2010–2026
1,425 posts
2026 43
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
2025 25
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
2024 13
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
2023 3
September 2023
April 2023
January 2023
2022 26
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
2021 52
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
- Co-Active: Fulfillment
- Lead Time Chat
- Panel: Recognizing and rectifying your mistakes as an engineering leader
- One Year of Staying Still
- Contravariance Podcast
February 2021
- Coachability++
- Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’
- Co-Active Fundamentals
- Make Don’t Break #MakeDontBreak
January 2021
2020 20
December 2020
November 2020
September 2020
- Interview: Cate Huston of DuckDuckGo on building a high-aspiring career without burnout
- Hotfixes for your Newly Remote Team
- Remote Work Discussion on Channel 4 News
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
- The only truthful answer to any question about management
- How to fix five of the most common pain points of working from home
March 2020
January 2020
2019 23
December 2019
November 2019
- A good onboarding experience for new hires requires two key things
- Every manager needs the magic of a work BFF
September 2019
August 2019
- Sharing the Data: How Technical Women Navigate Their Career
- How to build—and manage—a self-improving team
- The firm with 900 staff and no office
July 2019
- The best thing you can do for your career is learn to be more coachable
- Why a good boss likes it when people complain
June 2019
May 2019
- Does your team need to rebrand?
- Addressing Hiring Gaps Through User Research
- Where do you start when a team is broken?
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
2018 42
December 2018
November 2018
- The four layers of communication in a functional team
- Answer these 10 questions to understand if you’re a good manager
October 2018
September 2018
- Book: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
- Understanding how process impacts outcome can help avoid useless meetings
July 2018
- Book: So You Want to Talk About Race
- After the Toxicity the Toxicity Remains
- Book: Working Effectively with Legacy Code
- Estimations and Orders of Magnitude
- The State of WordPress Mobile
- On Boiling Frogs and Drowning Rats
- Book: Whipping Girl
- Towards Productive Technical Discussions
May 2018
- Book: The Brand Gap
- Creating Success, Together
- Book: Org Design for Design Orgs
- How Should We Define Success?
April 2018
- Interview: How to create momentum on day zero
- How Do Users Define Success?
- Book: Finite and Infinite Games
- How Do Teams Define Success?
- Book: Playing Big
- How do Developers Define Success?
- Book: Brotopia
- Whose Expectations are Those, Anyway?
February 2018
- Book: The Art of Possibility
- Book: Women & Power
- Remembering the Eloquent Woman
- Book: Open
- Inclusion is a Hack
- Book: A Higher Standard
January 2018
2017 87
December 2017
- Happy New Year!
- Habits that Helped in 2017
- Questions for an End of Year 1:1
- 2017 in Speaking (and 2018 Speaking Goals)
- Home is Where the Work Is: Increment Mag
- Process Design
- New-ish Eng-Manager Slack, >1 Year On
- The Receptionist Test
- Book: The Future of Happiness
November 2017
- Quarterly Rituals: Empathy Challenge
- Book: How F*cked Up is Your Management?
- That Time I Was an Imposter
- Book: The Four Tendencies
- Be Less Afraid of Giving Feedback
- Simple Leadership Podcast
- One Year as 📱👑
- No Technically Speaking in 2018
September 2017
- On Improving Diversity in Hiring
- The AltMBA: A Retro
- Bi-Monthly Rituals: The State of All the Things
- When Your Job Gets Harder, Make a Friend
- Monthly Rituals: Snaps
- Book: A Beautiful Constraint
August 2017
- On Skip 1:1s
- Book: The Gifts of Imperfection
- The Magic of #FEELINGStime
- The Goals Spreadsheet
- I Send Love Letters from Airports
- Org Survey Part 2: Analysis
- Book: Steal Like an Artist
July 2017
- Org Survey Part 1: Questions
- Book: The Coaching Habit
- On Language
- Book: The War of Art
- Leadership Podcast with John Maeda!
- Book: Thanks for the Feedback
- If Lists Don’t Change Anything, What Does?
- Game: Feminist Art Genres
June 2017
- Lists of Women Don’t Change Anything
- Book: Radical Candor
- Speaking and Nerves
- Book: Superhuman Social Skills
- On Panels
- Book: The Anatomy of Peace
- “Who Made Your Slides?” (Not Me)
May 2017
- Book: Hidden Figures
- Preparing a Talk in Pieces
- Book: Scrum
- Running an Effective Mobile Team, Part 6: Encouraging Accountability
- Mentoring Calls Available
- Running an Effective Mobile Team, Part 5: Automating Things
- The Not-So-Secret Feminist Agenda
- Running an Effective Mobile Team, Part 4: Building Connections
- Book: Sex Object
April 2017
- Running an Effective Mobile Engineering Team, Part 3: Setting Priorities
- Book: 80,000 Hours
- But Unfortunately, As You Know, People
- Running an Effective Mobile Team, Part 2: Creating Predictability
- Book: The Manager’s Path
- Running an Effective Mobile Team, Part 1
- On Coaching
March 2017
- Learn to Take Positive Feedback Well
- My Worst Public Speaking Experience
- Running a Manager Feedback Cycle
- Sponsorship Can Start Small
- The Weekly Notes Post
- Item: One Passport
- 2 Months of Photo Blogging
- Most Productivity Advice is Bullshit
- The Reaction
February 2017
- One of Those Days
- A Taxonomy of Remote Work
- All The Shades of Unsurprised
- Why Do Standup
- Upcoming Talk on Effective Mobile Engineering Teams
- Creating a Randomized Emoji String in Python
- Book: Devotion
- Things to Figure Out as a New Manager: Part 5, Trust
January 2017
- What Does a Good Media Experience Look Like?
