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. 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.
  3. 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.
  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. In Online Ed, Content Is No Longer King—Cohorts Are

    Wes Kao
    Consumers pay for what’s scarce. And within the crowded, cheap, content-rich world of online education, what's scarce is community.
  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. 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.
  9. 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.
  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. Well-Behaved Bubbles Often Make History

    Byrne Hobart
    The right kind of bubble brings together the right group of people at the right time — it's a coordinating mechanism that can do a surprising amount of good.