Thursday Things — Sep 11th, 2025

In case you’re new here, CCing my EA is a bite-sized newsletter dedicated to Executive Assistants like yourself.

Every Thursday, we deliver a quick email with 5 new job listings, 3 fun posts, and 1 helpful tech tip straight to your inbox. 📬

5 new job listings

1. GoodRX, $81k-$173k, Remote

2. Innovation Baseball Partners, $60k - $80k, Remote

3. Automattic, $70k - $110k, Remote

4. Gameto, $50k - $80k, Remote

5. E Source, $90k - $115k, Remote

We only post jobs under 7 days old, but some may expire before you open this email.

3 posts you might’ve missed

#1

Speaking of comic booklets, we’ve just hit issue #10 for the BCCing my EA comic series!

These comics are based on true stories submitted by EAs retold in a fun, anonymous way.

For convenience, we also post these to LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

Do you have an outrageous or funny story you’d like to get off your chest? Just reply directly to this email to share. I promise anonymity! 🤫

#2

This nails the interview gap: experience ≠ impact. Bring stories that show judgment, problem-solving, and results. 🧠

#3

Industry Today is a website that serves C-level executives, decision-makers, and thought leaders within the manufacturing and industrial sectors. This is a super interesting article to see how people on the other side of the table approach EA hiring. 💼

Bonus

A little extra motivation today: one of the 10 richest people in the world started out as an assistant! 💪

1 Tech Tip

Perplexity trick: find great stops on your route

Normally, finding a place “on the way” means: check your route, close your route, search spots, try to remember your route’s stops, check your route again, etc. Perplexity can do all that in one shot.

For example, last weekend I was visiting the Brooklyn Museum with some friends I hadn’t seen in a while when one of them mentioned wanting to stop by a bar on our way back home.

So all I did was pull up Perplexity and ask it:

“I’m currently at the Brooklyn Museum and am going home near the Empire State Building. What are some popular must-visit bars on my way back that are minimal detours from subway stops?”

Perplexity returned options mapped to natural waypoints on my route home (I’ve added green flags in the screenshot below that mark the bars Perplexity suggested).

Along this same idea, you could also use Perplexity to:

• “Hotels in [city] for [dates] that are walkable to [office/venue], quiet rooms, on-site gym open ≥ 10pm, late check-in, and breakfast starting ≤ 6:30am. Return 5 with rates and pros/cons.”

• “For a [citizenship] traveler to [country] on [dates], summarize visa/entry rules, e-Visa links, processing time, and business traveler pitfalls. Bullet the exact steps.”

I’m curious what task you end up using Perplexity for!

For a refresher on past Tech Tips without digging through your emails, they’re all available in a single post right here.

Thank you for reading!

Did you know it’s my birthday today? 🥳

I’ll be taking the day off for myself… but only after I’ve delivered you this newsletter of course :)

I’ll see you next Thursday~

- Johnny Wu

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