Cate Huston · engineering leadership
Engineering an Interesting Life.
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My Personal OS: Many Projects, One View on All of It
→: My Personal OS: Many Projects, One View on All of ItFor years my personal productivity system was Trello. I wrote about it in 2020: a board for life admin, a board for the recurring stuff, and a card each week asking whether I was actually making time for my priorities. Work was in Asana, because at work you have to interop with everyone else. One…
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The role of engineers in the software factory
→: The role of engineers in the software factoryThe other week, I found a menu button in the wrong place on mobile. Floating around the middle of the page when it should have been anchored to the side. Two things went through my head. First, the disappointment of finding a bug on the weekend. Second, we had things in place to prevent exactly…
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Escaping the No-Code Platform by Building a Software Factory
→: Escaping the No-Code Platform by Building a Software FactoryI’m not someone who gets called when things are going well. So when Michelle – the Twill CEO – called me in December, it was because she needed some help with engineering. In 18 months of being an advisor, this was the first time it was a phone call and not an email. There were…
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Judgement > Output
→: Judgement > OutputThe benefit of conference season is talking to a lot of people (the downside: needing antibiotics), and of course many of those conversations came to AI, explicitly or not. But underneath the obvious shift there’s an industry one, which started with the end of ZIRP and AI exacerbated. An industry that used to be quite…
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