Tech
🤖 Replika and Virtual Friends
I was on my phone the other day and came across Replika, an app that describes itself as your personal AI friend. Surprisingly, I remembered reading a profile on the origin story of Replika a few years ago...
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Tech
🧙♂️ Playing the Merchant
As someone who grew up on the internet, I occasionally think back to early memories online. When I fondly look back on these memories, I realize both how much and how little things have changed...
Reading
💰 Notes on Monetizing Innovation
Lately, I've been doing a little thinking about how products should set pricing for consumers. I didn't really expect it coming in, but pricing strategy is actually pretty interesting...
Newsletters
🔮 On the Future of Newsletters
Around this time last year, I distinctly remember thinking that newsletters were blowing up as a form of content consumption. Since that point, it feels like hype around them has continued to grow exponentially...
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...
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...