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Why Figma Wins
Artificial invitation mechanisms (i.e refer a friend) are not PLG. Sustainable growth from the product comes from built in in natural product-led acqu
The second built in PLA channel Cash App is using is billboarding—when a user’s use of your product is visible to others around them. For example:When
..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t
Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no. We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on
The Technology That Actually Runs Our World
MEV originally stood for “miner extractable value” since it’s miners who race to create blocks in proof-of-work (PoW) blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. But as Ethereum transitions to proof-of-stake (PoS) and other PoS chains gain market share, the term had to be updated since PoS chains replace miners with validators. It’s now been renamed to “maximal extractable value” to encompass all the various parties that create blocks.
You’ve been duped into thinking you can create a life without danger, one liberated from constraints and uncomfortable emotions, and that such a life
1/ Boundaries are not saying no. Or making sure something doesn't happen. Or distancing. Or even letting yourself have wants in the face of others'.
the depth of a conversation depends on how deeply seen you feel, not on the topic of conversation
Musings on living a better life + becoming a better human. Plus tools, projects and communities that help you do that.
That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe
Traumatisation is most usually presented as anunassailable, concrete fact, and this is where I need to be respectful. If someone brings a firmconvicti
when the trauma label has been appliedby outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place andour culture
Engineering management is a career that brings together the technological problem-solving ability of engineering and the organizational, administrative, legal and planning abilities of management in order to oversee the operational performance of complex engineering driven enterprises.
If you want to untangle something, like string or a cord, focus on adding as much “looseness” as you can rather than trying to untangle it. -Kevin Kel
The job of a code reviewer isn't to review code. It's to figure out how to obsolete their code review comment, that whole class of comment, in all fut
This is the farewell note I sent to my Google colleagues after deciding to resign from my position as Principal Engineer/Architect for Android Securit
Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress - by kyla scanlon
What we’re seeing isn’t just a media trend. It’s a shift in the architecture of power. Attention → Speculation → Allocation. This is the new supply ch
Many people were outraged by what they regarded as his non-parliamentary use of medieval laws to raise money. The most notorious was ship money. This
" We teachers - perhaps all human beings - are in the grip of an astonishing delusion. We think that we can take a picture, a structure, a working mod
thinking about when my dad was teaching me to drive and had me do my route to school (12 miles away) three times: once at the speed limit, once at the
Strategies for Learning
Product strategy is the process of defining what you want to achieve and how you plan to get there.
What Is a Good Activation Rate
Don't Surrender to the Machine Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod and iPhone, founder of Nest, partner at Build Collective, interviewed by @lennysan
And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a
Not to belabor the point, but people will pay you because doing so is an easier way to solve their pain than anything they might be able to do themsel
most of success comes from doing the mundane and often distasteful stuff, like identifying and dealing with problems and pushing hard over a long time
Viktor Frankl wrote dozens of books, but only one, Man’s Search For Meaning, was not aimed at commercial success. Frankl wrote Man’s Search For Mea
How to Be Successful
Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Here is my definition of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the persistent, unrealistic, fear-inducing, fucking ridiculous belief that you are su
Sometimes the prize feels closer, other times farther away. Still other times it feels like we are drowning in aimlessness and exasperation. An identi
"Failure is a data point." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC
"Failure isn’t an indictment of your basic worth but rather a piece of valuable feedback." Amy Buechler, Founder Coach at YC