Tbh, titles are still important 🙊 (Startup Watching #251)

There are a lot of blog posts about starting blogs (#meta), but I love this piece from Nat Eliason for a couple reasons.

I still don’t publish as consistently as I would like on my personal site, but this has me excited to get back to it.

Another great case study from the Growth.design guys of HEY’s onboarding. I signed up for HEY relatively early on, and then never went back after setting it up. I think the problems they identify here are part of the reason why.

I just found out Revue has their own newsletter, which makes a ton of sense. It’s a great way to dogfood their product. The latest issue was a neat look at announcing a product feature (the engagement insights I talked about in the intro) and they share their own numbers! Cool!

Great list of questions from Julia Evans to ask in your next job interview. The first few are engineering focused, but most are around business, management, and culture. As someone interviewing candidates right now, this gave me some ideas for questions to ask. I also put a lot of emphasis in an interview on the quality of questions a candidate asks me.

Going to be referring back to this piece tomorrow when I follow up with a sales lead I talked to last week. This is a great quick read.

I agree with so much of this presentation.

But I don’t love making companies customer first. It makes it too easy to justify overworking your team or putting them in a shitty situation. I’m not sure team first is the solution either, really you have to balance the two constantly.

This is a super fun story about a self taught special effects creator who went viral on twitter. Watch the clips from Tiktok of his edits, they’re incredible. He jokingly asked Twitter to hook him up with Disney, and then a few hours later got a response from executive chairman Bob Iger!