February 10, 2022
This is Kei and Kazuki,
founders of Glasp 👋
We pick up 3 good articles that we found this week.
Hopefully, it will bring new perspectives and help
you develop your career and learning journey.
This Week's Reading List 📚
How
Duolingo Built a $700 Million Company Without
Charging Users by Product Habits Blog
(23min)
There are two main things that helped Duolingo grow
a huge, successful company while sticking close to
their original vision: they went after a big market,
and they meticulously experimented and used their
data to inform all of their decisions. One of
their most important gamification features was the
addition of streaks, which keep track of how many
days a user logs lessons in the app.
Why
You Should Ignore Every Founder's Story About
How They Started Their Company by Trevor
McKendrick (4min)
Company founding stories are almost always
non-malicious lies. Sam was already 44 when he
opened the first Walmart and had been running his
own retail stores for over 15 years. Like most
overnight successes, it was about 20 years in the
making. You think “oh I need a great idea” when
the reality is the idea is nothing and your
psychology & persistence are everything. If
you want to learn from entrepreneurs, look at the
start not the finish.
The
Small Steps of Giant Leaps by Farnam
Street (3min)
The position you find yourself in today is the
accumulation of the small choices that you’ve been
making for years. For your choices to compound,
you need to be consistent. Intensity will only carry
you in the short term but if you want compounding
results you need consistency. In the absence of
immediate rewards, we can keep up the intensity for
a while but most of us become
intermittent.
See you next week ;)
Best,
Kei and Kazuki
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Today's Quote -
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at
you, then they fight you, then you win."-
Mahatma Gandhi
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