[Carve out ways for other people to share their perspective, contribute, participate. Do it together.]
[We decided to use a Facebook group over a page because then old, new and potential customers could talk to each other.]
[Structure is not enough, you need to actively prompt or provoke dialogue.]
How to Practice Mindfulness Meditation
[Mindfulness meditation is an opportunity to observe yourself as you are.]
[Suffering comes from escaping the experience of being alive.]
[Let your gaze rest, without staring or focusing. Whatever's in front is in front.]
Content strategy for creators: How to grow an audience
[Publish bite-sized shareable content on existing networks to help with discovery.]
[Create longer content to build trust.]
[Offer exclusive content in exchange for an email.]
[Give benefits to your most dedicated supporters who purchase.]
[Software doesn't lend itself to signal messaging, so it's more lucrative to monetize signal distribution or amplification. Make it free and charge to stand out.]
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Enjoy video or audio links from different platforms and keep a record of what you’ve played.
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What matters to other people is what they think comes naturally to you without thinking.
A year from now we will be laughing.
[Create affordances for different levels of expertise: analog people, quick learners who are less technical, power users, programmers.]
[Including an additional, more advanced toolset that is beyond the capacity of most users can help cultivate a community of more complex customizations enabled by local developers and programmers.]
[Enable users with varying skill levels to collaborate as a way to completely express more complex ideas.]
“Free Software”: An idea whose time has passed
[The GPL only fails bad actors if hobbyists are responsible for regulating cyberspace and preventing cybercrime.]
Jeff Morris Jr on Investing In Product Companies
[A lot of people use Tinder just to see who likes them back because it's like a game.]
[If you buy Tinder boost it shouldn't feel like Google Adwords, so we created superpower-like animations to make it feel like a special moment in art or NBA Allstars.]
[Most people would say that they let me invest because they wanted me to help with product, so I decided to re-brand the fund as product-focused and I would be the product person on yor cap sheet.]
[We chose TikTok influencers over Silicon Valley investors because we knew our product worked and needed an audience, distribution.]
[Why shit on the city where you grew up and received many opportunities?]
Phil Libin: Find a new way to ski
[You know everything's going right when it had nothing to do with you.]
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How I used Kommit collaboratively to exchange languages with friends.
Let's talk about Duckworth, Walsh, and systemic issues....
[If you're complaining about diversity quotas, you are the reason they exist.]
[Talk to people. It's never a bad time to talk to customers or prospects if you're having high-bandwidth conversations with them about their problems, desires, or what they need.]
[Knowing how to cook is a friend catcher.]
[Problem-solving is a friendcatcher. When you solve people's problems, they come to you with their problems.]
[A friendcatcher is resonant, tractable, and underserved.]
[The email subject is the promise: overdeliver in the body.]
[When someone first pays, they probably are more motivated than normal, the iron is hot so take advantage, you can reach out more then and then cool off later.]
[Don't start the work of a SAAS company until you've had 10-25 conversations.]
[Have 10 commits to buy before launch.]
[There will probably be 1 primary thing and 2 secondary objectives during any week. One of those should be 'talking to people' and another should be 'less interesting but necessary'.]
[Being able to credibly say 'this is what I do' builds trust.]
[You can be unreasonably good at what you do, irrationally responsive to customers.]
[Move fast and make things.]
[Price tiers are a way for customers to acknowledge they are getting outstanding value, you can ask them why, this can tell you what to build next.]
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[Trolling is posting where the reaction is the content.]
[The real hallmark of abundance is variety not quantity.]
[Facebook's real product is the ability to find lookalike customers: turn this audience of 10 into 1000 that are similar.]
[Kids understand systems well because because they don't think in terms of cause and effect: they look around and make things.]
[Silicon Valley wins because it is a culture that values building over solving problems.]
[The purpose determines the course. If we are clear about 'why', then the how is more evident and we can define success.]
Indian music, sangeet, was originally conceived as an offering. Tagore said that creativity comes from a recognition of the excess that life has given to us: we offer what is bit ours.
