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. Cilium, Service Meshes, and the Future of Enterprise Networking

    Thomas Graf and Derrick Harris
    Isovalent co-founder and Cilium creator Thomas Graf discusses the state of cloud native networking and where the future of enterprise Kubernetes lies.
  6. Building for the 99% Developers

    Jean Yang
    Effectively building and buying software means understanding that most developers work with legacy code, slow processes, and a mishmash of frameworks.
  7. Why Developers Are Building So Many Side Projects

    Ben Stokes
    From unleashing creativity to mitigating risk, Ben Stokes of Tiny Projects shares some of the main reasons why developers are building so many side projects.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Jason Fried on Why He Doesn't Do Planning or Politics at Work

    Jason Fried and Lauren Murrow
    The Basecamp and HEY founder discusses the power of short-term thinking, his framework for startup longevity, and the key thing he looks for when hiring remote.