*Opens LinkedIn* *7 new notifications 😱* “Random person reshared a post:...” “Congratulate random person for 20 years at his own freelance business” “Wish random person happy bday on a professional network” “10 recruiters viewed your profile” “TRY PREMIUM!” 😒

Best 2019 plan: one you have about a 60%-70% chance to hit, along with a 30% chance stretch plan Worst 2019 plan: one you have almost 0% chance to hit but fits your VC's expectations Second Worst plan: one you have 95%+ chance to hit

#polloftheday

As how it should be buff.ly/2IhEh61

"We aim for efficiency and reliability, but in doing so we get trapped in our little comfort zone... We want to be bold in our vision, but we get stuck in group thinking." Good passage in this piece on UX trends buff.ly/2jnzOje (and a good read too)

When the discussion becomes “should we ship this mediocre thing, or should we spend additional time that we don’t have to make it better?” the battle has already been lost. The thing we failed to do weeks or months ago was cutting aggressively enough. buff.ly/2WgDBku

A really good read on Open Source: free rider problem, tragedy of the commons, free software is free as in speech, not beer buff.ly/2X2tXSS

> are you just looking at any website build and proposing it should be a single page application? > ...yes

The ground is covered with lines. They were drawn by people who came before you. You drew some of these lines yourself. Ask why the lines are still there. Step outside the lines if you want.

Clever!

And the older version has security vulnerabilities 🙄

Interesting thread on Quora's effort to optimize user-generated content loop by incentivizing people to ask questions 👇

Fun design teardown

“The Gmail bug that’s been stealing $187M a year from Expedia” - thehftguy.com/2019/02/12/the…

Here's my story on how my video went viral, 150,000 RTs, 10 million views, and how I got bait-and-switched by those big viral Facebook pages to license it to them for $0 👇

TIL

It's not quite scammy or spammy but definitely sleazy

cool!

How do you know when your marketplace business is supply or demand constrained? After chatting with a bunch of early marketplace growth folks, a few early learnings: 1. Every marketplace starts off supply constrained — you first need something to sell 🤷‍♂️ More 👇

My 1Password shows clearly there are SaaS tools I've signed up many times. Each new job. Slack of course, but also Zapier, Amplitude, Segment and more => none use Social data (Linkedin from Clearbit) as a way to say "Welcome back!" instead of the new user drip email