Leo Widrich, cofounder of Buffer, shares, via this Zapiers article by Fred Bauters, six steps to getting to an open culture. In summary: 1. Check yourself: are you personally transparent? 2. Be sure other company values are in place 3. Hire with transparency in mind 4. Start slow and steady
Here's a constructive addition to the "feminism in tech" issue - a sizeable collection of in-depth interviews of female founders, announced here by Jessica Livingston. Some interesting extracts from the "Was being female either an advantage or disadvantage in working on your startup?" question:
I read this article with concern. Dustin Moskovitz, founder of Asana, took issue with Valve's flat management structure and its lack of coaching: Almost immediately after, I grasped what they had actually written and my enthusiasm waned. In exchange for freedom, they gave up *personal growth.* I can
“Almost two-thirds (64 percent) of millennials said they would rather make $40,000 a year at a job they love than $100,000 a year at a job they think is boring,” the Brookings Institution recently noted in a report by Morley Winograd and Michael Hais titled “How Millennials Could
Here's a great article by my wife and cofounder, Paulina, on the topic of open cultures and her journey through the last few years, as we embraced more and more of the building blocks of open cultures in GrantTree: I’d like to propose something radical, I’ve
Emmy-Award-winning, former CNN investigative reporter Amber Lyon on her new site reset.me: (...) Five ceremonies with psilocybin mushrooms cured my anxiety and PTSD symptoms. The butterflies that had a constant home in my stomach have flown away. (...) I was blessed with an inquisitive nature and a stubbornness to always question
