Hello.

Zach Holman on startup interviewing
“Every single product I’ve built in my professional career has not had a correct answer. It’s more akin to carving a statue out of marble: you have a vague understanding of what you want to see, but you have to continually chip away at it and refine it until you end up with one possible result. You arrive at the answer, together, with your teammates.”
http://zachholman.com/posts/startup-interviewing-is-fucked/

Kate Heddleston on onboarding
“The best person to help someone set up their development environment is the last person who joined, regardless of seniority”
http://blog.fogcreek.com/how-to-onboard-software-engineers-interview-with-kate-heddleston/

Moishe Lettvin on lowering the bar and mapping the potato
http://www.moishelettvin.com/2015/12/16/lowering-the-bar/

You can probably tell what I’m thinking about a lot given those last three links, but I’m hiring
https://livestax.com/jobs/

I’m enjoying working with lots of good people, including Dan Hough (@basicallydan)
I subscribed using the big email ‘Subscribe’ action on his site and I now get weekly email newsletters. They are good.
http://danhough.com

Please can we stop calling everyone ‘guys’?
http://mic.com/articles/115090/guys-can-we-stop-calling-everyone-guys-already

A brilliant essay on escalators
(via @alicebartlett)
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n05/peter-campbell/why-does-it-take-so-long-to-mend-an-escalator

Donald Thump
Peter Serafinowicz made a good thing.
“No words were changed”
(via @bmwelby)
https://youtu.be/-cA0NM5RAY0

Yours sincerely
Roo

Roo Reynolds
@rooreynolds
http://tinyletter.com/rooreynolds