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Also I re-read some of my old achievement psych classic papers on performance-avoidance orientation and I was like oh yeah there's a reason when I took my first tech job at a FAANG I was like holy shit this place is a performance-avoidance case study

I wish this area of psych stuff had been picked up more than "psychological safety" I think y'all would've found it more useful

@grimalkina
As someone ignorant on the topic, I’d be curious to hear you play out this thought a bit!

@inthehands @grimalkina I hadn't heard of it either (or at least not that I remembered). But I found this just now, which helped a lot.

edpsych.pressbooks.sunycreate.

Cat Hicks

@jenniferplusplus @inthehands yassssssss

This is one of the theories I tied into the interpretation of my learning debt paper if you want my thoughts from a few years ago on this showing up in software work specifically

catharsisinsight.com/reports

Catharsis Consultingreports | Catharsis Consulting

@grimalkina @inthehands Oh, yes please. Every time I do any kind of work or research on team performance, it leads straight back to learning cultures.

@grimalkina @inthehands That said, what I could really use is a persuasive and actionable packaging of these concepts that fits into a 1:1 meeting.

@jenniferplusplus shoot me an email any time if it rises to the level of an important need, with my consultancy Catharsis I actually do have room occasionally to help translate the psychology of software teams into persuasive evidence strategy for eng leaders -- have helped a number of folks change big policies.

@inthehands

@grimalkina @inthehands I don't feel like I have the pull to make that happen at the moment, although we could use it. I appreciate the offer though, and there are definitely futures where I could take you up on it.

@grimalkina @jenniferplusplus
Oof, I recognize every part of that executive summary