New blog post: Video Games are the Future of Education. Via chess, Feynman, proprioception, "deep understanding", and simulations :) nabeelqu.co/education↗

software is such a cheat code in the game of business. My first company was a restaurant. One of the worst businesses you can start (everyone told me this, but being young, I told them to kick rocks)↗

THREAD time for @david_perell! This is one many people have been waiting for. @david_perell's best tweets and tips out of his past 12,000 tweets, sorted by popularity. Next up: @RandallKanna. I make these each week, tune in if you enjoy.↗

The state of online learning: 1) YouTube will eat the low-end of the market. 2) People will pay 5-15x more for live courses. 3) The three biggest competitive advantages are the personality of a creator, the warmth of the community, and the quality of the student experience.↗

Workday provides an outstanding case study of leveraging professional services for an enterprise software business: 2009: $25M revenue 54% software/ 46% services 2014: $469M revenue 76% software/ 24% services 2019: $3.6B revenue 85% software/ 15% services↗

I've been running @morningbrew's social media for the past ~2 months here's a thread of a few things i've learned Twitter strategy only for now Insta later↗

The school I want to build: 1) Start writing 2) Build an online audience 3) Start a company in your niche Graduate once you have a profitable business.↗

How Online Course Marketing Works I've taught more than 500 students in my online writing course. Here's what I've learned about marketing. 1. Start with an audience: Online education is a marketing business. The success of your course depends on the quality of your audience.↗

How to design a product that can grow itself 10x in year:↗

Morning Brew's Secret Sauce and the Importance of Building a Community (Thread) Inspired by the North Star podcast between @david_perell, @austin_rief, and @BUSlNESSBARISTA Notes 👇↗

Stripe is known for product excellence. The team has consistently launched products that are loved & thrive. It's a key reason they're valued at $36 billion. But they should also be known for content & community excellence. It's why they get 1M+ mos visits. [THREAD] 🧵↗

best two business bios you've ever read?↗

What’s an easier path to wealth? PATH 1: VENTURE STARTUP - 95% chance of $0 - Tiny personal income while building startup until IPO/scale - Massive dilution (most founders end up owning 5-15%). $1BN market cap = $50-$150MM for founder. OR...↗

Simple business lessons from a 14-hour road trip: 1) We spend too much time thinking about the last few turns and not enough deciding which interstate to use. Sweat the big stuff. 2) Small changes in speed make a big difference over long periods of time. Can you go 5% faster?↗

Following Charlie Munger's advice to always invert, here are 10 things not to do as a CEO: - Run out of money - Fail to learn / grow - Lose your team / break the culture - Not understand capital allocation - Believe you are the sole reason for your company's success /1↗

2 areas of an SMB's 'operating system' that I've been thinking about recently: 1) How to incorporate 'no code' solutions like Zapier, Notion, Airtable, etc into a company's workflows 2) How to assess what tasks can be moved offshore Few SMBs I know are doing even 1 of these /1↗

Channel the worldview of @shl I organized and distilled his last 3,000 tweets into a summary of his big ideas, in two parts… Part 1⃣: Business, Learning, and Life Philosophy↗

My favorite books and my main takeaway: Punished by Rewards — People hate being controlled with carrots & sticks, and only intrinsic motivation lasts. Man's Search for Meaning — A good life is a story you're proud of. 4 Hour Work Week — Design your own lifestyle, step by step.↗

Barstool Sports Content Model: - Find amazing talent - Give them a platform - Provide them with the infrastructure to succeed - Align incentives so they don’t leave This is the model for the next generation of media companies↗

We just raised our Series E in the middle of Covid. Raising this round was so different from other rounds! Biggest differences/lessons we learned:↗

Behold the mind of @mkobach I organized and distilled his last 3,000 tweets into a summary of his big ideas, in three parts... Part 1⃣: Social Media, Marketing, and Life Philosophy↗

Great rundown of how successful startups acquired their first 1000 users: lennyrachitsky.com/p/how-the-bigg… But every business, no matter how analog, should ask themselves these questions:↗

✨ I haven’t shared much in a while, been a bit busy! But here is a tease of some of the pages for the @beyondcode redesign I’m working on.↗

We think a lot about how to "unlock" talent at @beondeck. For everyone founding or working on a startup today, there are hundreds more who should be but can't. We're developing something we hope will help them. Excited to share more about "Runway" and the "Convertible ISA" 👇↗

We wanted to create an introvert-friendly way for our @webflow teammates to connect that didn't require an extra zoom meeting — or pants, for that matter 👖 Our solution: "15 Questions" — an async game we run on @SlackHQ. It's been so fun so far! More in the thread below :)↗

Two important trends: 1. BYOT — people who use Notion (for free) take Notion to work (employer pays) 2. TYOW — people who use Figma (and sadly got laid off) need to take their work with them (update portfolio, freelance, find new role) Software companies need to build for both↗

Weblow wizards: Is there a cloneable template/page where I showcase 20-30 avatars from Twitter on one page with clickable links to their profiles? I am build a "Who's on Cuppa" page and need some help. (site -> @getcuppaio) Thank you!↗

This pandemic will hopefully mark the end of the perversion of higher education. Since the 1980s, kids and parents have been forced to play a series of stupid finite games - grades, extra curriculars, influence peddling, donations for infinite assets: skills and knowledge.↗

Think I'm gonna do the @vercel dashboard, will start in like 5 minutes and see how far we get before my daughter wakes up from her nap 😅↗

The Last dance soundtrack. You’re welcome. #TheLastDance ✌🏽↗