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Here, I share my notes, thoughts & learnings as I dive deeper into startups, web3, product management, useful tools and more.
🔍 Highlights from When Coffee & Kale Compete
272 viewsCustomer Jobs Theory aims to understand the real motivation behind customer behavior....
Read more...🌌 The Future of Product Managers
186 viewsJust the other day, I was listening to this fascinating podcast by Lenny Rachitsky, where Scott Belsky, the founder of Behance, spoke about the future of work...
Read more...👩🏼🎨 Essential Design Frameworks & Mental Models
196 viewsNotes on designing memorable user experiences & building delightful products...
Read more...- Apr 2023
🍔 Is Software Still Eating the World in 2023?
122 viewsIn 2011, Marc Andreessen famously declared that software is eating the world and would transform every industry. Over a decade later...
Read more... 🤯 My simple 3-Step Productivity Hack to deal with Newsletter Overload
90 viewsNewsletters are a fantastic way to stay updated on the latest news, insights, and trends...
Read more...🧑🏼🔬 40 years in tech: A conversation w. GPT4
80 viewsLooking at the biggest innovations in tech in the past 20 years and predicting the biggest ones in the coming 20...
Read more...User Research Plans: Collection of resources
93 viewsUser Experience is simply put the impact of design on an audience...
Read more...- Nov 2022
Using Jobs to be done to design, build, and market products
625 viewsJobs to be done is a framework developed by Clayton Christensen. It helps us think about products & services from a more functional lens...
Read more... A Simple Framework For Meta Learning ⚡️
144 viewsLearning a new skill fast is one of the most important skills that most billionaires have in common.
Read more...Understanding Motivation
68 viewsMotivation is all about getting started and consistently taking action, making sure we get back on track when we fall off the bandwagon...
Read more...How to Grow A Marketplace - Lessons from Etsy’s Growth
52 viewsA marketplace business is one where you match supply with demand...
Read more...A simple framework for Problem Solving
75 viewsThe first thing you should do while trying to solve a problem is to forget about the solution and return to the problem...
Read more...- Oct 2022
Understanding and Predicting Tech Supercycles
60 viewsBrad Gerstner recently spoke about tech supercycles on the 20VC podcast ...
Read more... Lessons from the success and growth of Notion
151 viewsNotion has recently been valued at $10Bn, but the path to get there has not been straightforward. It took notion 5 years before they first went viral on Product Hunt. ...
Read more...🔓🔍💻 How drop open sourced product development
97 viewsDrop is a community commerce startup where a group of people can collect together to place a bulk order. Because ...
Read more...UX design mental models
143 viewsEveryday Product and User Experience design Mental models...
Read more...Highlights from Why great products do only one thing
61 viewsMost great products start by doing one thing "GREAT "before going on to do other things....
Read more...How dbt is transforming the ELT
113 viewsdbt is a new data transformation tool that has quietly become the most preferred tool for organisations to do data transformations and manage these transformations....
Read more...Bitcoin ⚡️ Lightning and use cases
63 viewsBitcoin lightning is a layer 2 solution built on top of Bitcoin for instant payments...
Read more...Understanding The Merge
118 viewsSo Ethereum transitioned from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake as its consensus mechanism last month...
Read more...- Sep 2022
Highlights from Robert Cialdini’s book Influence
89 viewsRecently, I went back to Naval’s post on building specific knowledge. I was particularly interested in remembering what he had to say about getting better at sales...
Read more... Decentralized Storage 101: The Basics
165 viewsThe three pillars of web3 infrastructure layer...
Read more...Highlights from “Life after lifestyle”
107 viewsIn the 2010s, supply chain innovation opened up lifestyle brands. In the 2020s, financial mechanism innovation is opening up the space...
Read more...Andrew Hong’s primer on web3 scoring and algorithms
335 viewsWeb3 is here to stay and it is taking online reputation systems to the next level. With web3, a users digital identity is not tied to a particular website...
Read more...Crypto and Use Cases
100 viewsTo understand crypto and potential use cases we need to look at other tech first and see how the...
Read more...- Aug 2022
The future of web3 social: Opportunities & Challenges
197 viewsThe problem with web2 Social...
Read more... How to design a reputation system for your community or DApp?
540 viewsReputation systems are nothing but a fancy way of rewarding and incentivizing user contribution/participation. ....
Read more...Social tokens will make online communities awesome just like IRL 😎
822 viewsWe all have been part of online communities where a few people talk while rest of us lurk. This is about to change...
Read more...- Jul 2022
How to conduct user interviews to evaluate PMF?
434 viewsAt early stage, there are only two things that matter. Talking to users and building product. Hence, user interviews become super important....
Read more... Justin Wilcox’s 5 step framework to evaluate Product Market Fit
398 viewsProduct Market fit in simple words is making something someone really wants. There are generally 3 parts to it...
Read more...- Jun 2022
Fralic’s Rules for Making Memorable Connections
87 viewsRules Chris Fralic used to become insanely well connected in Silicon Valley and launch his own venture capital fund.
Read more... - Apr 2022
Project Management Cheatsheet
135 viewsAgile, Kanban, and Scrum are not three different project management styles. ...
Read more... - Mar 2022
Tokenomics 101: Supply & Demand
286 viewsTokenomics is the Math & incentives governing crypto assets. In recent years, this phrase has been used a lot...
Read more... - Feb 2022
How to build a buyer persona?
335 viewsMarketing personas are built to remind the team of what market segment they are in and how the messaging might need to be changed/adapted based...
Read more... Pointers on writing the perfect PRD doc
70 viewsPRD or the Product Requirements Document is a living document that helps different stakeholders understand and align on the status and purpose of the product....
Read more...Make Something People Want. But How?
279 viewsMAKE SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT!!! This is the one piece of advice Y Combinator has been giving its founders for eternity....
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