The Calibration Call, rewritten
This week I’m shipping a completely re-written tool, the Calibration Call, hover cards on every person and source so you can get context while you’re reading, and a long tail of small fixes and improvements.
The Calibration Call, rewritten
The Calibration Call is the tool for the research calls that tell you what “great” actually looks like in a role before you try to hire for it. In 0.3.0 it shipped like the other tools, written together with AI. I’ve now rewritten it by hand, from scratch, with 33 cited sources behind it. Use it to walk into the first interview already knowing what you’re looking for.
- Rewritten end to end and re-graded to authorship “by hand” (V1.0).
- The method is backed by the sources behind it, each cited inline and openable in place.
- The people and sources it draws on now have their own fact-checked pages.
Hover any name
In 0.3.0, inline [N] citations opened a hover card. Now the names do too.
- Every person and source named in tool and competency prose links to its page, and previews on hover — you can see who someone is, or what a book is, without leaving the sentence.
- Figure captions do the same: the people and books a figure credits are linked, with a preview on each.
- Each preview describes the work itself — what it is, why it’s credible, why it matters to management, not how we use it — with every paper carrying its publication year the way it’s named in any citation.
- Caption language was standardized, so figures read in one consistent voice across every tool and competency.
Also in this release
- Unsubscribe actually unsubscribes: the one-click header had been pointing at a URL that returned an error; fixed.
- Scaling People corrected: the right year (2022), the author’s name without the stray hyphen, and real page locators behind its claims.
- A release cadence: new releases land every other Tuesday, and the version number in the footer is cut by the same ritual that produced this note.