- Things to Figure Out as a New Manager: Part 4, Feedback
- Technically Speaking: 2016 Emoji Report
- Things to Figure Out as a New Manager: Part 3, Communication
- Book: Demystifying Public Speaking
- Things to Figure Out as a New Manager: Part 2, Social Support
- 2016 in Travel
- Things to Figure Out as a New Manager: Part 1, Your Schedule
- 2016 in Writing
2016 134
December 2016
- Figuring out “Remote Work” is Figuring out “Work”
- The 12 Coolest Things I Saw in 2016
- This Week
- The Kill List
- Book: Thinking Fast and Slow
- This Week
- 2016 Speaking and 2017 Goals
- My Favourite Management Reading From November
- This Week
- The ROI of Writing
- #NotAllMen Like Playboy
- This Week
- Diversity as Performance Art
November 2016
- Podcast: Should We?
- This Week
- The Daily 1, 2, 3
- cate dot blog
- This Week
- An Incomplete List of Things I Love About Remote Work
- Show & Hide: Free on the iOS App Store
- This Week
- Cate’s Career Coaching Process (AKA A Process for Finding Your Next Job)
- Book: Why Him? Why Her?
- This Week
- On 1:1s
- October
October 2016
September 2016
- Why HR Shouldn’t Own Inclusion
- Invitation Only
- This Week
- Interviewing as a Manager
- Book: The Year Without Pants
- This Week
- Real Talk: Women in Tech and Money
- Book: The Laws of Simplicity
- This Week
- Hiring Manager Interview Questions
- MC-ing Try!Swift NYC
- This Week
- Speaker Notes: How To Be Invisible
August 2016
- Book: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
- This Week
- The Trouble With Imposters
- Technically Speaking Workshops
- This Week
- We Hire The Best
- New(-ish) Eng-Managers Slack
- This Week
- All the Leaves are Brown and the Sky is Gray
- Book: Taming Your Gremlin
- This Week
- Android: Testing an Intent Service
- 7 Months of Leaving
July 2016
June 2016
- The Organised Manager
- Trip Report: The Lead Developer 2016
- This Week
- Worthless Intent
- Technically Speaking Update
- This Week
- Ambition, Failure, and my Favourite Podcast
- Creative Coding Podcast
- This Week
- 6 Months. 6 Lessons.
- Book: Leadership and Self-Deception
- This Week
- Big Co. vs Small Co. & Job vs. Career Stability
May 2016
- Book: First Break All The Rules
- This Week
- 4 Situations Where Managers Write Code
- Book: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
- This Week
- I’m a Terrible Mentor: Here’s Why
- Management and Misanthropy with Cate and Camille
- This Week
- How I Run a Remote Team
- Book: One Strategy
- This Week
- On Saying No
- Giving Up on Android Wear
- This Week
April 2016
- Testing Intents on Android: Like Stabbing Yourself in the Eye With A Blunt Implement
- Just Say No to Thankless Emotional Labour: The T-Shirt
- This Week
- The Trouble With Women’s Events
- I Wrote a Book Chapter and Finally, You Can Read It
- This Week
- Empathy and Mobile Development
- Talking Shine Theory and Other Things on LTOE
- This Week
- That Remote Work Think Piece Has Some Glaring Omissions (A Rant)
- Habits, Revisited
- This Week (and last)
March 2016
February 2016
- Another Break
- This Week
- #GHC15 – Brian Nosek: Solving Implicit Bias in Gender and STEM
- Thankless Emotional Labour as Management Training
- No Computer Day
- This Week
- #GHC15 – CRA-W Leadership Workshop: Gaining Recognition
- Interview Prep Tips
- My Process for Writing a New Talk
- This Week
- NSConf15: Marco Arment – App Marketing For Small Developers
- Bad Interviews are a Company Problem, not a Candidate Problem
- My Current Policy on Speaker Travel Costs
- This Week
- NSConf – Jessie Char – Expert of Nothing
- Categories Considered Harmful
- Presenting Lessons from Walking Tours
January 2016
- This Week
- #BeyondTheCode15: Hilary Mason – Creative Machines, People, and Organizations
- Advice for White Men
- AirBnB Travel Tip
- This Week
- Headphones (my Travel Indulgence)
- Android: Touch to Change Image
- 2016: Scale
- This Week
- Book: Beyond Blame: Learning From Failure and Success
- A Story
- 2015: Ship
- This Week
- Book: Giving Notice: Why the Best and Brightest are Leaving the Workplace and How You Can Help them Stay
- OCMock and Values
- Start a Project. Kill a Project.
