Weekly Roundup - Issue #20
This newsletter had been sitting in the drafts for a few weeks now. Though a bit dated, I decided to send it out today. Hoping to get back to regular posting again.
Salaries are often the most confidential parts of professional life. The first time I heard about salary transparency, it was way back in 2013, when Buffer talked about their formula and all the employee salaries publicly.
This year, Frappe, a company that I have admired since their publicly accessible demo of ERPNext way back in 2014-2015 showed me that world class B2B software can be built in India, implemented the ‘Pick your own pay’ policy. The write-up below shows how Frappe went about the process of implementing it.
I firmly believe that finding the right people to work with is a wonderful experience yet it’s something that’s hard to come by. In this post, Doug offers an argument for giving more weightage to ‘Who’ you should work with rather than ‘Why’ and I can definitely agree with him on this.
An opinion piece by Mike based on his lived experience leading the design and research org at Twitter during 2013-2016. This reminded me of something a professor said during a semester jury critiquing a solution being presented by a student, “If it’s obvious, think why has someone not solved it yet”.
