June 6, 2022
This is Kei and Kazuki,
founders of Glasp 👋
We send you 3 good articles to highlight this week.
Hopefully, it will bring you new perspectives and
help you develop your career and learning
journey.
📚 This Week's Reading List
How
Spotify Stole Podcasts from Apple by
Aakash Gupta (15min)
Since Apple introduced podcasts in June 2005, the
medium has been on an unstoppable ascent and Apple
had been at the top. However, Spotify passed Apple
for monthly active podcast listeners, and it is set
to vastly outgrow Apple over the coming years. How
did it happen and what was Spotify’s strategy? In
this article, the author introduces the history of
podcasts, Spotify’s history, and how Spotify made
its strategy.
See: Glasp
Community Highlights
The
Goldilocks Rule: How to Stay Motivated in Life
and Business by James
Clear (5min)
Why is it that some people, like Martin, stick with
their habits—whether practicing jokes or drawing
cartoons, or playing guitar—while most of us
struggle to stay motivated? How do we design habits
that pull us in rather than ones that fade away?
Scientists have been studying this question for many
years. In this article, the author gives hints to
keep habits for a long time.
See: Glasp
Community Highlights
What
comes after Zoom? by Benedict
Evans (4min)
Video calls are nothing new, but Zoom solved a lot
of the small pieces of friction that made it fiddly
to get into a call. But an important part is that
there seem to be few real network effects in a video
call per se. And we’ll get the equivalents of
Instagram and Snap - products that ask different
questions. Zoom solved getting into a call, but why
are you in the call?
See: Glasp
Community Highlights
👀 Featured Curators on Glasp
1️⃣ Heather
Mellis
Heather is learning psychology, public policy, and
founders. If you go to the profile, you would get a
new perspective, so please look at it!
2️⃣ Diana
Han
Diana is learning music, literature, and psychology.
For me, it's a unique and interesting experience to
see her profile and learnings. Please check the
profile :)
3️⃣ Xavier
Roy
Xavier is learning knowledge management, learning,
and writing. He's been learning with Glasp for a
while, so there is a lot of content we can learn
from. Also, check out his Twitter!
📣 Community News
❤️ Gratitude
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Thank you, Mihir and
all, for taking the time to talk with us and
giving us some feedback 🥰
See you next week ;)
Best,
Kei and Kazuki
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Today's
Quote: "It doesn’t matter how
successful or unsuccessful you are right
now. What matters is whether your habits are
putting you on the path toward success." —
James Clear
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