Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for - PostHog

Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…

I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)

Explore how my day as a senior leader looks now that I use 40 automations to help, and learn more about some of my favorites.

The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better

Why genies can make hiring juniors more profitable, & what you need to change to get there

Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer

A rare opportunity to make a real impact in a fast-paced, high-visibility role.

Staff archetypes

Most career ladders define a single, uniform set of expectations for Staff engineers operating within the company. Everyone benefits from clear role expectations, but career ladders are a tool that applies better against populations than people. This is particularly true for Staff-plus engineers, whose career ladders often paper over several distinct roles hidden behind a single moniker. The more folks I spoke with about the role of Staff-plus engineers at their company, the better their experiences began to cluster into four distinct patterns. Most companies emphasized one or two of the patterns, and one pattern only existed in companies with many hundreds or thousands of engineers. A few companies didn’t feature any technical leadership pattern and pushed all their experienced engineers towards engineering management. In literature, recurring character patterns are called archetypes, such as the “hero” or the “trickster,” and the archetype term is helpful for labeling these frequent variants of Staff-plus engineers.

Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team

Stories from six engineering leaders who succeeded in building and growing diverse teams. Hiring approaches, retention tactics and strategies.

(PDF) Leadership Failure in the Eyes of Subordinates: Perception, Antecedents, and Consequences *

PDF | Effective leaders and leadership behaviors and practices are well-researched areas in the domain of leadership and management. However,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Tim Burks

I'm a software developer and resident of Northern California. This is my personal website. I have a tendency to tinker, and here you'll find lots of evidence of that! Here I point you to projects that I've done for work and for pleasure and share some things that I find interesting.

Intentions have a surprising amount of detail

Auteur managerialism, the myth of one-shotting, and the chindogufication of engineering

10. Why Your Tech Startup Should Be a Worker Co-Op — Limeleaf Worker Collective

Steve Giordano from Interstitial and Ethan Winn from Obran join us to talk about one of our favorite topics: worker co-ops! What they are, how they work, and why we think they are a great corporate structure for tech startups.

The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized

Are the most successful people in society just the luckiest people?

LoyalFans Advice (/c/LoyalFansAdvice) - OddsRabbit

Tips, advice and support for creators on LoyalFans.

Interviews with Failed & Successful Startup Founders

+200 interviews with the brains behind shut down and active startups. Learn from their wins and their mistakes and become a better founder.

Establishing a weekly user interview routine - Jonnie Hallman (@destroytoday)

For the first time in years, I start performing user interviews again, and remember how valuable they can be.