Kazuki
@kazuki
Cofounder of Glasp. I collect ideas and stories worth sharing 📚
San Francisco, CA
Joined Oct 9, 2020
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Take Better Notes When Reading Non-Fiction With HQ&A
words.jamoe.org/highlight-question-and-answer/
Dec 24, 2021
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The best metric for determining quantitative product market fit — Growth Engineering Blog by Jeff Chang
www.growthengblog.com/blog/the-best-metric-for-determining-quantitative-product-market-fit
Dec 24, 2021
112
Minimize your Time to Product/Market Fit at andrewchen
andrewchen.com/ttpmf-time-to-product-market-fit/
Dec 24, 2021
82
Study shows that students learn more when taking part in classrooms that employ active-learning strategies
news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/study-shows-that-students-learn-more-when-taking-part-in-classrooms-that-employ-active-learning-strategies/
Dec 24, 2021
41
The Critical Importance of Retrieval for Learning
www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1152408
Dec 24, 2021
2
WWW-Talk Apr-Jun 1993: group annotation server guinea pigs?
1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q2/0416.html
Dec 24, 2021
2
When has a consumer startup hit product/market fit? at andrewchen
andrewchen.com/when-has-a-consumer-startup-hit-productmarket-fit/
Dec 24, 2021
102
Not so trivial.
medium.com/sapere-aude-incipe/not-so-trivial-4af59f2abd09
Dec 23, 2021
21
The Revenge of the Fat Guy | Andreessen Horowitz
a16z.com/2010/03/20/the-revenge-of-the-fat-guy/
Dec 23, 2021
7
Casey’s Guide to Finding Product/Market Fit
caseyaccidental.com/caseys-guide-to-finding-product-market-fit/
Dec 22, 2021
211
Before Growth
blog.samaltman.com/before-growth
Dec 22, 2021
31
Startups in 13 Sentences
www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
Dec 22, 2021
91
The Pinterest Pivot
www.fastcompany.com/3001984/pinterest-pivot
Dec 22, 2021
71
Meet Ben Silbermann, The Brilliant Young Co-Founder Of Pinterest
web.archive.org/web/20121013204528/http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-13/tech/31158694_1_google-experience-products-silbermann-said
Dec 22, 2021
94
Writing is Networking for Introverts
byrnehobart.medium.com/writing-is-networking-for-introverts-5cac14ad4c77
Dec 21, 2021
42
Designing a better reading experience with Matter
nesslabs.com/matter-featured-tool
Dec 17, 2021
193
The Real Product Market Fit: Product Market Fit | Y Combinator
www.ycombinator.com/library/5z-the-real-product-market-fit
Dec 16, 2021
7
Fermat's Library - Annotating Academic Papers Every Week
blog.ycombinator.com/fermats-library-annotating-academic-papers-every-week/
Dec 15, 2021
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Amazon Kindle, the sleeping social network
eugenewei.medium.com/612e60bec97c
Dec 15, 2021
72
✨Notion
read.first1000.co/p/notion
Dec 15, 2021
164
The Web3 Playbook: Using Token Incentives to Bootstrap New Networks | Future
future.a16z.com/the-web3-playbook-using-token-incentives-to-bootstrap-new-networks/
Dec 12, 2021
6
Engagement Drives Stickiness Drives Retention Drives Growth
medium.com/sequoia-capital/engagement-drives-stickiness-drives-retention-drives-growth-3a6ac53a7a00
Dec 8, 2021
102
The Psychology of Startup Growth
www.nfx.com/post/psychology-startup-growth/
Dec 7, 2021
23
Presentations — Benedict Evans
www.ben-evans.com/presentations
Dec 7, 2021
1
Sifting the Essential from the Non-Essential
fs.blog/albert-einstein-simplicity/
Dec 6, 2021
92
The Token Disconnect
www.stephendiehl.com/blog/disconnect.html
Dec 3, 2021
91
Organization Legos: The State of DAO Tooling
medium.com/1kxnetwork/organization-legos-the-state-of-dao-tooling-866b6879e93e
Dec 3, 2021
21
Capturing cross-selling synergies in M&A
www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/m-and-a/our-insights/capturing-cross-selling-synergies-in-ma
Dec 2, 2021
162
