Good Products Are Hard to Vary
WHY RETENTION IS SO HARD FOR NEW TECH PRODUCTS
I’ve been staring at retention curve data for 15-plus years now.
I was a founder, a product manager, and now a VC. And at Andreessen Horowitz, I end up meeting hundreds of startups each year, many of them through our a16z speedrun program, where... See more
andrew chenx.com
> Is it likely that what Peter Thiel has to say about the antichrist is in any meaningful way predictive out-of-sample?
No, not very likely
> Does his recent schizophrenic detour still serve a massively integral (primarily aesthetic) role within the broad "tech-right" ideological... See more
July 2023
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.
Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise... See more
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it.
Partly my goal was to create a guide that could be used by someone working in any field. But I was also curious about the shape of the intersection. And one thing this exercise... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Many concepts that sound good on paper are infeasible to implement, or simply don’t produce the expected results. It’s frustrating when that happens, of course, but the pace of experimentation and learning at a startup is unparalleled. I think this is an especially important form of rigor for theorycels like me. Building product forces a different... See more
Jasmine Sun • exit interview
The value and risk of customizing productivity tools, and the importance of focusing on output over tooling.
TRANSCRIPT
There's a critical threshold there where if you can stay in flow and change something then it becomes worth doing and that's i think a huge like a person in a workshop who might modify a tool while they're building something absolutely and you know woodworkers i'm not a woodworker but i've talked to woodworkers about they call them jigs you can
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