Elsewhere

2022

January 2, 2021 – Five Signs it’s Time to Quit Your Job – Quartz

2021

13th October, 2021 – Onboarding: Setting the Foundation for Growth – LeadDev Together

September 30th, 2021 – Lead Time Live: Remote and Hybrid Meetings that Don’t Suck! (panel) – Range

August 19, 2021 – The Culture of Process – LeadDev

June 16, 2021 – Coachability: the overlooked factor in people development – LeadDev

May 6th, 2021 – Swiftly Speaking 16: Cate Huston – YouTube

April 14th, 2021 – Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process – LeadDev

April 14th, 2021 – Cate Huston – Podcast S11 E10 – RayWenderlich.com Podcast

April 7th, 2021 –  As an engineering leader, should you be working with a coach? – Range blog

March 30, 2021 – Remote work since Covid-19 is exacerbating harm – Project Include

March 17th, 2021 – Lead Time Chats | Episode 3, Cate Huston – Lead Time

February 25th, 2021 – Hello Management, Goodbye Coding – Contravariance

February 17th, 2021 – Recognizing and rectifying your mistakes as an engineering leader – LeadDev

February 10th, 2021 – Leading your engineering team with ‘experiments’ not ‘processes’ – LeadDev

2020

December 24th, 2020 – Моята епи(деми)чна година – capital.bg

December 10th, 2020 – The Asynchronous Approach: Remote Management Tips from a Digital Nomad – Supermanagers

November 25th, 2020 – You can fix your hiring process: Here’s your five-step plan – Quartz

November 17th, 2020 – How to run a hybrid remote dev team with Asynchronous Communication – Dev Interrupted

September 19th, 2020 – Cate Huston of DuckDuckGo on building a high-aspiring career without burnout – Yerbo

August 31, 2020 – ‘Economy could be at a standstill if we don’t get people back into work’ – businesswoman Linda Plant – Channel 4 News

May 19th, 2020 – Remote-team managers can learn a lot from open-source communities – Quartz

April 9, 2020 – The only truthful answer to any question about management – Quartz

March 19, 2020 – Watch: Our event on working from home – Quartz

March 19, 2020 – How to fix five of the most common pain points of working from home – Quartz

March 12, 2020 – If You Suddenly Work Remotely, Communication Matters More Than Anything Else – Huffington Post

March 12, 2020 – What you need to know about transitioning to remote work – Donut

March 10, 2020 – Three signs of a poor hiring process—and four ways to fix it – Quartz

March 6th, 2020 – A Crash Course in Remote Management – WordPress.com Blog

2019

September 20, 2019 – A good onboarding experience for new hires requires two key things – Quartz

September 6, 2019 – Every manager needs the magic of a work BFF – Quartz

August 28, 2019 – When Experienced Women Engineers Look for New Jobs, They Prioritize Trust and Growth – WordPress.com Blog

August 28, 2019 – Sharing the Data: How Technical Women Navigate Their Career – Automattic Developer Blog

August 19, 2019 – How to build—and manage—a self-improving team – Quartz

July 25, 2019 – The best thing you can do for your career is learn to be more coachable – Quartz

5 July, 2019 – The firm with 900 staff and no office – BBC News

June 26, 2019 – Why a good boss likes it when people complain – Quartz

June 12, 2019 – As a leader, your job should change every six months even if you stay put – Quartz

May 13, 2019 – Does your team need to rebrand? – Quartz

April 18, 2019 – Where do you start when a team is broken? – Quartz

April 4, 2019 – The five types of communication problems that destroy company morale – Quartz

February 5, 2019 – How to begin the invisible work of change management – Quartz

2018

December 17, 2018 – Why you can’t manage humans like they’re software – Quartz

November 19, 2018 – The four layers of communication in a functional team – Quartz

November 1, 2018 – Answer these 10 questions to understand if you’re a good manager – Quartz

October 1, 2018 – The first two questions to ask when your team is struggling – Quartz

September 13, 2018 – Understanding how process impacts outcome can help avoid useless meetings – Quartz

April, 2018 – How Automattic Creates Momentum Before an Engineer’s First Day – GitPrime

January 11, 2018 – 9 ideas to mix up your speaking in 2018 – The Eloquent Woman

January 1, 2018 – The #2018Liberation List – Medium

2017

November 7, 2017 – Home is where the work is – Increment

October 30, 2017 – The Why Factor: Imposter Syndrome – BBC

October 29, 2017 – Managing Managers with Cate Huston – Simple Leadership Podcast

August 9, 2017 – Silicon Valley finally faces a reckoning with sexism – CNN

August 8, 2017 – Google Manifesto Hits a Nerve in Silicon Valley – NBC

August 8, 2017 – Google employee fired over memo railing against diversity efforts – Today

August 8, 2017 – Google firing sparks debate over sexism in Silicon Valley – Globe and Mail

August 8, 2017 – James Damore: Free speech martyr or sexist tech bro? – Salon

August 8, 2017 – Google Was Right to Fire the Memo Writer – Slate

August 8, 2017 – Google engineer’s firing fails to mollify either side – San Francisco Chronicle

August 7, 2017 – Controversial ‘Google Manifesto’ Fuels Debate Over Gender Bias in Silicon Valley – NBC

August 7, 2017 – Google’s open culture tested by engineer’s anti-diversity memo – CNN

August 5, 2017 – We Know Who He Is – Medium

May 19, 2017 – Former Uber employee said he was fired for defending his female colleagues – Mic

May 16, 2017 – Cate Huston – The Setup

March 31, 2017 – Hey Tech Giants: How About Action on Diversity, Not Just Reports?
WIRED

