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Cat Hicks
Personal blog · drcathicks.com/postcareerscience
Cat Hicks writes drcathicks, a personal blog at drcathicks.com about career and science. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Engineering Managers do Triage work. Do we know this? (2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Dr. Cat Hicks's site for work on the psychology of software teams and learning science, including her book The Psychology of Software Teams and LLM learning skills built on validated learning science.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Leading the science of software success
Most-linked posts?
- Engineering Managers do Triage work. Do we know this? (2023)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-10
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-21
- Sense of Belonging and Software Teams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-27
What Hacker News says?
For everyone who thinks you can’t learn with LLMs, Dr. Cat Hicks, psychological scientist and author of the recent book “The Psychology of Software Teams[1],” who worked at Google and founded the Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight, has written two skills called learning-opportunities[2] and learning-goal[3] that use validated learning science to help you learn while using LLMs. Cat also has an awesome podcast with…
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on “How I use LLMs to learn complex topics”Submitted Engineering Managers do Triage work. Do we know this? (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionouf :( maybe original link should be changed to https://www.drcathicks.com/ ?
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on “The Psychology of Software Teams”Submitted The most personal talk I've ever given in tech as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe author's site is https://www.drcathicks.com/ and this is the publisher.
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on “The Psychology of Software Teams”Submitted A Cumulative Culture Theory of Developer Problem-Solving: New Preprint as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Corporate Attribution Error as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Managers do Triage work. Do we know this? (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Uncertainty as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Managers do Triage work. Do we know this? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Behavioral science is the key to studying engineering effectiveness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Craft as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sense of Belonging and Software Teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sense of Belonging and Software Teams as a story · 1 points
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