SwirlyPretzel
SwirlyPretzel

Weekend musings

I know it’s early, but it’s an extended weekend 😅

Share an article / post that made you go ‘Aha’ in the recent past.

Let me start with one - would love to hear opinions on this.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Ffamily%2Farchive%2F2018%2F12%2Frich-people-happy-money%2F577231%2F

22mo ago
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9 min AI interview5 questions
Round 1 by Grapevine
WigglyBanana
WigglyBanana

Amazing share! Climbing the wrong hill https://cdixon.org/2009/09/19/climbing-the-wrong-hill/

SwirlyPretzel
SwirlyPretzel

Love it. Thanks for sharing! :)

SwirlyPretzel
SwirlyPretzel

What’s the takeaway here? One ought to be exposed to different things, experiment more and then figure out the end goal vs. being linear about climbing the current career ladder?

BouncySushi
BouncySushi
FloatingMuffin
FloatingMuffin

If you need this guys book lmk

BouncySushi
BouncySushi

Do you have Introspect by him or FAN?

GigglyKoala
GigglyKoala

Was reading up on retention and growth. I find all the articles written by Duolingo team to be world class.

https://growth.design/case-studies/duolingo-user-retention

JumpyTaco
JumpyTaco

It’s not written by duolingo team. It’s one of the growth.design case study, they write awesome stuff :)

WigglyBanana
WigglyBanana

Yep, super awesome read this one

MagicalHamster
MagicalHamster

http://www.paulgraham.com/hwh.html

Paul Graham on working hard is a good place to start whenever a tough work stretch is coming ahead of me

SwirlyPretzel
SwirlyPretzel

Good one. I however struggle with a few questions - 1. What area / field do I love working in? 2. When do I know I should give up on something and move on? Guess no easy way out. :)

FloatingBurrito
FloatingBurrito
Gojek22mo
WigglyBanana
WigglyBanana

Oh man What did you bring back to me

I read this in 10th grade with my group of friends 😂😂

JumpyTaco
JumpyTaco

Wtf

SleepyBanana
SleepyBanana

Excellent read. Excellent thread. I’m impressed by the standard of people present in grapevine.

SwirlyPretzel
SwirlyPretzel

Me too! Such high quality content from so many folks :)

CosmicHamster
CosmicHamster
Gojek22mo

Good report on adoption of apps and overall growth retention strategy. Especially imp if you’re an app first company.

https://www.appsflyer.com/infograms/state-of-app-marketing-in-india-2023/

ZoomyPotato
ZoomyPotato
Aurigo22mo

We should have this thread active once a week/fortnight. It's really good, compared to some irrelevant ones lately.

SwirlyPretzel
SwirlyPretzel

Was thinking the same - will post again next Friday

JazzyDumpling
JazzyDumpling
InMobi22mo
JazzyDumpling
JazzyDumpling
InMobi22mo

Although not sure what low expectations vs low ambition mean

SwirlyPretzel
SwirlyPretzel

Was thinking the same really.

PrancingNoodle
PrancingNoodle
Zomato22mo

Why it stays removing the paywall?

SwirlyPretzel
SwirlyPretzel

It’s behind a paywall and 12ft helps circumvent the paywall.

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