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Duolingo, which was also driven almost exclusively by word of mouth, optimized for free user growth: “By offering all of its learning content for free, Duolingo built a massive user base through word of mouth and no paid marketing. This also helped us build a growth revenue loop: Building a free and fun product → more users → more subscribers → mor... See more
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How to become expert at thing:
1 iteratively take on concrete projects and accomplish them depth wise, learning “on demand” (ie don’t learn bottom up breadth wise)
2 teach/summarize everything you learn in your own words
3 only compare yourself to younger you, never to others

Wrote for @LAReviewofBooks about what I’m calling “Brodernism,” a certain mode of critical engagement with “difficult” or “avant garde” literature that’s mostly fetish and nostalgia, and why Krasznahorkai’s latest is boring. Link below. https://t.co/PxEQgCjg1p