- This Week
- 2015 Review
2015 189
December 2015
- Maybe… You Should Apologise
- Denver, August 2015
- This Week
- Book: Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
- The Hardest, Shortest, Lesson Becoming a Manager
- Project: The Ultimate Selfie
- This Week
- Book: High Output Management
- Diversity is an Attention Economy and the Economics Suck
- Moderating My First Panel
- This Week
- New Manager Resources
- Launching: Show & Hide
- Running a Mentoring Program
- This Week
- Book: Present! A Techie’s Guide to Public Speaking
- Technical Interview Questions and Time Management
November 2015
- Grief, Friendship, and the Most Important Thing
- This Week
- A Process for Writing an Abstract
- Further Adventures in Android Development
- Advice, Mentors, and Questionably Helpful Emails
- This Week
- Book – Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
- A Question
- Croatia, June 2015
- This Week
- Book: The Truth About Burnout
- Replacing KIF Tests with XCUI Tests
- Technically Speaking Anniversary & 2016 Speaking Goals
- This Week
- This Week
October 2015
- On Recent Events
- My Life as a White Migrant
- This Week
- #GHC15: Jo Miller – Build your brand as an emerging leader or technical expert
- Lasers and Practical Skills
- My GHC Survival Strategy
- This Week
- Communities @ GHC
- #ghc15: Natasha Murashev – The Zen Guide to WatchOS
- This Week
- The Sixth Time
- #Øredev14: Danielle Sucher – Don’t Take it for Granted
- 12 Challenging Steps to Being a Better Interviewer
- Space and Time
- This Week
- #Øredev14: Dan North – Deliberate Advice from an Accidental Career
September 2015
- Mobile is a Systems Problem
- The #NotAllMen Project
- This Week
- Rio, May 2015
- This Week
- #OreDev – Starting Up: Building Great Products with Small Teams – Jan Erik Solem
- Coping Mechanisms and Unlearned Skills
- Easter Island, May 2015
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK: Natasha Murashev – The Swift Architect
- A Brief Rant about TDD
- One Thing
- This Week
- Social Media Coping Strategies
- Codes of Conduct and Worthless Manfeelings
- Panel Discussions and Dissent
August 2015
- This Week
- Being Productive Offline
- Over-Engineering Culture, Hacking, and Complexity
- Milestones
- This Week
- Book: Mental Traps
- Magic Solutions to Materialize Women at 3 Days Notice
- Technically Speaking – From Conference Proposal to Submit
- This Week
- Book: Essentialism
- Refactoring and Legacy Code
- Structure, Meetings and Other People
- This Week
- Book: Better than Before
- Uncomfortable Conversations About Money
- Words
- This Week
July 2015
- Organising Things
- iOS: Getting a Thumbnail for a Video
- Santiago, April-May 2015
- This Week
- Book: Data Driven
- Problems with Resources
- Bogota, April 2015
- This Week
- Book: Just Fucking Ship
- Things You Don’t Learn in Technical Interviews
- Medellin, Colombia, April 2015
- This Week
- Book – APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur
- Pitfalls for Men Talking About Diversity
- On Not
- This Week
- Book: Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life
- Unit Testing on iOS
June 2015
May 2015
- A Break
- Reaching Profitability – 7 Things I’ve Learned
- The Story Behind The Newsletter
- This Week
- NSConf: Halle Winkler – Duck Taping the Gates of Chaos Shut
- A Small Focus Hack
- Giving a Talk and a Workshop – in Two Days
- This Week
- Book: Hot Seat
- Some Thoughts on Mocking
- Berlin, March 2015
- This Week
- Running a Weekly Newsletter – 7 Things We’ve Learned
- Discoveries About OSS Culture
- three-oh
- This Week
- Book: Confessions of a Public Speaker
April 2015
- Unit Testing on iOS: Beyond the Model
- Malta, March 2015
- This Week
- Book: The Eloquent Woman’s Guide to Moderating Panels
- Tuning Forks in Human Form
- Creative Solitude
- This Week
- Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night
- Launching! iOS Unit Testing: Beyond the Model
- Amsterdam, March 2015
- This Week
- Book: Thinking in Systems
- The Attention Game
- Internet-Lite
- This Week
- NSConf: Scott Little – Ultimate Spirit
- How I Interview
March 2015
- Other People, and Travelling Alone
- This Week
- NSConf: Jamie Newbury – Design Skills that Saved My Life
- You Get What You Incentivise
- The Year of Being Visible
- This Week
- iOSNext: Paul Ardeleanu – 10 Reasons You’ll Love Swift
- Creating and Comparing Images on Android
- March is a Whirlwind
- This Week
- Book: How to Invest Your Time Like Money
- The Woman Speaker Slot
- Things I May Never Get Used To In Berlin
- This Week
- Book: Women in IT: Inspiring the next generation
- Four Reasons Unit Testing Needn’t Be That Time-Consuming
- Things I Love About Berlin
- This Week
