Startups
🚀 What I Learned at Hugo
I'm a big believer that when you close any meaningful chapter, it's a worthwhile exercise to sit down and reflect on the most valuable things you learned from the experience...
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Growth
📚 Product Growth Canon
Over the past few years, I've learned a lot as a product operator and data scientist on several growth teams. Along the way, I've collected resources that helped solidify my understanding of different concepts...
Reading
🕹 Notes on Designing Games
Designing Games is a book of game design concepts written to help practitioners make better games. It explores the mental models, tactics, and processes behind most of today's hit video games...
Life
🙏 25 Principles for 25 Years
It's my 25th birthday today. It's an exciting one, and also a bit of a weird one if I'm being honest. Of course, I feel the same that I did yesterday. That's always the case. But something about this particular number feels different...
Growth
🛠 Evaluating Growth Tool Ideas
You may not have heard of the term "growth tool" before but it's likely you have seen them before. Just to make sure we're all on the same page, I'll copy-paste the description from Trends.vc on the topic...
Life
💫 Finding Your Personal Metrics
It doesn't seem long ago that I was graduating from college and starting my first full-time job. This time in your life comes with a whirlwind of excitement and ambition. You're finally out in the real world...
Quantified Self
📊 Quantified Conor: Q2 2021
It's time for the sequel to my first quantified self-report earlier this year. I track various metrics to learn more about myself and my well-being. I do my best to publish some version of this report at the end of each quarter...
Reading
🧬 Notes on How to Live
Derek Sivers shares a collection of answers to the question of how to live. The ideas are concise and easy to digest, but provocative enough to keep you thinking for some time afterward...
Reading
❤️ Notes on How to Love
How to Love is a short read, but one that made me think a lot about what it means to love in the context of both yourself and others. These are the ideas that I thought were worth sharing...
Data Science
⚖️ Building Rule-Based Data Products
Machine learning is seemingly baked into every established product these days. But I would posit that you probably don't need a legitimate machine learning solution at first...
Growth
🧪 The Growth Experiment Process
Growth doesn't fit nicely into one part of the funnel like a product or marketing team might. Instead, growth spans many parts of the funnel and can mean lots of different things depending on the company...
Product
🎮 Building Products for Delight
Lately, I've been thinking a bit about product design. Despite all of the lengthy Twitter threads on the subject, it's not super often that I come across a product experience that delights me...