Don’t Fuck Up the Culture

On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in…

Why Designers Leave

A designer may decide to leave for many reasons.

The True Costs of Startup Recruiting

Quantifying wins and losses in the war for talent

Interviewing sucks. Let’s make it awesome.

A few experiments we’re trying at Medium, and what we’re…

How to get a Designer 

Why Designers Join

Benefits of some of the better tech product companies in India

How does Google, Amazon, Cleartrip…

Why Engineers Hate your Job Specs

How to weaponize your shitty job postings

One of the main problems I see today in software engineering hiring is the way job specifications are written. The problem is, they often barely resemble specifications at…

Why I Care About Diversity in Tech

1. The quality, relevance, and impact of the products and services output by the technology sector can only be improved by having the people who are building them be demographically representative of the people who are using them. I care about this both as a consumer…

Co-Founder Love

Applying Psychology to Startups

Kissing Goodbye to the O’Hare Test

Don’t hire for brains or personality alone in early-stage startups…