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Principles for New User Onboarding
I realized that this is the longest thing Iâve written in a while! Itâs everything I learned while working on the Hugo onboarding flow, along with how you can use these principles to improve your own product. I summarized the post on Twitter as well.
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Model, Document, and Share
This post from Will Larson is nicely done. To be honest, I skimmed it the first time and it didnât blow me away, but something told me to revisit it and read deeper. Check out the âWhere it worksâ section on approaches for getting your team to adopt new systems.
Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems
Coda founders Matt Hudson and Shishir Mehrotra lay out how they thought through tricky problems earlier in their careers. I like the concept of âeigenquestionsâ quite a bit.
Video Games are the Future of Education
This was a timely read, considering I just finished Masters of Doom a few weeks ago. I agree with most of the points in this essay, though Iâm more skeptical of the idea that friction for creators is the biggest blocker to a revolution.
What Comes After Zoom?
âZoom has done a good job of asking why it was hard to get into a call but hasnât really asked why youâre in the call in the first place. Why, exactly, are you sending someone a video stream and watching another one?â
đ„ What I Found Interesting
On Presentations
I enjoyed clicking through this presentation on presentations from Siqi Chen of Sandbox VR. It really is a beautiful looking deck.
Twitter Pro Tip
Iâve been thinking about the best place for finding discussions on interesting articles. There isnât a great tool for this that I know of, but this hack on Twitter seems like it has the right ideaâŠ
Order of Magnitude
This was the first time that I stumbled on this video documenting Zuckerbergâs coverage of Facebookâs growth. Awesome and terrifying at the same time. đ
đ€ Quote I'm Pondering
âEvery perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.â â Gerald Edelman
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Conor