February 2015
- 5 Books to Read Instead of Wadhwa
- Honey, I Left the Tech Industry
- Meta: This Week
- This Week
- Oredev: Alex Harms – Careful With Those People Skills
- Cross-Platform Development Decisions
- Thousands of Miles and There You Are
- This Week
- Oredev: Deconstructing Her
- Flawed Humans
- Finding Interesting Things To Do
- This Week
- Audio of How To Undermine Women Whilst Being “Nice”
- Some Things I’ve Learned About Performance on iOS
- Rest Day – Buffer Day – Focus Day
- This Week
January 2015
- #GHC14: Jo Miller – Office Politics
- Finding More Women on Social Media
- The Boat
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK: Maxim Cramer – Users Don’t Bite
- Creating Test Images and Comparing UIImages
- Fifteen is for Freedom
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK: Tehila Sabag: Mobile Monetization – Navigating in a Free Eco-System
- Problems of Statistical Significance
- Berlin, December 2014
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK – Luke Rogers: The Logic of App Design
- Getting KIF Set Up
- Working for Free
- This Week
- 2014 Review
2014 210
December 2014
- It’s Not an Asshole Problem—It’s a Bystander Problem
- Dubai, December 2014
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK: Hamish Allan – The Pareto Principle
- Getting Started with Adobe Air (or, trying to)
- Romania, Nov-Dec 2014
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK: Steve Scott: Sherlocked! Deprecated! Changed! AKA “Do Apple Hate Developers?”
- Corporate Feminism Part 2: How to Help
- Some Thoughts About Harassment
- This Week
- Notes: Dame Wendy Hall at WomENcourge – How to Enjoy a Career as a Woman in Computing – The Power of Networks
- In Defence of Static
- Things I Love About Travelling Alone
- This Week
- Book: The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
- Corporate Feminism and Thankless Emotional Labour
- No Novel November (2014)
November 2014
- This Week
- Notes: IWD at Accenture
- iOS Testing: Handling Asynchronous Code
- The Entire Dev Team is Sick
- This Week
- Book: How to Deliver a TED Talk
- Three Tactics that Block Women from Getting Ahead
- Copenhagen and Malmo
- This Week
- iOSDevUK: Kenton Price: Teaching Your Client Android Design or Don’t be an iPhoney
- Speaker Notes: Mobile is a Systems Problem
- How *are* You?
- This Week
- Book: Pioneer Programmer
- Speaker Notes: Burning Down The Patriarchy
- Personal Burn Rate
- This Week
October 2014
- #iOSDevUK – Sally Shepard: Beyond VoiceOver
- Better Testing of View Controllers on iOS: Part 2
- Live Tweeting My Own Talk
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK: Jon Reid – Controlling Dependencies to Enable TDD
- It’s Not That Big a Deal
- Public Speaking as Performance
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK – Martin Pilkington: Thinking in NSLayoutContraints
- Better Testing of View Controllers on iOS
- Tweeting Shit That Men Say
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK: UIKit Dynamics
- A Small Internet Kerfuffle
- 7 Reasons To Work From The Gym
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK: Marcus Zarra – Not Invented Here
- Male Allies and GHC
September 2014
- Talk Prep: Grids and Concertinas
- This Week
- #iOSDevUK: Hacking Health
- Learning What Not To Do Doesn’t Teach You All That Much
- Things To Write When I’ve Nothing To Say
- This Week
- Book: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Conferences, Code of Conducts, and Being #ThatWoman
- R&R
- This Week
- Book: Gravitas
- A Little Bit Of Data is a Dangerous Amount
- Hobart, July 2013
- This Week
- Book: It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single
- Impostor Syndrome
- Exciting News
- This Week
August 2014
- Review: Misfit Wearable
- The Aristechracy
- On Leaving (again), Compound Effects and Falling Out Of Love
- This Week
- #ModevUX Design, Device, Delight
- Female Entrepreneurship: Observations and Opportunities
- Things That Annoy Me When Reading Novels
- This Week
- #GHC13: Panel on Entrpreneurship
- The Myth of the Intersection of Creativity, Energy, and Time
- Being an Expat
- This Week
- Book: Self Promotion for Introverts
- Bikeshedding
- Work vs Life
- This Week
- #ModevUX: Multiscreen Design @ Ebay
July 2014
- Software Engineers Aren’t Normal
- The Day I Leave The Tech Industry
- This Week
- Book: The Charisma Myth
- 5 Guys You’ll Meet in the Tech Industry
- 5 Things I Hate About London
- This Week
- Some Thoughts on Blogging
- Passion and the Developer
- 5 Things I Like About London
- This Week
- Time Blocking
- Some Things I’m Tired Of Hearing From Men About Women in Tech
- I Used To Make Apps
- This Week
