Cate Huston · engineering leadership
Engineering an Interesting Life.
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What do managers even do now?
→: What do managers even do now?I watched an IC have a lightbulb moment: they’re a manager now. Running agents in parallel, giving direction, deciding what’s worth doing. Being responsible for what ships, without doing it all themself. My job is giving them the pieces of management that are useful right now. Not how to run a 1:1. How to think…
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Announcing: Breaking Into the Security Mindset
→: Announcing: Breaking Into the Security MindsetApplication security might seem like a strange thing to build a coaching course about. But the thing that makes coaching work is that the person comes out feeling bigger than the problem. That’s useful in many things. It’s especially useful in a field that seems to have been designed to be opaque. We’ve partnered with…
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Skills for a more leveraged workflow
→: Skills for a more leveraged workflowI’ve been skeptical in general about sharing workflow skills. I have a bunch I share with direct collaborators, but there are a lot of “AI skills” repos out there and I’ve only found 2 of them really useful to me (#1, #2). I thought working out what you wanted and making your own was important…
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The next weight
→: The next weightSomething that comes up regularly in coaching is the idea that you get stronger against the weight you can lift, not against the one you can’t. If your goal is to bench 100kg you don’t get there pushing at that weight on a bar you can’t move. You start lower and work up. You build…
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