Innovative Features, Empowered Engineers, and the Importance of Fun in Work

James Hawkins is the cofounder and CEO of PostHog. PostHog is a platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features.

This is the second time James has been on and the episode is mostly about how they run PostHog.

It's a pretty unconventional approach - probably because James thinks very deeply about how organizations should operate.

What we discuss:

• How PostHog hire
• His approach to one-on-one meetings
• The role of engineers in product development
• The impact of open source projects on PostHog's success
• A surprising secret to success (fun)
• Importance of listening to developers

Links:

• James's Twitter https://x.com/james406
• PostHog https://posthog.com/
• The Mental Workload of Hoovering https://jefhawkins.com/blog/mental-workload-of-hoovering
• Ray Dalio's Principles https://www.principles.com/  
• James's first interview https://podcast.scalingdevtools.com/episodes/working-with-enterprise-clients-with-james-hawkins 

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