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STUBBORN
EssayMar 17, 2024

Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools

How do you know when to stop, versus when to push through? You don't, not even in hindsight. But these guiding questions can help.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

PODCAST
EssayMar 12, 2024

My podcast tech stack, workflows, and lessons

Celebrating 10 million downloads 🎉

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

EssayMar 10, 2024

The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy

We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly find "insights" that are actually noise. Here's how to fix that.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

PENSIEVE
EssayMar 9, 2024

Pensieve: Mar 8 2024 - on Dune 2

A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.

swyx

PENSIEVE
EssayMar 8, 2024

Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency

A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.

swyx

STARTUPS
EssayMar 3, 2024

AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different

The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the internet. Ignore this at your peril.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

BEST
EssayMar 1, 2024

The Best Essay

Paul Graham

REDDITS
EssayMar 1, 2024

The Reddits

Paul Graham

START
EssayMar 1, 2024

How to Start Google

Paul Graham

500K
EssayFeb 26, 2024

$500K milestone – my reflections after 1 year of building Typing Mind

Also in this issue: one-off purchase vs. subscription, selling Xnapper, and other updates from me in Feb 2024

Tony Dinh · Substack · Tony Dinh

STARTUPS
EssayFeb 25, 2024

How startups beat incumbents

A startup can beat a large, successful incumbent, if it does things the incumbent can not or will not do. Here are those things.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

THINGS
EssayFeb 21, 2024

Things I Don't Know About AI

The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.

Elad Gil · Substack · Elad Gil

TEST
EssayFeb 21, 2024

Test articles

Test

Justin Jackson

SHOULD
EssayFeb 20, 2024

You should be playing with GPTs at work

20 examples of how people are using custom GPTs to make their teams more productive

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

EASY
EssayFeb 18, 2024

Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters

A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

WRITE
EssayFeb 16, 2024

Write 100 emails to people you know

Justin Jackson

EASY
EssayFeb 11, 2024

Easy to criticize, hard to create

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

DECIDING
EssayFeb 4, 2024

Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

SEND
EssayFeb 3, 2024

Send your users this welcome email

Justin Jackson

RETURN
EssayJan 31, 2024

A return to company core mission & values

Elad Gil · Substack · Elad Gil

PICK
EssayJan 28, 2024

Pick one and own it

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

BRING
EssayJan 24, 2024

Bring Back Short Stories

swyx

ADD
EssayJan 22, 2024

add Whisper to your iOS Action Button

swyx

ERRORS
EssayJan 21, 2024

The "errors" that mean you're doing it right

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

DESCRIBE
EssayJan 16, 2024

How to describe your business as an equation

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky, Dan Hockenmaier

THEME
EssayJan 14, 2024

My theme for 2024: SaaS marketing experiments

Justin Jackson

MEASURE
EssayJan 14, 2024

How to measure the accuracy of forecasts

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

GUIDE
EssayJan 10, 2024

A Guide to Learning Community (Part 1)

Do Fuong · Substack · Do Fuong

SHOULD
EssayJan 10, 2024

You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox

swyx

DIDNT
EssayJan 9, 2024

I didn't think building a startup was this hard

Do Fuong · Substack · Do Fuong

SELLING
EssayJan 7, 2024

Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

2023
EssayJan 5, 2024

2023 year in review

Justin Jackson

FAVE
EssayJan 3, 2024

My Fave New Podcasts of 2023

swyx

ROI
EssayDec 31, 2023

"ROI" is the wrong way to sell your product

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

2023
EssayDec 26, 2023

2023 Recap

Tony Dinh · Substack · Tony Dinh

TAKING
EssayDec 26, 2023

Taking the week off (and thank you!)

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

ROADMAP
EssayDec 24, 2023

The roadmap to Product/Market Fit (PMF)… maybe

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

CREATE
EssayDec 19, 2023

How to create a WOW online cohort learning experience (Part 5)

Do Fuong · Substack · Do Fuong

EssayDec 17, 2023

The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

TEN
EssayDec 16, 2023

Ten SaaS marketing principles for 2024

Justin Jackson

CREATE
EssayDec 15, 2023

How to create a WOW online cohort learning experience (Part 4)

Do Fuong · Substack · Do Fuong

DWELL
EssayDec 13, 2023

Dwell and the Tools for Thought Hackathon

swyx

GOOD
EssayDec 13, 2023

How to do good work (Part 10): Build your curiosity muscle

Do Fuong · Substack · Do Fuong

BEST
EssayDec 12, 2023

The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 2023

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

MANY
EssayDec 10, 2023

How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10)

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayDec 5, 2023

Altimeter's Brad Gerstner on Macro, Tech and Startups

Elad Gil · Substack · Elad Gil

CAPITAL
EssayDec 4, 2023

Capital Efficient Businesses

Elad Gil · Substack · Elad Gil

CHANGE
EssayDec 3, 2023

Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

VIDEO
EssayDec 1, 2023

Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart

Elad Gil · Substack · Elad Gil

STEPS
EssayNov 30, 2023

5 Steps to Nail Product Positioning

Do Fuong · Substack · Do Fuong

WAS
EssayNov 29, 2023

I was wrong about entrepreneurship

Do Fuong · Substack · Do Fuong

EssayNov 29, 2023

Bouldering

swyx

EssayNov 26, 2023

Quarterly strategic planning using the fairytale structure

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

RUN
EssayNov 21, 2023

Why I run Black Friday deals (things I learned)

Tony Dinh · Substack · Tony Dinh

ADVICE
EssayNov 21, 2023

Advice for Sending Cold Emails and DMs

Justin Jackson

EssayNov 19, 2023

Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

GOOD
EssayNov 16, 2023

How to do good work (Part 9): Stay close to who you are

Do Fuong · Substack · Do Fuong

YOURE
EssayNov 12, 2023

You're a real company when…

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

FIRESIDE
EssayNov 8, 2023

Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

Elad Gil · Substack · Elad Gil

OCT
EssayNov 6, 2023

Oct 2023: side project, interview on Indie Hackers

Tony Dinh · Substack · Tony Dinh

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