<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[drcathicks]]></title><description><![CDATA[drcathicks]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:42:15 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.drcathicks.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Cat's review of 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[This was a strange, hard year. For me it was a year of many changes and much work, and investment in laying foundations and planting seeds. It is not yet possible to evaluate the effectiveness of these labors, so I am going into 2026 hoping that this year of somewhat monastic work, striving and survival will yield something good. At any rate, it brings me joy to list some of the good-in-the-moment things that kept me company this year: Books While writing my book (THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/cat-s-review-of-2025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">695175c582b426413643a240</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:25:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fce7f8_b24e3d4bb9764db9817fc01d1610e965~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Craft Conf breakfast session citations]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the best things that can happen at a conference is a thing you can't plan for but only hope to encounter: a really good...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/some-craft-conf-breakfast-session-citations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68485251f4ab7949c314b782</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:03:41 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you, Developer Success Lab]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a life-changing journey building the Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight, the difficult decision was made that it's time to wind...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/thank-you-developer-success-lab</link><guid isPermaLink="false">681b81a78068e00fe40992ce</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 15:55:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat @ VirtualDDD: "a barn burner of a talk" References &#38; Resources]]></title><description><![CDATA[HERE is the full video of the talk! Thank you to Amy Hoy for this charming description of my talk , and to Hazel Weakly for a delightful...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/cat-virtualddd-a-barn-burner-of-a-talk-references-resources</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67fef6a8c9ecd448414a2248</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:43:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citation as Pilgrimage]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/citation-as-pilgrimage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67c23eb2e517fc05524d4cf1</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:13:59 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ways to listen to (rather than read about) the psychology of software teams!]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/ways-to-listen-to-rather-than-read-about-the-psychology-of-software-teams</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67b8c1482bc078770931e6b2</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:16:57 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just another example of how collaboration, not competition, drives healthy science]]></title><description><![CDATA[In November, Ana Hevesi  and I published the first version of our Cumulative Culture Theory of Developer Problem-Solving  as a preprint,...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/just-another-example-of-how-collaboration-not-competition-drives-healthy-science</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67b0d7a2e2c8f9851f4037b2</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:06:36 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assorted (unsorted) thoughts about trauma-informed research ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whenever I start a research project, I pull from my fiction-writing toolkit. One of my initiating questions I use to interrogate any...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/assorted-unsorted-thoughts-about-trauma-informed-research</link><guid isPermaLink="false">677c09c321d855aa984d348a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:04:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Cumulative Culture Theory of Developer Problem-Solving: new preprint]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the last three years, I have thought often about why individual-level "explanations" of developers' ability, potential &#38; productivity...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/a-cumulative-culture-theory-of-developer-problem-solving-new-preprint</link><guid isPermaLink="false">674c8ddad536db5bba83d1cd</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:29:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On disclosure]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-disclosure</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67323bf9d88d34906175ded5</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:20:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corporate Attribution Error]]></title><description><![CDATA[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....]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/corporate-attribution-error</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66dc7286a911bc1e121c95ee</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15:53:40 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat @ the Bridges Summit: References and Resources]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/cat-the-bridges-summit-references-and-resources</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66cf679abbdb13b4763efd1b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:26:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Uncertainty]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently had reason to remember and re-read this important piece: Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy. I also had...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/the-uncertainty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6686d4d151f66b3ab8e540cf</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:06:47 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[An open access developer science roundup]]></title><description><![CDATA[We've been busy. Developer Thriving: four sociocognitive factors that create resilient productivity on software teams Co-authored with my...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/an-open-access-developer-science-roundup</link><guid isPermaLink="false">662a679cb43f2e500a10f359</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:59:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fce7f8_dd11e6f8355d4df6855c57b04407ead1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_942,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covid Data Log]]></title><description><![CDATA[Note: For me, 2023 was defined by battling through and recovering from severe and life-threatening illness. Am I better now? Idk. Far...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/covid-data-log</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6591b1b20942ea5043d1ee68</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:19:08 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineering Managers do Triage work. Do we know this?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I can't stop thinking about this lately. After several research projects and across 25+ in-depth sessions with teams tasked with...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/engineering-managers-do-triage-work-do-we-know-this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">657350bbc5f897fdbc765a6f</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:34:05 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On hidden context: Behavioral science is the key to studying engineering effectiveness ]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the last eight months, I've talked about our Developer Thriving framework with junior developers, with industry analysts, with crowds...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-hidden-context-behavioral-science-is-the-key-to-studying-engineering-effectiveness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655cf6eaefc5fedc9f82e156</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:38:24 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most personal talk I've ever given in tech]]></title><description><![CDATA[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...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/the-most-personal-talk-i-ve-ever-given-in-tech</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6558f936581ac7ea0ec08004</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 17:59:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fce7f8_cdc3967dabec4a638fe9b3dc42224cc0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_880,h_486,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When things happen, not just what]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently had the chance to listen to a talk from Dr. Claire Meaders about her intervention science work in scaffolding better and more...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/when-things-happen-not-just-what</link><guid isPermaLink="false">654c0b4336edb0b13ac4a5e9</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 22:53:29 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[New research from me: AI Skill Threat &#38; contest cultures on software teams ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thrilled (and frankly, exhausted in that great-bone-deep-I-made-something way) that I can now share this with you: the Developer Success...]]></description><link>https://www.drcathicks.com/post/new-research-from-me-ai-skill-threat-contest-cultures-on-software-teams</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65315d2d079c612f09a4c9b7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:01:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fce7f8_c09b77b12f1a4485ad827fb615c4a4b1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_960,h_540,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Cat Hicks</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>