Thank you to Amy Hoy for this charming description of my talk , and to Hazel Weakly for a delightful live thread + the phrase " Toddler... | Continue reading
Yesterday I listened to this podcast with Phil Cousineau because it came up in the dice roll of my driving playlist (I haven’t read the... | Continue reading
You know what I realized? I've been putting a lot of work into audio scicomm (or as most people call it, being on podcasts) and I haven't... | Continue reading
In November, Ana Hevesi and I published the first version of our Cumulative Culture Theory of Developer Problem-Solving as a preprint,... | Continue reading
Whenever I start a research project, I pull from my fiction-writing toolkit. One of my initiating questions I use to interrogate any... | Continue reading
For the last three years, I have thought often about why individual-level "explanations" of developers' ability, potential & productivity... | Continue reading
The following is not a blogpost, but rather a direct copy of the text from a post I made on Linkedin today . I have an uneasy... | Continue reading
I made up this term the other day and frankly, I just liked it so much that I wanted to document it on my blog so I would remember it.... | Continue reading
Today I'm giving a talk to the fabulous Bridges Summit . I'll come back to this post to share my talk once it's available! Meanwhile, I... | Continue reading
I recently had reason to remember and re-read this important piece: Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy. I also had... | Continue reading
We've been busy. Developer Thriving: four sociocognitive factors that create resilient productivity on software teams Co-authored with my... | Continue reading
Note: For me, 2023 was defined by battling through and recovering from severe and life-threatening illness. Am I better now? Idk. Far... | Continue reading
I can't stop thinking about this lately. After several research projects and across 25+ in-depth sessions with teams tasked with... | Continue reading
In the last eight months, I've talked about our Developer Thriving framework with junior developers, with industry analysts, with crowds... | Continue reading
Last month I was lucky to get to go to Monktoberfest for the first time -- and bring Dr. Carol Lee and Morgan Ramsey, the two senior... | Continue reading
I recently had the chance to listen to a talk from Dr. Claire Meaders about her intervention science work in scaffolding better and more... | Continue reading
Thrilled (and frankly, exhausted in that great-bone-deep-I-made-something way) that I can now share this with you: the Developer Success... | Continue reading
My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up... | Continue reading
I’ve been reading about role-based belonging. This is a paper I’ve come back to several times in the last few months. I especially like... | Continue reading
In June, I had the chance to go to LeadDev London. It was really an amazing experience (as evidenced by the fact that I’m still thinking... | Continue reading
I've posted a lot of things in various places and platforms lately, and so I wanted to do a small roundup on this blog. The lab I... | Continue reading
For the last six months I've been attempting to get healthcare for post covid symptoms. It will likely come as no surprise that this has... | Continue reading
It takes me a long time to write conclusions. This is true for science writing, not fiction writing. When I write fiction, I always know... | Continue reading
John asked a super interesting question. It’s one that I’ve spent a great deal of time wondering about. This is going to be my attempt to... | Continue reading
Pain happened like a disaster: something I couldn’t imagine before, something I couldn’t stop imagining after. I have lived through... | Continue reading
I’ve been doing work in tech for ten years. Ten years ago I didn't say much about leaving academia, even though it was a big choice that... | Continue reading
There are tons of posts, and books, and talks about negotiating salaries. This isn't going to be that. This is going to be about what... | Continue reading
In my work as an applied researcher so far, a few big truths have come up again and again. They aren’t the hardest concepts to... | Continue reading
I was trying to get the registration stickers for my car. I should’ve gotten them, but I hadn’t. Instead, I’d gotten three different... | Continue reading
Sometimes I give guest lectures to grad students about transitioning from academia to careers in industry. I always really enjoy these; I... | Continue reading
Originally posted to medium here I’ve always been the kind of person who forgets it’s an option to raise your hand and ask a question. I... | Continue reading