just dans

14 Oct 2021

For over three and a half years, hiring engineers has been on the front or back of my mind. No single thing I do is unique, but the …

13 Oct 2021

The most common question candidates ask me is, “how quickly do you plan to grow the team?” What they’re really asking is, “am I going to be …

02 Aug 2021

Before I led teams or had kids, I thought leadership was a personality trait. Something you’re born with. It’s not. It’s a role. Get two or …

16 Jun 2021

I’m reading through LeviathanCoding’s Pixel Art Editor trying to learn p5.js. What’s great about it is you see everything on the screen at …

10 Jun 2021

At Replit we ship fast and want to keep shipping fast as we grow. That means we’re watching how fast people work throughout the interview …

09 Jun 2021

It’s funny to realize, as I’m pacing around the room thinking of how to open this post, that I’ve been working for sixteen years and not …

08 Jun 2021

At Replit we say we’re out to demolish gatekeepers. Learning to code helps people plug in to the fast-growing parts of the economy and we’ve …

04 May 2021

Reading about, but not partaking in, the dotcom boom of the nineties, the defining characteristic of startups seemed to be the hours worked. …

26 Apr 2021

At various retrospectives and postmortems the past few weeks, there’s been a clear pattern. When a project has gone well, it turns out we’ve …

02 Apr 2021

I passed 100 prayer flags strung on a wire over the creek with the morning sun shining through them and thought how adventurers, the truest …