1. Choosing Your North Star Metric

    Lenny Rachitsky
    How to decide the guiding metrics for every type of business, based on a survey of employees at over 40 of today's most successful growth-stage companies.
  2. A Practical Guide to NFT Memberships for Creators

    Peter Yang
    Benefits and challenges of NFT memberships as a monetization channel, how creators are using them in practice, and more.
  3. The Power of Product Thinking

    Julie Zhuo
    Developing product thinking is not just for designers and PMs. Anyone in the business of building products or understanding trends can use this framework.
  4. All about Network Effects

    Anu Hariharan
    What is a network effect? How do we untangle the nuances of ‘network effects’ with ‘marketplaces’ and ‘platforms’? What’s the difference between network effects, virality, supply-side economies of scale?
  5. How to Build a GPT-3 for Science

    Josh Nicholson
    A GPT-3-like AI model for science would accelerate innovation and improve reproducibility. Creating it will require us to unlock scientific publications.
  6. What We Learned Doing Fast Grants

    Patrick Collison, Tyler Cowen, and Patrick Hsu
    We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed the strength and weakness in current funding models.
  7. A Startup's Guide to Launching College Ambassador Programs

    Jacob Westphal
    This 101 guide on college ambassador programs for consumer startup covers the what, why, and when, how to get started, incentive structures, metrics, and more.
  8. What the Merge Means for Ethereum

    Danny Ryan and Jeff Benson
    The Ethereum Foundation's Danny Ryan discusses how the Merge will increase security and explains how proof of stake impacts developers.
  9. The Future of Search Is Boutique

    Sari Azout
    The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.
  10. The Case for 'Developer Experience'

    Jean Yang
    No code, SaaS, APIs have led to faster yet more heterogeneous systems: developers work in rainforests, not planned gardens.
  11. Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"

    Molly Mielke
    Modern software’s uniformity has fueled a craving for more interesting, personalized, opinionated tools — turning inanimate pixels into something with soul.