Oversimplified: Issue 54
User onboarding, mastering the metagame, and great talks you might have missed
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đ What I Read
Growth Marketing: User Onboarding
Julian Shapiro has plenty of great material available for free in his Growth Marketing Handbook. I revisited his take on user onboarding this week and got a lot out of it.
To Get Good, Go After The Metagame
âNew tools mean new options. New options mean new viable strategies.â This post from Cedric Chin will make you think.
Resurfacing Kindle Highlights
Kindleâs are awesome for reading, but not so awesome for resurfacing highlighted passages. This is an interesting walkthrough of engineering a hand-rolled solution.
The Truth About Data Network Effects
âData network effects can be built and data can be used to create defensibility. So how do you actually do it?â Check out the video embedded if you want to sit back and skip the reading.
đ„ What I Found Interesting
Takeaways from Keith Rabois
Thereâs so much great stuff in this thread from Erik Torenberg. You can also find the compiled version if thatâs your cup of tea.
The Superhuman Product/Market Fit Engine
Donât miss this follow-up to Rahul Vohraâs original article on how Superhuman tracks product-market fit. This interactive workbook offers a super thorough and interesting dive into the data â h/t to Darren for the find.
Great Talks Most People Have Never Heard
This is a really solid list of talks from James Clear. Each link takes you to the transcript and video, also on Jamesâ website. Clever stuff.
đ€ Quote I'm Pondering
âThe single greatest danger for a founder is to become so certain of his own myth that he loses his mind. But an equally insidious danger for every business is to lose all sense of myth and mistake disenchantment for wisdomâ â Peter Thiel
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