Most people don't join communities for belonging. They join to solve a problem or achieve a goal. It's only once they form relationships that they'll cite belonging as their motivation. Lesson: to grow your community promote benefits, not belonging.

What if we measured true success not by the amount of money you have but by the amount of human energy you unlock, the amount of potential you enable? If that were our metric, our world would be a different place.

The easiest thing always seems to be to add another feature. But each feature you add interacts with other features, often increasing complexity exponentially, not linearly.

👋: ANN: I've been always fascinated by the origin stories of companies around us today. I'm kicking off a series of videos called "Origin Stories". For the first, I sat down with @vladtenev to talk about the origin of @RobinhoodApp Video -> https://youtube.com/watch?v=i-sSdwV3bEo... See more

Twitter introducing Tip Jar is a reminder that microtransactions don't work. Someone sent a dollar on PayPal and PayPal took $0.33. Now do that at scale with a ton of articles. It doesn't work. Only one solution: pre-funded wallets baked into the platform or the browser.

You don't need a new idea You need the time and resources to stick with the last new idea long enough for it to see some results

while this podcast will 100% reduce my daily update open rates, it will also 100% increase my likelihood of retention to @stratechery. subscription media models are masterful for aligning business and user incentives in a way that ad models are not. @noahchestnut WDYT?

My first company @twitch sold for a billion dollars. My second one lost $75 million in 36 months. People love talking about success, but today I'm going to talk about failure. It's time to be honest about Atrium:

people don’t just want the point, they want the poetry

Books should be structured as expandable trees. One paragraph summary of each chapter, expandable into summaries of component points/stories, expandable into the full text. Can read the whole book in 5 minutes or 5 hours.