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• Post #4372669

  Insurance just denied a medication I take every single day because, and I quote, the provider did not submit new notes that it was working well 🙄

• Post #4297642

  RE: https://toot.cafe/@revin/117017514982367070 I will tell you what this was also the worst moment when I was writing the book because I FORGOT THE REFERENCES COUNTED TOWARD THE WORD COUNT but we made it 💞🥰

• Post #4204092

  A huge, huge pet peeve of mine as an intervention scientist is "checklists" or "codes" that just say: "having a problem? Don't" I loathe them. Stuff like, "never get lost, always know where you are" ok like that is not solving the getting lost problem

• Post #4184737

  Highlights from touring the Allen Institute included their lil data center lit colorfully which apparently helps heat the building in winter! Postcard from the future

• Post #4173806

  I can send out media copies of my book! What tech focused media do you read? 👀

• Post #4144473

  SEATTLE friends: Cat-in-real-life alert! I am in Seattle this week and decided to host a small (limited spots) Psychology of Software Teams happy hour this thursday July 30th, 4-6pm. You can come, leave whenever you want, zero expectation, just wanted to talk about human stuff with humans of tech. RSVP here for location & to secure a spot: https://luma.com/lxcmtn68

• Post #4092452

  sappy post incoming, but

• Post #4092335

  Imagine you walk into a lab because you've generously agreed to participate in a psychology experiment. It's pleasant: first you're shown a series of paintings and you indicate your preference for a certain artist, and you're told the paintings you saw were from two artists, and you mostly prefer Kandinsky over Klee. How nice! But there's a twist.

• Post #4071039

  I'm about to ask you to do something for me that I will never see if I can possibly help it. I'm going to go out of my way to try to make sure I never see it. An invisible gift is what I'm asking for. Let me explain!

• Post #3962833

  One of my teacher friends often says that people confuse "few people are able to do x" with "x reveals who is good" and I think about that a lot

• Post #3961655

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@dreid/116947735914529055 Ostensibly about work Secretly about feeling more ok at work

• Post #3916132

  It's launch week for The Psychology of Software Teams and to pour even more fuel into your personal launch I have written a full BOOK CLUB GUIDE! It can be used as a solo workbook, OR a group discussion guide Included are: - companion resources to talks, open access studies, and interviews to dive deeper - psychology-based exercises (the "try it" prompts) to bring active learning to your reading - facilitator notes Free for you to use, share, remix, adapt 🎉 https://catha...

• Post #3891919

  You know what, if you are a FOSS bro angrily private messaging me multiple times to say you can't believe I haven't responded to your request for free labor within 24 hours of you leaving that request on social media, and besides that not being the relationship we have it's also during those specific 24 hours that I am on the phone trying to triage my loved one's adverse reaction to chemo, you have definitely succeeded at getting my attention and ensuring you will be remembered.

• Post #3878177

  I am going to go spend some time soon helping care for a loved one going through chemo. This is someone who otherwise lives alone so it will just be me. If you've been through this (either side) I'd love to hear if there are any small tips you have for how to be there for someone going through chemo, daily "comfort" things that you discovered or that might be overlooked. Things to do that help make this time bearable, sustainable, just little joys of life. Thanks <3

• Post #3836772

  Last weekend I spent a couple of hours sitting with friends with rare/uncommon diagnoses and tracing their diagnostic paths and the evidence and clues that emerged early. Every step along the way it was just so clear how tough all of this is

• Post #3813439

  Can you make a difference in the world by going out, finding a place where you could sit for a while, and talking to people about the human problems they were struggling with, and then using the skills you have to try to tell that story and make it more legible to the world and to the people who could help? I thought so years ago when I decided to self-fund an interview study where I listened to developers talk about why they felt unseen and undersupported as learners.

• Post #3787283

  'Tis the last day to preorder The Psychology of Software Teams! By ordering today you'll join the POST advance squad which comes with benefits like a) I remember every early post forever b) bragging rights c) enormous increases to your persuasion d) a faint glowing aura https://www.drcathicks.com/#book

• Post #3747651

  Are wardley maps just a special case of DAGs

• Post #3715657

  Me: I will make a cute little book club guide for my book Me 27 pages deep into a guide with facilitator notes and psychology-based exercises: wait I should add multimedia companion resources

• Post #3684039

  I love living in the "Gender... MAYBE NOT" era of science https://www.thetransmitter.org/sex-differences/brains-sex-differences-are-subtle-and-contradictory-large-mri-study-finds/

• Post #3638086

  Can you, as one person, possibly make a difference in whether an unusual, creative, category-breaking book (a book without a marketing department or a budget behind it) succeeds? Yes you can, and I'm going to tell you why it's a hell of a lot more attainable than you think.

• Post #3614327

  Today, I'm writing a challenging thread. But it's an honest one, grounded in my empirical research. Because I wrote The Psychology of Software Teams to work through evidence out loud, and create a shared space for us to take seriously the big human topics in tech, not avoid uncomfortable conversations. Even ones where we might have enormous disagreements. It's about technical identity, and AI, and how beliefs about the humans at the center of technology shape different realities....

• Post #3595661

  Long time listeners may recall that I taught my mom to play video games and then she bought a PlayStation (because that's what we had 😂). Her favorite game is Journey (the first game I used to teach her to play haha and she's played it multiple times over since), what else should she play??

• Post #3560881

  It fills me with joy that so many of you are organizing book club and group reads of The Psychology of Software Teams! What a culture champion move. To support, I am putting together a BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GUIDE for the Psychology of Software Teams 🥰🔥 If you are planning to read the book with a squad, let me know what you would find useful. I'm currently writing discussion questions for each chapter, a few exercises for reflection and surfacing ideas on making change in your tech communiti...

• Post #3517310

  RE: https://mastodon.scot/@BarneyDellar/116837710877140073 YAAAY Please enjoy your POST Advance Guard benefits and be sure to report any mysterious effects to the community (enhanced evidence precision, improved coffee, glowing skin, a deep and lasting sense of peace) https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116834777170315706

• Post #3517241

  If you're a high performing person doing technical work, I bet you've seen a pattern in how software organizations diagnose and explain the drivers of underperformance. I am making this bet because as a psychologist for technical teams my inbox is just BURSTING with stories of this pattern!

• Post #3474943

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@adrianh/116832490701455555 Attention: all advance POSTers of POST become part of the POST advance guard. Benefits include increased authority at work, laughter, a propensity to make research-backed comments on software matters, and indefinite early adopter boasting rights

• Post #3453961

  I recently won an insurance denial. I talked to a number of people about it and I would estimate 60-70% of the assertions they made about how fighting a denial works were inaccurate. I don't know where people get the confidence

• Post #3422978

  Early comments about POST from readers who aren't even my dad "My favorite chapter is Chapter 3, where you bring the receipts that nuke the "10x developer" and "l33tcode" myths from orbit, leaving them both a smoking crater in the ground. 👏" - Eli Israel 😈 😈 😈 🔥 🔥 🔥 https://www.drcathicks.com/#book

• Post #3421262

  Reading before bed and I hear my wife say to herself with quiet but immense focus "oh I love mutual cooperation studies in non-human primates" @analog_ashley@mastodon.social