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" @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social

My book is 20% off AND with free shipping for just five more hours at @bookshop.org! bookshop.org/p/books/so-y...

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 😈 😈 😈 🔥 🔥 🔥 www.drcathicks.com#book

Now out in Child Dev: "If moms do it, it can't be that important: Children's reasoning about gender disparities in domestic work" academic.oup.com/chidev/advan... Kids' awareness that moms do most housework + their intrinsic explanations for this jointly predict their devaluing domestic work 🧵

Oh wow it's available in my local bookstore to pre-order :3 www.mosaicbooks.ca/item/CVlrVDe...

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 😈 😈 😈 🔥 🔥 🔥 www.drcathicks.com#book

Culture champion activities!!

Haters gonna hate, but the people who want to understand what meaningful science looks like and understand how to enact real and impactful change are gonna get this book :)

On our last Change, Technically episode, I worked with @grimalkina.bsky.social to develop a plan to learn how to skateboard… but realistically, didn’t know how it would go. But guess what WE BOARDIN’ NOW BABY*

It's finally PREORDER DAY for The Psychology of Software Teams!!!!! Which means you are just a few clicks away from your own personal guidebook to being more human in tech 🥰 www.drcathicks.com#book

Pre-ordered @grimalkina.bsky.social's "The Psychology of Software Teams" yesterday — it's been some time since I've looked forward to a work related book this much ;-) www.routledge.com/The-Psycholo...

I had one of the worst doctor's appointments I've had all year today and that is, uh, that is saying something. I have terrifyingly debilitating pain that absolutely matches a subtype on clinical guidelines. Fully dismissed by this new doc. Who also took a phone call in the middle of our appointment

I am SO excited to read this. And the good news is that there's still time to pre-order it on bookshop.org and get free shipping for anti-Prime day!

Do you want an actual psychologist talking about how software teams actually work, with really real research and everything? Don't sleep on Dr. Hicks' upcoming book!

ok I don't need more books but I *do* need this book.

Extremely hype to read this 👀

Plot twist!!!

If you work in tech or if you work with people who work in tech, preorder this book. Just do it. I have no doubt that you will better for it, and I’m pretty sure the world will be better for it. SO GO PREORDER @grimalkina.bsky.social’s book NOW!!!!

hello, last year an academic engineering reviewer said my developer open science project on identity threat and belonging was "too much psychology for a software audience" and now my ebook is a #1 seller in COMPUTERS POST ARMY RISE

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Mysterious effects happening today POST makes you hot pass it on

Bagged it! You should, too.

Also eligible for B&N's preorder promotion right now!

Justice for this author and her half Canadian half US family

immediately ordered

Pre-ordered! I’m excited to read this, it looks excellent

There are in fact SPECIAL ART SURPRISES inside of the book from Ashley, even more than has been previously revealed 😭🥰 I love them so much it is a daily struggle to not just post them

I am so, so proud of @grimalkina.bsky.social because this book didn't *have* to happen. There have been so many barriers in the way that would have stopped many people from writing. But she is an unstoppable force who believes deeply in the ideas in this book and wants you to have them too.

This book didn't begin when she starting writing it. It began more than a decade before, when she was studying disclosure and learning as a PhD student. The ideas for it grew as she worked at multiple top tech companies and started her own consulting business. This book is those ideas, crystallized.

My wife wrote what is soon to be *the* canonical book on the psychology of software teams, and you can now order it! 🎉 And really, this is for more than just software teams. It's for anyone doing technical work, including scientists. It's about how we can empower people to do their best work.

It's finally PREORDER DAY for The Psychology of Software Teams!!!!! Which means you are just a few clicks away from your own personal guidebook to being more human in tech 🥰 www.drcathicks.com#book

To maximize data availability, we made up data.

what on EAAAAAAARTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*Jumanji drumbeats in the distance* Psychology of Software Teams is ALMOST HERE www.drcathicks.com#book

I have been watching the dialogue on this one closely. To everyone who is saying "OP is special, no one could use AI this way" well, I have spent 18 months doing significant amounts of scicomm in patient communities and they are ALL using AI this way. wrote this to help: github.com/DrCatHicks/i...

ah yes...I should also post about OUR book. the 2nd edition of "Observability Engineering" is now available for download.. and you can download it for free on the honeycomb site. this was supposed to be an update, and ended up being a total rewrite (& then some). 😅 www.honeycomb.io/blog/the-sec...

The whole thing is stellar. Five stars. This book could be the "Accelerate" of the agentic era. It's one thing to have opinions, and entirely a different thing to have opinions **backed by research.** Anyone who cares about software should read it.

and i loved chapter 6, "Becoming an Organization that Wants to Understand Itself." So many engineers have developed a reflexive squeamishness with having development quantified, with metrics looked at. But data is *necessary*. We cannot push back against Goodhart's Law with a vacuum of unknowing.

* change does not have to flow from the top. *Everyone* has a sphere of influence, and a responsibility to use that influence with care [[my favorite part, i LOVED this]] * an open discussion of what is good, moral, powerful, and effective ... no squeamishness with the term "moral"

I get asked to read and blurb a lot of books. It's always an honor to be asked -- writing a book is a TON of work -- but I almost never do. If I wouldn't chase you down on the street and urge you to read a book, it feels wrong to blurb it. I would chase you down to read this. My blurb is true.

Biology is full of processes that take randomness (or pseudorandomness, at least, large noisy variation) and then work out to something we find meaningful with our human minds via a very complex bunch of selection. I think the belief defaults of early computing are actually not great for this era

Thank you Ted I'm going to repost this in a prayerful way 😄

The fact that seemingly every dress, even the ones with formal design choices otherwise, has a tiered skirt now is going to kill me. I hate those things. Seams for no reason at all. So fussy. So little girl. So tradwife. Can't appreciate the fabric. My kingdom for a dress with a simple line.

Today's book post is going to be short and joyful, because we've been learning a lot of science but it's time to ride into the weekend with some celebration. I'd like to share some of the early reviews of The Psychology of Software Teams!! 🥹🥹🥹

I feel it does perhaps need to be rigorous.

How do you know you're married to a biologist, you glance up at your smart photo frame and is it a picture of the two of you, or your dog? No it's a picture of a tiny newt she took thirty-five thousand pictures of on a hike

Now I've read the preprint cited in this viral thread (because I read citations, lol) and it just doesn't seem that informative to me

A dumbass problem I'm having with all this horrific hand pain is I really want to dissociate into TikTok edits but I CAN'T SCROLL

I have looked at the accessibility landscape multiple times for temporary disabilities (lost my voice when I battled back from lung damage, have vision issues that have been sometimes worse and sometimes better), now I have serious serious hand pain, and the impact of AI on this stuff is unreal

This is really easy to shift in harnesses. It was one of the first things I started to set specific instructions around