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New essay up. Narrative Distillation - modern IPO env is about owning marketing, not pricing - increasing impt of narrative leverage as accounting too backwards facing - product market fit as one facet of narrative distillation - founder led narratives https://t.co/lGuNdpyZmR

Our Solar System is the Sun plus a tiny perturbation ε = (mass of all planets)/(mass of the Sun) ≃ 0.001 The fate of Earth as a gravitating body and the stability of the Solar System is deeply rooted in this.

First up, Why do you need to build an audience? - They'll be your first customers - Emotionally investing people in your journey = Loyal customers - Testimonials and Marketing - Personal Twitter account >> Business account People want to connect to people

Saat ini, terdapat lebih dari 4.600 perguruan tinggi di Indonesia. Di antara ribuan kampus tersebut, sudah menjadi rahasia umum bahwa terdapat kesenjangan kualitas yang besar. https://t.co/nIF0HqIFT9

The three dashboards you need at a startup: - stability dashboard: does the product do what it says w/o breaking - product dashboard: 2-3 things that prove people use the product & come back to use it again - revenue dashboard: you make money to be sustainable & can grow

@balajis I think https://t.co/6Zz7awXFCu is a good example of this - I often use it as an example of "product-as-journalism" Instead of "best places to travel" articles every day/week - it's a live updating set of data customised to each user's needs for that specific information-problem

Thread/ I promised to share the syllabus for my seminar "Peripheries, Frontiers, and Outsides of Historical Capitalism." Here's the reading list by week. The current plan is co-teach a revised and expanded version next spring (2023) with Nancy Fraser, so suggestions are welcome.

How to be top 1%: be top 10% in two compounding skills. How to be one in a million…

First, a step back: We decided as a team that any tactic we took to “make the day account” had to come from one of 5 principles: 1. Accountability 2. Simplification 3. Curiosity 4. Empathy 5. Balance Now let's talk tactics...

Last week, NYT published a major story that suggested falsely that police prevent murder and that one reason for increased murders during a global pandemic was civil rights criticism of police! The NYT did not disclose that the reporter was former CIA/Palantir/police/DA paid.

FOMA Fear Of Missing Akhirat https://t.co/UJtWRGSjzr

Thread anomali aktifitas aplikasi #PeduliLindungi, aku coba bikin thread twitter biar mendetail juga analisanya, anomali yang baru ditemukan itu ada dua: 1. aplikasi menyimpan data device secara manual 2. data dikirimkan ke website aneh diluar indonesia https://t.co/djSiL60Lzl

Why Web 3 matters 🧵

business idea: a gym that costs $1k/month. everyday you go, you get a refund of $40.

50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World 🧠 https://t.co/oStpVkvvgR https://t.co/tMuwAWArVX

Imagine taking investment advice from Robert Kiyosaki https://t.co/eXqacIDnPG

48 different photos of the moon, by @enrosadire (via @kottke) https://t.co/u5Icq3WxL7

What book was so good you had to read it twice?

Sales process 101 for your startup... 1. Define customer persona 2. Sell solutions to problems 3. Don’t talk features 4. Find the pain points 5. Focus on the outcome 6. Listen more than talk 7. Focus on being helpful 8. Agree to next steps on call 9. Tres commas

Albert Einstein was a skilled pianist and violinist He once said, "The greatest scientists are artists as well"

Bad Pitch: "We offer digital marketing services to eCommerce brands" Better Pitch: "We do Facebook ads for wellness brands that are already making $30k/mo and want to scale to over $100k/mo" Deep >>> Wide

Building a company is all about people. Here's why a $4B company decided to have a 4-day work week: @ryantakesoff https://t.co/GXXmDXbjGA

1/ Last weekend, I shared a thread with a 5-step framework for improving your learning retention. Step 5 was "Idea Exercise”—the concept of "flexing" an idea to commit it to memory. This thread breaks down a highly-effective, science-backed approach to exercising new ideas: https://t.co/zT0R4d7KeC

MISTAKE 1: HIRING REACTIVELY VS. PROACTIVELY Too often, young execs recruit talent for today's business needs. Instead we must ask what will be required 12-24 months from now. Hire for the future. h/t @austin_rief

Losing track of all the Facebook scandals this month? I’ve wrapped them all up for you in this week’s newsletter. One common theme in all of them: Facebook under-policing its platform for harm and abuse. https://t.co/QIrbaGkxiD

A good CEO will always assume blame & delegate praise.

Here's what I'd recommend to 1st time founders... 1. Bootstrap or raise as little as possible 2. Grow revenue to $1m-$10M 3. Sell for all cash and get @microacquire'd 4. Swing for a $100M-$1B outcome next Not easy but a more realistic path for 99% of entrepreneurs.

1) Digital marketing is "100% measurable", and so it gives marketers over-confidence in quantitative, logical approaches to consumer marketing.

Marketing strategy 101 to build an audience: Give Give Give Give Give Give Give Give Give Give Give Give Give Give Give Give Then, Ask

1. Ask a Question Ask a question that relates to your readers. For Example: If you write about weight loss. Use in the email headline and body copy. • If you want to lose your weight. • Why you're not able to lose weight. • Hidden secret to lose weight fast.