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October 2024

🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#79)
How to outsmart yourself; 20 quick "80/20 principles" for founders; Taking advantage of context switching; To go broad, go deep; and 10 simple rules of…
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🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#78)
Non-obvious behaviors that will kill your startup; Two types of games; A guide to lifelong learning; Common Ground vs a Common Goal; and The Emerging…
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Jaryd Hermann
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🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#77)
Unhinged job applications; Why you need to force decontextualization; Intuition in strategy; Founder math; and The product engineer growth hack.
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September 2024

August 2024

🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#75)
Bottleneck thinking; The cost of apathy; Ryan Reynold's marketing trick; Life advice from Sam Altman; and 3 mistakes that almost cost the promotion
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5 interesting insights from the week (#74)
Ten startup lies; Scaling without growing; Gaps in the market vs markets in the gap; Ship or die; Discipline is overrated; and one lesson from Quibi
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Jaryd Hermann
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🌱 5-Bit Fridays: The gaming gambit, the AI price-fixing dystopia, seeing Supertrends, what's left in tech, and more
Plus a lesson from LEGO on the risks of unfocused extensions
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Jaryd Hermann
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5-Bit Fridays: The end of the homepage, sharing the right details, boring signup screens, the Market Problem Map, and my face on a billboard
Also, a lesson on challenging an established industry rule to generate a valuable and different position
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July 2024

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