March 24, 2022
This is Kei and Kazuki,
founders of Glasp 👋
We send you 3 good articles to highlight this week.
Hopefully, it will bring new perspectives and help
you develop your career and learning journey.
📚 This Week's Reading List
While
most people fight to learn “in-demand” skills,
smart people are learning rare skills
instead by Michael Simmons
(14min)
"If you want
solid returns, simply learning skills everyone
says are important is probably a solid bet. But,
tautologically, if you want to be in the top 1%,
you need to think differently than 99% of others
and be right. You can’t expect to
follow the herd and somehow beat the
herd."
See: Glasp
Community Highlights
High-growth companies grow
quadratically, not
exponentially. It’s well-known
that growth—as a percentage—naturally declines with
scale, even when there’s nothing wrong with the
company: Growth Decay (or sometimes Growth
Persistence). Even if “exponential” is the correct
model for the core growth mechanism of the product,
it nevertheless cannot continue growing
exponentially because it runs out of the
market.
See: Glasp
Community Highlights
A personal moat is a set of unique and
accumulating competitive advantages in the
context of your career. You must find
something special—specific to you—that drives
increasing, compounding value over time.
Ask others: What’s something that’s
easy for me to do but hard for others?
What's something I have that’s very
difficult for people to reverse
engineer?
See: Glasp
Community Highlights
📣 Community Announcement
We tweeted this
just before but we've accumulated
over 100,000 highlights (digital
legacies) from 15,000 web
pages 🎉 Thank you for leaving your digital
legacy with Glasp 📚✨
See you next week ;)
Best,
Kei and Kazuki
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Today's
Quote: "The only person you are
destined to become is the person you
decide to be." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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