On "6 things I've learned in 6 years at PostHog"

Hiring as 80% of management is survivorship bias dressed up as wisdom. Yes, you need good people, but that's table stakes—the actual work of management is coaching underperformers, making hard tradeoffs, navigating org politics, and keeping people from burning out. If you're genuinely spending four-fifths of your time hiring, you're either understaffed, not retaining people, or not actually managing. For practitioners reading this: the "hiring solves everything" mindset lets managers avoid accountability for the team they already have.