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People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."
Tweets From the Wolf of Bay St. · @TheBayStWolf • Tweet
So if we want to understand why network effects often fail to lead to marketplace monopolies, we should start by considering the Thumbtacks against the Taskrabbits, the Tinders against the Bumbles, and the Upworks against the Fiverrs, all in relentless competition against mirror-image services. These services all have network effects in the... See more
David Phelps • The promised land of the singing frog
There are three types of written content: You can give people information; you can give them an opinion; or you can try to change the way they think. The first is ultra-competitive. The second pulls you towards pandering. The third is, I think, by far the most powerful, and the best way to not only get but keep people’s attention.
Morgan Housel • Attention
For a long time I thought it was odd that there wasn't some sort of "stock market" for creators. That there should be some way to choose the next up and coming creators, and somehow fund their life in the process. After all, that's precisely how the standard stock market works. You bet on the companies you think will do well, and in the process you... See more
Max Brody • The New Cent
This helped us continuously increase our retention over the years, making Duolingo more fun and sticky. Every screen in our products is obsessed over many times by many people. You can see this throughout the product, where every screen takes Duolingo design principles seriously: every screen will have minimal text, be gamified, simple and... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How to win in consumer subscription
... See moreIt's all a judgment call. Every human decision is a gut decision. The decision itself is the messy integration of many disparate pieces of information, experiences, instincts, stories, and unknowns.
Data may inform, but as long as a human is making the decision, it's ultimately a judgment call. If you're just going by the data, then you're
As this segment increases, more viable business models NATIVE to the cash pay population can be built.
Nikhil Krishnan • The Upfront Pricing Phenomenon | Out-Of-Pocket
Which leads on to my next point. See, not only do numbers not capture what matters (love, happiness, awe, spirituality, creativity are by definition unquantifiable beyond mere surface appearances) they are also extremely open to manipulation.