Accidentally in Code

The past year I’ve been working on a book. I organized my entire life to carve out and preserve my Saturdays for this project. It is finally done (almost! Just reviews of proof pages to go); I ...

https://cate.blog/2024/03/05/on-time/

I have been quiet on here lately because I’ve been focused on writing a book. The book proper will come out in early 2024, but section 1 – what it means to be the DRI (Directly Responsible In...

https://cate.blog/2023/09/10/the-engineering-leader-book-coming-2024/

We talked about hiring directors, the fallacy of “servant leadership”, and what makes teams great .

https://cate.blog/2023/04/10/podcast-it-shipped-that-way/

I recorded an episode of the DOU podcast with Oleks. It was an interesting and fun conversation!

https://cate.blog/2023/01/07/dou-podcast-empathy-empowerment-and-feedback/

When I talk about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), I’m typically coming at it from an angle of systematic change. The purpose of DEI, as I see it, is to dismantle a rigged system and move...

https://cate.blog/2022/07/18/from-visibility-to-representation-rethinking-dei/

I bought Thinking in Bets (Amazon) a while ago, April 2020 to be precise. It finally made it’s way out of my endless “to read” pile because I was having something of a crisis of confidence ...

https://cate.blog/2022/07/11/book-thinking-in-bets/

I recorded an episode of Console‘s DevTools podcast, talking about privacy engineering. You can listen to it here.

https://cate.blog/2022/07/04/console-devtools-podcast/

I’m unsure what I think about Machiavelli for Women (Amazon). There were things that I appreciated, and things that were infuriating. To be fair, the things I found infuriating were mostly also...

https://cate.blog/2022/06/13/book-machiavelli-for-women/

One of my coaching clients and I developed this framework to help him think about the kind of impact he wanted to have as a Staff+ engineer, and since then I’ve taken it to other clients and di...

https://cate.blog/2022/06/06/dimensions-of-engineering-growth/

The wonderful Tanya put together this spreadsheet that helps you track where you are on the 5 Signs It’s Time to Quit Your Job. I love this idea, because it pushes us out of the moment into the...

https://cate.blog/2022/05/30/tracking-when-its-time-to-quit/