Oversimplified: Volume 141
The rise of the Growth Founder, engineering failure modes, and this year in movies
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Oversimplified is a digest of the best links I stumble upon each week, and any new posts from me. If this is your first issue, welcome aboard!
đ The Rise of the Growth Founder
I always enjoy Gaurav Vohraâs thoughtful and system-minded takes on growth. This post is a great crash course on how to think about growth at startups, from strategy to shipping to retention, and finally acquisition.
đ Mistakes Engineers Make in Established Codebases
This post made itâs rounds internally through our Metabase Slack-verse earlier this week, and itâs a good one. Established codebases donât always do things the ârightâ way, but at the end of the day, consistency is king.
đ Jerry Seinfeld, Ichiro Suzuki and the Pursuit of Mastery
Few things in life guarantee you fulfillment as well as the pursuit of mastery. Thereâs just something about waking up each day and working at your craft. You donât hit nearly the same potholes and dead ends that you do focusing on outcomes etc.
đ Why Youâre Failing Non-Technical Data Science Interviews and How to Fix It
I canât help but think how much I would have appreciated this post back when I was out of college, interviewing for data science gigs. Even now, the advice here has me thinking more about how to structure good interviews and set up candidates for success, beyond just data roles.
đ Stimulation Clicker
ICYMI this clever game made itâs rounds on Hacker News last week. Iâm a little embarrassed to admit how much time I spent with this open in my browser tab.
đ Letterboxd Year in Review
This is a beautiful recap of the last year in movies from Letterboxd. My personal favorites were Dune: Part 2, Anora, and The Wild Robot. Move over, Spotify Wrapped, this is more my speed.
Food for Thought
The foundation from which we transform the experience of burnout is always the realization that we have been measuring all the wrong things in all the wrong ways and that we have for too long, mis-measured our sense of self in the same way; that we have allowed the shallow rewards of false goals or false people to mesmerize, bedazzle and entrain us: to hide from us an ancient and abiding human dynamic â that we belong to something greater and even better for us than the realm of the measured. â David Whyte
Wrapping up
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Until next time,
Conor