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• № 008Jun 2026 · 4 min read · Hiring

  The CV is dying. What replaces it isn't an algorithm.

  Inside three founder hiring rooms this month — and the one trait every great hire shared that no ATS could ever score.

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• № 007May 2026 · 5 min read · AI

  Juniors, AI, and the missing middle of work.

  If GPT does the entry-level task, where do the next ten years of senior operators come from? Early findings from the white paper.

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• № 006Apr 2026 · 4 min read · Podcast notes

  Notes from 80 conversations.

  Patterns across the back catalogue — the five things every founder I interview gets wrong about hiring their first ten people.

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• № 005Mar 2026 · 3 min read · Build notes

  Why we're building Positions in public.

  How the audience came first, the agency second — and what that changes about the kind of company we can be.

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• № 004Feb 2026 · 4 min read · Culture

  Adaptability is the new experience.

  What founder-led teams actually screen for in 2026 — and why three years on a CV tells you almost nothing.

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• № 003Jan 2026 · 5 min read · Hiring

  The taste economy comes for hiring.

  Judgement, curation and community as the new moats — borrowed from media, applied to talent.

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• № 002Dec 2025 · 3 min read · Build notes

  What I learned from a year of saying no.

  Why turning down 100+ podcast guests, briefs and intros made the work — and the audience — sharper.

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• № 001Nov 2025 · 2 min read · Build notes

  Hello, this is the Dispatch.

  Why one email a month, why now, and what to expect in your inbox over the next twelve.

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