Cat HicksApr 17, 2025

That piece of writing I was talking about finishing that I was equally proud of and scared to post because I love it? Here it is.

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Why I Cannot Be Technical

With some regularity, kind-hearted Technical people tell me that I Can Be Technical, Too. This usually happens when I’m asking us to define what we’re calling technical in a software environment. I understand why it happens. I am a psychologist of software environments and that is something of

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@grimalkina
Lovely article!

Dunno if you agree but I think that an interesting example on how the "Technical" (culture?) finds ways to unsee humanity its own humanity is to hear how we discuss stuff like "best practices".

There's lots of incredibly interesting stuff to think about there. Practices that work do it AFAIK because of how person-to-person interactions work (or fail to work) across space/teams/time/etc. Instead of observing that we are just happy with the list protips.

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@grimalkina
In not seeing the other people on our work we truly damage ourselves and our ability to understand them

IMO this includes even not seeing other Technical People In our work ("code is code" instead of "code as expression").