How to take smart notes (Ahrens, 2017) - LessWrong
www.lesswrong.com/posts/T382CLwAjsy3fmecf/how-to-take-smart-notes-ahrens-2017
Dec 1, 2021
151
Zettelkasten — How One German Scholar Was So Freakishly Productive
writingcooperative.com/zettelkasten-how-one-german-scholar-was-so-freakishly-productive-997e4e0ca125
Nov 30, 2021
233
The Hook Model: How to Manufacture Desire in 4 Steps
www.nirandfar.com/how-to-manufacture-desire/
Nov 30, 2021
12
Startup Metrics for Pirates
www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version
Nov 29, 2021
2
Jeremy Levine's backstory on Pinterest–from Series A to IPO
www.bvp.com/atlas/pinterest-ipo
Nov 28, 2021
52
Fat Protocols | Union Square Ventures
www.usv.com/writing/2016/08/fat-protocols/
Nov 26, 2021
12
Digital Economies, Gaming, and IP Legos
digitalnative.substack.com/p/digital-economies-gaming-and-ip-legos
Nov 24, 2021
121
How Microsoft’s Human Insights Library Creates a Living Body of Knowledge
medium.com/microsoft-design/how-microsofts-human-insights-library-creates-a-living-body-of-knowledge-fff54e53f5ec
Nov 24, 2021
9
All Our Patent Are Belong To You
www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
Nov 23, 2021
4
A beginner's guide to social tokens — Mirror
linda.mirror.xyz/4PDBWBMpFFPVEsP5EGgg5to2AyEpEHEXasq_K0b-yYk
Nov 23, 2021
9
The Year Of The Decacorn: 2021 Shatters Records For Number Of New Startups Valued At $10B+
news.crunchbase.com/news/decacorn-startups-2021-global-record-data-charts/
Nov 23, 2021
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✨Notion
Highlights & Notes
The work on Notion started in late 2013/early 2014. But, by early 2015 the project was still held at a standstill.
The move to Japan + slimming down the team gave them some runway to give Notion a fighting chance to make it out into the real world.
In March 2016, almost a year after they hit the reset button on building Notion, Ivan & Simon launched the product on Product Hunt. The launch ended up being to be one most successful ones in 2016!
What Notion did differently from its predecessors, however, was to bundle single-player productivity with multiplayer productivity apps.
Flexibility & Adaptability: The blocks structure of Notion gives users the flexibility to build powerful tools that adapt to their needs rather than the other way round.
99% of the growth of Notion is Word of Mouth (WoM) driven.
Raise Awareness: launch on discovery platforms.
Go viral: get those initial users to spread the Word.
Maximize user commitment to the product (i.e., association)
Maximize the positive emotions (i.e., love) users have while using the product
Notion did an excellent job here at moving people along this learning/value curve extremely efficiently (without the need of a large CS or sales force) and extremely fast.
Level 1: Single personal use-case
Level 2: Multiple personal use-cases
Level 3: Company's source of truth
Level 4: Lego blocks for creating productivity apps.
What they had, was a good product sense that maximized the number of people who reached the highest level of the Notion Value Stack.
the landing page is optimized to get you to think about what that ideal use-case would be for you by showing you the power of the tool!
If Notion's Landing page was about the what, the onboarding process was about the how. Onboarding on Notion was all about showing users how they could use the product.
Onboarding: How
Notion's journey starts with a very simple value-proposition that solves users' immediate problems, then guides people towards "unlocking" more valuable use-cases.
Sometimes it is best not to communicate your value proposition! Start small and build it, especially if you build a product with a large surface area.
To accelerate Word of mouth, help users extract more value from your product as fast as possible. Each product interaction is an opportunity to unlock the "next" value level.