Conor Dewey

🛠 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...

📊 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...

🎲 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...

🧐 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...

🤝 Why I'm Betting on Hugo

If you aren't familiar with Hugo, it's a collaborative, centralized interface for meeting notes that connects with a bunch of other tools. The team recently closed a $6.1 million seed round...

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