- ModevUX: Turning the Ship Overnight: A Responsive Retrofit at an Enterprise Scale
- The Care and Feeding of Interns
June 2014
- (…)
- This Week
- Some Thoughts On Mentoring
- 3 Super Easy Things To Do For Other (Technical) Women
- Python Programming With Little Stemettes
- This Week
- Book: 4 Hour Body
- Teaching Chaos
- Making Someplace New, Home
- This Week
- Book: A Short Guide To A Happy Life
- Another Rant About The “Pipeline”
- The Procrastination Project
- This Week
- My 4 Step Plan For Giving a Talk
- The French Ski Problem
- Seattle, May 2014
- This Week
May 2014
- On Appreciation
- Your Guide To Undermining Women Whilst Being “Nice”
- Returning To The Stage…. Part 2: Speaking to Dudes About Love
- This Week
- Thoughts on Being Productive
- It’s Not Me, It’s You: When Users Break Up With Their Apps
- On Coming “Home”
- This Week
- Book: The Richer Sex
- Reasons Why It’s Hard to Find Senior Women Engineers
- Frankfurt, March 2014
- This Week
- Stepping Up For Technical Leadership – Girl Geek Dinner Sydney, August 2013
- 5 Reasons to Build a Native App
- Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
- This Week
- Responsive Web Design – GGD Sydney, August 2013
April 2014
- Returning To The Stage… After Harrassment
- Seattle and NYC, February 2014
- This Week
- 5 Strategies For Making Progress on Side Projects
- The Burnout Equation
- Spa Break, January 2014
- This Week
- Do All The Things, GGD Sydney, August 2014
- Sponsors, Mentors and Allies
- The Emotional Expectations of Women
- This Week
- Book: Principle Centered Leadership
- 5 Undervalued Skills in Tech… And Why You Should Master Them Anyway
- Things To Say Yes To
- This Week
- Some Thoughts On Taking Notes
- The Bubble in The Swamp
March 2014
- Life After Burnout
- This Week
- Why Are We Still Geeks – Panel at GHC
- Distractedly Intimate: Your Users on Mobile
- Yoga Retreat in Sagres, November 2013
- This Week
- Advancing Your Career With Leadership Presence, GHC 2013
- Crisis of Conscience
- My On-Going Delusion About Being Human
- This Week
- Multiple Cellphones: How I Balance my Usage Across Both
- 6 Signs of Over-Engineering
- Iceland: November, 2013
- This Week
- Valerie Taylor – Keynote at GHC 2013
- My Completely Unscientific GitHub Survey
- Being an Ambivert
- This Week
February 2014
- Megan Smith on Moonshoots at GHC 2013
- 6 Things I Look For When Considering Projects and Teams
- Barcelona, November 2013
- This Week
- Brenda Chapman at GHC 2013
- Process, and Culture
- The Second Hardest Thing About Moving
- This Week
- On The Miseries of Technical Women: Dating
- So, You Finally Have a Woman on Your Team?
- Bali, October 2013
- This Week
- Book: I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
- 10 Ways to Develop Your Plan B
- US October 2013 (MN and CA)
- This Week
January 2014
- Presenting Gives Me Nightmares, but I Still Do It: Here’s How
- Walking The Line
- Strategies for Coping With Jetlag
- This Week
- Book: The Male Factor
- There’s An App For That is Not A Mobile Strategy
- Exhale
- This Week
- Book: The Power of Habit
- 5 Tips When Applying to Opportunities For Women in STEM
- Melbourne, August/September 2013
- This Week
- Book: The Four Agreements
- Your Users On Mobile
- Skiing in Queenstown, August 2013
- This Week
- Book: A Year in High Heels
- The Pipeline is a Bullshit Argument, and Other Rants
- Here’s to the end of 2013
2013 93
December 2013
- Tokyo, August 2013
- This Week
- Review: 40 Days of Dating
- Emotional Women Have Context
- Travel Packing List
- This Week
- Book: Chasing Daylight
- Habits vs Tasks: I Want an App For That
- North Korea: Overall Impressions, and Tips
- This Week
- Book: Pink Brain Blue Brain
- Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi
- Experiment: No Novel November
- This Week
- Book: The Happiness Trap
- 3 Things I Learned on my Burnout Break
- The Difference Between “Relaxing” and “Being Relaxed”
November 2013
- Book: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
- The Disillusionment of the Early Career Engineer
- Sydney 2013: Sculptures and the Sea
- Some Thoughts on Gift Giving
- Cookie Not Found
- North Korea, July 2013: Day 6
- Jawbone UP vs Nike Fuelband
- GHC: Leadership Workshop with Patty Azzarello
- How To Be More Adventurous
- Success Metrics for Being Lost
- Book: The Power of a Positive No
- Getting On Top Of Email
- North Korea, July 2013: Day 5
October 2013
- A BS Metric for “Diversity”
- Book: The Misogyny Factor
- Book: The Education of Millionaires
- My Inspiration App: App Concept
- Getting Set Up on Android
- A Man’s Guide to Helping Women in Tech
- Staying Silent
- On Burnout
- GHC13 – What Are You Going to Do Differently?
