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If you look at every technological shift or platform shift so far, it’s resulted in more things to design. You got the printing press, and then you have to figure out what you put on a page. More recently, mobile. You would think, “Okay. Less pixels, less designers.” But no, that’s when we saw the biggest explosion of designers.

—Dylan Field, Figma

That’s actually what we did. For the eight or nine months that it took to build Fiverr, including the launch and the first three or four months of operations, we were self-funded.

When your readers pay for your writing, they are the only ones who can fire you

1/ Get a cup of coffee. In this thread, I'll walk you through the economics of an internet newsletter. If you want to start your own newsletter (or are just curious about what it takes to run one), this thread will give you some useful pointers.

Huge groups defeat the purpose of community learning. You lose the sense of a group if it is too large. Based on our experiments, a cohort of around 30 students is a good size to provide enough variety in the group but still makes it feel intimate.

When trust is low in relationships, teams, and organizations, people start withholding, and when people withhold, decisions become far less effective, and they get muddied up. We call them sludge. So they get slower, and wrong decisions get made.

The individual’s ability to cope with uncertainty

Organizations are created, powered, and led by people. To lead organizations well, we train people in disciplines such as marketing, finance, and leadership. But uncertainty presents a special challenge since few of us have received training in how to deal with it. As a result, although we may call ... See more

* If you aren't so fired up and excited that you can't sleep at night, then don't expect anyone else to be fired up either