Abhilash Rao
@abhilash
Abhilash Rao
“Focus is a force multiplier on work.
Almost everyone I’ve ever met would be well-served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on. It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. Most people waste most of their time on stuff that doesn’t matter.
Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable... See more
Almost everyone I’ve ever met would be well-served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on. It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. Most people waste most of their time on stuff that doesn’t matter.
Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable... See more
Sunday Signal: Google DeepMind announces AlphaFold 3, a $1.3 billion exit and reaching critical mass
measure creativity using three primary criteria: fluency (the number of ideas we generate), flexibility (how diverse the ideas are), and originality (how novel an idea is).
Teresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
#70: 12 Signals EVERY sales rep should monitor (without a fancy tech stack)
Florin Tatuleaopen.substack.com
3 signals before paywall
Content marketing strategy, with case study
trust hierarchy to build relationships
Build trust with people before you need to have a difficult conversation with them.
There’s a hierarchy of steps that you can follow to build trust with anyone in your company. From the easiest to the hardest, these steps are:
Listen well
Show you care about them as a person
Seek to understand their point of view
En... See more
Build trust with people before you need to have a difficult conversation with them.
There’s a hierarchy of steps that you can follow to build trust with anyone in your company. From the easiest to the hardest, these steps are:
Listen well
Show you care about them as a person
Seek to understand their point of view
En... See more
When physical vigor fails with age, for example, it means that one will be ready to turn one’s energies from the mastery of the external world to a deeper exploration of inner reality.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
How Airtable discovered its early adopters is a great example of Product Led Sales
The challenge with Airtable is that it's incredibly versatile—you can use it for virtually anything. It's applicable in every department within an organization and even for personal projects. Essentially, you're building your own software, which can be tailored for
How Airtable used Swag to drive micro-virality, focused on their early adopters or what they called champions
the other one that we did was dated to this Champions at scale was we spent a hilarious amount of money on really fancy swag I know this sounds silly but like branded airpods level of fancy swag admittedly more people are in the office back then now they are more remote and this would not work as well but back in the day if you gave people something really good like not a pen or a sticker really good they would show enough to absolutely everyone that they talked to because they were so excited they got branded airpods people would ask about it walking by their desks it sounds so like trivial but for that like you know a couple hundred bucks that we spent knowing like hey this person's already a champion and if someone asks them they're going to give a really good pitch totally worth it sometimes better to not skimp on swag hard to measure very effective
If you find out that you were wrong, correct it immediately. Build a reputation as a rapid course corrector. You don't need to be right all the time to succeed if you can admit quickly when you're wrong. This will set you apart from the majority of people who get wedded to narratives too quickly and then refuse to revisit the analysis for fear of
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Phil Carter on LinkedIn: One challenge every consumer subscription business faces is the difficulty…
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