Cate Huston · engineering leadership
Engineering an Interesting Life.
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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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The Second Cohort
→: The Second CohortAfter the first cohort of DRI Your Career I wrote that the first time you do something, you can believe in it but you can only really hope. But we just wrapped up our second cohort of DRI Your Career and have two other courses we’ve run full cohorts of. I’m going to call it…
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