📈 Visualizing Retention

Once you have your metric locked in as your north star for all things retention, the next step is visualization. This will provide you with the foundational understanding that you'll perform analysis and make decisions...

🎶 Notes on Your Music and People

Derek Sivers has become one of my favorite thinkers. His writing is concise and just flat-out fun to read — I'm happy to say that his latest book, Your Music and People doesn't lower that bar one bit...

💫 Choosing a Retention Metric

It's not super controversial that retention is a big deal for startups. What is a little more controversial, or maybe just less well-known, is how to go about improving retention in your product...

🏃‍♂️ Notes on What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

For a long time, I held the firm view that running sucks. Over the past few months, this view has softened considerably. While running still sucks sometimes, I've grown to kind of love it in a way...

🌱 What It Means to Work on Growth

When you think of a startup, you probably imagine a smaller team with some venture funding. In the past, they might have worked out of a loft in San Francisco. Paul Graham has a slightly different definition...