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November 2024

Going global 🌐
How and why to hire remotely
 • 
Jaryd Hermann
 and 
Bill Kerr
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How PostHog Grows: The Power of Being Open-Core
...and having a weird hedgehog
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Jaryd Hermann
3
🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#81)
Doing sales with no experience; Sell features, not benefits; Failure modes of first-time founders; Writing great job ads; and be careful believing…
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Jaryd Hermann
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🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#80)
How not to be boring; Steve Jobs on how to design insanely great products; Productivity anxiety; Choosing “who”; and Why companies want more high-output…
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Jaryd Hermann
7

October 2024

How June Grows: Winning By Doing The Opposite
6 Zero to One tactics, including June's stacked strategy of opposites
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Jaryd Hermann
3
🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#79)
How to outsmart yourself; 20 quick "80/20 principles" for founders; Taking advantage of context switching; To go broad, go deep; and 10 simple rules of…
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Jaryd Hermann
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🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#78)
Non-obvious behaviors that will kill your startup; Two types of games; A guide to lifelong learning; Common Ground vs a Common Goal; and The Emerging…
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Jaryd Hermann
6
🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#77)
Unhinged job applications; Why you need to force decontextualization; Intuition in strategy; Founder math; and The product engineer growth hack.
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Jaryd Hermann
7
Um, this is nuts! 🤯
I tried something and I'm blown away...
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Jaryd Hermann
8
Do you love the game?
Be very careful of apathy, hustle, and the infinite and unexamined loop
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Jaryd Hermann
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September 2024

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