Cate Huston · engineering leadership
Engineering an Interesting Life.
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What would make next week better?
→: What would make next week better?Just about everyone gets overwhelmed sometimes, and many of us deal with that by working harder. This is a reasonable response to a single unexpected thing, or a bad week, but it’s not the right response to systematic overwhelm. Then you need to stop asking the question “what do I do next” (or worse: “how…
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Book: Churn
→: Book: ChurnClaude Steele’s first book Whistling Vivaldi gave me one of the most useful framings I have for bias. Stereotype threat: in a situation you care about, the worry that you’re about to confirm a negative stereotype about your group degrades how you do. So when I saw he had a new book – Churn: The Tension That…
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Maturing our development process as an AI-first 2 person team
→: Maturing our development process as an AI-first 2 person teamWe’re doing a big release this week for DRI Your Career. Mostly bug fixes and reliability work nobody will notice, but the two things worth mentioning: We’ve come a long way since it was just Jean and “Claude the intern”, but mostly very iteratively. We’d come to a point where it seemed worth rethinking. We…
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Self-promotion without the ick (thanks Claude)
→: Self-promotion without the ick (thanks Claude)To be brutally honest, this (making Claude my social media manager) all started because I felt inadequate about self-promotion. And being an engineer, my response to feeling bad about something is to ask what I can build and what data would make the feeling go away. So at the start of the year I built…
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