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October 2026
- Escaping the No-Code Platform by Building a Software Factory
- Judgement > Output
- Attempting to reverse engineer code review
- Is the software factory working?
September 2026
- Good Architecture Is a Function of Time
- Nine Months of The Spreadsheet: What AI Taught Me About How I Work
- Book: Obviously Awesome
- What do managers even do now?
- Announcing: Breaking Into the Security Mindset
August 2026
- Skills for a more leveraged workflow
- The next weight
- The Date – Blunt Implement or Forcing Function?
- What would make next week better?
July 2026
- Book: Churn
- Maturing our development process as an AI-first 2 person team
- Self-promotion without the ick (thanks Claude)
- The Second Cohort
June 2026
- Understanding the Game
- The Value of Getting Closer to the Work
- WordPress + Claude – a new look for cate.blog
- Useful AI skills for Engineering Leaders
- Making a New Plan
May 2026
April 2026
- Book: Burnout – The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
- Announcing: Navigating the AI Shift
- Values Aren’t a Moral Imperative
- Who’s the Admin, Me or Claude?
March 2026
- A Season of Learning
- What Does Claude Need to Be My Social Media Manager?
- Wired for Change: When Tech Stopped Being “Safe”
- The First Cohort
- Ground Decisions
February 2026
- What’s Your Job as an Engineering Manager?
- The Spreadsheet: Using AI to Understand How I Spend My Time
- What Raccoon Are You Quiz (and some thoughts on vibe coding)
- Announcing: The Engineering Manager Survival Guide
January 2026
- Performance Reviews Are the Scorecard of Capitalism (And Why That Should Free You)
- Scaling Teams: People, Projects, and Process
- Spring Cleaning in December
- Q4 2025
December 2025
- From Chaotic Learning to Intentional Growth
- Book: Life in Three Dimensions
- Resisting Capitalism’s Shoulds
- Announcing: DRI Your Career
October 2025
September 2025
July 2025
May 2025
April 2025
March 2025
February 2025
- Questions for the End of a 1:1
- Comfort Reads
- Thoughts on Reviewing CfP Submissions
- Explore / Pursue / Depth
January 2025
- Book: The Problem with Change
- What Makes a Good Team?
- Book: The Stake
- How do you DRI your career in a bad market?
December 2024
November 2024
October 2024
- DevZero Podcast: Metrics that Matter
- How can you be a good leader in a bad market?
- [LeadDev BookMarked] The Engineering Leader: Strategies for Scaling Teams and Yourself: Cate Huston in conversation
- Four things I learned from coaching that made me a better leader
- What Comes Next?
August 2024
July 2024
March 2024
September 2023
April 2023
January 2023
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
- Tracking When It’s Time to Quit
- Book: The Alchemy of Us
- Book: Coach the Person, Not the Problem
- Business Insider piece on Remote Work
April 2022
- Escaping The House Elf Management Trap
- 7 Suggestions for Writing a Good Self Review
- Meta Problems and Where to Find Them
- The Anatomy of a 1:1
March 2022
- The “Not Doing” List
- Energy Management for Newer Managers
- LeadTime – How teams work: DuckDuckGo’s engineering team
- The Battery
February 2022
- Low Process Culture, High Process Culture
- Co-Active: Synergy
- Book: Woman of Influence
- Sometimes you have to choose between being right and being effective
January 2022
December 2021
November 2021
- 5 Signs It’s Time to Quit Your Job
- DRI Your Support System
- How to DRI Your Professional Development
- Book: Wonder Women
- Co-Active: Process
October 2021
- Talk: The Culture of Process
- Expecting More from Your Career (and Less from Your Job)
- The Rent Versus Buy of Career Growth
- The Habit of Adequacy
September 2021
August 2021
- Book: Trust Your Canary
- The culture of process
- The Being and Doing Brainstorm
- On Being “Strategic”
- 1 Year @ DuckDuckGo
July 2021
June 2021
- Three Core Ideas to Make Remote Work, Work
- Coachability: the overlooked factor in people development
- Co-Active: Balance
- The Return of the Office
May 2021
April 2021
- Podcast: Ray Wenderlich / Living By the Code Series
- Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process
- As an engineering leader, should you be working with a coach?
- Habit: February & March
March 2021
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