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EssayJul 26, 2022

How to kickstart and scale a consumer business—Step 4: Find your early adopters by doing things that don’t scale

Also, how today’s biggest consumer products got their first 1,000 users

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

EssayJul 24, 2022

What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items

I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my Obsidian Second Brain, and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also back up everything to github, so I…

swyx

EssayJul 17, 2022

Rocks, Pebbles, Sand: How to implement in practice

This complete work-prioritization framework builds on the simplistic "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand" analogy, adding the details you need in the real world.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayJul 15, 2022

How to Manifest a Meetup

2024 update: for those who work in devrel/organize less-social-more-technical meetups, I have now written How to Organize Meetups Good on Dx.tips

swyx

EssayJul 5, 2022

How to kickstart and scale a consumer business

Step 1: Come up with an idea

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

EssayJul 2, 2022

Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision

Binstack is a technique for selecting the "single most impactful" solution when there are multiple, incomparable dimensions to evaluate.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayJun 27, 2022

Sharding Yourself

An advanced tip for high-volume writers.

swyx

EssayJun 25, 2022

On The Importance of 15-5 Updates

We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's Coding Career Community meetup. I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know…

swyx

EssayJun 20, 2022

Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric

Traditional rubrics fail to reveal the best answers, or how to explain those answers to others. After explaining why, the following system solves both failures.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayJun 18, 2022

Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning

My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they…

swyx

EssayJun 15, 2022

The 8 Jobs of Management

Recently, John Cutler tweeted a chart on the view of management:

swyx

EssayJun 12, 2022

The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets

I've been unhappy with my tweet rendering strategy for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of…

swyx

EssayJun 8, 2022

The End of Localhost

This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost

swyx

EssayJun 8, 2022

The "Talk vs Walk" workshop

We invented this strategic exercise at WP Engine -- engaging both Marketing and Product, generating actions for both sides that make products more desirable and competitive.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayJun 7, 2022

I’ve launched a podcast!

And the first two episodes with Julie Zhuo and Shreyas Doshi are now live!

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

EssayJun 1, 2022

Why I Moved Off Dev.to

swyx

EssayMay 30, 2022

The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture

swyx

EssayMay 29, 2022

Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfuffle

swyx

EssayMay 27, 2022

Running Docker without Docker Desktop

swyx

EssayMay 24, 2022

Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayMay 22, 2022

My 2022 New Mac Setup

swyx

EssayMay 16, 2022

The Law of Conservation of Risk

swyx

EssayMay 10, 2022

How to validate your startup idea

Lenny's Newsletter · Todd Jackson

EssayMay 7, 2022

Talk Notes: Third Age of JavaScript - Three Years In

swyx

EssayMay 7, 2022

Moats: Durable competitive advantage

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayApr 23, 2022

The "Great" Product Manager, a.k.a. the Impossible Product Manager

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayApr 20, 2022

Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering

swyx

EssayApr 19, 2022

React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend

swyx

EssayApr 12, 2022

How to know when to stop

Lenny's Newsletter · Andy Johns

EssayApr 9, 2022

Failure to face the truth

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayApr 1, 2022

Heresy

Paul Graham

EssayMar 26, 2022

Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayMar 15, 2022

How to develop product sense

Lenny's Newsletter · Jules Walter

EssayMar 7, 2022

The $100b Bull Case for Temporal

swyx

EssayMar 5, 2022

The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayFeb 28, 2022

How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours

swyx

EssayFeb 26, 2022

Who's lying?

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

EssayFeb 16, 2022

Unabridged Conclusion to the State of JS

swyx

EssayFeb 15, 2022

A product manager’s guide to web3

Lenny's Newsletter · Jason Shah

EssayFeb 10, 2022

The McClusky Curve - Viral vs Evergreen Content

swyx

EssayFeb 6, 2022

Moving to a GitHub CMS

swyx

EssayFeb 6, 2022

Moving to Obsidian as a Public Second Brain

swyx

EssayFeb 4, 2022

How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit

swyx

EssayFeb 1, 2022

Putting Ideas into Words

Paul Graham

EssayJan 27, 2022

The Swyx.io 2022 Rewrite

swyx

EssayJan 18, 2022

The inside story of Facebook Marketplace

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky, Deb Liu

EssayDec 27, 2021

Why TurboRepo Will Be The First Big Trend of 2022

swyx

EssayDec 26, 2021

Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse

swyx

EssayDec 16, 2021

The top 5 things PMs should know about engineering

Lenny's Newsletter · Justin Gage

EssayDec 9, 2021

The Atomic Network

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

EssayDec 3, 2021

How to customize your Transistor.fm Website with JS and CSS

swyx

EssayDec 2, 2021

Fave New Podcasts in 2021

swyx

EssayNov 30, 2021

A founder’s guide to community

Lenny's Newsletter · David Spinks

EssayNov 25, 2021

Lenny’s holiday gift guide

Lenny's Newsletter · Lenny Rachitsky

EssayNov 9, 2021

Six rules of hiring for growth

Lenny's Newsletter · Elena Verna

EssayNov 8, 2021

Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events

swyx

EssayNov 1, 2021

Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?

Paul Graham

EssayOct 16, 2021

100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere

swyx

EssayOct 12, 2021

60 ideas to boost your growth

Lenny's Newsletter · Ali Abouelatta

EssayOct 4, 2021

Eating the Cloud from Outside In

swyx