March 22, 2017 – Arianna Huffington is the wrong person to lead Uber’s efforts against workplace sexism – Mic

February 21, 2017 – Women in Silicon Valley react to allegations of sexism at Uber – Mic

2016

November 17th, 2016 – No. 17 — Give Advice? – Should We

November 15th, 2016 – The Secret to Good One-On-One Meetings: Show Up and Listen – Be Leaderly

July 5th, 2016 – 6 Months. 6 Management Lessons – Be Leaderly

June 13th, 2016 – Cate Huston talks to Seb about managing coders – Creative Coding

April 19, 2016 – Thankless Emotional Labour as Management Training – Be Leaderly

April 14th, 2016 – Making Your Own Image Filters – Architecture of Open Source

March 1, 2016 – #81: Cate Huston – Less Than Or Equal

2015

December 17, 2015 – Interview: Editors of @techspeakdigest on women speakers in tech – The Eloquent Woman

December 16th, 2015 – Advice, Mentors, and Questionably Helpful Emails – Be Leaderly

October 6th, 2015 – A reader writes: Moderating My First Panel @beyondthecode15 – The Moderating Panels Blog

October 2nd, 2015 – 66: Chiu-Ki Chan and Cate Huston from Technically Speaking – Turing Incomplete

April 28th, 2015 – The Trouble with Imposters – Model View Culture

March 19th, 2015 – The Woman Speaker Slot – The Eloquent Woman

February 26th, 2015 – Quoted: Vivek Wadhwa on (not) talking about gender – Silicon Beat

February 25th, 2015 – Vivek Wadhwa, Voice for Women in Silicon Valley, Is Foiled by His Tone – New York Times

February 19th, 2015 – The article Karen and I wrote, Tech’s Male ‘Feminists’ Aren’t Helping, is referenced in this TLDR episode.

February 5th, 2015 – What is our community expecting for 2015? – SkillsMatter

January 31st, 2015 – Famous Speech Friday: Maria Klawe on asking for salary increases – The Eloquent Woman

January 22nd, 2015 – Here’s What You Really Need to Advance Your Career – Time

2014

December 8th, 2014 – Tech’s Male ‘Feminists’ Aren’t Helping – with Karen CatlinDaily Beast

November 18th, 2014 – We Hire The Best – Model View Culture

October 15th, 2014 – Freezing women’s eggs? The tech industry isn’t modern, it’s Neanderthal – The Guardian

October 14th, 2014 – Ada Lovelace Day 2014 – Hannah Dee

October 10th, 2014 – Women In Tech Explain Why A Tech Conference For Women Went Awry And How To Make It Better – ThinkProgress

October 10th, 2014 – CEO Microsoft gaat door het stof vanwege vrouwonvriendelijke opmerking – nrc.nl [English translation]

October 10th, 2014 – News clip featuring one of my tweets – Instagram

October 9th, 2014 – Update: Microsoft CEO to women: Don’t ask for a raise – Salon

October 9th, 2014 – Microsoft’s Nadella apologizes for women’s pay comments – USA Today

September 21st, 2014 – 3 Things to Know Before Embarking on an International Job Assignment – Mashable

August 27th, 2014 – You don’t have to have just one mentor. Here are 5 different types – Be Leaderly

June 11th, 2014 – Returning to the stage, part 2: Speaking to dudes about love – The Eloquent Woman

June 6th, 2014 – The Glass Ceiling Is Made of Bad Managers with Anne-Marie Imafidon – Huffington Post

May 7th, 2014 – A reader shares: Returning to the Stage…After Harassment – The Eloquent Woman

May 6th, 2014 – While It’s Compiling: Skills Matter Interviews Cate Huston – Skills Matter Blog

April 17th, 2014 – Google’s Cate Huston and Designing for Distraction – ModevUX Preview

March 7th, 2014 – Why female techies in the 21st century face a stone age work culture – The Guardian

February 12, 2014 – Guest post: Presenting gives me nightmares, but I still do it. Here’s how – The Eloquent Woman

January 24th, 2014 – 5 Tips When Applying To Opportunities For Women In Stem – ABI Tumblr

2013 and earlier

November 6th, 2013 – How to tame your inbox: tips from software engineer Cate Huston – news.com.au

November 5th, 2013 – How I Finally Tamed My Email To ‘Inbox 5’ – Lifehacker

September 14th, 2013 – How I Learned To Love Travelling Solo – Lifehacker

February 3rd, 2012 – Coffee Chat with Cate Huston, Software Engineer @ Google – Girls in Tech, Toronto.

May 13th, 2011 – Better Know an Office: Waterloo – Google Student Blog.

May 4th, 2011 – New Foundation Gives Cash for “Awesome” projects – Elmira Independent (inaccurately says I was involved in AF London, I wasn’t).

April 30th, 2011 – I Learned to Program

October 1st, 2010 – Digital Cup of Coffee with Chris Olson

September 7th, 2010 – Awesome Ottawa and I are featured in the first ever issue of Awesome Magazine!

August 13th, 2010 – Where tech, art and funding meet – Ottawa Business Journal

July 31st, 2010 – Interview about Awesome Ottawa on Around The Block [audio]

May 21st, 2010 – Altruism and a Group of Dreamers – UnFolding Magazine

May 12th, 2010 – Interview about Awesome Ottawa on CBC

February 5th, 2010 – Holiday Science Lectures Inspires Young Minds

December 18th, 2009 – uOttawa Press release for Holiday Science Lecture

March 2009 – Article in the Minnesota Parent about technology camps, and my alter-ego, DangerCat

October 2006 – Short piece about the internship program I participated in at Scott Logic