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Biggest founder product mistake: obsessing over optimizations when the core product isn’t working and you need a 20x improvement.
“The homepage is confusing.”
“Onboarding needs work.”
“It’s slow to process images.”
None of that matters if retention is trash.... See more
Hubert Thieblotx.com
Some key takeaways:
1. Speed and quality aren’t actually at odds—they’re often positively correlated. The best practitioners in any field, from chefs to programmers, work quickly because they’re experts. The speed doesn’t come from rushing or cutting corners but from competence. Skilled teams that have mastered their... See more
Lenny Rachitskyx.com
To be a bottleneck detective is to recognize that wise policy begins with an investigation rather than an ideology that tries to force the same key into a variety of ill-fitting locks.
Ezra Klein • Abundance
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I wrote about the rise of Audience-First Products.
In it, I summarize the three-step process companies are using to build them.
1) Build an audience
2) Build a product
3) Scale with... See more
David Perellx.comMy point is simply that thinking, real thinking, cannot be outsourced to a computer or a note-taking app. And to put an even finer point on it, I don’t believe thinking, as such, can even be significantly aided by technology.
The Failed Promise of Connected Note-Taking Apps
Nik Gupta
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I understand his desire to keep Slow Boring level headed, but I do feel that all to often, Matt forces you to read in between the lines and parse what he really thinks, making you study "Yglesias thought" across multiple platforms. Its annoying and I am not sure I would have stayed a paid subscriber if Harris had won. Noah Smith is a... See more
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I understand his desire to keep Slow Boring level headed, but I do feel that all to often, Matt forces you to read in between the lines and parse what he really thinks, making you study "Yglesias thought" across multiple platforms. Its annoying and I am not sure I would have stayed a paid subscriber if Harris had won. Noah Smith is a... See more