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Lots to share this week⊠Letâs get to the best links I found on the internet this week. If youâre enjoying the newsletter, share it with a friend. If this was forwarded to you, check out some previous issues and subscribe for future updates.
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24 Principles for 24 Years
Every year on my birthday I publish the ideas and principles that were most meaningful to me over the last calendar year. I donât know if all of these principles will resonate with anyone else, or even if theyâll still resonate with me when I look at this again next year. But that's kind of the point, isn't it?
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The Garden of Forking Memes
If you have some time to spare, there are a couple of interesting ideas in here. One of my favorites: âForgetting is a feature, not a bug. It makes us feel like weâre moving forward through time, rather than standing still.â
Shopifyâs Data Science Foundations
I really like this post on what practical data science looks like at Shopify. Some points like âVetted Dashboardsâ and âEverything is Peer-Reviewedâ are often overlooked when we talk about data science in public.
9 Tricks to Experiment with Your Pricing Strategy
I recently finished reading Monetizing Innovation (notes coming soon!) and stumbled on this post from Julian Lehr that hit on a lot of overlapping concepts in a nice way.
Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
OpenAIâs new GPT-3 language model launched into beta access and Twitter reacted accordingly. This was my favorite thing I read on the new tech.
How to Write Technical Posts
This post from Sandy Maguire has lots of good writing advice in it, whether youâre focused on technical content or not. At the end of the day, the goal is still the same: Make your stuff easier to engage with.
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Notes for Ambitious People
Shreyas Doshi put together a nice Twitter thread with bite-sized advice for driven and ambitious people. There are a couple points from this that I realized I could work on.
Most Products Fail
I read about this project from Kenny Ning when it first came out and was super impressed. Fast forward some time, and stakeholder adoption wasnât where they wanted it to be. Stories like this donât get shared enough.
đ€ Quote I'm Pondering
"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise" - Alden Nowlan
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