9 Best Articles in 2022
readthegeneralist.com
10 Lessons from Great Businesses
readthegeneralist.com
~20 min read · Mar 14th · After publishing over half a million words on some of the world’s most innovative businesses, these are the 10 lessons I come back to again and again. You’ll find tactics from Stripe, FTX, Tiger…
Reader View · Shared by 551, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
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10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned
casnocha.com
20+ min read · From 2015 · 4.5 years of working with Reid as co-author and Chief of Staff. Here are some lessons I learned about business and life from an amazing man.
Reader View · Shared by 202, including Marcus Kuhn, Mark Kaigwa, Inês Silva, Florian Hanke 🍎, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Thomas Power, Pat Kua, Remo Uherek, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Marck Vaisman, Sacha Roger, Philip Stehlik, Ibrahim Nergiz, Peter Hogenkamp, Walid Ark, Dominik Grolimund, Patrick Scheuerer, Florian Graillot, Vinny Lingham, Nils Hitze
Darius Foroux
8 Life Lessons I’ve Learned From The Best Writers In History
Darius Foroux
4 min read · From 2020 · I’ve collected 8 lessons from renowned writers. These lessons go beyond writing—they are about life, career, happiness, and more.
Reader View · Shared by 135, including Jennifer Hurst, Frank Hamm, Neil Hart 💙, Katja Evertz
TED-Ed
4 lessons in creativity
TED-Ed
Jan 30th · Radio host Julie Burstein talks with creative people for a living -- and shares four lessons about how to create in the face of challenge, self-doubt and loss. Hear insights from filmmaker Mira Nair,…
Shared by 320, including Katja Evertz, Chris Agro | Agrotising, Ines Bieler
medium.com
The key lessons I learned creating a popular Design System
medium.com
5 min read · From 2018 · Key lessons and insights by the creator of the Atlassian Design System, Matt Bond.
Reader View · Shared by 222, including Scott Williams, Michael Sumner, Thomas Kaul, Niklaus Gerber, Fabian Künzli, Casey Smith, Bernhard Huessy, David Hellmann, Nicolas Hoffmann, Julian de Keijzer, Massimiliano Aroffo, Kat
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0 to $640M: Non-obvious Lessons Learned at BrightRoll
medium.com
~13 min read · From 2016 · I recently gave a talk at Yahoo! about the lessons learned from founding, building and selling BrightRoll. This is a summary of my talk.
Reader View · Shared by 84, including Francesco Corea, Flavio Rump 💉💉💉, Startupxplore, janfsauer, Andreas Brenner, Mo Schuster, Leo Polovets, Chung Chen, Nir Eyal, dcancel.eth, Bryan Onel, ₵BZ, Mathias Böhm
TED Talks
What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
TED Talks
From 2016 · What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.
Shared by 677, including Andrei Luca, Swebliss, Memen Isimo, Jennifer Hurst, Nilofer Merchant, Katja Evertz, Vala Afshar, Neil Hart 💙, Michael Carroll, tektology, Jonathan Kogan, José Rodrigues
McKinsey & Company
The Pyramid Principle — Lessons from McKinsey
McKinsey & Company
4 min read · From 2015 · At McKinsey, one of the lessons I learned was the importance of structured thinking and communication.
Reader View · Shared by 150, including hiten.eth, Stefan Weber, Dominik Grolimund, Marc Zenger, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Taylor Pearson, Oleg Baskov, Clemens, Thomas Power, Tom Connor, Luzius Meisser, Sachin Rekhi, Mark Kaigwa, Weiting Chen, David Nagel, Daniel Buchmueller, Abel Caballero Díaz, Brian Doll, Nir Eyal, Brad Engel
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150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com
blog.acolyer.org
6 min read · From 2019 · 150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com Bernadi et al., KDD’19 Here’s a paper that will reward careful study for many organisations. We’ve previously looked a…
Reader View · Shared by 172, including Cameron Yick, Niklaus Gerber, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Marco Unternaehrer, Philippe, Yvette Dubel, Sandy.nft, Massimiliano Aroffo
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First Round
From Early Employee to Technical Founder: Essential Career Lessons for Engineers
First Round
20+ min read · May 3rd · From early employee to technical founder: Amber Feng shares essential lessons for engineers up and down the org chart, drawing from her 8-year career at Stripe and becoming a technical founder of…
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One Year of Using a Habit Tracking Journal
durmonski.com
6 min read · Apr 11th · What I've learned from using a habit tracking journal for one year. Lessons and tips that will help you focus on the important things.
Reader View · Shared by 390
CNBC
This 49-year-old CEO used lessons from Amazon and Google to build a $1.5 billion start-up
CNBC
3 min read · May 12th · Faisal Masud worked his way up the ranks at Amazon, Google, eBay and Staples. Now, he's applying lessons from those companies to Fabric, a start-up valued at $1.5 billion.
Lenny Rachitsky
How to validate your startup idea
Lenny Rachitsky
20+ min read · May 10th · Lessons learned from Flexport, Vanta, Rec Room, LaunchDarkly, Pinwheel, Snackpass, Good Dog, and Cocoon—a guest post by Todd Jackson
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14 lessons from entrepreneurs on starting your own business
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Reader View · Shared by 202, including Oliver Raduner, excellent-analytical-tiger, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, getAbstract, Under30CEO, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Rob Tiffany #IoT #DigitalTwins
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5 Powerful Ways Journal Writing Changes Your Life
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4 min read · 2021-11-09 · Are you missing out on hidden life lessons? Use journal writing to gain new insights and knowledge to live a better, happier life today!
Reader View · Shared by 382, including Carly, JJ Flash
Moz
Marketing Lessons Learned from 16 Years of Building Moz
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From 2018 · Rand's got 16 years of hands-on marketing experience under his belt, and in this Whiteboard Friday, he shares his best advice—from flywheels to product launches to knowing your audience—to help all of…
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Darius Foroux
The 21 Most Important Questions Of Your Life
Darius Foroux
~12 min read · From 2018 · One of the most important lessons I’ve learned from reading books, interviewing smart people, and having conversations with my mentors is that questions are more important than answers. But that goes…
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57 startup lessons
defmacro.org
6 min read · From 2013 · There are already very good lists of startup lessons written by really talented, experienced people (here and here). I’d like to add another one. I learned these lessons the hard way in the past four…
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7 Marketing Disasters That Turned Out to Be Precious Lessons
SearchEngineJournal®
~15 min read · 2020-11-05 · SEO and marketing pros have their own professional horror stories to tell. Here are a few, and the lessons they learned from the experience.
Reader View · Shared by 110, including Kevin Roberts, Birgit Schefer, Danny Goodwin, Shawn Venasse, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Stephan Spencer
First Round
6 Essential Leadership Lessons for the Startup C-Suite
First Round
20+ min read · 2021-02-18 · Essential lessons for startup executives and board members to level up their leadership.
Reader View · Shared by 147, including Evan (he/him), Jonathan Kogan, Josh Kopelman, Katja Evertz
First Round
From Early Employee to Technical Founder: Essential Career Lessons for Engineers
First Round
20+ min read · May 3rd · From early employee to technical founder: Amber Feng shares essential lessons for engineers up and down the org chart, drawing from her 8-year career at Stripe and becoming a technical founder of…
Quartz
What we learned after one month of operating a hybrid office
Quartz
Reader View · Shared by 527, including David Bauer, Martin Stabe, Thomas Pleil, Jennifer McClure, Jessel Sookha, Kate Lee, Nieman Foundation, Carrie Brown, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Amanda Shendruk
