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Charlie Digital
Personal blog · charliedigital.com · on HN as CharlieDigitalprogrammingstartupscareer
Charlie Digital writes <CharlieDigital/>, a personal blog at charliedigital.com about programming, startups and career. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Effective Hiring for Small (Or All?) Teams”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Programming, Politics, and uhh...pineapples
Most-linked posts?
- Effective Hiring for Small (Or All?) Teams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-07
What Hacker News says?
I have a 4-quardrant way of thinking about this that's similar. - Y-axis is "drive" - X-axis is "aptitude" - low drive + low aptitude: never hire - low drive + high aptitude: hire for targeted use cases where you need expertise - high drive + low aptitude: hire, train, and foster aptitude growth - high drive + high aptitude: hire on the spot There's an indirect way of testing for this which is to test for curiosity…
Comment linking /2020/01/15/effective-hiring-for-small-or-all-teams/
on “How to hire low experience, high potential people”Submitted Effective Hiring for Small (Or All?) Teams as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI worked in this space for ~10 years and learned a lot. In 2011, the bootstrapped startup I was at built the first COTS trial site electronic document exchange portal. Up until then, trial teams would use a mish mash of shipping paper, fax, FTP, E-mail, etc. Our product was a finalist for the Transcelerate Shared Investigator Portal (SIP) project to unify this process on one platform. I saw the internal workings of…
Comment linking /2021/05/24/the-best-worst-kept-secret-data-repository-in-life-sciences/
on “The case for clinical trial abundance”Submitted Introducing Gametime as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI am the author, my blog is an Astro template and you can see the GH repo here for this post: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/chrlschn/commits/main/src/... And of course, the full commit history of all of my writing: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/chrlschn Even a simple look would have led you to the repository with full commit history of my fixes for grammar, spelling, etc. I've also kept a blog long before GP…
Comment linking /2016/04/11/recipe-crunch-time-execution/
on “Beware the Complexity Merchants”