Luc Cheung
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Luc Cheung
Be willful
A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever... See more
A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever... See more
Sam Altman • How to Be Successful
In addition, perhaps there is a general limit to how far a single feed of random content arranged algorithmically can go before we suffer pure consumption exhaustion. Perhaps seeing curated snapshots from everyone will finally push us all to the breaking point of jealousy and FOMO and, across a large enough number of users, an asymptote will... See more
Remains of the Day • Invisible asymptotes
Compounding Growth Loops for API-First Companies
A common API-First company’s North Star metric is developer adoption, and the number of developers in an API-ecosystem tends to compound naturally in four growth loops that reinforce each other .
1. The Developer Experience (DX) Loop: Developers who explore (and eventually thrive) with the API will... See more
A common API-First company’s North Star metric is developer adoption, and the number of developers in an API-ecosystem tends to compound naturally in four growth loops that reinforce each other .
1. The Developer Experience (DX) Loop: Developers who explore (and eventually thrive) with the API will... See more
Andrew Parker • API-First: LEGOs for Business, Spidey Sense
You and the Algorithm
Doing well on TikTok seems to come down to two main things:
Some people just focus on #1 and get millions of views with a very low follower conversion. Others do great on #2 and have a... See more
Doing well on TikTok seems to come down to two main things:
- Figuring out what the algorithm likes for your niche to get in front of viewers
- Figuring out what those viewers like so they want to follow you
Some people just focus on #1 and get millions of views with a very low follower conversion. Others do great on #2 and have a... See more
Nat Eliason • Kickstarting TikTok: 55,500 Followers & 7m views in 6 Weeks
One of the most important principles in Silicon Valley is that "you make what you measure." It means that if you pick some number to focus on, it will tend to improve, but that you have to choose the right number, because only the one you choose will improve; another that seems conceptually adjacent might not. For example, if you're a university... See more
Don’t divide your attention: focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort.
At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you should understand the opportunity cost vs.... See more
At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you should understand the opportunity cost vs.... See more