In this episode, Adam talks to Jason Cohen of WP Engine about hiring people to join the Tailwind team, figuring out what to focus on, and learning how to manage.
Topics include:
How do you decide what role to hire for?Why it's so important to figure out exactly what your biggest struggle is before hiringHow to decide what the most important thing to focus on is when it feels like there's too much to doWhy it's important to consider the impact of hiring for a specific role on your own happiness vs. just the company's bottom lineComing to terms with the fact that you can't do everything, and why it's important to focus on something instead of spreading yourself thin across everythingMistakes people make when they start managing a team for the first timeLinks:
Jason's blog, one of the greatest treasure troves of startup advice on the internetDesigning the Ideal Bootstrapped Business, one of Jason's MicroConf talksSupporting the show:
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If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:
Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.152: Ben Orenstein - How to Stand Out When Applying for a Job at a Small Company
151: DHH – Building HEY with Hotwire
150: Secret Screencasting Tips & Behind the Scenes of Tailwind CSS 2.0
149: Choosing a Payment Processor, Radical Icons & W3C Hype
148: Accessible Focus Styles, Tailwind Labs on YouTube, and Secret Projects
147: Surviving GitHub Issues, the Statamic 3 Launch Aftermath, Tailwind 1.8, and Headless UI
146: Launching Statamic 3, GitHub Sponsors, Tailwind CSS v1.7, and Preparing for Laracon
145: Statamic 3.0 and Tailwind CSS 2.0
144: Gary Bernhardt - TypeScript and Testing
143: Rich Harris - Svelte and Defending the Modern Web
141: Jason Fried - Running the Tailwind Business on Basecamp
140: Evan You - Reimagining the Modern Dev Server with Vite
139: Alex DeBrie - DynamoDB for Relational Database Diehards
138: Tom Preston-Werner - Building Full-Stack JS Apps with Redwood.js
137: Tim Neutkens - Continuing to Innovate with Next.js 9.3
136: Michael Chan - React Is Not a Rails Competitor
135: Lessons Learned Building Tailwind UI
134: Mark Dalgleish - You Should Be Using Layout Components
133: Sam Selikoff - Building Production-Ready SPAs Fast with Mirage.js
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