We've all been there - someone wants more meetings, someone wants fewer. But how much time spent talking to each other do projects require?

In this episode Brian and John delve into the topic from their own backgrounds.

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Another episode of Learnings from the Middle! John and Brian take a light-hearted approach to wondering if their jobs make them better people, defining "jobs", "better", and "people" along the way.

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In this episode John and Brian dive into what they love about their current jobs, why, and then touch on what skill sets they want to expand on next.

All of that leads to a discussion on what jobs they'd love to have in the future and skills they want to develop.

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In this episode Brian and John talk about what ownership means in software engineering and product management, realizing they've been using the same word an meaning different things for years!

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In this episode John and Brian go through their elevator pitches for their jobs, asking the ominous, "So what do you do for a living?" question you get at dinner parties.

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Should product management be a part of operations? What is operations? What is a product development team?

In this episode, Brian and John debate the pros and cons of having a single team handle operations and new product development, and both learn something along the way.

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In this episode, John and Brian revisit their favorite job in their career so far, minus their current positions. They have some fun realizations along the way like the differences in offline work for product owners and software engineers, the importance of team dynamic for job satisfaction, and how Brian would usually rather write code than talk to people (only half joking).

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In a light-hearted episode, John and Brian go over buzzwords from each other's domains, discussing terms and are over and underused.

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