- Thinking About Statistics
- Book: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
- GHC: Sheryl Sandberg, Maria Klawe and Telle Whitney in Conversation
- Three Phases of Technical Women
September 2013
- The One With the High School Bully
- I’m Leaving Sydney!
- Why I Hate Budget Airlines
- North Korea, July 2013: Day 4
- More Experiments Around RGB Averaging
- Highs and Lows
- Eliminating the Dominant Hue from an Image
- Folders of Images, Compare and Contrast
- North Korea, July 2013: Day 3
- Women in Tech: A Primer
- Sydney, One Year On
- My Theory of User Happiness and the Enterprise Application
- Visualising A Photo Series
August 2013
- Showing Only the Dominant Hue In an Image
- Extracting Dominant Color: RGB Averaging Doesn’t Work
- Extracting the Dominant Color from an Image in Processing
- Confidence
- Women in Computer Science: It’s a Hard Problem
- Medium Term: Tradeoffs and Refactoring
- North Korea, July 2013: Day 2
- Book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
- North Korea, July 2013: Day 1
- Hong Kong, July 2013
- How I Learned To Love Solo-Travel
- Immersion
- Pycon AU: Planting Open Source Seeds
July 2013
- North Korea, July 2013: The Prequel
- Pycon AU: Making Python More Fun for Everyone
- Prague, March 2013
- Book: Making a World of Difference
- Girl Geek Dinner Sydney: Pixels, Post-its, and Unicorns
- France, March 2013
- Wellington, May/June 2013
- Girl Geek Dinner Sydney: Life as a Network Engineer
- Pycon AU: Solving problems by sharing them… with Python!
- Christchurch (and Surrounds), April 2013
- Pycon AU: Exploring Science on Twitter with IPython Notebook and Python Pandas
- Book: Sonia Sotomayer, My Beloved World
- And then, Nothing
- Shipwreck!
June 2013
May 2013
March 2013
February 2013
January 2013
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November 2012
September 2012
- Achieving the Quasi-Possible, Just About On Time
- Things Being A Woman In Tech Is Like: Flying Economy
- Building Things for Humans
July 2012
June 2012
May 2012
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- It’s Not a Disaster
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-06
April 2012
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-29
- Losing Anchors
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-22
- I Cannot Die Washing a Teacup
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-15
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- The List
- Balancing, Integrating
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-08
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- Brightly Colored Accessories for a Colorful Day
- 12 Angry Men
- Stand Out
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-01
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March 2012
- Trust and Team Dysfunction
- Intellectual Feminism, and Sexist Pigs
- Female Chauvinist Pigs
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-25
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- Excitement!
- Strengthsfinder 2.0
- On Having Adventures
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-03-18
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February 2012
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-26
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- Making Time for Cate-Time
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-19
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January 2012
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-29
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- Intent
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- Encouragement Beats Re-tweeting
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-01
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December 2011
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-25
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- From Hard Focus, to Flow, to Stop
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-18
- Sim Family Demonstrates Personal Failings
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-11
- My Career, Her Job
- Novels are the Best Hiding Place
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-04
November 2011
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-27
- Come the Revolution
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-20
- Emotional Roller coasters, and Being Less Neurotic
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-13
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-06
- Not a Good Use of My Time?
October 2011
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-30
- Engineering an Interesting Life
- Keep Telling Me to “Say No” Until I Learn
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-23
- Wear What You Want
- Post-Grad Rehab: September/October
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-16
- Trying To Be Everything
- Geek Girl Con: Secrets of Superheros
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09
- Blood, Bones and Butter
- Pride and Prejudice and a Timely Reminder
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-02
September 2011
- Friends Don’t Let Friends… Become PMs
- Rise: How to Be Really Successful and Like Your Life
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-25
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- Getting a Jump on the Day
- Whistling Vivaldi
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-18
- Awesome Foundation KW Meets Kwartzlab
- Post-Grad Rehab: August/September
- Misconceptions of What Software Engineers Do
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-11
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- Relaxing
- First, Do No Harm
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-04
- How Not To Get Things Done
August 2011
- How To Give A Terrible Presentation
- Dealing With More Travel
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-28
- Leadership =/= Control
- Happiness is… A List
- Post-Grad Rehab: July/August
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-21
- Email Once A Day
- Getting Started With App Inventor
- Sunk Costs and Academia
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-14
- Decisions
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-07
July 2011
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- Living Priorities
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-24
- Time For Change
- Reminding Myself As To Why We Continue, Despite Everything
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-17
- Bagels, Chores, and Compromises
- Uncertainty
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-10
- Grownups Make Choices
- Should all women aspire to be entrepreneurs? In OSBR
- Post Grad Rehab: June/July
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-03
June 2011
- Secret Lives of Superheros
- 168 hours
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-26
- Luck Factor
- Preparing an Ignite Talk
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-19
- Why Programmers Lie To Get Dates
- How to be Slightly Happier and get a Bit More Done
- Authenticity
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-12
- Little Things
- Post Grad Rehab: May/June
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-06-05
- Why Do You Awesome?
