application. Most of the time, the problems are hard to see from the development side. Usually, they appear when your user uses a dev…

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A Hero's Journey: With Guests Ethan Gilsdorf, David Fajgenbaum & Kurt Gray 39:52

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Luke Skywalker, Frodo Baggins, Katniss Everdeen, the main characters of many great stories, they all have one thing in common: the shape of their journey. From answering the call to adventure, to undergoing tests of character and strengths, to triumphantly returning home forever changed. It's a classic narrative structure that's inspired countless …

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Leveraging Event Sourcing: Enhancing Scalability and Consistency in Front-end and Back-end - AiA 429 54:34

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In this episode, Lucas, Armen, and Subrat are joined by Luis Galeas, the CEO and founder of Ambar. Today's discussion dives into the fascinating world of event sourcing, exploring its intricacies in both front-end and back-end development. Event sourcing has emerged as a pivotal technique for managing the state by recording events that can rebuild …

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Is There Benefits from Working From Home with Will Gant - AiA 428 1:00:07

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In this episode of Adventures in Angular, Will Gant, author of Remote Work talks about working from home and working outside of the client's office. He and Brooks share their experience with working through the challenges, benefits, and methods of working remotely. Picks Will - Follow Will's work on > www.simpleprogrammer.com Brooks - NGXS Brooks -…

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Rebel With a Cause: With Guests Francis Kelly & Christopher Bryan 35:34

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Most parents encounter resistance from their children. Perhaps when the kids are young and turning their noses up at vegetables, or when they're teenagers and balking at curfews or dress codes. So what's the best way to encourage good choices in the face of a rebellious kid? Or a rebellious adult, for that matter? In this episode of Choiceology wit…

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Data Mocking with Dave Cooper - AiA 427 42:10

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In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Dave Cooper, who recently gave a talk at AngularConnect about using Mock Data. Dave starts by explaining more about his talk and sharing the benefits of using data mocking solutions and rapid prototyping. He shares the secrets of doing rapid prototyping. There are challenges to using moc…

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Managing Component State the Sane Way with Freddy Montes - AiA 426 44:41

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Freddy Montes joins the adventure to discuss how he and his team manage state in their Angular components. Many development teams instinctively reach for a solution like ngrx when they're building their angular apps and start seeing complex state. However, there's a lot of boilerplate and it's often overkill for small to medium apps. Freddy talks a…

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On a High Note: With Guests Maurice Schweitzer & Matthew Polly 38:03

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Do you recall the best concert you ever went to? Best trip? Best meal? Chances are good that a few memories come to mind—maybe not every detail of the event, but perhaps a couple great moments. It can go the opposite way, too. Worst travel experience. Worst date. Our memory works in snapshots of particular parts of our experience. In this episode o…

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Cross Platform Angular with Richard Sithole - AiA 425 1:01:34

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Have you ever thought how nice it'd be to write your apps for desktop and mobile alongside the web? Richard Sithole joins the adventure to discuss how to pull a desktop app and mobile app into your repo using electron and capacitor to extend the functionality to new platforms. It turns out that a single repo cross-platform app isn't a total pipe dr…

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The Truth Is Out There: With Guests Tania Lombrozo & Toby Ball 31:42

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Your car breaks down. Must be because you skipped an oil change last month. Or your favorite team loses. Well, that was because of a bad call by a corrupt referee. In reality, many events involve multiple contributing factors. But we tend to gravitate toward single causes. In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we look at our desire to e…

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Micro Frontends and Zoneless Angular: Bridging Framework Interoperability - AiA 424 51:16

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Dive deep into the latest trends and challenges in the development world. Lucas, Armen, and Subrat Mishra are joined by a special guest, Rakia Ben Sassi, a Google Developer Expert in Angular. In this episode, they explore the complexities and potential benefits of adopting Zoneless Angular and discuss the critical updates in Angular 18, including i…

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Accessibility in Angular with Vitalii Bobrov - AiA 423 50:06

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Special guest, Vitalii Bobrov joins us to talk about accessibility on the web and how to relate it to user experience in general. What can we do to improve accessibility? How can we improve accessibility? Why should we even care about accessibility? Find the answers to these questions and much more on this very insightful episode of Adventures in A…

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To Know What You Know: With Guests David Dunning & Andrew Flack 27:58

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In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we look at the often-misunderstood and surprisingly common Dunning-Kruger effect with an interview featuring one of the researchers who first identified it, David Dunning. But we start with the story of Cecilia Jimenez, the humble Spanish grandmother and amateur landscape painter who took it upon he…

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Bazel with Alex Eagle - AiA 422 1:01:06

