Newsletters
📰 Newsletter Audit: August 2020
I've written before about my fixation with newsletters. What I hadn't done until now, is perform a full audit on my newsletter subscriptions and list them all out for you to explore. But here we are...
Conor Dewey
Reading
📈 Notes on Hacking Growth
When I joined my first role as a Data Scientist, I had to do a little research as to what exactly "Growth" was. Fast forward a year and change later, and it's what I do on a daily basis...
Reflection
🙏 24 Principles for 24 Years
Sometime this morning, I turned 24 years old and casually entered my mid-twenties. This one feels a little bigger. I've done a version of this post for the last two years and I want to keep this going...
Writing
✍️ Notes on The Laws of Copywriting
It's taken time for me to identify as a marketer. It's always been a less-than-appealing word to me. I'm not sure where the turning point was, but sometime over the past few months, that changed...
Product
👋 Principles for New User Onboarding
The way you welcome people into your product will make or break the experience for them. I'll lay out what I've learned working on our onboarding flow at Hugo and how you can use these principles to improve your own product...
Business
🌍 The Power of Capturing Knowledge in Meetings
If there was one thing you could improve on your team, what would it be? Most common answers to this question aren’t around ability or leadership. Instead, they tend to focus on a lack of alignment and information...
Reading
💀 8 Lessons from Masters of Doom
It's been a while since a book has kept me up until 4am because I couldn't stop reading it, but that was the case with Masters of Doom. It's just flat-out entertaining to read, but there are some interesting takeaways as well...
Business
⛓ Getting Started with Value Chains
Value chains are the poster child of business strategy frameworks. I recently read quite a bit from Nathan Baschez and Ben Thompson on the subject. This post aims to get you from zero to one as quickly as possible...
Writing
🛠 Creating an Idea Development System
The assertion that standalone ideas aren't valuable has some truth to it. Interesting outcomes come from digging below surface-level assumptions. If you want to get the most out of your ideas, extra effort is required...
Data Science
📊 A Practical Guide to A/B Testing
I spent a lot of time on A/B testing during my time as a data scientist at Squarespace. Turns out, there's a dramatic mismatch between what you learn in statistics textbooks and how experimentation works in practice...
Reading
🎲 The Hard Thing About Hard Things in 6 Minutes
There are plenty of books that cover the theme of "how to start a startup" but few that cover the challenges that pop up afterward. The Hard Thing About Hard Things from Ben Horowitz definitely falls into the latter category...
Thinking
🧐 How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
I've never read a Sherlock Holmes novel. I did however recently pick up an excellent short book from Peter Bevelin titled A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes. Needless to say, it got my attention...