Luc Cheung
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Luc Cheung
To me, online content consumption seems to exist on a pendulum of sorts: we love content to the extreme — Unbundle!! Give us more! — until we are overwhelmed with choice and analysis — It’s too much!! Bundle it back up again! — and swing to the opposite side. In the end, we always end up somewhere in the middle... but it’s a lot of swinging back... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators Are the New Creators
Cold outreach
I was surprised to learn that the second most common channel for finding early employees is cold outreach—finding people you want to hire and reaching out to them directly. These outreaches happened mostly through LinkedIn and GitHub, and unlike channel #1, this is something anyone can do.
I was surprised to learn that the second most common channel for finding early employees is cold outreach—finding people you want to hire and reaching out to them directly. These outreaches happened mostly through LinkedIn and GitHub, and unlike channel #1, this is something anyone can do.
“We filled many roles through cold hard... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • Hiring your early team
At the core, strategy is about focus, and most complex organizations don’t focus their resources. Instead, they pursue multiple goals at once, not concentrating enough resources to achieve a breakthrough in any of them.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy Quotes by Richard P. Rumelt
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
Anyone can say no to crappy opportunities. Only a master will say no to good opportunities. If you don’t say no to good opportunities, you’ll never have the time to pursue great opportunities.
Saying no is hard. Nobody knew that better than Steve Jobs, who said:
Saying no is hard. Nobody knew that better than Steve Jobs, who said:
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not... See more
fs.blog • The Focus to Say No
Jobs would often test people, asking them, “how many things have you said no to?” Ive was up to the task of answering, only he didn’t mean it, and Jobs read right through him.
I would have these sacrificial things, because I wanted to be very honest about it. And so I’d say, “Well, I said no to this and no to that.” But he knew that I wasn’t... See more