Weekly Roundup - Issue #18
I started this newsletter on the 7th of March last year and I have somehow managed to post 18 newsletters irregularly and grown to 32 subscribers.
Thanks for the support and here’s to another year 🥂
Pave is a company on a mission to make the black box of compensation transparent and fair for everyone in the ecosystem. What I’ve linked to is part two in a three part blog series where they talk about what they kept in mind while they scaled the team to a 100 employees. A lot of stuff they spoke about reminded me of doing things that don’t scale and using that as a foundation to build the company on.
They have an upcoming panel discussion about design compensation that you can sign up for here.
While scrolling through the 500 open tabs on my Safari browser, I came across this article by Brad Frost from 2014 about the two kinds of people in your team; Bricks and Mortar.
Another categorization of team members, that’s derived from ‘Accidental Empires’, refers to them as ‘pioneers, settlers and town planners’. I keep this in mind while I am evaluating a candidate because your teams need to be balanced for them to succeed in the long term.
This article was the one with the simplest explanation for what it means. You will need to scroll a bit to find the definitions.
And finally, I guess one of the good things to come out of the Great Resignation is leaders reflecting about their learnings. Sophie Shepherd was at Github for 6 years and its a great read that talks about her career in the context of being at a company like Github