Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:01:22 +0000
<p>Topics include:</p><ul> <li>How do you decide what role to hire for?</li> <li>Why it's so important to figure out exactly what your biggest struggle is before hiring</li> <li>How to decide what the most important thing to focus on is when it feels like there's too much to do</li> <li>Why it's important to consider the impact of hiring for a specific role on your own happiness vs. just the company's bottom line</li> <li>Coming 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 everything</li> <li>Mistakes people make when they start managing a team for the first time</li> </ul><p>Links:</p><ul> <li> <a href="https://blog.asmartbear.com/">Jason's blog</a>, one of the greatest treasure troves of startup advice on the internet</li> <li> <a href="https://vimeo.com/74338272">Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business</a>, one of Jason's MicroConf talks</li> </ul><p>Supporting the show:</p><p><br />I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.</p><p>If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:</p><ul> <li> <a href="https://tailwindui.com">Tailwind UI</a>, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.</li> <li> <a href="https://refactoringui.com/book">Refactoring UI</a>, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.</li> <li> <a href="https://adamwathan.me/advanced-vue-component-design">Advanced Vue Component Design</a>, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.</li> <li> <a href="https://course.testdrivenlaravel.com">Test-Driven Laravel</a>, 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.</li> <li> <a href="https://adamwathan.me/refactoring-to-collections">Refactoring to Collections</a>, 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.</li> </ul>
