Cate Huston · engineering leadership
Engineering an Interesting Life.
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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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The Date – Blunt Implement or Forcing Function?
→: The Date – Blunt Implement or Forcing Function?On some of the worst run projects I’ve seen, leaders trying to get them back on track would set a date. Never, ever, in that circumstance, have I seen a date be met. No-one believes in it, no-one is willing to work overtime to meet it. It slips. Another one is set. And another. Maybe…
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