Issue No. 001 — February 2026
The briefing People leaders
actually read.
Employment law. Compensation benchmarks. Culture research.
Distilled into one document. Once a month.
The Editor
Elena Vasquez
I spent twelve years as a CPO — at a 40-person startup, a 4,000-person public company, and everything in between — and I never found a resource that treated me like I was smart and busy at the same time.
Cadence is the briefing I wrote for myself every month anyway, now edited for the 200 People leaders who asked if they could read it too.
It takes 22 minutes to read. It covers what matters. That's the whole promise.
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