- But, I Don’t Want to be an Entrepreneur: Permission and Choice
May 2011
- But, I Don’t Want to be an Entrepreneur
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-29
- Software Engineering for Superheros
- Changing Paces
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-22
- Drawing Lines Around Your Day
- Positivity Challenge
- Advice for Future Engineers
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-15
- Exploring a Conference Hashtag: Part 3
- Choose: You Can’t Have Both
- Part 8: Who’s Talking About The Future of Newspapers?
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-08
- Post Grad Rehab: April/May
- Oh Hai 26
- Balancing Acts
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-01
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April 2011
- Who Do You Think I Am?
- WISE Talk: 3 Things That Make Me Luckier
- Enjoying Some Whitespace
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-24
- Books: Assorted
- Being Perfect
- Doing Too Much
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-17
- Post Grad Rehab: March/April
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-10
- Insufficient Whitespace
- Awesome Foundation KW
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-03
- 4 Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something Beautiful
March 2011
- Confronting the Brutal Facts of Reality
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-27
- Making Mondays Manageable
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-20
- No Drama, Please
- Stop Waiting; It’s Today
- 3 Challenges of a Remote Presentation
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-13
- Stepping Down from Awesome Ottawa
- Post Grad Rehab: February/March
- What is Leadership, Anyway?
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-06
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- #TEDxWaterloo
- One Positive Thing
February 2011
- Fact Checking
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-27
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- Simplicity and God Objects
- Sunflower Layout in Processing
- Being Yourself On The Internet
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-20
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-13
- Don’t Panic. Don’t Procrastinate.
- Leadership and the Sexes
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-06
- Post Grad Rehab: January/February
- Fear is Not an Acceptable Excuse
January 2011
- Following the Conversation: A More Meaningful Measure of Engagement
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-30
- Right Now Is Just Fine
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-23
- What is Work-Life Balance, Anyway?
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-16
- Post Grad Rehab: January is for Career
- Why I’m Not a Teacher
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-09
- An Overarching Theme
- Dropping Out
- Selective Email Alerts
- Breaking Privacy Expectations
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-02
- Most Popular Posts from 2010
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December 2010
- Being Human
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-26
- Planning 2011: Kiva Challenge, and Post-Grad-Rehab
- I ♥ My Kindle
- Fighting Incrementalist Tendencies
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-19
- Trading Off Inconvenience Now vs. Inconvenience Later
- School is Not Life
- Making Ideas Happen: The Dreamer, the Doer, and the Incrementalist
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-12
- Being Present
- Books to Read Before You Graduate: Design Patterns
- The Reality Stick
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-12-05
- Patents and Prior Art
- Shipping
November 2010
- Ottawa, a Love Letter
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-28
- Exploring a Conference Hashtag: Part 2
- Giving Up On Goals
- Building, Not Destroying
- In Pursuit of Awesome: The Perils of a Reactionary Workflow
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-21
- Exploring a Conference Hashtag
- Drive by Daniel Pink
- Too Much Stuff
- In Pursuit of Awesome: The Difference Between a Vision and a Goal
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14
- Why I Never Buy Groupons
- Experimenting with a Visual, Activity-Based Curriculum
- In Pursuit of Awesome: The Myth of the “Right” Time
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07
- In Search of Stability
- Unreasonable Expectations for my Calendar
- In Pursuit of Awesome
- Week in Brief
October 2010
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31
- Week in Brief
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-24
- Becoming Less Awesome
- Week in Brief
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-17
- Am I a Feminist? Depends on Your Definition
- Timing is Everything
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-10
- Week in Brief
- September
- The Waterfall Method is No Way to Plan Your Life
- Endings
- Email: Getting a Grip
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-03
September 2010
- Sharing Lessons From Stories We Can’t Tell
- Don’t Snippet Me, Damnit
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-26
- Chaos
- On Leadership
- Finding Your Cognitive Surplus in Grad School
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-19
- When Life Gets In The Way
- Computers as Appliances
- Being Dispensable
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-12
- The Story of a Girl Who Tripped, Fell, and Ended up in CS
- Part 7: Who’s Talking About The Future of Newspapers?
- 10 Things I Learned About Presenting in Extreme Blue
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-05
- March-August
- Books and Paper and Letting Go
- Part 6: Who’s Talking About The Future of Newspapers?
August 2010
- Round 2 @ Google
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29
- Email: I’m Sorry, but I Hate It
- Part 5: Who’s Talking About The Future Of Newspapers?
