Susie Conley

• Status quo should not be underestimated, nor always messed with.

48:00 Where and how you post content or reach your users to form community entirely depends on knowing your users. Know their personas, their user journey paths, do they start on your forums, or in chat, or is their default behavior when looking for stuff to type into YouTube. For Logseq 90% of how-to content is videos because of the nature of the ... See more

8:05 - Building a public presence. Learning something. And then turning around and sharing that is learning in public. Essentially blogging got Shawn the job he has today… And also helped him transition from a front-end career to back-end. Became known for this essay: https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/

54:00 - It's always a challenge to see further down than 6 months along the road because you don't always know what the platform is working on and what they are going to do. They have their own competitive forces to deal with. So you hope, "Hey I hope my niche isn't too interesting to them, that they want to take it over. But interesting enough tha... See more

• 26:34 - A “big source of inspiration for me [Mark] has been the world of analog tools. We’ve been thinking about how to build good digital tools for maybe 50 years or so. We have a couple thousand years of explicit and implicit study of how to create analog work environments.” Eg: personal libraries, studies, workshops, artist studios. How can we... See more

Write about the most interesting problem in your domain. Problems are inherently more attractive than solutions. Inherently more timeless.

• Academic HCI work, where your output is published papers & it's very competitive.