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Jianna Liu

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  • This is commonly referred to as the 80/20 or 90/10 rule, stating for example that "90% of the time is spent in 10% of the code",
    Paul Buchheit: Optimizing everything: some details matter a lot, most don't
  • You’re paying $200/lead right now, yielding 200 leads per month. Using DoubleDown, you can double the number of leads you’re generating, still at a cost of $200/lead
    How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price
  • Womanhood, still, is a different beast. It’s having deeply rooted self-respect that makes you protective of others. It’s staying vulnerable while not being angered at the world for expecting that of you. It’s responsibility co-mingled with ambition. Girlhood is realizing that there is a game, and womanhood is deciding what parts you actually want to play.
    look what the cat brought in - by Anson Yu
  • Your family and friends are entitled to your love, attention, and support.
    The Load-Bearing Relationship
  • This is why at Linear we put such a strong emphasis on integrations. From the start, we developed integrations for the most common sources of unplanned work. They include customer support tools like Intercom, performance monitoring platforms such as Sentry, and popular communication services like Slack.
    Planning for unplanned work
  • Use this one product meeting for brainstorming and discussion and then decide what is most important this week and commit to delivering on the tasks.
    Building at the early stage
  • (Note: You should try to understand if the problem is truly preventing someone from using the product or nice to have). You need to work on enablers and blockers to grow.
    Building at the early stage
  • First, it’s helpful to think of new features as additive enablers or removing blockers. Enablers enable new functionality that usually makes the product more valuable or interesting. Blockers are gaps or friction that prevents a user/customer to use your product.
    Building at the early stage
  • Whenever they do, it’s important as a product builder that you ask them questions back. What is the use case? What is the problem they’re trying to solve with this feature or solution? How would their experience of the product be different if the problem was fixed?
    Building at the early stage