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April 2023: Network State, Data Stacks, Ice Cream

What I Did This Month For PostHog, published The modern data stack sucks, what is a growth engineer, and some tutorials and videos. Launched a new…

May 11 •

April 2023

March 2023: Aruba, Gibsons, Outmaneuvering Bureaucracy

What I Did This Month Published Outmaneuvering Bureaucracy with AI. For PostHog, published Why we use GitHub as our CMS, tutorials about Next.js A/B…

Apr 1 •

March 2023

February 2023: 26, Sovereign Programmers, Friends

What I Did This Month Published “You Must Become a Sovereign Programmer.” For PostHog, published “The 80/20 of early-stage startup analytics,” a mega…

Mar 3 •

February 2023

January 2023: Urbit, Product Engineers, Squats

What I Did This Month Wrote about why you should care about Urbit through a history of internet platforms (web2 and web3). It’s been interesting…

Feb 1 •

January 2023

December 2022: Woodworking, Year-End, 10,000 Names

What I Did This Month Published a year-end best-of reading list and a piece on how (and why) to receive feedback on your writing for Foster. Wrote about…

Jan 2 •

December 2022

The Best Books and Articles I Read in 2022

I love best-of lists, especially year-end best-of lists. They are useful in many ways: Discover the best pieces you missed. Provide time to re-read and…

Dec 27, 2022 •

November 2022: Austin, Writing, YouTube

What I Did This Month Published a big post on the history of our app server for PostHog (along with a bunch of tutorials and now YouTube videos) and a…

Dec 3, 2022 •

November 2022

October 2022: London, New York, Office Space, Bilar

What I Did This Month Went to London for company onboarding, and spent the week there (with my co-workers). Went to Max Richter at the Barbican, ate…

Nov 6, 2022 •

October 2022

September 2022: PostHog, Vancouver, Urbit

What I Did This Month Joined PostHog as a technical content marketer. Started shipping work fast, updated an event tracking guide, and wrote a bunch of…

Oct 10, 2022 •

September 2022

August 2022: BBQ, DAOs, BeReal, Basketball

What I Did This Month Wrote a lot. Published “You Don’t Need to be a Poster” for Foster. “What are the Benefits of a DAO?”, “What is a DAO?”, and…

Sep 8, 2022 •

August 2022

July 2022: Capacity, Fruit, Energy, Connection

What I Did This Month Published “Building Community Capacity” and “How DAOs Create Community Capacity.” Also published "Put Information Where Developers…

Aug 4, 2022 •

July 2022

June 2022: Smart Young BC, Soccer, Posting

What I Did This Month Published Smart Young BC. It is the longest piece I’ve ever published and took the most work. Thanks to everyone who gave…

Jul 2, 2022 •

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