I Don't Know What I'm Doing

Paul Michelotti

Paul Michelotti, Pat McLoughlin, and Nate Paulus, three tenured technical consultants ply their trade on themselves, exploring problems facing those who might call themselves consultants and taking a stab at making everything better.

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What About Working From Home

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

01/25/19 • 37 min

We fish around a bit for a topic but we finally get there in this episode about our experiences with and insights on working from home.

Once again I forget to introduce the show - so, Paul, Pat, and Nate, for those of you who have forgotten, and this time we try to make working from home better.

Intro & Outro - "Golden Sunrise" by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise) provided under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

One in One Out Hole Policy

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

05/09/20 • 39 min

Look, I'm not gonna lie to you, I don't know what this episode is. We're a little all over the place experimenting with some new segments. If nothing else, it's an audio file which you can listen to with your ears.

Key Topics: Property Brothers of Software Development, Project Management, One in One Out Hole Policy, Green River

Signal Boosting Secaucus

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

03/31/20 • 57 min

Current events weighing on you? Want to take a break and return to a simpler time when our biggest concern was a mobile app being sideloaded to serve the Iowa Democratic caucus? The I Don't Know What I'm Doing podcast and Paul's inability to edit things in a timely manner is here to serve you on that front and so many more.

Talking Points: Papa John's lawsuit, spelling of caucus, what to do on the bench for a year, design-thinking on the 5-star rating system, making slime

Soft Taco Out

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02/28/20 • 43 min

Hopefully you don't look to this podcast for timely reporting of news and events, because that's not what you are going to find in this episode. That aside we do give over a substantial portion of the podcast to talking about fish tacos and Taco Bell double deckers all getting us to the meat of the matter, a quandary on innovation at the workplace from Itching to Innovate in Austin TX. Hot Topics this episode: What's a Fish Taco? #softtacoout. Google closed door policy. Top Marketing Trends for 2020! Asked to Innovate at work. Intro & Outro - "Golden Sunrise" by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise) provided under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Four Foot Tenderloins

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

01/01/20 • 48 min

Happy New Years to all! We open this episode talking about our Christmas List which would have been poignant if I had edited this in a reasonable amount of time. I would love to have a new years resolution which was germane to that point, but I absolutely do not. Listen in to hear about Pat's car's tail light, new rulings in the GDPR world, and whether free food is the greatest detriment to company culture.

Aftermath of Jr. High Band

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

11/13/19 • 50 min

The consultants take on such tough subjects as nurturing entry level employees and whether pooping on the bathroom floor should be a firable offense.

Next Question

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

10/22/19 • 35 min

Pat was really messed up on NyQuil but that didn't stop us from coming to the table with our overtly valuable opinions on Fake Agile, the Domino's Pizza Accessibility case, and being over-allocated across multiple clients.

Compulsory Velcro Shoes

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

09/30/19 • 58 min

We're back with the first episode of what we are calling season 2. Come listen to us stumble around AI news, an extremely old but recently suable data breach, and how to get back that old team feel on a new crew. Intro & Outro - "Golden Sunrise" by Josh Woodward (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise) provided under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Maybe Talking About Taking Ownership

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

05/21/19 • 56 min

Given the topic of this episode is on taking ownership - I will set an example by taking ownership of the incoherent and rambling nature of the dialog. We start off with Pat presenting a scathing assessment of the state of software delivery and end up with an exposition of our dearth of knowledge concerning cattle farming. In there somewhere a couple points get made, some pro-strats concerning success in taking ownership in all manner of delivery scenarios.

Engaging in Employee Engagement

I Don't Know What I'm Doing

04/02/19 • 39 min

This one gets real dark real fast. Heck, Pat outright refuses to play ball within the first 3 minutes of conversation. Engagement is a tough subject to talk on to an extent, because it has garnered such a stigma from its overuse in HR propaganda, it's applications to systems which purport to increase engagement while ignoring that each employee is in fact a person. In my youth if I heard someone even use the word "engagement" I would immediately assume everything that they had to say or ever had said is was and will have always been a koolaid fuelled buzzword quilt with as much substance as a fart. Give me more money or give me less work, that was all I wanted to hear.

We try our darndest to cut through that to get some meaning out of Engagement, looking at its value and its drivers. If you or your team feels disengaged, or if you just want to hear what a bunch of developers thing about engagement, give us a listen.

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How many episodes does I Don't Know What I'm Doing have?

I Don't Know What I'm Doing currently has 16 episodes available.

What topics does I Don't Know What I'm Doing cover?

The podcast is about Consulting, Podcasts, Technology, Business and Thinking.

What is the most popular episode on I Don't Know What I'm Doing?

The episode title 'One in One Out Hole Policy' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on I Don't Know What I'm Doing?

The average episode length on I Don't Know What I'm Doing is 42 minutes.

How often are episodes of I Don't Know What I'm Doing released?

Episodes of I Don't Know What I'm Doing are typically released every 22 days.

When was the first episode of I Don't Know What I'm Doing?

The first episode of I Don't Know What I'm Doing was released on Nov 30, 2018.

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