Writing
Notes on hiring, markets, and building teams in frontier tech.
Why founding engineer hires go wrong, what the equity and salary data actually says, and how to hire (or choose) one well.
Why hiring a CTO at an AI company needs a different playbook, and how to run the search well.
Contingent, retained, and embedded search explained plainly, including the trade offs each model doesn't advertise.
What a Forward Deployed Engineer actually does, why they're hard to hire, and how to run a search that finds one.