Kazuki
@kazuki
Cofounder of Glasp. I collect ideas and stories worth sharing 📚
San Francisco, CA
Joined Oct 9, 2020
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Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More.
jamesclear.com/power-of-environment
May 16, 2022
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15 Ideas That Will Shape Your View Of Building Products
productcoalition.com/15-ideas-that-will-shape-your-view-of-building-products-cfea0969e563
May 15, 2022
101
Building Customer Experiences With Airbnb Global Product Lead
productschool.com/blog/product-management-2/building-customer-experiences/
May 15, 2022
72
John Doerr
www.kleinerperkins.com/people/john-doerr/
May 15, 2022
2
About Us
www.kleinerperkins.com/about/
May 15, 2022
5
Our Vision
ourvision.stanford.edu/
May 15, 2022
3
The Future of Search
medium.com/@kazuki_sf_/the-future-of-search-1e26430adb83
May 14, 2022
122
Yahoo! History — Silicon Valley Historical Association
www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/yahoo-history
May 13, 2022
61
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki
americanhistory.si.edu/family-voices/individuals/jerry-yang-and-akiko-yamazaki
May 13, 2022
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Search, discovery and marketing — Benedict Evans
www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/6/24/search-discovery-and-marketing
May 12, 2022
131
Lists are the new search — Benedict Evans
www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/1/31/lists-are-the-new-search
May 12, 2022
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Lists - AVC
avc.com/2015/11/lists-2/
May 12, 2022
333
The Future of Search Is Boutique
future.a16z.com/the-future-of-search-is-boutique/
May 11, 2022
112
#TBT: Why Google Won the Search Engine War
www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/125-why-google-won.html
May 11, 2022
62
The history of Yahoo, and how it went from phenom to has-been
www.fastcompany.com/40544277/the-glory-that-was-yahoo
May 10, 2022
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly – The Rabbit Hole
blas.com/the-inevitable/
May 10, 2022
396
If a book can be summarized, is it worth reading?
austinkleon.com/2021/09/27/if-a-book-can-be-summarized-is-it-worth-reading/
May 10, 2022
51
SECI Model (Nonaka & Takeuchi)
www.toolshero.com/quality-management/seci-model-nonaka-takeuchi/
May 6, 2022
8
Why To Curate Information
medium.com/content-curation-official-guide/why-to-curate-information-73ecb47b98a5
May 5, 2022
225
Things You Need to Do to Stop Holding Yourself Back
debliu.substack.com/p/curate-cultivate-and-create-things?s=r
May 3, 2022
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Notes on newsletters — Benedict Evans
www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/11/16/notes-on-newsletters
May 3, 2022
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Where Does Growth Come From? | Clayton Christensen | Talks at Google
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHdS_4GsKmg
May 2, 2022
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Transcript: Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity | Derek Thompson | Talks at Google
ytscribe.com/v/l9KW3GtWm30/
May 2, 2022
133
103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
kk.org/thetechnium/103-bits-of-advice-i-wish-i-had-known/
Apr 29, 2022
348
The Ownership Economy 2022 – Variant
variant.fund/writing/the-ownership-economy-2022
Apr 28, 2022
301
Ten things we know to be true -
about.google/philosophy/
Apr 27, 2022
20
8 Things That Self-Made Billionaires Do Differently
medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/8-things-that-self-made-billionaires-do-differently-26399196feb3
Apr 25, 2022
346
🚀 Netflix's "first in a decade" slip
www.readaccelerated.com/p/-netflixs-first-in-a-decade-slip?s=r
Apr 25, 2022
4
How developing mental immunity can protect us from bad ideas
nesslabs.com/mental-immunity
Apr 24, 2022
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How Elon Musk Learns Faster And Better Than Everyone Else
medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/learn-like-elon-musk-fe8f8da6137c
Apr 23, 2022
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The Red Queen Effect: Avoid Running Faster and Faster Only to Stay in the Same Place - Farnam Street
fs.blog/the-red-queen-effect/
Apr 21, 2022
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Warren Buffett’s 5/25 Rule Will Help You Focus On The Things That Matter
constantrenewal.com/5-25-rule
Apr 21, 2022
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The 100-Hour Rule: Forgotten Study Shows How You Can Become World-Class In 100 Hours
medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/the-100-hour-rule-forgotten-study-shows-how-you-can-become-world-class-in-100-hours-ae2f94cc2fb0
Apr 19, 2022
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OSI owners bail for a cool $665M - Sacramento Business Journal
www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2000/12/04/story7.html
Apr 19, 2022
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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
jamesclear.com/why-facts-dont-change-minds
Apr 18, 2022
244
“Bad or Good Board of Directors – You Won’t Believe What Happened Next!”
25iq.com/2018/06/16/bad-or-good-board-of-directors-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next/
Apr 17, 2022
175
This email by Elon Musk highlights one of the most important traits for a CEO
www.cnbc.com/2017/06/20/this-email-by-elon-musk-highlights-one-of-the-most-important-traits-for-a-ceo.html
Apr 15, 2022
3
Continuous Improvement: How It Works and How to Master It
jamesclear.com/continuous-improvement
Apr 15, 2022
101
How Roelof Botha became one of VC's most powerful people
www.protocol.com/sequoia-roelof-botha
Apr 15, 2022
153
Building your digital legacy with Kazuki Nakayashiki, co-founder of Glasp
nesslabs.com/glasp-featured-tool
Apr 14, 2022
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Notes on newsletters — Benedict Evans
Highlights & Notes
Email newsletters are older than the web, and paid newsletters are older than the internet.
In the past, there were always two constraints around the one-writer business. First, meaningful ad revenue on the web needs more traffic and therefore generally more writing than any single (normal) person can produce.
Second, no-one ever really managed to make mass-market paid blogs a generalisable model either
Somehow, though, it’s easier to pay for an email than a web page. Perhaps an email is a piece of tangible value - something that you’re given every week, that you can keep, whereas a blog post disappears in the firehose, and you never remember to visit, and can’t be bothered to log in (and RSS died, and Facebook is a lottery).
Making it paid was and is a lot harder - you need to plug together a website, a membership management system, an email platform and a payment processor, with a bunch of integrations and ‘code’.
That’s the first problem Substack solved - it made publishing easy and charging easy. You pay 10% (plus Stripe’s 3-6% - the invisible percentage on half the cool new internet stuff today) and Substack handles the rest
Mailchimp, Wordpress, Memberful and Squarespace don’t give you readers - they’re tools, and they don’t have leaderboards. But Substack fits Chris Dixon’s theory of ‘come for the tool and stay for the network’, or might do - it’s a user-facing brand, and has real-estate to drive recommendations and discovery, if it can work out how it wants to do that.
In every new, empty channel, the first people to offer something good are easy to find, and can get rich. Once the channel fills up, the dynamics change.
'what happens when there is more stuff on your platform than anyone can look at?' is an essential, existential question. It can define the whole of what your product really means. What happens when email fills up - where does Substack's own reader fit in?
Would it be a network or a tool? Could I take my list and leave? Are you paying Substack for a tool, or is Substack paying you for your content - is the take-rate 90% or 10%?
You can own your content, but that’s trivial - it’s the network that matters.