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Alex Eagle is a Software Engineer on the core Angular team at Google. Alex and the panel talk about Bazel, a a free software tool that allows for the automation of building and testing of software. Links Alex’s GitHub Alex’s Twitter Alex’s LinkedIn Bazel Angular and Bazel Join BazelBuild on Slack! Picks Aaron - Axe Throwing Jennifer - Drama on the …

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The Buddy System: With Guests Max Maeder & Rachel Gershon 29:41

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Pursuing a goal alone is convenient. Whether you're training for a marathon or aiming to read 20 books this year, it's convenient to move at your own pace and schedule. But having a gym buddy or a book club pal can make a bigger difference to your goal completion than you think. In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we look at the benef…

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Functional Programming with Angular, NgRx with Raul Jimenez - AiA 421 55:31

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Raul Jimenez, the CEO of Byte Default, answers the panels many questions on functional programming with NgRx. In this playful interview, Raul defines functional programming and what it is trying to solve. The panel discusses side effects using a Spiderman analogy. Raul shares the benefits of switching to and when to use NgRx. The importance of know…

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The JAM in JAMstack with Tara Z. Manicsic - AiA 420 37:43

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In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Tara Manicsic. Tara is an Angular Developer Experience Engineer at Netlify. Tara explains what she does at Netlify. She explains what Netlify is and introduces the topic for today’s episode, JAMstack. She explains what services Netlify offers and the packages they offer. She explains tha…

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Angular Projects with Zama Khan Mohammed - AiA 419 40:56

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In this episode of Adventures in Angular the panel interviews Zama Khan Mohammed about his recent book and other open source work he has done in the Angular community. Zama explains what is so different about his book and why it is worth reading. His book takes an approach different than the common practice of walking readers through concepts, inst…

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Unleashing Angular's Potential with WebAssembly and Rust - AiA 418 35:36

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In today's episode, They dive deep into the fascinating world of WebAssembly and Rust with our special guest expert, Evgeniy Tuboltsev. WebAssembly, a powerful binary format, allows code to run at near-native speeds in the browser, making it ideal for high-performance tasks like video processing, gaming, and cryptography. Rust, a compiled language,…

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Mastering Angular Testing Strategies with Ng Demo and Cypress Integration - AiA 417 33:29

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In this episode, they dive deep into the world of Angular application testing with our special guest, Matt, the author of the Angular Mini Book and creator of the ng demo repository. They explore the essentials of unit tests, service tests, and end-to-end tests using Cypress, and discuss the intricacies of building a robust testing infrastructure w…

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Put A Form Around It with Sani Yusuf - AiA 416 53:29

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In this episode of Adventures in Angular, Sani Yusuf stops by for an adventure and chats with Alyssa, Brooks & Chris about building component libraries in Nx and how he feels forms are one of Angular’s most powerful and perhaps underrated features. Links https://zippopotam.us/ Picks Sani - Operator Decision Tree Alyssa - RxJS in Angular: Reactive D…

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Why would you use Angular in a Startup? - AiA 415 37:03

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Catalin Ciubotaru joins the show today to share his industry insights and the advantages and disadvantages of using Angular in a startup. In this episode… Main advantages of Angular Moving quickly with Angular Developer experience and templates Disadvantages of using Angular Hiring with a startup mentality Startups defined Micro front ends and mono…

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To Fight Another Day: With Guests Alex Imas & Mary Stockwell 35:55

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When you're facing loss—say, in a board game or during a sporting event or with a declining stock—it can be difficult to remember your true tolerance for risk. You're likely to seek risk more than you normally would. In this episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we look at a tendency to seek risk in the face of losses when those losses aren't y…

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Progressive State Management with NGXS with Aliaksei Kuncevic - AiA 414 1:02:08

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In this episode, Brooks, Alyssa and Chris talk with Aliaksei Kuncevič about Progressive State Management with NGXS. Aliaksei walks the crew through this progressive journey by starting small and implementing reactive services. These are services with a behavior subject. Aliaksei then demonstrates how you can migrate from reactive services to using …

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The Easiest Way to use Angular Elements with Tomas Trajan - AIA 413 45:46

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In this episode of Adventures in Angular Tomas Trajan, an angular elements expert, breaks down how to use angular elements for the panel. Tomas explains that angular elements are great for very specific use cases. Tomas starts by describing a scenario with a large enterprise with tens of developer teams and hundreds of developers, they have a few c…

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Choiceology's Guide to Better Decisions: With Guests James Korris, Carey Morewedge & Jack Soll 31:28

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Over the years, Choiceology has offered a lot of advice for making better decisions. In this special episode of Choiceology with Katy Milkman, we bring you the story of a video game that is surprisingly effective at reducing decision errors, and you'll hear about a practical checklist for improving choices in many different contexts. Solving fictit…