// resources

Field notes
from a senior team.

Long-form essays. Not blog posts. We publish when we have something specific to say — usually about engineering studios, founder hiring tradeoffs, and the shape of products that ship.

The rot8 resources section publishes long-form essays on the tradeoffs founders and product teams face when hiring engineering. Each piece is written to be the most useful single answer to a specific question — engineering studio versus in-house hiring, versus staff augmentation, versus offshore. We publish when we have something to say, not on a calendar.

// cornerstone essays

Three pieces that started as scoping-call answers.

// why this isn’t a blog

We don’t publish on a calendar.

We don't publish weekly. We don't do “10 lessons we learned from launching X” posts. We don't do thought-leadership-as-personal-brand.

Every piece here exists because:

  1. A founder asked the question more than three times in scoping calls.
  2. The answer doesn't fit in a FAQ entry — it requires a comparison table or 1,000+ words of context.
  3. Nobody else has written the version that's actually useful.

If you have a question we should write a long-form answer to, tell us— we'll route it back to the team and consider it for the next essay.

// coming next

In the queue.

Next two posts in the queue, expected within 90 days of relaunch:

  • What is a product engineering studio? An honest definition.
  • How to find a senior engineering team for a startup.

We'll add them here when they ship.

// next step

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