Inside Remote

Amir Salihefendic on Hard things about hard things

Episode Summary

On this special episode Andrej and Amir are diving deep in hard things about hard things. Inspired by Ben Horowitz's way of talking about hard things to learn on important lessons most of us don't talk about, Amir shared his story and difficult decisions he needed to make when building Doist and Twist app.

Episode Notes

Amir, founder and CEO of Doist is sharing with us lessons  he learned while he is building one of the more known remote first companies. Listen to what he has to say on the difficult topics. 

We talk about: 

• How to hire 
• How to fire
• Managing yourself 
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Links:

• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
• High Output Management
• Farnam Street
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Twist
• Todoist
• Github
• Zendesk
• Sketch
• Zoom
• Google Docs
• Paper
• Vim
• Bear
• iAWriter
• Oura Ring

Credits:

• Gramatik for music