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Holstee
Company blog · holstee.com/blogs/mindful-matterculturebusiness
Holstee is the company blog at holstee.com, writing about culture and business. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers linked this Holstee post in an Ask HN thread on people skills. The comment cites it for active listening: treating a person like another world to explore and asking why they focus on what they do.
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This is one way: by having an active goal for listening https://www.holstee.com/blogs/reflections/being-interested-i... Try to explore a person like you’d explore another world. Consider that this person had just as much time as you in the day, and they filled it up with other stuff. Why did they choose to focus on X, what do they find so appealing about X, what nuances or locations do you not know but they have int…
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on “Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?”Submitted 7 Ways to Be Productive in an Open Office (Email This to Your Boss) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHolstee | Digital Marketing Specialist | REMOTE | https://www.holstee.com/apply Holstee is hiring a Digital Marketing Specialist. The role is responsible for planning, executing, measuring, and optimizing Holstee’s digital marketing strategies. This role is a cross between Marketing, Business, and Web Strategy. The ideal candidate understands UX, SEO, Email Marketing, Analytics, Acquisition, Modeling, and Forecastin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)”Submitted Essay: On Being Awake as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A step-by-step guide for making sense of 2020 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 3 Core Values of Our Distributed Team as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'Look beyond the city-centric, navel-gazing, youth-obsessed mainstream.' as a story · 1 points
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