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Shitty retention is ubiquitous
First, perhaps obvious, but no wonder retention in mobile products is terrible. I’ve often written about these benchmarks for retention:
When you reflect... See more
First, perhaps obvious, but no wonder retention in mobile products is terrible. I’ve often written about these benchmarks for retention:
- daily retention of consumer apps: D1/D7/D28 of 60/30/15
- the % of active users — that is, DAU/registered — should be 25%
- or, for consumer/SMB subscription: M12 of >30%
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How Novelty Effects and Dopamine Culture Rule the Tech Industry
Take education. What a hoax. As a child, you are sent to nursery school. In nursery school, they say you are getting ready to go on to kindergarten. And then first grade is coming up and second grade and third grade … In high school, they tell you you’re getting ready for college. And in college you’re getting ready to go out into the business... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
In my zombie era
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i miss twitter circles! they were great places to share random personal musings. instead i will post here, unfortunately publicly.
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you read enough life stories in history books and you really start to internalize you are owed nothing. i think the post-modern westernized experience is... See more
Each time I cross a border, I feel the push and pull in my body, a cacophony of competing desires. And always there are choices to make: what to assimilate, what to reject. Is it true that we are always, as migrants, and the children of migrants, attempting to choose what my parents call "the best of both worlds"? Or is it possible to transcend—no,
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
But I’m always feeling that I've spent most of my life getting ready for something, honing skills and sensibilities for... what?
-Brian Eno
And so I want structure. I want systems. I want, you know, validation from test scores or test results or best in classes or percentages and everything like that — once a week, twice a week [every week] or something like that. I want the pieces of paper.
Maybe you’ll never get over the initial shock of existing at all, and will spend your life as a perpetual newcomer, still trying to catch your breath, right until the last.