Kazuki
@kazuki
Cofounder of Glasp. I collect ideas and stories worth sharing 📚
San Francisco, CA
Joined Oct 9, 2020
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Goodreads for Publishers, Booksellers & Librarians
www.slideshare.net/GoodreadsPresentations/bea-workshop-v3
Jun 21, 2022
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USV Thesis 3.0 | Union Square Ventures
www.usv.com/writing/2018/04/usv-thesis-3-0/
Jun 20, 2022
3
The Content Marketing Handbook - Priceonomics
priceonomics.com/the-content-marketing-handbook-2/
Jun 20, 2022
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Understanding Customer Acquisition Costs
medium.com/venture-capital-growth-hacking/understanding-customer-acquisition-costs-74aec7538b4d
Jun 20, 2022
12
Memory as a Service – Nick Grossman
www.nickgrossman.xyz/2022/memory-as-a-service/
Jun 18, 2022
101
🌲When Themed Logs are More Useful than Daily Notes
www.obsidianroundup.org/themed-logs-not-daily-notes/
Jun 17, 2022
31
Announcing a new Blockchain-Based Digital Advertising Platform | Basic Attention Token
basicattentiontoken.org/announcing-a-new-blockchain-based-digital-advertising-platform/
Jun 16, 2022
121
Average Email Open Rates by Industry (2022)
influencermarketinghub.com/email-open-rates/
Jun 15, 2022
122
The hermeneutic circle: a key to critical reading
nesslabs.com/hermeneutic-circle
Jun 15, 2022
61
The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No
jamesclear.com/saying-no
Jun 14, 2022
142
The Best Way to Find More Time to Read
fs.blog/finding-time-to-read/
Jun 14, 2022
133
The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards
jamesclear.com/the-1-percent-rule
Jun 14, 2022
112
Get smarter everyday with Vladimir Oane, founder of Deepstash
nesslabs.com/deepstash-featured-tool
Jun 10, 2022
93
Scale vs. Speed: Why organizations slow down
seths.blog/2022/06/scale-vs-speed-why-organizations-slow-down/
Jun 8, 2022
32
The Wisdom List: Kevin Aluwi | The Generalist
www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/kevin-aluwi
Jun 7, 2022
141
Anything You Want | Derek Sivers
sive.rs/a
Jun 5, 2022
4
Parsing Out the Truth As the Truth Will Set You Free: Facing Painful Reality
hardfork.substack.com/p/parsing-out-the-truth-as-the-truth?s=r
Jun 2, 2022
83
How to Scale a Magical Experience: 4 Lessons from Airbnb’s Brian Chesky
reid.medium.com/how-to-scale-a-magical-experience-4-lessons-from-airbnbs-brian-chesky-eca0a182f3e3
Jun 2, 2022
171
Glasp, the social highliner
feedline.wordpress.com/2022/06/01/glasp-the-social-highliner/
Jun 1, 2022
73
When the 80/20 Rule Fails: The Downside of Being Effective
jamesclear.com/the-downside-of-being-effective
May 31, 2022
81
The Learning Pyramid
www.educationcorner.com/the-learning-pyramid.html
May 30, 2022
111
Study Skills: Strategies for Reading Textbooks
www.educationcorner.com/textbook-strategies.html
May 30, 2022
103
Perfectionism: Why and How to Beat It
every.to/superorganizers/perfectionism-why-and-how-to-beat-it
May 29, 2022
194
Dawn of the Age of Digital Learning
medium.com/gsv-ventures/dawn-of-the-age-of-digital-learning-4c4e38784226
May 28, 2022
222
Building an extension of your mind with mymind
nesslabs.com/mymind-featured-tool
May 27, 2022
83
How change happens
seths.blog/2022/05/how-change-happens/
May 27, 2022
51
Dogfooding: How Putting Yourself in the User’s Shoes Changes the Way You See Your Product
debliu.substack.com/p/dogfooding-how-putting-yourself-in?s=r
May 26, 2022
103
Growth as a Mindset
debliu.substack.com/p/growth-as-a-mindset?s=r
May 26, 2022
122
Best Practices for Developing a Product Strategy
debliu.substack.com/p/best-practices-for-developing-a-product?s=r
May 26, 2022
233
Focus On Learning and Creating Rather Than Entertainment and Distraction
medium.com/the-mission/focus-on-learning-and-creating-rather-than-being-entertained-and-distracted-e6573de1bc84
May 25, 2022
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How to Create Luck
www.swyx.io/create-luck/
May 25, 2022
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Highlight Your Web Exploration with Glasp.co
polyinnovator.space/highlight-your-web-exploration-with-glasp/
May 25, 2022
51
Absolute Success is Luck. Relative Success is Hard Work.
jamesclear.com/luck-vs-hard-work
May 24, 2022
172
The smallest viable audience
seths.blog/2022/05/the-smallest-viable-audience/
May 23, 2022
41
How Startups Can Survive the Creator Economy Winter
every.to/napkin-math/a-guide-to-survive-the-oncoming-creator-economy-winter
May 20, 2022
193
The false promise of the 10,000 hour rule
nesslabs.com/10000-hour-rule
May 20, 2022
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How to Scale a Magical Experience: 4 Lessons from Airbnb’s Brian Chesky
Highlights & Notes
You don’t start with 100 million users. You start with a few. And in many ways, the best way to begin is to stop thinking big, and start thinking small. Hand serve your customers. Win them over, one by one. And don’t stop until you know exactly what they want.
In order to scale, you have to first do things that don’t scale at all.
Lesson #1: Pay passionate attention to your user
It’s really hard to get even 10 people to love anything, but it’s not hard if you spend a ton of time with them.
The creation of the peer review system, customer support, all these things came from — we didn’t just meet our users, we lived with them.
The roadmap often exists in the minds of the users you’re designing things for.
Lesson #2: Design an 11-star experience
‘Reid, what would it take for me to design something that you would literally tell every single person you’ve ever encountered?’
A 5-star experience is: You knock on the door, they open the door, they let you in. Great. That’s not a big deal. You’re not going to tell every friend about it. You might say, ‘I used Airbnb. It worked.’ So we thought, ‘What would a 6-star experience be?’
what would an 11-star experience be? I would show up at the airport and you’d be there with Elon Musk and you’re saying: ‘You’re going to space.’
if you go through the crazy exercise, there’s some sweet spot between “They showed up and they opened the door” and “I went to space.” That’s the sweet spot. You have to almost design the extreme to come backwards.
Lesson #3: Create a magical experience… and then figure out what part of that magical thing can scale
I don’t think anyone ever tried to design an end-to-end experience for somebody like they’re in a movie before and we did it. That became a blueprint.
Can we develop a technology that scales and do it 100 million times?
Lesson # 4: Take advantage of the time before you scale
I tell a lot of entrepreneurs who don’t have traction, I miss those times. Yes, it’s exciting to have traction, to have a company that has huge scale. But the biggest leaps you ever get are when you’re small.
The most innovative leaps you’ll ever make, especially if you’re a network, are going to be when you’re really, really small. You can change the product entirely in a week.