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10 Valuable Things A Brand Can Achieve

10 Valuable Things A Brand Can Achieve

Smart brands know that an engaging email newsletter can help them connect with today’s consumers more easily

Ayan Yadav
Ayan Yadav
Boring is Fun

Boring is Fun

For any endeavor, there are a set of basic skills needed to build a strong foundation.

Saying no is the ultimate productivity hack.

Saying no is the ultimate productivity hack.

Not doing something will always be faster than doing it.

Pancake of conflict

Pancake of conflict

Reddit founder Alexi: The world isn’t flat — but the world wide web is.

Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated

Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated

This pithy statement references the annoying tendency of life to cause trouble and make things difficult. Problems seem to arise naturally on their own, while solutions always require our attention, energy, and effort.

The Hierarchy of Marketplaces

The Hierarchy of Marketplaces

Marketplaces that are able to scale the hierarchy build dominant “winner take most” value. What is required to get there is a focus not on GMV, but on creating happiness.

Thoughts on Free Will

Thoughts on Free Will

My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will. When it comes to living in it, assume you have no free will.”

A Brief Practical Guide to Being an Infinite Player

A Brief Practical Guide to Being an Infinite Player

What a tremendous concept: that we ought to spend our lives in acts of mutual generation and play, extending to infinity, rather than playing short-term zero-sum games!

Freedom from Fear

Freedom from Fear

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

The Price of Discipline

The Price of Discipline

“I hate tennis.” This is the opening message of Andre Agassi’s biography, Open. Agassi was the son of a tyrannical father who cared for little beyond creating a tennis champion out of his little boy. Steered by his father’s heavy hand, and often against his will, Agassi rose to be the number one player in the world.

The Market Curve

The Market Curve

The market you choose to serve is one of the most important factors for an early-stage startup. And for most technologists, it’s a blind spot. To help, we wanted to share one way of thinking about market.

Climbing the wrong hill

Climbing the wrong hill

People early in their career should learn from computer science: meander some in your walk (especially early on), randomly drop yourself into new parts of the terrain, and when you find the highest hill, don’t waste any more time on the current hill no matter how much better the next step up might appear.