“Paying attention to what your audience wants is the easiest way to develop a product.”
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“By serving everyone, you serve no one. Without a clear focus, efforts get muddled. Substack avoided that trap.”
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“In that relaunch process our membership grew 50% in one month.”
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“Can you justify two hours in a needless meeting if your vital project gets eight hours in the whole week?”
How To Be The Kind Of Person Steve Jobs Defined As “Smart”
“You have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.”
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“The same people who ignore an email about ‘picking their brain’ are delighted to explain their worldview to you with a microphone in front of them.”
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“The things you write will never be ‘done’ and once you realize that you’ll be able to publish them.”
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“You may not get as much traffic from Instagram, but you will get better quality traffic.”