- Women in Computer Science Links
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22
- I am an IBMer
- Part 4: Who’s Talking About The Future Of Newspapers?
- Dating Explained in Terms of Priority Queues
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15
- Creating a Blog by and for Women in Computer Science
- Defining Dreams
- Part 3: Who’s Talking About The Future Of Newspapers?
- Artisan or Technician?
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08
- Failure Is Not An Option
- Part 2: Who’s Talking About the Future of Newspapers?
- Maintaining Optimum Stress Level
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01
July 2010
- My Secret Life as an Introvert
- Who’s Talking About the Future of Newspapers?
- “Must Not Be Used for Evil” and Other Things CS Students Need to Know About OSS
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-26
- Programming Toolboxes and Functional Hats
- Extreme Blue
- When Excellent is Adequate, Nothing is Ever Good Enough
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-19
- Geeking Out and Getting Happy
- Social is Normal
- Interviewing @ Google
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-12
- Delegation – What Value Do You Place on Time?
- Test Driven Revision
- Google Me, Google You
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-05
- Teachable Moments in the Wilderness
June 2010
- #GGDOttawa: Art, Life and Programming
- Priorities and Next Steps
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-28
- Back to Feeling Like an Imposter
- Working for The Man
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-21
- Career Planning
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-14
- Inside and Outside My Comfort Zone
- Rebuilding
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-07
- Upcoming Talk
May 2010
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-31
- Fear
- You May Say I’m a Dreamer…
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-24
- Reinvention
- Awesome Ottawa – on the Radio!
- CCWESTT Conference
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-17
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-10
- Dream Chasing and Prevarication
- Math Error vs Code Error
- 25 and Dreaming (but less)
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-03
April 2010
- Finding Balance and Doing Less
- I’m Back on Facebook, but I Still Hate It
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-26
- Testing Code that Depends on Remote APIs
- I Love Love Love Being a Girl
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-19
- TV via iTunes
- Why I Can’t Wait to Escape from Grad School
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-12
- Giving Better Presentations: Tell Me Why I Should Care
- Processing Workshop
- Email 2
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-05
- Inspiring Educators
March 2010
- Making Ottawa More Awesome
- Week in Brief
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-29
- Google vs. Censored Internet
- Happy Ada Lovelace Day
- What Makes a Programmer Great?
- Awesome Foundation Ottawa
- Week in Brief
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-22
- Being Nice
- Role Models
- Life Without Facebook: Week 2
- Can You Flow Your Way to Great?
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-15
- Not a Scientist, Nor an Engineer
- Week in Brief
- Life Without Facebook: Week 1
- Closing Doors, Opening Windows
- It’s Not a Competition
- Down Time
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-08
- The Desire for 100% Coverage
- Week in Brief
- Saying No
- February
- Parameterized Testing in JUnit 4, or Twitter is Awesome Because…
- The Ultimate Productivity Boost
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-01
February 2010
- The Roles We Play
- Week in Brief
- Usability Impacts Decisions
- Inspiring Words from Gabrielle Bouliane
- Twitter: Influence and Engagement
- 3 Books That Changed My Perspective
- Would You Give Up Your Blog?
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-22
- Exponential Growth of Social Media
- Week in Brief
- Not (Quite) Having a Meltdown
- Visualizing Engagement on Twitter
- The Importance of Perspective
- Developers? Humans? You Guys Should Meet
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14
- Expat Adventures in Romance
- Week in Brief
- Levels of Engagement on Twitter
- Dream Big or Go Home
- Simple Steps that Reduced my Bounce Rate
- Facebook’s Got Your Mail
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
- Progress
- Week in Brief
- January
- Of Matchmaking and Meddling
- Rediscovering Balance
- Science Teacher Talk: Information -> Meaning
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-01
January 2010
- Unfriending on Facebook
- Week in Brief
- The Gap Between The Possible and My Imagination
- A Random Collection of Cool / Useful Things I Found on the Internet
- Fun With Prefuse
- The Trade-off Between Useful and Interesting
- First Day as a Ski Instructor
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-25
- Finding Balance and Motivation
- Why Aren’t You Testing Your Code?
- Week in Brief
- Programmers Will Change The World
- Smart Calendars
- Graduate School
- Slides for my Talk – 15 Tools to Make University Easier
- What’s Your Natural Advantage?
- Release Time!
- Do We Need To Be Jerks?
- Expat Adventures: Getting a Car
- The Future
- Week in Brief
- A Diet of Live Frogs
- Experimenting with Delegating
- Do We Need Time Management Advice?
- Why Women are Better Programmers
- Mini-Generation Gaps
- Eating Live Frogs
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-11
- Effectiveness and Time Management Tips
- My Journal is Online
- Week in Brief
- Self-Promotion
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-04
- Student Workaholism
- Week in Brief
- Planning 2010
- 5 Things I Learned at Boarding School