Process

You’re Hiring Your First Designer Completely Wrong

Early-stage founders often paralyze themselves when hiring their first designer, terrified by their lack of design expertise. But lacking personal taste is actually a feature, not a bug. By shifting from subjective aesthetics to objective, process-driven portfolio reviews, you bypass the need for a design leader and systematically build your own team. Here is how to evaluate problem-solving over visual polish.

Stop Trying to Teach AI to Write Better Code. Do This Instead.

The secret to unlocking AI coding tools isn’t better prompts. It’s enforcing classical software engineering processes — TDD, code review, bug diagnosis loops — as executable constraints. Matt Pocock’s 180k-star GitHub repository shows how to turn your AI assistant from a messy intern into a disciplined senior engineer. Stop trying to make AI faster. Make it slower, on purpose.