Johanna
@johannaeinsiedler
Notoriously Curious, Data Science Nerd & Entrepreneurship Advocate
Author of CuratedCuriosity - a bi-weekly newsletter with hand picked recommendations for your information diet
Johanna
If you're the CEO of a fast-growing startup, the mistake you'll make in the next year that you'll regret most will probably be a hiring mistake. Possibly hiring someone established, which you'll feel you should do now you're getting big, and which VCs will strongly encourage.
Paul Grahamtwitter.comHiring Advice and
If the authors use Twitter and the news media to promote their work, doesn’t that suggest they’re inviting public discourse about their research? Not sure I have any good answers for this. Maybe sharing stories of errors uncorrected isn’t the right approach. I’m willing to try any other approach offered to help fix our current poor practices of... See more
Introduction to the New Statistics • The joke of self-correcting science: The Andero lab and Nature Communications | Introduction to the New Statistics
Progress Studies and
Prediction: There will be a bimodal distribution of remote work. At the top end it will allow organizations to employ the best people regardless of their location, and freed from the drag of commuting and distractions of the office, they'll be even more productive.
Paul Grahamtwitter.comBasically, this boils down to “use your personal networks more”. By at least a 10x margin, the best candidate sources I’ve ever seen are friends and friends of friends.
Sam Altman • How to hire
You have to start by really understanding your project goals. Do you want to test a new product idea or make something really awesome regardless if people use it?Depending on your goals your developer needs will fall somewhere in this spectrum:The more you move to the right, the more you’ll pay, but the more the developer will “think” for you.
Trevor McKendrick • What Everybody Should Know About Contracting Developers
But if you want wise decisions, get a variety of opinions and different perspectives. In my own hiring decisions, I make sure at least one of those perspectives comes from a woman in my company.